College Football Trend Report

Louisville is 12-1 ATS last 13 home games (hosting Miami-Florida)

Iowa is 19-2 ATS last 21 home games (hosting Iowa State)

Tennessee is 1-11 ATS at home last 3 seasons (hosting Florida)

Syracuse…

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Sat, September 16th, 2006

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Interesting gambling information:

  • 1946: Two famous landmarks open: Bugsy Siegel's Flamingo, and the Golden Nugget. Nevada levies its first gaming tax.
    1949: Benny Binion sets up a high-stakes poker game at his Horseshoe casino between Nick "The Greek" Dandalos and Johnny Moss. It turns into an epic five-month poker match, laying the foundations for the World Series of Poker.
  • The most popular forms of illegal games are "numbers", which is essentially a lottery, and betting with bookies, typically sports betting.
  • In 1911 US legislation prohibited stud poker but ruled that draw poker was a game of skill and therefore was not illegal.
  • The term "turned the tables" is actually a chess term coming from the mid 1600's. When a player was losing, they would physically turn the chess table to assume the winning side of the table.