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$6m netted in gambling raids

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POLICE smashed a soccer bookmaking syndicate and arrested 24 people, seizing betting slips worth $6 million on Sunday night.

Police attached to the Organised Crime and Triad Bureau joined a special duty unit from Kowloon West Headquarters to stage the series of raids dubbed Crow Beak.

Swoops on 22 premises resulted in the arrests of 22 men and two women, aged between 21 and 65, for bookmaking activities. Those arrested were later released on bail ranging from $5,000 to $50,000.

 

Police allege the syndicate has been active since the European football competitions, including the English Premier League, the Italian Serie A and the Spanish league, kicked-off last week.

 

The latest crackdown follows a similar Pengeluaran HK  operation on May 24 when police raided 87 venues and visited 804 entertainment premises, mostly pubs, across the territory, seizing betting slips worth $4.15 million and $146,000 in cash.

 

Meanwhile police said a 33-year-old man surnamed Lo, arrested at his Sham Shui Po flat in another operation, was believed to be the mastermind of a gambling syndicate. As well as betting slips, calculators and television sets were found at his apartment.

 

Under the Gambling Ordinance, the maximum penalty for those engaged in illegal bookmaking is a $5 million fine and seven years’ jail.

The SAR government insists it has kept a “neutral stance” on the legalisation of soccer gambling.

 

The Home Affairs Bureau began a public consultation on gambling on June 23, revealing that the annual turnover of illegal football betting, run by offshore bookmakers and Internet sites was estimated at $20 billion.

 

Using the formula of a betting tax rate of 14 per cent applied to horse racing, the projected revenue would be about $2.8 billion annually in tax revenue.

The consultation ends next month.

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Sunny Casinos launch International Blackjack Ligaz888 Tournament

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Sunny Casinos, a leader in online casinos announced today, the launch of its International Blackjack Tournament. The tournament starts on October 13, 2001 and finishes with a grand final in January 2002.

 

Sunny Casinos, a leader in online casinos announced today, the launch of its International Blackjack Tournament. The tournament starts on October 13, 2001 and finishes with a grand final in January 2002.

 

Qualifying tournaments are held every weekend during the period October 13 – December 30, 2001. Players qualify by playing at any one of the online Sunny Casinos: www.mapau.com, www.casinofortune.com, www.miamibeachcasino.com and www.flashwins.com. As well as, their land base casino Mapau in Trinidad, Crystal Place in Tobago and Kings in Botswana, Africa.

 

The tournament will run by a process of elimination. Top players, based on their standing, will qualify for each round of the tournament. Winners will be posted live on the leader board at all Sunny Casinos, giving competitors an opportunity to check their standings.

 

Promotions Manager, Anand said, “No matter how many times a Ligaz888 player has been eliminated, there are opportunities to qualify at all stages of the tournament through our Wild Entry Tournament, which runs parallel to the International Blackjack Tournament. You can visit any one of our online casinos for more details”.

 

No one, said Anand, would want to miss out on such a promotion. He added, “Imagine… 15 of the World’s best Blackjack players will be flown free to the Beautiful Caribbean Island of Trinidad in January 2002. They will be wined, dined and entertained.”

 

Mapau Casino, which is Sunny Casinos’ land base casino in Trinidad, West Indies, is the venue for the finals.

 

“It is a golden chance for Blackjack players to display their skills and walk away with 21K ($21,000)”, said Promotion …

Slot POKER ROOM

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Let’s paint a picture. You’re walking through the casino, trying to decide where next to put your stake into play. You think blackjack, but the blackjack limits are too high just here and just now. So then you think craps, but they’re six deep around the craps table and you can’t even get close. Slots? Maybe another time. Sports book? Not your cup of tea.

 

Then… as you have so many times before… you notice the poker room, over there in a corner, separated from the rest of the casino by a low wooden rail and a certain aura that makes it seem foreign, distant and strange. Not for the first time, you think that you’d maybe like to take a shot at public poker. After all, you know the basics of the game from having played with the family as a kid or with friends in college or beyond. But there’s something so off-putting about that… that… room. The players all seem so confident, and their confidence is intimidating. It makes you want to walk away.

 

You have two fears. The first – that you might lose your money – is one you can deal with. It’s part of the casino experience; you know that. But the second fear – the fear of looking foolish – that’s a little harder to get over. Those people in there, they all know what they’re doing. If you join them (so you believe) you’ll betray yourself as a novice immediately. They will mock and disrespect you and heap scorn upon you. So you believe. And so you take another look at the blackjack table or the money wheel or even keno. And your brief flirtation with casino poker ends. Because a little thing called fear held you back.

 

Suppose …

Want Me to Plug You in UFA?

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A while back I read a story about the spread of product placement advertisement in TV shows. Product placement is the practice of slipping visuals of branded goods such as foods, beer, autos, etc., into programs and charging the makers a fee, much as if they were running regular paid ads. This has been going on for a long time in films.

For example, there’s a scene in my favorite movie, Superman, where a young Clark Kent is eating breakfast in his family’s farmhouse with a box of Cheerios clearly visible on the kitchen table. Ever since I watched that scene, I’ve eaten Cheerios for breakfast every day of my life. I still can’t fly, but I haven’t given up hope yet.

