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(PRWEB) — Online sportsbook Sportingbet.com is taking bets on who will become the next General Manager of the National Hockey League’s Toronto Maple Leafs.

Sportingbet.com has odds for the 13 most likely candidates to get the job with the Maple Leafs, who fired John Ferguson Jr. in January and subsequently hired Cliff Fletcher as general manager on an interim basis.

Former Dallas Stars’ general manager Doug Armstrong is a slight favorite to be hired in Toronto, at +333 moneyline odds.

Armstrong, who was named general manager in Dallas in 2002, was fired on Nov. 13, 2007 after the team started the 2007-08 season with a 7-7-3 record. He won the Stanley Cup as the Stars’ assistant GM in 1999.

Other favorites are Colin Campbell, the NHL’s Senior Vice-President and Director of Hockey Operations, and Doug Wilson, currently GM of the San Jose Sharks. Both are at +350 odds.

Campbell retired after 11 years as a player in 1985 and joined the Detroit Red Wings coaching staff, where he served as an assistant for five years. He moved on to a similar position with the New York Rangers. He eventually became head coach of the Rangers and was fired in 1998. He joined the league front office later that year.

Wilson played 14 seasons with the Chicago Blackhawks and two years with San Jose. He was the first captain in Sharks history, serving two years before retiring after the 1992-93 season.

Other candidates include player agent Don Meehan (+400), Anaheim Ducks GM Brian Burke (+500), and interim GM Fletcher (+650).

Longshots include Detroit GM Ken Holland and assistant GM Jim Nill (both +1400) and Anaheim executives Bob Murray and David McNab (+1600).

Sportingbet.com recently launched its new sports betting website, http://ca.sportingbet.com, which will allow the UK-based company to offer its premium service to the ever-expanding Canadian sports betting market.

SportingBet.com currently takes wagers on 22 sports from the top leagues and events from around the globe, and offers a myriad of wagers, including the In-Play wagering option, which allows Canadian bettors to wager on their favorite NHL, NBA and MLB games while the game is in progress.

With more than four million registered customers, Sportingbet.com offers a wide range of betting and gaming products from poker and sports betting to casino and games such as backgammon.

Operating out of regulated and licensed markets since 1998, SportingBet.com has been listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange since 2001.

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(PRWEB) — Titan Poker, the largest poker room on the iPoker Network, awarded three players with prize packages worth a combined total of $60,000 to the European Poker Tour Monte Carlo (EPT Monte Carlo) earlier this month. The players traveled from France, Italy and Germany to compete in this elite tournament, which marked the end of the EPT’s fourth season and eight months of intensive poker across Europe’s top cities.

All players won their seats at Super Satellites staged online at Titan Poker. For French player Vincent Marlard, 29, an investment of just $21 turned into a $20,000 prize package to the EPT Grand Final.

He said: ‘I originally paid just $21 for an online EPT Monte Carlo satellite. From here I kept on winning seats to bigger satellites until I eventually won my place in Monte Carlo. It felt like a dream.’

Titan Poker sent its representatives to the Columbus Hotel in Monte Carlo, Monaco, from the 12th to the 18th of April. It was not the first time that the popular poker room has sent its players to luxurious Monaco for this event, however this year’s prize package was larger than ever before. All players received a 10,600 Euro buy-in to the Main Event, six nights’ accommodation at the Columbus Hotel in Monte Carlo, and approximately $2,400 for flights and spending.

Following the tournament, Felice Piccaluga, from Italy, said: ‘I am thrilled that I was given this amazing experience. Unfortunately, I was eliminated on the second day but I had a fantastic time and I had the opportunity to play with some of the biggest stars of the poker world! I’m definitely going to keep playing at Titan Poker for another chance!’

Titan Poker regularly awards its players with seats at the world’s most well-known poker tournaments. It will be sending players to the World Series of Poker 2008 in Las Vegas and the World Poker Showdown in the Dominican Republic later this year. In May, Titan Poker will sponsor the Eurocity Poker Tour Madrid Open – an elite poker tournament open to just 200 players.

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Gibraltar (PRWEB) — The Party Poker Million VI gets underway on Saturday and sets sail from Venice ready for a week of action.

The eight day PartyPoker.com Million VI takes place from the 3rd – 10th May 2008 and will sail from Venice calling at ports around the Mediterranean before returning to Venice.

The excitement is building ahead of the first ever PartyPoker.com Million to be held in Europe. We estimate a total prize pool of over $1.3 million.
30 countries will be represented in the main event and amongst those fancied to make an impact include Canada’s history-making Mike ‘Timex’ McDonald, Sweden’s 2008 Late Night Poker winner Andreas Jorbeck, Brazil’s Christian Kruel, Danish sensation Soeren Kongsgaard, Germany’s Florian Langmann and Alexander Jung and Finland’s Mika Paasonen. The line-up is a united nations of next generation poker talent.

The ship, the MSC Poesia, is a state of the art cruise liner packed with facilities and the cabins are now full. On board there will be restaurants, bars, tennis courts, mini golf, pools, spas, discos, a cinema, shopping and moreЕand not forgetting a massive 24/7 card room.

