30 Aug 02
Cyber Casino Pulls Into Fast Lane
In an unprecedented move for the online gaming industry, GoldenPalace.com has become the first cyber casino to sponsor a professional stock car racing team.

27 Aug 02
Shop 'Til You Drop: Beating the Number
Over the last couple of weeks, I have discussed how a pointspread is derived by a sportsbook and why the lines change. Now that we know the how and why of pointspreads, we can discuss how best to take advantage of different lines books offer.

21 Aug 02
Paysports.com Launches Affiliate Program
PaySports.com announced today the release of its new, multi-brand sportsbook affiliate program, offering generous incentive packages to webmasters who want to make bank this football season.

20 Aug 02
Balancing Action: Why the line moves
Last week, I discussed some of the factors involved in betting on preseason football. One portion of that column featured an interview with BoDog's top bookmaker Kent where I quoted him as saying "we just follow the money and try a lot harder to balance action" in reference to moving lines on preseason games.

20 Aug 02
Betting Preseason Football
Last week I talked about how the House comes up with a pointspread and what it represents. Preseason football is the first opportunity we have to bet pointspreads each year (in the bookmaking world, your year starts in August) so naturally that is the topic for this week.

01 Aug 02
Rodman Stars in GoldenPalace 3-on-3
Dennis Rodman along with PURE, GoldenPalace.com and Crobar the Nightclub, invite you to a night of off-court craziness, complete with big sounds, a surplus of celebrities and glitterati as far as the eye can see.

29 Jul 02
Butterbean to Become Golden Palace Billboard
Since the first GoldenPalace.com henna tattoo appeared on the back on Bernard "The Executioner" Hopkins during his title match against Felix "Tito" Trinidad on September 29, 2001, the innovative campaign has snowballed into a marketing phenomenon.

26 Jul 02
New Ways to Bet Baseball
Baseball has always been considered a slow season by bookmakers but increased competition has led to innovation and to a few new offerings. I'll cover a few of those in this column.

24 Jul 02
BETonSPORTS Launches Loyalty Program
Having established itself as one of the world's largest, licensed telephone/Internet gaming services, BETonSPORTS will inaugurate its new customer loyalty program through the August 24 grand opening of an onsite VIP Club at its headquarters in San Jose, Costa Rica.

10 Jul 02
GoldenPalace Raises Fund for Retired Boxers
Online casino GoldenPalace.com -- the company responsible for all the body billboard tattoos appearing on the backs of high-profile boxers in the past year -- is bankrolling the Retired Boxers Foundation's "Fighters Helping Fighters" campaign by donating 2.5% of all upcoming fighters' sponsorship (back tattoo) fees.

03 Jul 02
The Effects of Interleague Play
Another season of baseball's cross-league mixer has come to an end and I thought it would be interesting to discuss the results from both a statistical and a financial point-of-view.

26 Jun 02
Sportingbet Acquires Sporting Odds
Sportingbet Plc, the leading global internet sports betting group, is pleased to announce today that it has acquired (subject only to the admission of the consideration shares to listing) the entire share capital of Sporting Odds Limited for a consideration of £4.5m.

25 Jun 02
Boss Media Signs Contract with Bet365
Boss Media has signed a contract with the company bet365 Limited (http://www.bet365.com). The company is the Internet and telephone- betting division of bet365 Group Limited, a bookmaker with many years of experience in the highly regulated U.K. gaming environment.

07 Jun 02
RumbleBets.com Launches Sportsbook
The highly anticipated www.RumbleBets.com Sportsbook will be open June 6th for online gaming on the Internet.

31 May 02
Free Bets on World Cup from FreeWorldCupBets.com
Start the excitement of World Cup 2002 with Free Bets from three of the World's Leading Online Bookmakers, courtesy of FreeWorldCupBets.com.

30 May 02
UK Portal Debuts with Free World Cup Bets
Winneronline.com, the Net's largest and most respected Internet gambling portal, today announced the launch of its new UK site: Winneronline.co.uk (www.winneronline.co.uk).

30 May 02
Betting on World Cup Soccer
The FIFA World Cup 2002 international soccer (or football, as it's known to most of the world) tournament begins on May 31

28 May 02
Intertops Expects 400,000 World Cup Bets
Accepting unprecedented amounts of bets on other major sporting events, Intertops.com is prepared to receive over 400,000 individual bets on this year's World Cup.

29 Apr 02
Sportingbet Signs with dot com
dot com Entertainment Group, Inc. announced today that it has entered into a software license agreement with Sportingbet plc through its wholly owned subsidiary.

22 Apr 02
EDITORIAL - Golden Palace Tattoos Breed Controversy
Golden Palace has been advertising its online casino on the backs of professional boxers for a few months now, and not surprisingly, the ads have attracted a lot of attention. They've also generated a lot of misguided idealism on the part of the casino.