2005 June 23 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Money management is a term that has different meanings depending upon which players you are talking with. For some players the term money management is used to describe a betting system or a way of placing bets that they hope…

LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 23, 2005–In BW5801 issued June 23, 2005: First graph, first sentence, should read: xxx Mark McGwire’s (sted Mark Maguire’s).The corrected release reads:WORLD POKER

Many players in low-limit games will play any Ace regardless of the second card. These players have found themselves a loser when an Ace flops, and they are beat out by a player with a bigger kicker (an unpaired card…

The most common compliant you hear about the NBA is that the players donÂ’t care enough. League fans will retort that the intensity goes way up during the playoffs. Thursday night, for the first time in 11 years, a single…

A new study on gambling released this week by internationally respected business services group PricewaterhouseCoopers contains new long-range projections that have gambling revenues growing at a compound annual rate of more than 8 percent over the next 4 years to an expected $100 billion global pie.

The company that is arguably the world’s biggest computerised lottery systems developer, Gtech Holdings Corp., has teamed with Veikkaus Oy, operator of Finland’s national lottery, to develop and sell games and technology, with an emphasis on sports betting.

U.S. based WMS Gaming Inc., a subsidiary of public company WMS Industries Inc. has entered into wide ranging technology transfer agreements with software developer Cyberscan / Cyberview Technology Inc. in a five year deal worth $15 million.

Fixed odds e-gaming developer Dynamite Idea, and gambling system partner Orbis Technology have launched a suite of brand new fixed odds betting games for Stanleybet, one of the top bookmaker chains in the UK and Ireland.