With the shift to a European route the tournament is now no limit rather than limit but the look and feel of the cruise is the same. Many of the old faces will be back. Mike Sexton will be host and MC, Matt Savage and Dave Lamb are tournament directors and the highly respected Card Player Cruises team that includes Linda Johnson, Mark Tenner and Jan Fisher will be onboard running the poker room.

A PartyPoker.com spokesman said: “The excitement is building ahead of the first ever PartyPoker.com Million to be held in Europe. We estimate a total prize pool of over $1.3 million.”

Online qualifiers won a PartyPoker.com Million VI package worth $12,000, comprising $8,200 buy-in for the no limit texas hold’em main event, $2,700 for the accommodation and the cruise and $1,100 spending money.

Previous winners of the PartyPoker.com Million include Kathy Liebert, Howard Lederer, Erick Lindgren, Michael Gracz and Mike Schneider. The first PartyPoker.com Million was a huge breakthrough for poker being the first hold’em tournament to offer a $1,000,000 first prize, the first tournament to combine direct buy-ins with online qualifiers and the first to hold its finals on a cruise liner. The result was momentous too, with Kathy Liebert’s victory marking the first major tournament win by a woman.

PartyPoker.com is a popular member of PartyGaming Plc’s suite of online games that includes PartyCasino.com, PartyBingo.com, PartyBets.com, PartyGammon.com, Gamebookers.com and EmpirePoker.com.

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(PRWEB) — Titan Poker, the largest poker room on the iPoker Network, is currently staging a Super Satellite Series, offering players a chance to win seats at the land-based Asian Poker Tour (APT) Manila tournament, which will be staged at the Dusit Thani Manila hotel in Makati from May 27th through June 1st, 2008.

Participants in the Manila tournament will compete for an unprecedented One Million Dollar prize pool, the largest ever offered in Asia.

Winners of the Super Satellites, continuing every week through May 12th, will receive a prize package worth $6,000, including buy-in to the Asian Poker Tour Main Event and money for flights and spending. Titan Poker will reward four packages to Manila at every Super Satellite.

The popularity of poker in Asia is growing rapidly and APT tournament officials expect to attract at least 400 poker players, amateurs and top professionals, from around the world.

Manila is the first stop of the 2008 Asian Poker Tour. After Manila the tour continues in South Korea, Macau, and Singapore.

Titan Poker is sponsoring the Eurocity Poker Tour Madrid Open this May and has sent players to the Aussie Millions and various European Poker Tour events. In addition to awarding players seats to the World Poker Showdown in the Dominican Republic in May, Titan Poker will host the European Championship of Online Poker II (ECOOP) where skilled poker players will compete for a share of $3,600,000 dollars.

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NEW YORK – Oil prices have been fluctuating for almost a year now driving gas prices in the US and elsewhere through the roof. That much is not news. What is news however is the fact that oil prices rose sharply Friday on news that a ship under contract to the U.S. Defense Department fired warning shots at two boats in the Persian Gulf. Retail gas prices as expected rose further into record territory nearing $3.60 a gallon.

With tension and speculation in America rising as exponentially as the prices themselves, the biggest, most accurate and most successful sportsbook on the web, BetUS.com posted odds on just where the ceiling is with regard to oil prices.

“With news of the warning shots being fired spreading, site users and those curious and or worried alike have been flooding our site,” stated BetUS spokesman Reed Richards. “The fact is, people know we are an unbiased, accurate source for predictive information ranging from everything from sports, politics, and international news. We feel obliged to provide accurate, up to the minute information.”

Oddsmakers at BetUS.com posted the following odds on the world’s oil prices:

Nymex Crude price 31-12-08 o/u $129
USD v Euro price 31-12-08 o/u 0.67
USD v GBP price 31-12-08 o/u 0.49
Average price of gas in US at the pump 31-12-08 o/u $4.17

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NEW YORK – Dallas Mavericks’ star Josh Howard turned heads on Friday when he admitted on the Michael Irvin Radio show that he smokes marijuana regularly in the off-season. Equally as shocking was his willingness to implicate the entire league with regard to marijuana use.

Were Howard’s admissions and candor a sign of things to come from pro athletes? Will their discretion come in to question when and if they admit to drug use and or other sordid behavior? Fans across the country are wondering just what to make of this scenario so once again beating everyone to the punch, the largest most successful sportsbook on the web, BetUS.com is providing them with answers.

Oddsmakers at BetUS.com posted the following odds on the recent Josh Howard drama:

Odds on the next NBA player to admit to smoking up:
Allan Iverson: 4/1
Carmello Anthony: 10/1
Rasheed Wallace: 2/1
LeBron: 40/1
Josh Childress: 4/1
Shaq: 100/1
Dirk: 250/1

Odds on what’s next for Howard:
Arrest: 5/1
Rehab: 20/1
Banned from league: 5/2
Fined by league: 1/2
Starts company with Ricky Williams: 100/1

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NEW YORK – Some of MLB’s best pitchers have been struggling mightily so far this season and instead of fans and experts wondering who will win the Cy Young awards this year, most are speculating as to which pitcher will lose the most games.

