Entries from April 2007

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

What Does A Sure Bet Have To Do With Gambling? Mmmm… Sherbet

A new trend I’m seeing these days are public gambling sites offering “Sure Thing” bets based on the principles of arbitrage, once reserved for hedge funds and financial markets.
Sure thing bets are a lot different than the “guaranteed” picks of the old days. In the old days a handicapper simply would promise that their [...]

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Don’t Be Sorry – Bet On Baseball

A new season of baseball is upon us and in it’s honor I’ve rounded up a list of some nice sites to help you to win more of your baseball wagers.

Sportscapperisland.com offers 5 reasons to bet on baseball. From my experience #3 is right on the money:
3. Out of all sports, baseball is [...]

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

April Fooled by Bettingmarket.com

The folks at bettingmarket.com really got me with their April Fool’s Day post. I call no fair posting this on April the 3rd, but nevetheless I have to give them credit for a hilariously believable yet just slightly absurd post about the “arrest” of Bodog founder Calvin Ayre.

Bodog founder hunted down in Tora Bora
Only [...]

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

IBM’s Many Eyes Project Seeks Sports Statistics Freaks

“When the sports statistic freaks find us, that will be nuts…and very cool.”
–Matt McKeon, developer, Many Eyes
News.com has an interesting article about the IBM “Many Eyes” project. Basically, it’s a way that anyone can upload data and create visualizations of the data using various templates created by the folks at IBM. The [...]