There are several reasons why sneaked-in ads are now cropping up on television: partly it’s because audiences are turned off by all the commercials cluttering the airwaves; partly because new electronic technology will let viewers zip right past them; but mostly it’s due to simple greed. Not only will more and more branded items appear in new programs, they will also pop up in rerun programs as TV producers take classic old shows and digitally insert commercial products.

So don’t be surprised if you see Jack Webb with a Nokia cell phone in a 1954 Dragnet episode, or Lucille Ball, in an I Love Lucy show filmed nearly 50 years ago, checking her AOL e-mail on a Toshiba laptop.

Reading about this insidious practice really upset me. As an ethical journalist, I oppose any compromise of media integrity. For example, I used to stew every time I saw ads for crappola movies that invariably featured gushing quotes from a certain critic for a minor radio station. When I read that he sometimes wrote rave reviews without even bothering …

Have you got what it takes to be a professional ligaz888 gambler?

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Last year, a major casino company released the results of an extensive survey of the American public’s views on gambling. One of the questions asked was, ãWhy do you gamble?ä The top two responses were ãentertainmentä and ãsocial interaction.ä Coming in a distant third was ãto win.ä Is having fun more important to gamblers than winning?

 

Not a chance!

Survey or no survey, I’ll lay you 3-to-1 that most gamblers would happily choose playing alone with a grumpy dealer and winning, over being at the friendliest table in the universe where they’re losing two out of every three hands. When you’re winning, entertainment and social interaction take care of themselves.

 

If winning is good, then winning big is better and winning consistently is best. Consistent winners are rare, to be sure, but they are real. And anyone who’s developed the gambling expertise necessary to win consistently is a candidate to go to the nextsome might say the ultimatelevel: the professional gambler.

 

Making a living as a gambler is a romantic, exciting prospect that’s no doubt crossed the mind of anyone who’s ever walked away from a gambling table with a fistful of chips. And guess whatit can be done. But you’d better think double hard before making this career move; gambling for your paycheck is a seriously tough way to pay the rent. I’ve heard many ligaz888 gamblers claim to be professionals. Upon inspection, though, the claims are rarely supportable. As the term implies, a professional gambler earns his living by gambling. He doesn’t supplement his bankroll with a paycheck from his day job. Gambling is his day job. In its most primitive form, gambling professionally is a grueling, hand-to-mouth existence. In its most highly developed state, it’s a frenetic world of mathematics, computer analysis, training, …

Online Oscar wagering gets its props

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The growth in the popularity of online betting exchanges, like Intrade.com, and a host of others, has improved their accuracy in predicting events like the Oscars, says Leighton Vaughan Williams, director of the Betting Research Unit at Britain’s Nottingham Trent University, who has studied how well efficient betting markets predict future events.

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Vaughan Williams points to Jamie Foxx, who is the favorite in the best actor race for his portrayal of blind singer Ray Charles in “Ray.” Betting Web sites are offering strong odds that Foxx will win the award, suggesting that the market has made a determination of who will win, based on the Oscar wagering already made.

“This year, more than any other year, the markets are seeing a clear favorite in the best actor category, and the odds on Jamie Foxx winning are astonishing,” Vaughan Williams said. “So I think Oscar betting is becoming much more sophisticated. And it’s improving because there are so many betting markets out there now, and they’re giving people the hard data and the confidence they need so they can make their own decisions instead of using guesswork.”

Vaughan Williams says betting markets are likely to be just as accurate in their Oscar predictions as they were at predicting the outcome of last year’s election: “There’s only a small pool of voters for the Academy Awards, but there’s also more scope for insider information to leak out. So some people out there have a pretty good idea who will win, and they could influence the odds.”

Online betting experts like Vaughan Williams and Knesevitch see the popularity, and accuracy, of betting exchanges and Web sites growing in the years ahead, potentially helping film studios to hedge against the risk that their next movie is …

Russian Roulette

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Who knows what Russian roulette is?  Is it that game (almost exclusively applicable to the male of the species) in which, for a wager, a fruitcake puts one live bullet in a gun, spins the barrel, points it at what’s left of his brains, and pulls the trigger? Most definitely not!

 

In poker, Russian roulette is a lottery in which poker players pull up varying amounts of hard-earned cash to play in tournaments — oops, I mean crapshoots. But unlike the head-case with the gun who gets to die only once, our colleagues get to repeatedly scramble the grey matter between their ears.

 

You must have witnessed the feeding frenzy that usually precedes the final big tournament in a poker festival. Time has run out for the normal one-table satellites but the organizers invariably seem to find time for one-hand shootouts, and what’s more, they are never short of takers. Surely, it’s better to take the same money to the roulette or craps table, which feature the exact same skill level but no entry fee. I can only assume that adrenalin has got the better of these players and they have temporarily parted company with reason.

