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The poker grapevine – Nevada event betting back in the books
Posted by: Randy Williams - Sun, 2011-02-20 08:20
With the 2011 WSOP looming on the distant spring-flavored horizon, the Nevada Gaming Commission has just added another dimension to it: apparently, the commission has reviewed its stance on event betting and amended its regulations, approving this form of gambling. WSOP events have provided prop betting opportunities for insiders and outsiders for quite a while now, but the legalization of event betting will probably take that to an entirely new level. In addition to
2011 WSOP events, gamblers will also be able to bet on election results and on the Oscars and Grammies or just about any type of events sportsbooks decide to offer odds on.
Although experts do not expect legal event betting to generate an impressively large amount of revenue, they welcome the change under the motto that whatever generates action is good.
Poker players will certainly welcome the NGC’s move. There’s always a lot of prop betting going on among poker players which only comes to prove that there is certainly a market for this vert.
Every online poker player has at one point entertained thoughts of becoming a pro to do nothing else for a living but to play poker. A newly released documentary series about online poker will offer these guys a glimpse into the lives of several
online poker pros like Andrew Robl, Di Dang, Isaac Haxton and Shaun Deeb. Called A Kid’s Game: The Story of Online Poker, the series will give players the opportunity to properly gauge the advantages and drawbacks of the lifestyle and to draw their conclusions based not on assumptions, but rather on ice-cold facts.
In other news: whenever celebrities and poker players come together at the green felt, it seems to be for a good cause: charity. The 9th annual WPT Celebrity Invitational kicked of yesterday, featuring a starting field of 500 players, comprised of celebrities like Don Cheadle, Jennifer Tilly, Jose Canseco, Jerry Buss and Donnie Walberg, and a whole bunch of professional poker players.
