Filed Under (Gambling) by Alan on 03-05-2008

Online gambling and match fixing has become a problem all over the world but the dsi in Thailand have finally pulled there finger out and made arrests today.

Its said that over 310 million Baht gets spent every year on gambling with 51 million on footy, which as you can imagine makes people do strange things with the lure of money.

Gambling is a massive point of income in the black market which includes drugs, tax evasion, dangerous gun trading, prostitution and illegal DE-forestry to mention a couple.

Now as gambling in Thailand is illegal you can if visiting get your fix with the state national lottery or certain horse races.

If the casino draw is to much nip over to Cambodia and get your fill.

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Filed Under (Vegas News) by Alan on 03-05-2008

Click here to watch Allen go all in!

Allen Cunningham won one of the great seats on the final table in the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) the main leading event at the majestic Palace of Caesars in good old Vegas.

The legend has won the wsop bracelet 5 times and should be favourite to romp home to the title because of his past experience, but don’t under estimate the other 9 awesome players.

The online phenomenon Ben Fineman is out in front with the biggest chip count, Also up and coming new boys of the poker run, Blair Hinkle & Justino Bonomo will put there stamp in the mix at the 9 man finale.

Also in the mix is Ralph Perry, Motoyuki Mabuchi, Thomas Hover, Kelly samson, and the 2005 champ Doug lee, all these players have impressive records so it wont be a white wash of any account.

A $499,069 scoop will lavish the winner, which is a disappointing $200,000 less compared to when Lee worn the crown in Rio.

Than Nguyen became the heart broken unlucky player yesterday going out in tenth, but chin up pal there are plenty more tournaments out there.

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