Disgraced sports betting tout Adam Meyer may have actually been a federal snitch after all, according to unsealed court documents.

Meyer, who formerly headed up the Real Money Sports tout service, pled guilty last September to felony extortion and racketeering charges stemming from his point-of-a-gun shakedown of Gary Sadoff, a wealthy Wisconsin businessman and former Real Money Sports client, from whom Meyer extorted over $45m.

Meyer is due to be sentenced in US District Court next month. His lawyers are seeking a jail stint of no more than five years while prosecutors have committed to asking for no more than 12 years in stripes.

Meyer’s attorneys filed a lengthy sentencing memo with the court explaining why their client deserves a break. The memo was filed under seal, based on the attorneys’ claims that its contents would be “problematic” for Meyer if they were made public. But the judge rejected this request and the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel got a peek at the unsealed memo’s contents.

Disgraced sports betting tout Adam Meyer may have actually been a federal snitch after all, according to unsealed court documents.

Meyer, who formerly headed up the Real Money Sports tout service, pled guilty last September to felony extortion and racketeering charges stemming from his point-of-a-gun shakedown of Gary Sadoff, a wealthy Wisconsin businessman and former Real Money Sports client, from whom Meyer extorted over $45m.

Meyer is due to be sentenced in US District Court next month. His lawyers are seeking a jail stint of no more than five years while prosecutors have committed to asking for no more than 12 years in stripes.

Meyer’s attorneys filed a lengthy sentencing memo with the court explaining why their client deserves a break. The memo was filed under seal, based on the attorneys’ claims that its contents would be “problematic” for Meyer if they were made public. But the judge rejected this request and the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel got a peek at the unsealed memo’s contents.

Disgraced sports betting tout Adam Meyer may have actually been a federal snitch after all, according to unsealed court documents.

Meyer, who formerly headed up the Real Money Sports tout service, pled guilty last September to felony extortion and racketeering charges stemming from his point-of-a-gun shakedown of Gary Sadoff, a wealthy Wisconsin businessman and former Real Money Sports client, from whom Meyer extorted over $45m.

Meyer is due to be sentenced in US District Court next month. His lawyers are seeking a jail stint of no more than five years while prosecutors have committed to asking for no more than 12 years in stripes.

Meyer’s attorneys filed a lengthy sentencing memo with the court explaining why their client deserves a break. The memo was filed under seal, based on the attorneys’ claims that its contents would be “problematic” for Meyer if they were made public. But the judge rejected this request and the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel got a peek at the unsealed memo’s contents.

Lee Davy ponders the future of poker and the world after the artificial intelligence known as Libratus defeated four human players over 120,000 hands of Heads-Up No-Limit Hold’em.

I thought my trip to Burning Man was to awaken the giant within. It turns out it was an exercise of how to live in a world dominated by Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Libratus has beaten its human opponents in the much-vaunted Man vs. Machine Part II. The men in white coats are giving each other high fives and slapping each other on the back. Meanwhile, four of the greatest heads-up players in the game are feeling like a stampede of elephants have just ridden roughshod over their souls.

Imagine being a mosquito on the wall of the Heads-Up No-Limit Hold’em locker room, right now. They must feel like Polar Bears watching their world melt away. It’s time to get a different job. But, they had better hurry, if we get more Libratus AIs, there won’t be any.

Lee Davy ponders the future of poker and the world after the artificial intelligence known as Libratus defeated four human players over 120,000 hands of Heads-Up No-Limit Hold’em.

I thought my trip to Burning Man was to awaken the giant within. It turns out it was an exercise of how to live in a world dominated by Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Libratus has beaten its human opponents in the much-vaunted Man vs. Machine Part II. The men in white coats are giving each other high fives and slapping each other on the back. Meanwhile, four of the greatest heads-up players in the game are feeling like a stampede of elephants have just ridden roughshod over their souls.

Imagine being a mosquito on the wall of the Heads-Up No-Limit Hold’em locker room, right now. They must feel like Polar Bears watching their world melt away. It’s time to get a different job. But, they had better hurry, if we get more Libratus AIs, there won’t be any.

PokerStars are set to dominate the online gambling space in the Czech Republic after becoming the first international player to receive a license to operate in the country.

