Monthly Archives: April 2016

Small and medium-sized businesses are for Bitcoin. What are the benefits?

Bitcoin is still an attractive sphere for investment, despite the fact that financiers and developers switched their attention to the blockchain. In the last year alone, venture capital investments in cryptocurrency start-ups reached a record level.

The sphere of cryptocurrency is interesting primarily for small and medium-sized investors, not global corporations. According to the head of the London Ledger Partners Jeremy Miller, up to 90% of the Bitcoin capitalization falls on family investment companies. In comparison with other assets, the digital currency brings them big profits.

What should an entrepreneur wishing to invest in Bitcoin project do?

How soon will the project be justified?

Small and medium-sized businesses are for Bitcoin. What are the benefits?

Bitcoin is still an attractive sphere for investment, despite the fact that financiers and developers switched their attention to the blockchain. In the last year alone, venture capital investments in cryptocurrency start-ups reached a record level.

The sphere of cryptocurrency is interesting primarily for small and medium-sized investors, not global corporations. According to the head of the London Ledger Partners Jeremy Miller, up to 90% of the Bitcoin capitalization falls on family investment companies. In comparison with other assets, the digital currency brings them big profits.

What should an entrepreneur wishing to invest in Bitcoin project do?

How soon will the project be justified?

Nikolay Aleksakhin out to give Ben Askren his first defeat at ONE: GLOBAL RIVALS

It’s going to be the Cold War all over again when Russian Nikolay Aleksakhin meets American Ben Askren in ONE: GLOBAL RIVALS, set to rock Manila on Friday, April 15 at the Mall of Asia Arena.

Askren and Aleksakhin have never faced each other but there is no love lost between the two. Aleksakhin has described his opponent as a one-dimensional fighter in the MMA cage.

Askren is a wrestling champion and Olympian who represented the United States in Beijng in 2008, and has been undefeated in 14 bouts ever since he transitioned to MMA.

Still, the Russian says wrestling is Askren’s “one and only strength”. “He is a boring fighter to watch, with a very weak striking technique. I would like to play on that. I am a showman, I like exciting fighters and want to win beautifully,” added Aleksakhin.

Is Cleveland The Best Bet To Win The Eastern Conference?

The best way to make an Eastern Conference wager in the futures market is one of two ways. You can either just go in heavily on the Cleveland Cavaliers, or you can make a recovery play. This is simply a way of spreading some money around on two or three longshots (in this case, everyone else) and then leveraging enough money on the favorite (in this case Cleveland) to recover all of those other bets. It’s the smart way to take a chance on the market if you feel like Cleveland is as incomplete and infested with plagues as everyone else is trying to make them seem. This is a different tactic than what you’ll have to do in the Western Conference, which I’ll attack later this week.

Cleveland Cavaliers (-325 to win the Eastern Conference)

I’m not going to spend a lot of time here. We can all safely assume that Cleveland is both talented and driven enough to get to the Eastern Conference Finals. This isn’t to say that teams aren’t prone to monumental collapses at any given time, but there’s no point in going on and on about the Cavaliers.

They have dysfunctional problems, but they’re also fully healthy with three of the best players in the entire conference. That talent is enough to overcome a lot of their in-house adversity. Cleveland remains the best option in the Eastern Conference and is a great recovery play if you’d prefer to swing large on some of the other contenders.

Is Cleveland The Best Bet To Win The Eastern Conference?

The best way to make an Eastern Conference wager in the futures market is one of two ways. You can either just go in heavily on the Cleveland Cavaliers, or you can make a recovery play. This is simply a way of spreading some money around on two or three longshots (in this case, everyone else) and then leveraging enough money on the favorite (in this case Cleveland) to recover all of those other bets. It’s the smart way to take a chance on the market if you feel like Cleveland is as incomplete and infested with plagues as everyone else is trying to make them seem. This is a different tactic than what you’ll have to do in the Western Conference, which I’ll attack later this week.

Cleveland Cavaliers (-325 to win the Eastern Conference)

I’m not going to spend a lot of time here. We can all safely assume that Cleveland is both talented and driven enough to get to the Eastern Conference Finals. This isn’t to say that teams aren’t prone to monumental collapses at any given time, but there’s no point in going on and on about the Cavaliers.

They have dysfunctional problems, but they’re also fully healthy with three of the best players in the entire conference. That talent is enough to overcome a lot of their in-house adversity. Cleveland remains the best option in the Eastern Conference and is a great recovery play if you’d prefer to swing large on some of the other contenders.

Paddy Power Betfair new ad director, dodges ASA censure over Liverpool ad

Online betting behemoth Paddy Power Betfair had promoted longtime Paddy person Ken Robertson to the position of advertising director.

Robertson (pictured), a 16-year Paddy Power veteran, had previously served in a number of roles with the Irish betting operator, and held the company’s infamous ‘head of mischief’ title from 2011 to 2014.

Robertson’s new job will see him head up a 50-person team overseeing all European advertising for the enlarged Paddy Power Betfair business. The news comes one week after the company revealed plans to cut nearly 10% of its staff to realize the promised synergies from the merger of Paddy Power and Betfair.

One can only hope that Robertson will continue to push the advertising envelope, like Paddy Power’s recent outdoor poster that simultaneously mocked the injury prone English Premier League side Liverpool FC and pissed off people with disabilities, or at least, people who felt people with disabilities should be pissed off. Or something.