 

But what about $10,000 crapshoots? As far as I am aware, they are almost exclusively European televised events. To pay full whack for some of these, I think you must either have rich parents, be sponsored, have a huge ego and wallet to match, or just need to appear on television so badly that you will happily pay the full amount. However good you think you are, a fast blind structure virtually negates any edge a poker player might have. Sadly, some tournament organizers do not seem the slightest bit interested in producing shows that allow us …

Milan bag Bacca as the Qiu Qiu Online market warms up

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SEVILLA SELL THEIR COLOMBIAN STAR FOR €30 MILLION, BUT NO MOVES YET FOR DE GEA, POGBA OR RAMOS

THE SPANISH WEEK IN REVIEW

 

Milan have won the race for Carlos Bacca’s signature. The Colombian leaves Sevilla with an impressive 49 goals in 108 games and two Europa League titles. The 28 year-old, who finished fifth in La Primera’s Pichichi race to score the most goals, had been courted by a number of teams but in the end plumped for San Siro in a five year, €30 million deal. It is a loss for La Liga and certainly for Sevilla, although fellow countryman Jackson Martinez will be playing for Atletico Madrid next season, keeping the tradition of cafetero strikers in Spain going strong.

 

Barcelona presidential candidate Juan Laporta, who has recetly upped his Qiu Qiu Online campaign for a second coming by wheeling out star names like Johann Cruyff and Pep Guardiola in support, claimed successor Sandro Rosell wanted to sell Lionel Messi to fund Camp Nou renovations.

 

Laporta also pledged to try to sign Paul Pogba and not to renew the €60 million annual sponsorship with the Qatar Foundation, in the light of reports of enforced labour and human rights abuses in the 2022 World Cup host nation.

 

His first two spells in charge of FCB brought two Champions Leagues, one World Club Cup, one Copa del Rey and four La Liga trophies to Catalonia.

 

Facing Laporta in the 18th of July showdown are existing boss Josep Maria Bartomeu, Toni Freixa, Agusti Benedito y Joan Batiste. Bartomeu remains favourite having garnered nearly twice as many nominations as Laporta.

 

* Real Madrid confirmed their €1.5 million purchase of Lucas Vasquez from Espanyol. The right-winger fits into Rafael Benitez’s desire to strengthen that part …

Celtic ban own supporters after Judi Bola Online24Jam Terpercaya

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Celtic, the Scottish Premier League champions, have taken the remarkable step of banning over hundred of their own supporters from watching the side home and away.

 

Following the damage caused to Motherwell’s Fir Park on Friday during Celtic’s 5-0 win, Celtic have suspended 128 fans from their matches and relocated another 250 season ticket holders.

 

The move has been taken is response to the rising levels of antisocial behaviour by a group of fans known as The Green Brigade, who attend home matches in Section 111 of the Celtic Park stadium.

 

Last month, the fan group unfurled political banners at Celtic’s Champions League game against AC Milan, leading to the club being called before a Uefa disciplinary hearing.

 

Celtic have even threatened to close Section 111 in the past due to the group’s refusal to adhere to safety regulations.

 

In a statement, the club said that they had issued “precautionary suspensions against 128 individuals preventing them attending Judi Bola Online24Jam Terpercaya matches involving Celtic, pending further investigation”.

 

Drop Vidic or Ferdinand: Savage

 

Former Manchester United midfielder Robbie Savage has urged boss David Moyes to drop either captain Nemanja Vidic or former England defender Rio Ferdinand and instead build a new back-line around Phil Jones.

 

Jones had played across the defence and in central midfield for both Manchester United and England in his short career to date, but arrived from Blackburn in 2011 as an accomplished central defender.

 

Savage said: “Moyes needs to establish his first-choice pair. When he does that, he has to think who he will be building his defence around in the future, and the answer is clearly not Ferdinand or Vidic.

 

“Instead he needs to look to Phil Jones. His best position is going to be at …

Full Steam Ahead For Qq Poker Online Slick Suwon

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Suwon take on Ulsan

 

The 2008 season so far has been all about Suwon Samsung Bluewings. The Gyeonggi giants started well and haven’t looked back. If they were to take a peek over their shoulders after eight games, they would see a chasing pack that was Qq Poker Online getting ever smaller.

 

Seven wins and one draw from eight games tell its own story. Only usual title rivals Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma have taken any points from the blue machine. Suwon are still to show they can play sustained high quality football and really dominate teams but they have amply demonstrated that they have the players capable of conjuring goals from nothing.

 

Suwon players get ready to warm down

 

Starting from the rock of defence and set piece menace Mato Neretljak and spreading throughout midfield and attack, there is a real goal threat in the Suwon team, one that has yet to score less than two goals in 2008. It is the forwards who have really impressed however. Seo Dong-hyun and Shin Young-rok have finally emerged from the shadows to show that they can score at the top level.

 

Shin Young-rok talks to the press

 

Suwon’s latest win came courtesy of a last-minute goal at the home of Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors in front of over 33,000 fans at Jeonju World Cup Stadium. It was a bitter blow for the hosts who are having a dreadful season. While few may be surprised at the Bluewings position at the top of the perch, nobody expected to see Jeonbuk at the bottom.

 

Shin Young-rok talksd to the press

 

The 2006 Asian Champions have never really performed well in the league in the past but 2008 was supposed to be different. Macedonian marksman Stevica Ristic …