Thanks to the sterling efforts of Leon Tsoukernik and his team at the King’s Casino, the Czech Republic is arguably the home of live poker in Europe. It’s time this beautiful part of the world had an online operation to match.

In the summer, Czech gaming officials took a tractor to the online gambling landscape when they created a new regulatory system that demanded thorough vetting of all online operators, ending in the issuance of a rather expensive license.

Everything changed on Jan 1, 2017, but Czech officials were a little slow getting their act together, and it wasn’t until the twilight of 2016 that the likes of William Hill picked up their tents and moved out of the country, vowing to return after ticking all the new boxes.

PokerStars are set to dominate the online gambling space in the Czech Republic after becoming the first international player to receive a license to operate in the country.

Thanks to the sterling efforts of Leon Tsoukernik and his team at the King’s Casino, the Czech Republic is arguably the home of live poker in Europe. It’s time this beautiful part of the world had an online operation to match.

In the summer, Czech gaming officials took a tractor to the online gambling landscape when they created a new regulatory system that demanded thorough vetting of all online operators, ending in the issuance of a rather expensive license.

Everything changed on Jan 1, 2017, but Czech officials were a little slow getting their act together, and it wasn’t until the twilight of 2016 that the likes of William Hill picked up their tents and moved out of the country, vowing to return after ticking all the new boxes.

Twitch sensation Jamie Staples has done it again after securing a multi-platform development deal for TV and digital properties with ePlay Digital Inc’s. PokerVision Network.

My favourite Christmas present, ever, was a black and white portable TV. It was one of those jobbies with an ariel on the top that you had to twist to get a decent picture. I watched the Raiders of the Lost Ark the night after unwrapping it.

I used to think TV was the nuts. I have spent thousands on the things. But times change. Yesterday, I sold my TV on Gumtree for £20. My wife told me I was a mug and that I should have raised the price to £50. The buyer said it was for his autistic son.

I couldn’t pull the trigger.

H20 Sports Data Seminar

 In partnership with BetConstruct, SBC Events will be revealing the inaugural invite-only H20 Data Seminar in 2017.  This pre-ICE evening seminar is the only event of the week dedicated to the importance of sports data for traders and will be held in one of London’s most impressive venues, One Whitehall Place.

100 sports betting professionals are expected to attend this event for no charge, including a three course meal, several sports data-focused sessions, networking drinks and sports celeb appearances including John Barnes and Ruud Gullit.

What: H20 Sports Data Seminar

H20 Sports Data Seminar

 In partnership with BetConstruct, SBC Events will be revealing the inaugural invite-only H20 Data Seminar in 2017.  This pre-ICE evening seminar is the only event of the week dedicated to the importance of sports data for traders and will be held in one of London’s most impressive venues, One Whitehall Place.

100 sports betting professionals are expected to attend this event for no charge, including a three course meal, several sports data-focused sessions, networking drinks and sports celeb appearances including John Barnes and Ruud Gullit.

What: H20 Sports Data Seminar

H20 Sports Data Seminar

 In partnership with BetConstruct, SBC Events will be revealing the inaugural invite-only H20 Data Seminar in 2017.  This pre-ICE evening seminar is the only event of the week dedicated to the importance of sports data for traders and will be held in one of London’s most impressive venues, One Whitehall Place.

100 sports betting professionals are expected to attend this event for no charge, including a three course meal, several sports data-focused sessions, networking drinks and sports celeb appearances including John Barnes and Ruud Gullit.

What: H20 Sports Data Seminar

H20 Sports Data Seminar

 In partnership with BetConstruct, SBC Events will be revealing the inaugural invite-only H20 Data Seminar in 2017.  This pre-ICE evening seminar is the only event of the week dedicated to the importance of sports data for traders and will be held in one of London’s most impressive venues, One Whitehall Place.

100 sports betting professionals are expected to attend this event for no charge, including a three course meal, several sports data-focused sessions, networking drinks and sports celeb appearances including John Barnes and Ruud Gullit.

What: H20 Sports Data Seminar

A Canadian charity lottery is warning players to be on the lookout for bogus websites running phishing scams.

For nearly a quarter-century, Alberta’s Full House Lottery has been raising funds for the province’s medical needs, contributing over $70m toward things like MRI technology and advanced medical research. Full House is the province’s largest home lottery.

