WHAT YOU SAVE IS WHAT YOU EARN Joe Gavazzi, Private Players of Pittsburgh
June 2008
WHEN EXPERIENCE MATTERS MOST Joe Gavazzi & The Private Players of Pittsburgh 1-800-678-7529 One of the key factors used to handicap early season College Football is the number of returning starters on each team. Clearly, experience is an important factor in September handicapping. However, much like most other theories relying on technical handicapping, using parameters [...]
Golfer John Daly isn’t the only well-known athlete who sometimes has gotten into trouble because of a heavyweight appetite for gambling. Charles Barkley, no Twiggy himself, also bit off a bit more wagering wafer than he could chew, recently. It’s all part of our latest round of quotes from the world of sports and sports [...]
Poker betting is one thing but wagering on poker betting is quite another. And yet that’s the challenge gamblers will face when they match cash to conviction on the 39th World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, beginning May 30. Although some books have prices for which poker players will win each of the [...]
The practice of sports betting always has attracted a percentage of players who not only are loose with a dollar but a quote, too. Thanks goodness for that because we never could make up this stuff: “We had no money on him. I thought he was going out for a run to keep himself warm.” [...]
Betting on the Olympics always has paled in comparison to the pomp and circumstance of the global extravaganza itself but this year sportsbooks are hoping that, with some innovative offerings, they can transform the five ring athletic competition into a three ring circus of wagering. Unlike, say, the Super Bowl, where hardcore pointspreads and [...]
The greatest non-sporting event in sports, the NFL Draft, should lure gridiron-starved NFL fans and, far more tellingly, savvy NFL betting fans, to their TV screens when the annual, dust-off-the-Barcalounger, grab-the-giant-Doritos-bag, telethon-like coverage begins April 26. While it’s true that the price for indulgence is having to listen to ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper Jr. [...]
If NASCAR betting is as powerful as a jet airplane turbo and betting on Formula One racing has been as steady as a Mercedes transmission, then IndyCar betting – with the notable exception of the Indianapolis 500 – traditionally has been about as potent as a lawn motor engine. Open wheel proponents, who recently ended [...]
Like most gamblers, college basketball fans, particularly those who enjoy sports betting on the NCAA Men’s Tournament (who doesn’t?) would, understandably, much rather look ahead to the next bet than back at the last one. But savvy sports betting aficionados also understand that a review of previous actions, no matter how tedious and time-consuming, sometimes [...]
What is it about sports and sports betting that turn ordinary athletes, journalists, administrators and pundits into such quotable sources of information, wisdom, fun and absurdity? A brief sampling from the first three months of the year: “750 million.” –Terry Elman, acting executive director of the Council of Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey, offering an [...]
The marathon Major League Baseball betting season starts at the end of this month but for those gamblers for whom the cry of “play ball” can’t come soon enough or for those other bettors who consider the 2,430-game diamond campaign little more than a walk in the (ball)park, future book wagering is available right now. [...]
NCAA basketball is in full swing but, arguably, the two best wagering days of the year, the NCAA bracket opening rounds of the Men’s Basketball Championship, March 20 ands 21, are in the sights of every March Madness betting fan. While those 32 NCAA bracket opening round match-ups won’t be revealed to college basketball betting [...]
F1 betting may not be the equal of NASCAR wagering in the United States but the motor sport, which revs up for the opening of its 59th season in Melbourne, Australia, March 16, boasts an international following that is not only passionate but a favorite of gamblers across the globe. As evidence of the former [...]
The horse racing odds and the potential payoffs can be enormous but the risks also are substantial, making Kentucky Derby future book betting on the 134th running of the mile-and-a-quarter classic at Churchill Downs, May 3, a gambling pursuit not doctor-recommended for cardiac patients. Crusty horse racing veterans recall with regret the 1962 Kentucky Derby [...]
Before burying the recently concluded NFL season, savvy gamblers will want to sift through those decaying bones to determine if the gridiron carcass left any clues that could be used to uncover a successful NFL betting strategy when the 2008 campaign kicks off in September. One angle that has clicked for several straight years again [...]
Las Vegas always has been a city built on hopes and aspirations but only a handful of true visionaries have had a unique and lasting impact of the growth and direction of this desert outpost. Of the four pillars of Las Vegas innovation, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, Howard Hughes and Liberace are gone but one architect [...]
Entertainment became linked with Las Vegas in the 1940s when savvy city planners and casino entrepreneurs rightly reasoned that even hard-edged gamblers would need an occasional respite from the drudgery of table games and the challenge of sports betting that had lured them to this desert outpost in the first place. Of the many who [...]
By the mid 1960s, Las Vegas was well on its way to establishing itself as the gaming and sports betting capital of the world. But that didn’t mean there wasn’t room for another visionary to challenge the status quo and expand the concept of those who had come before him. Of the many daring dreamers [...]
From its legal inception in 1931, Las Vegas’ gaming and sports betting industry has been built on the dreams and imagination of people who have had the courage to question the status quo. But while many a daring dreamer has left his legacy in this desert oasis, four men stand out. Part 1: The Man [...]
For most sports betting enthusiasts, the key question is whether to lay or take the points. No wonder the vast majority of gamblers lose. The crucial question, one that sports bettors rarely think to ask, is “Can I win?” The fact is, most people who engage in sports betting rarely question whether they have the [...]