Paddy Power Betfair new ad director, dodges ASA censure over Liverpool ad

Online betting behemoth Paddy Power Betfair had promoted longtime Paddy person Ken Robertson to the position of advertising director.

Robertson (pictured), a 16-year Paddy Power veteran, had previously served in a number of roles with the Irish betting operator, and held the company’s infamous ‘head of mischief’ title from 2011 to 2014.

Robertson’s new job will see him head up a 50-person team overseeing all European advertising for the enlarged Paddy Power Betfair business. The news comes one week after the company revealed plans to cut nearly 10% of its staff to realize the promised synergies from the merger of Paddy Power and Betfair.

One can only hope that Robertson will continue to push the advertising envelope, like Paddy Power’s recent outdoor poster that simultaneously mocked the injury prone English Premier League side Liverpool FC and pissed off people with disabilities, or at least, people who felt people with disabilities should be pissed off. Or something.

Senet Group adds first bingo brands; 188Bet, McBookie join UK racing ABP scheme

The UK gambling industry’s self-regulatory body has added its first bingo brands, while the UK racing industry’s Authorized Betting Partner scheme has added two more members.

On Tuesday, the Senet Group announced that its membership now includes Gala Leisure, the UK’s largest bingo club operator, and Gala Interactive, the country’s leading online bingo operator.

The additions mark the first dedicated bingo operators to join the Senet Group, the self-policing agency the betting industry launched in 2014 in a bid to rein in some of its better known excesses and (hopefully) fend off the imposition of more punitive restrictions by the UK government.

Senet Group chief Wanda Goldwag said the addition of the Gala brands marked “an important milestone as more sectors from across the gambling industry recognize the importance of promoting responsible gambling standards.”

Maurice Hawkins Calls It by Winning 2 WSOPC Gold Rings in April

Maurice Hawkins calls it after backing up his Twitter claim that he would win two tournaments in April by taking down two World Series of Poker Circuit events at Horseshoe Council Bluffs.

Most of us drink tea. Maurice Hawkins looks into the cup and sees the future.

In early April, Hawkins posted the following tweet.

Calling my shot. I am going to win two tourneys in the month of April. I have never felt better in my life.#Hawksview#Winning

Champions League Review: Man City and Madrid Reach Semi-Finals

La Liga and the Premiership will be represented in the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League after Manchester City and Real Madrid take care of Paris St Germain and Wolfsburg to make it into the final four.

It’s not unusual to see a Manchester team in the semi-finals of the Champions League, but they’re usually wearing the colour red; not blue. Manchester City (and not United) will be sticking the Premier League flag deep into the soil of the semi-finals after beating Paris St Germain by a goal to nil at the Etihad to win 3-2 on aggregate.

It’s the first time in City’s history that they have reached the semi-finals of the world’s most prestigious club competition. To be honest, they did it without playing their best in either leg.

With Zlatan Ibrahimovic promising to strut his stuff in the Premier League next season, and PSG exited stage left at the quarterfinals for the fourth consecutive year, perhaps Laurent Blanc has taken them as far as he can?

WPT Shot Clock: Players Complaining About The Change Only Have Themselves to Blame

Lee Davy airs his view after the World Poker Tour’s decision to introduce a 30-second shot clock in the Tournament of Champions is met with an angry response by a member of their Champions Club.

I am in Baden, Austria. Marvin Rettenmaier sits in his seat like a king on a throne. And why not? The German star is on his way towards an incredible third World Poker Tour (WPT) Main Event title in less than nine months. He wears a grey t-shirt. His hair tussled by the masseuse calmly squeezing his scalp between her fingers. He is enjoying a joke with his partypoker teammate Bodo Sbrzesny; seated to his direct left.

The action folds to Fedor Holz in middle position who min-raises to 12,000. The Finnish player Kimmo Kurko is next to act. He takes his time before three-betting to 28,000 in the hijack seat. My curiosity is piqued. So is Sbrzesny’s in the cutoff. He riffles a small stack of blue chips with his right hand. His left-hand rests on his right forearm. He doesn’t look at anyone in particular when he reaches for chips and moves a 52,000 cold four-bet into the middle in one fell swoop.

The jokes have stopped. Nobody is talking. It’s as if all the eyes in the casino are on this table. Rettenmaier is also riffling a small stack of blue chips with his right hand. His left rests on the table. In between, lies the largest stack of anyone left in this competition. He stares at the initial raise of Holz. He looks deadly serious. After a minute’s thought, he pushes out a 96,000 cold five bet from the button.

Philippines bank at heart of Bangladeshi bank heist says it might repay funds

The Philippines bank at the center of the great Bangladeshi Bank Heist of ’16 says it’s prepared to comply if the Philippines government orders the bank to make up some of the Bangladeshi losses.

On Tuesday, Philippine senators held their latest public hearing into February’s digital theft of $101m from Bangladeshi central bank accounts at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Around $81m of this stolen cash ended up in the accounts of a Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) branch in Manila before spreading through the local casino industry.

So far, junket operator Kam Sin ‘Kim’ Wong has returned close to $5.5m of the cash that two Chinese junket agents transferred to various accounts at the Solaire Resort and Casino and the Midas Hotel casino.

Wong has also offered to hand over nearly $10m he claims to have received from one of the junket agents as repayment for a personal debt. Wong further claimed that another $17m was still in the hands of local remittance firm Philrem Services Inc, a claim that Philrem execs continue to deny.