On Sunday, Full House Lottery posted a notice to its Facebook page warning players that a phishing operation was emailing people who’d previously purchased Full House Lottery tickets, inviting them to register for “early VIP tickets” at FHLottery.ca – not the Lottery’s official website FullHouse.ca – while requesting all sorts of personal information, including credit card data.

Full House Lottery warned that it had no association with the bogus website and it was not actually selling any early VIP tickets. Full House Lottery went on to say that it doesn’t “rent, sell or share our mailing list,” nor does it store players’ credit card details.

A Canadian charity lottery is warning players to be on the lookout for bogus websites running phishing scams.

For nearly a quarter-century, Alberta’s Full House Lottery has been raising funds for the province’s medical needs, contributing over $70m toward things like MRI technology and advanced medical research. Full House is the province’s largest home lottery.

On Sunday, Full House Lottery posted a notice to its Facebook page warning players that a phishing operation was emailing people who’d previously purchased Full House Lottery tickets, inviting them to register for “early VIP tickets” at FHLottery.ca – not the Lottery’s official website FullHouse.ca – while requesting all sorts of personal information, including credit card data.

Full House Lottery warned that it had no association with the bogus website and it was not actually selling any early VIP tickets. Full House Lottery went on to say that it doesn’t “rent, sell or share our mailing list,” nor does it store players’ credit card details.

Billionaire developer Glenn Straub needs to get a New Jersey gaming license if he wants to operate a casino at Atlantic City’s dormant Revel property.

Straub, who purchased the bankrupt Revel casino hotel in 2015 and subsequently rebranded it as TEN, appeared at a meeting of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission (CCC) on Tuesday, where he learned he wouldn’t receive an exemption from the state’s casino licensure requirements.

Straub sued the CCC in November, arguing that since he intends to delegate TEN’s gaming operations to a third-party management company, he is effectively a landlord, not a casino operator. As such, he felt he shouldn’t be required to submit himself and his companies to the standard regulatory poking and prodding in order to determine his suitability to operate in AC.

CCC chairman Matthew Levinson said the regulator recognized “the social and economic benefits” that AC will derive from taking Revel/TEN out of mothballs, “but the environment in Atlantic City does not change the requirements of the Casino Control Act.” Levinson said the CCC “would turn the Casino Control Act on its head” if it bent the rules for Straub.

Billionaire developer Glenn Straub needs to get a New Jersey gaming license if he wants to operate a casino at Atlantic City’s dormant Revel property.

Straub, who purchased the bankrupt Revel casino hotel in 2015 and subsequently rebranded it as TEN, appeared at a meeting of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission (CCC) on Tuesday, where he learned he wouldn’t receive an exemption from the state’s casino licensure requirements.

Straub sued the CCC in November, arguing that since he intends to delegate TEN’s gaming operations to a third-party management company, he is effectively a landlord, not a casino operator. As such, he felt he shouldn’t be required to submit himself and his companies to the standard regulatory poking and prodding in order to determine his suitability to operate in AC.

CCC chairman Matthew Levinson said the regulator recognized “the social and economic benefits” that AC will derive from taking Revel/TEN out of mothballs, “but the environment in Atlantic City does not change the requirements of the Casino Control Act.” Levinson said the CCC “would turn the Casino Control Act on its head” if it bent the rules for Straub.

Billionaire developer Glenn Straub needs to get a New Jersey gaming license if he wants to operate a casino at Atlantic City’s dormant Revel property.

Straub, who purchased the bankrupt Revel casino hotel in 2015 and subsequently rebranded it as TEN, appeared at a meeting of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission (CCC) on Tuesday, where he learned he wouldn’t receive an exemption from the state’s casino licensure requirements.

Straub sued the CCC in November, arguing that since he intends to delegate TEN’s gaming operations to a third-party management company, he is effectively a landlord, not a casino operator. As such, he felt he shouldn’t be required to submit himself and his companies to the standard regulatory poking and prodding in order to determine his suitability to operate in AC.

CCC chairman Matthew Levinson said the regulator recognized “the social and economic benefits” that AC will derive from taking Revel/TEN out of mothballs, “but the environment in Atlantic City does not change the requirements of the Casino Control Act.” Levinson said the CCC “would turn the Casino Control Act on its head” if it bent the rules for Straub.