Big names like Zito, Sabbathia, and Mussina have been more than letting their teams down, they’ve been downright awful. This being the case, the largest, most successful sportsbook on the web, BetUS.com posted odd son which pitcher will lose the most games in MLB this year.

Oddsmakers at BetUS.com posted the following odds on the MLB’s most losingest pitcher:

Player to lose most games in 08 season
Barry Zito 10/1
Chad Billingsley 15/1
Joe Blanton 12/1
Boof Bonser 14/1
Matt Chico 8/1
Jason Jennings 9/1
Bronson Arroyo 15/1
Dave Bush 20/1
Kevin Correia 10/1
Tom Gorzelanny 15/1
Ted Lilly 15/1
Francisco Liriano 25/1
Gil Meche 25/1
Matt Morris 12/1
Brett Tomko 8/1
C.C Sabathia 18/1
Steve Trachsel 16/1
Justin Verlander 45/1
Jared Washburn 15/1
Odalis Perez 14/1
Mike Mussina 25/1
Kerry Wood 45/1

Most Losses by any one pitcher this season will be
15 or Under Losses 5/2
16 Losses 6/1
17 Losses 4/1
18 Losses 3/1
19 Or More Losses 2/1

Barry Zito Total Losses during 08 Season
Over 15.5 6/5
Under 15.5 6/5

C.C. Sabathia Total Losses during 08 Season
Over 11.5 6/5
Under 11.5 6/5

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NEW YORK – Whenever the NFL off-season rolls around the league and its fans begin to hold their breath. The reason for this being that history has shown a pattern of bad behavior on behalf of the league’s players. In the past, incidents with big name stars like Michael Vick, Ricky Williams, and just about every member of the Bengals that have either landed them in jail, or in the courtroom have made off-season drama the rule and not the exception.

The recent arrest of Colts running back Kenton Keith and incidents involving other NFL’ers have shown that this off-season is no different. This being the case fans across the country are wondering who will be next, and what will they get in trouble for. Looking for answers they have been flooding the largest most successful sportsbook on the web, BetUS.com, where oddsmakers have posted odds on all things NFL player behavior.

“The NFL is part of the fabric of the lives of fans in America and their interest in their teams and players goes far beyond the field,” said BetUS.com spokesman Reed Richards. “This is illustrated by the number of fans who come to us looking for analysis and predictive information regarding which star or team will be in hot water next.”

Oddsmakers at BetUS.com posted the following odds on NFL player behavior:

Team to have next player arrested
Dallas Cowboys 15/1
New York Giants 25/1
Philadelphia Eagles 15/1
Washington Redskins 25/1
Buffalo Bills 25/1
Miami Dolphins 10/1
New England Patriots 25/1
New York Jets 25/1
Arizona Cardinals 25/1
San Francisco 49ers 25/1
Seattle Seahawks 25/1
St Louis Rams 25/1
Denver Broncos 20/1
Kansas City Chiefs 20/1
Oakland Raiders 20/1
San Diego Chargers 25/1
Chicago Bears 25/1
Detroit Lions 18/1
Green Bay Packers 25/1
Minnesota Vikings 20/1
Baltimore Ravens 25/1
Cincinnati Bengals 5/1
Cleveland Browns 25/1
Atlanta Falcons 8/1
Carolina Panthers 25/1
New Orleans Saints 25/1
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 25/1
Houston Texans 25/1
Indianapolis Colts 15/1
Jacksonville Jaguars 25/1
Tennessee Titans 25/1

Next NFL player arrested will be for
DUI 3/1
Robbery 15/1
Assault 4/1
Tax evasion 25/1
Dog fighting 20/1
Drug possession 2/1
Firearm possession 4/1
Breaking and entering 10/1

Will there be more arrest in the 08-09Reg Season or Offseason
Regular Season 5/12
Offseason 19/10

Total Number of In-Season Arrests
Over 7.5 2/3
Under 7.5 11/10

Will an NFL Player be arrest multiple times before end of 08-09 Regular Season
Yes 5/8
No 1/1

Next Professional Sport to Have an athlete arrested
NFL 2/3
NBA 2/1
MLB 5/1
NHL 8/1

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It is now much easier for online poker players to connect to the Sun Poker tables from their computers, with the new “Flash-No Download” version of the popular poker room. This “instant play” version allows players to start playing immediately without the need to download any software onto their computer first. More importantly, Sunpoker.com is now easily played using an Apple Mac.

“We realized that in order for us to serve our players around the world, we needed to give them as many options as possible to enjoy our poker tables”, said Greg Harrison, Poker Room Manager at Sun Poker. “The no-download version lets players play immediately regardless of their location. We are thrilled that players owning Mac computers, can now easily play at our tables.”

One of the major hesitancies for poker players is having to download poker room software or using a PC simulator to play online with a Macintosh. This is not the case anymore with SunPoker.com. Players simply enter their login details and can start playing right away. This means users are able to play while away from their normal computer; in an Internet cafй or even a friend’s computer.

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