Two Cornhuskers recently teamed up to participate in the annual Westgate SuperContest, hosted by Westgate Superbook in Las Vegas, and showed off their talents in superior fashion. By the time the contest was over, they had converted $3,000 into $1.47 million.
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Maryland might be one of the states to watch on the sports betting front in 2020. The state legislature begins its session on Jan. 8 with a single sports wagering proposal, Senate Bill No. 58, already on the table. The proposal, which calls for a voter referendum on the expansion of gambling, would lead to authorizing the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Commission to issue sports wagering licenses
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Much-criticised membership programmes reward those who often lose large sums of money
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The brand-new sportsbooks at Iowa casinos put up big numbers in their first 3½ months of operation, fueled in part by Nebraskans crossing the border to place bets that are illegal in their home state. More than $152 million worth of bets were placed at the 19 state-regulated casinos across Iowa between Aug. 15 — the date legal sports betting commenced — through the end of November. In gambling parlance, that’s called the “handle.”
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The Ohio Bobcats will try to impose their ground game on the Nevada Wolf Pack on Friday when they play in the Idaho Potato Bowl on ESPN.
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Interpreting the wagering line often gives clues to deciding on which team to bet.
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The NFL’s Wild-Card Weekend kicks off Saturday with two games, both from the AFC. At 4:35 p.m. ET, the fifth-seeded Buffalo Bills visit the fourth-seeded and AFC South champion Houston Texans. It’s the first-ever postseason meeting between those franchises with the Texans as 3-point favorites. Buffalo has lost its past seven playoff games as an underdog.
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The list started on Jan. 27, 2010, with the name of Shoumin Chai, who had been caught accessing other patrons’ ATM accounts at the Parx Casino. And she has since been joined by 808 others on the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board’s Involuntary Exclusion List, most recently on Dec. 18, after the board added nine more with casino-related offenses such as cheating, theft, leaving children unattended in vehicles, and even lighting a trash can on fire.
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Three of the most powerful tribes in Oklahoma filed a federal lawsuit against the state’s governor on Tuesday, asking the court to help resolve a dispute over gambling at tribal casinos.
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Atlantic City heads into 2020 with some optimism , buoyed by an expanded casino market with more jobs and more revenue. But there is also some concern over whether all nine casinos will make it to the finish line of 2020, and whether nearby states will eat into Atlantic City's main strengths right now: online gambling and sports betting.
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