Gaming community boosts Haiti appeal

The iGaming Business Affiliate awards proved to be much more than an evening honouring the big success stories in the industry. The movers and shakers present got the chance to show their charitable sides and delivered with some massive donations to the Haiti earthquake relief effort.

The awards raised a very impressive £65,000, a figure that was matched by the Calvin Ayre foundation, taking the total to £130,000. The donation will go to Oxfam, which is spearheading the relief effort on the Caribbean island.

The money will be used to fly out water, sanitation, health and shelter equipment from Oxfam’s emergency warehouse in Oxfordshire. Oxfam will also use the cash to employ people to clean up their makeshift camps and improve their living conditions by removing rubble, clearing market spaces, helping to dig latrines.

Bodog founder Calvin Ayre has challenged the gaming industry to raise $1m for the Haiti relief effort and the iGaming Business Affiliate Awards has gone a good way to achieving that target.

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Bodog finishes top in New Year study

A study published last week by independent consultant Josh Apiafi has found Bodog to be the strongest online gaming brand on Google ahead of others including 888, Bet365, Betfair, Bwin, Ladbrokes, PaddyPower, PartyPoker, PokerStars and William Hill.

The research used the Google Alerts service and noted the number of articles generated daily throughout December containing the names of specific online gambling brands. Google Alerts is a service offered by the search engine giant that notifies users by e-mail or feed about pages published on the web containing words they may be tracking.

“When I saw this news pop up on the web, my New Year’s hangover cleared even before I finished my breakfast,” said Calvin Ayre, founder of the Bodog brand.

“We had a hunch since I first rolled out the Bodog brand and business model that we are considered interesting. But that’s only part of the story, we also stand for having fun and that’s what all people want, especially ones that gamble.

“Whether you’re into poker, blackjack, roulette or sports, people are looking for a thrill and all those companies trying to be all corporate are simply boring their own customers. It’s also why I don’t think online gaming companies should go public, the market expects you to be all corporate, which is boring so you end up losing your entertainment soul.

“The measurement method of this study is a very clever one too. Who can argue with Google? I am raising my glass now to another 15 years at the top.”

Source: www.igamingbusiness.com

Parlay Card

A Parlay card is the list of payouts; player can get it based on sum number of teams wage in an exacting parlay. Most of the sportsbooks use a ‘traditional’ parlay card, as others will sometimes their parlay cards for attracting players via special sporting events or promotions.

If you are concerned in gambling a parlay, always remember to read the sportsbook’s parlay card very first, in this will help you to know that you can bet on how many teams, and what the payment is, even if there are any of the associated conditions with your parlay wage so, you will be familiar with that too. Do not wage a parlay blind, firstly educate yourself suspiciously and be aware that conditions and rules may vary between dissimilar sportsbooks.

Some examples of the traditional “Las Vegas Parlay Card” are given bellow that shows the classic payment for up to fifteen-team parlay wage:

13 to five – two Team Parlay

6 to one – three Team Parlay

10 to one –  four Team Parlay

20 to one – five Team Parlay

40 to one – six Team Parlay

75 to one – seven Team Parlay

100 to one – eight Team Parlay

150 to one –  nine  Team Parlay

300 to one – ten Team Parlay

450 to one –  eleven  Team Parlay

600 to one –  twelve  Team Parlay

750 to one – thirteen  Team Parlay

900 to one – fourteen Team Parlay

1500 to one – fifteen  Team Parlay

Now the question arises that how to read the example parlay card? It is so simple, suppose you bet on 10-team parlay. In case, you succeed the wage (through picking all ten champions correctly), so you will get there hundred to one on your money. Therefore, a 5USD 10-team parlay wage would give out the cool amount of 1500USD.

It is essential to note, but, there are few associated conditions with bets of parlay, and every bettor should know then, as mentioned before that conditions and rules can vary by the sportsbook. Have a look at the following general parlays rules:

• If a bettor loses any game on his parlay wage, the whole wage loses.

• If a bettor wages a 2-team, parlay and any game ties, so the parlays become a straight wage.

• In case any games on the parlay wage more than two teams so it is a push, bettor does not lose the parlay drops to the other payment level. Like, a 4-team parlay with 1 game push becomes three team parlay. Similarly, a 10-team parlay with 1 game push becomes nine team parlay. In case 2 teams tie the extend, bettor deduct two games from his total parlay games, six team parlay wage with two push becomes a four team parlay. 2 or more pushes are unusual, and many times, if there are any change in parlay, it will be product of 1 team pushing.

• Utmost Parlay wage payment: Most of the sportsbooks give a maximum payment on any one-parlay wage. Generally, this sum is in the area of 100,000USD (whatever currency you use). This stipulation is inescapable to care for sportsbook from pay out a enormous win, particularly in the unusual event that a vast parlay wage comes in.

Remember: never skip to read the sportsbook’s parlay card before you wage, then only you will be aware of the condition, payouts and rules of your wage. Being a knowledgeable parlay bettor will place the odds significantly in your support.

Good Luck and Have fun!

MLB: Arroyo declares risk on additions

Cincinnati Reds carafe Bronson Arroyo, last month who declares for use the now-banned addition previously in his career, declares he uses the number of over the counter additions not on approved list of Major League Baseball, according to the report of USA.

“I have lots of guys in the locker room who believe I am out of my mind because I think lots of things not on approved list of MLB,” According to Arroyo, the report says “I take ten to twelve different things in a day, on the days I arena, there are 4 more things. There is a caffeine swallow I take from company on that earlier Boston Red Sox teammate Curt Schilling initiated me to in “05.” I obtain some Korean individual ginseng also some additional proteins out there, which are not skilled. However I have not failed any of the tests, so I figured that I am good.”

The commissioner’s office and the Players Association have the certification program for additional and have counseled players for sticking the list, in case they risk potentially and suspension millions of dollars (USD). Arroyo heard the advices; however, they have not changed the mind, as par the report.

“I say what I want to and I do what I want to,” Arroyo said, as par the report. “However society has made such infected thing. Media has made this where the people look at this in this super-negative light. I have always been truthful. I am not going to the stop now.”

Arroyo is ten to eleven with an ERA 5.04, is schedule for initiating against Washington Nationals on the night of Thursday in Cincinnati.

In the last month, after “The New York Times” reported Arroyo’s earlier Red Sox teammates Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz were on the list of players supposedly to test positive for the now banned essences in the year 2003, Arroyo informed Boston Herald, he used amphetamines and androstenedione before they banned in year 2004 and in year 2006 respectively.

According to Arroyo, he thinks that he is also on list of 2003, as there are rumors in the time that andro took by few ballplayers and was contaminated with steroids.

‘Man, I did not think two times about this,” and said, as par the report.”I obtain androstenedione by the similar method I took multivitamins of mine. I really did not know if it was a smarts move by Mark McGwire for covering up the real stuff he was took, however it made me to feel enormous. I felt as the monster.”

Arroyo says that he initiated to take amphetamines in year 1998 when he was in minors and he had still to be taking them in case they weren’t banned.

“That stuff is as bubble gum evaluated to steroids,” he says, as par the report. “You are playing night games in L.A., you take off across the state, and you are headfirst the day game in Wrigley Field in Chicago. You tell me you do not want amazing to wake you up?