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Use caution betting road underdogs

Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009

All four games in the divisional round of the NFL playoffs this weekend are rematches not only of regular-season games, but of close regular-season games.

Wit, wisdom in the highs and lows

Reviewing the gambling year that was in 2008, with an emphasis on events of great social and political import

Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009

Reviewing the gambling year that was in 2008, with an emphasis on events of great social and political import.

Bet Utah for the spread, not team’s record

Handicapper expects undefeated Utes to hang close to 12-1 Alabama

Friday, Jan. 2, 2009

Utah looks like an attractive play as an underdog in the Sugar Bowl today for one Las Vegas sports betting analyst, but not because of the Utes’ 12-0 record.

Humbler Mir in position to reclaim UFC crown

Monday, Dec. 29, 2008

An adage from the realm of bullfighting occurred to radio personality Ron Gerrard in the aftermath of Saturday night’s year-ending Ultimate Fighting Championship show at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.

Enough action for several cards

Stacked event displays several of the sport's best fighters

Friday, Dec. 26, 2008

Mixed martial arts fans surely would be satisfied with any of the three headlining fights on the card as a main event, so to have them all on the same show is an extra treat.

A lively mix of players on poker show, all big bettors

Internet, tourney and Hollywood types play for high stakes again on cable program

Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2008

When the fifth season of “High Stakes Poker” begins on cable channel GSN, a debut tentatively scheduled for March 1, poker fans will again see all of the signature fixtures that have made the show so popular.

Being picky best when betting bowl games

Handicapper D’Amico has some suggestions on some of the early matchups

Monday, Dec. 22, 2008

The list of college football bowl games, which contains a record 34 of them this season, could appear daunting to a traditional sports fan.

Where gamblers go for guidance

Friday, Dec. 19, 2008

To paraphrase Jacques Martin Barzun, whoever wants to know the heart and mind of the Las Vegas gambler had better learn to visit the Gambler’s Book Shop.

Another Vegas gaming myth

Bizarre play cost casinos much less than outside media said, but estimate is telling

Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008

I literally was right around Barstow on the edge of the desert, so my first thought was some sort of Hunter Thompson-style alternate reality had set in.

Young bucks make jump to ‘major leagues’

WSOP’s top two this year accept traditionalists’ cash game challenge

Monday, Dec. 15, 2008

In the olden days of poker, when dinosaurs and Titanic Thompson roamed the earth, tournaments were viewed as sideshows, mere supporting acts for the nearby high-stakes cash games that served as the main event of any respectable poker gathering.

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