The COMPS group says sports currently have no say over who can conduct betting activity on their events and receive no share of the estimated $1.6 billion generated by sports betting in Australia. The organization plans to lobby state and territory governments to force a better regime for sports betting, including better information sharing and regulation over who can bet on events and on the typed of wagers offered.

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Jim Feist Sports is the recognized leader in sports information and sports gaming industry. For 35 years he has made a living in Las Vegas as a professional sports bettor.

VIP sports players are increasingly interested in parlay bets every year, and we are pleased to see it pay off in such a big way,” added Wadstein. “This NFL season has been as exciting as any in recent memory, and we haven’t even reached the playoffs yet!”

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Ongame currently has more than five million registered players and 260,000 real money players across the network. New real player sign ups grew by 253% last year and the group showed an operating margin of about 33%.

Sports, in fact. was the only segment of the casino that lost money, an occurrence that occurs so infrequently that officials couldn’t recall the last time sports books had a losing season. The culprit in November was football betting, which accounted for an $11.2 million loss.

Other solid options include Shaun Alexander (7/2), Jerome Bettis (5/1), Hines Ward (10/1), Willie Parker (10/1), Troy Polamalu (10/1),  and Darrell Jackson (12/1).  A split decision (that is, co-winners of the MVP award) pays off at 9/1 odds.

Intertops.com is now a multi-million dollar operation handling over 1,000 online betting transactions daily and allowing sports fans to wager as much as they wish, whenever they wish – on whatever sporting opportunity! Michl Posch, Head of Marketing Intertops.com, said: “2006 may be our tenth anniversary, but it is just the beginning of a truly exciting future for the company and for the online gaming industry as a whole.

Tab sports betting head ken Rutherford says that for many people, the opportunity to physically demonstrate their support of, and belief in an individual or a team adds real enjoyment to following the athletes in Melbourne. “They can get behind their team from the comfort of  their couch.

Call it hypocritical, but that didn’t stop the NCAA from dragging out it’s doom-and-gloom lines last week about how sports betting must be stopped to protect the game. Surely, though, the organization must secretly hope it doesn’t get what it wants.

“The World Cup is so big an event that even those who never bet will do so then,” says František Trantina, marketing director of Fortuna, a Czech sports book company. “There’s going to be a tremendous wave of interest in this tournament, and even if it will fade away a bit after the last match, the gaming companies want to get the most from it.”