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We're Giving Away Billions - Have We Lost Our Minds or What?

Posted by Lance Zea on March 1, 2009 at 8:21pm

Online gambling should be everyones right to enjoy, no less then they enjoy any other form of entertainment. Since we went so far as to make American casinos legal, why not let them go the rest of the way and do it online. It's going to happen at some point anyway, so why not now when we need it the most. How many more unemployed, with time on their hands, are now gambling online? Why in Gods name let all this money out of the country. The offshore casinos are living like KINGS, when we can't pay for our homes. We need to stop that right now the only way it makes sense. Ligalize online gambling for American casinos.When Atlantic City was taking it's last breath. We did the only thing that could save it and passed gambling. The result was lots of jobs, property values went up, business boomed and everyone was happy.There is no way we can ever stop people from gambling online. So the law banning it, is worthless! Therefore, it just makes common sense for it to be legal in the U.S. Let the American casinos use it to bring in additional revenue, plus draw business to their properties. This will bring back lots of jobs, etc., and have the same basic effect that it had in Atlantic City.The problem is that some of our leaders are very short sighted and need to see the entire picture. When we realized that we could not stop the numbers game. We joined it and called it the lottery. Now the money rolls in, instead of out.The internet is a wonderful tool that has and is reinventing the way we do business, entertain ourselves and learn about everything under the sun. It's a big ball that's rolling down hill hot and heavy and there is no way of stopping it. So we just better deal with it, before it, runs right over us.When enought of us understand that everyone will be much better off by resolving this problem the only way it makes sense, than it will happen, the same way it happened in Atlantic City, when there was no other choise. Our campain was simple ... "Help Us Help Yourself"IT WORKED!In the words of J. Todd "Play It Smart"

What a year.

Posted by slmick5 on January 18, 2009 at 7:14pm

At the beginning of 2008 I made a very conscience effort to become a winning player. 3 1/2 years of losing, bad bankroll management, no discipline....wow, it added up. So I really applied myself with improving. I surrounded myself with good knowledgable players, joined numerous forums, and just tried to soak up everything thing I could. After a few final tables in some smaller events on Full Tilt in Jan/Feb I began to really focus on Sitngos. I played just under 500 $26 45mans for the year, but I ended the year with over 10k in winnings and just under $4000 in profit. That might not seem like alot to some, but for me personally it was a huge step in my progression to become a winning player.During 2008 I co-owned the website cardsharkfrenzy.com Considering we were a relatively small site in the staking industry I feel our progress was coming along nicely. In Dec 2008 I was approached by someone whom I had known from other similar sites with the idea of merging CSF in with his new site. After seeing what PokerBytrade offered, I was instantly sold on the idea. The amount of detail put into PBT is top notch. The merge was a really good fit for us both as I had a instant memberbase of over 900 from CSF and he had the must cutting edge skaing system in online staking to date. We officially launched PokerByTrade on Jan 1st 2009. Shortly there after one of the top sng players on Full Tilt dropped in to take a look and approached us about a small ownership role in the PokerByTrade. AJB4 brings us some name recognition to those who are familar with online staking sites and he is a great addition to our team. 3 weeks into our journey and we have surpassed over $7000 in stakes and investments. I truly believe the sky is the limit for PokerByTrade. We recently had a member win over $12k in the $55 $80k on stars and hope to top that feat with the handful of players we have entering the upcoming FTOPS.

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Posted by ravid on January 18, 2009 at 3:44pm

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Claim your Free Week at Pimp-Your-Poker

Posted by pomppoker on January 12, 2009 at 8:00pm

Claim your Free Week at Pimp-Your-PokerFor a very limited time you can play for 1 week on us!Dear APCW membersPimp-Your-Pokerwishes to offer its forum friends a taste of the awesome Poker action that we have to offer.To give you a taste of the action, we have decided to give you 1 free week at our fantastic site that is consistantly giving away thousands of Dollars a month in Poker Free Rolls.Over 200 Free Rolls in January Alone!That's right potential Pimps, our January schedule is nothing short of spectacular with a whoppng 203 Free Roll tournaments taking place, that is almost 7 Free Rolls a day on average. If you want to see what our fully fledged Pimps are making go and check in out in the Bragging and Boast Section of our forum.With All Things That are Great, This Has An Expiry Date!We will give you 1 free week , but you have to act NOW!This offer will expire any time, in fact we think we will only keep it open for the next 48 hours so if you don't want to get into the action of 7 FreeRolls a day then hit the delete button...However if you do, then read on...How To Claim Your Free WeekIt is very simple.All you have to do is send an email to support@pimp-your-poker.com and give us the following information:1. You Big Daddy User Name2. Your BigDaddy Poker Screen Name3. Your Pimp-Your-Poker User NameIt's that simpleOpen your Pimp-Your-Poker account HEREIf you do not already have one open your BigDaddys account HERESee You At the Tables!Send us the mail, give us the info and let's see you at the tables so you can start PIMPING YOUR POKER!Pimp-Your-Poker.com TeamTerms and Conditions apply to this amazing deal.

Get paid to give away $20 000 a month in Free Rolls!

Posted by pomppoker on November 30, 2008 at 1:05am

Sounds like a dream doesn't it? Well we can tell you it isn't! Welcome to the world of Pimp-Your-poker!You have the opportunity to truly be part of the online Poker Revolution - and make a small fortune while doing so.What does it take to pimp the Pimp?Everyone is welcome to apply to be an affiliate of Pimp-Your-Poker. However not everyone will qualify. There are certain criteria that need to be met - we don't do business with just any 'ol pimp.The criteria are however simple. Just fill in the form and we will get back to you with an answer - usually within a coupla hours but please allow up to 48 hours - their are many pimps knocking on our door, as you can imagine we do have the hottest poker property on the net!So where to from here?That is very easy. Click here to go to our affiliate page to sign up. Please fill in as much detail as possible which will speed up the evaluation process.Our Affiliate systemJust like our website your will find all the Pimp tools at your disposal in the affiliate system. Other than our unbelievable deal which makes it a no brainer for all poker players, you will find marketing material that you cannot resist - and neither will your visitors!ThanksThank you for showing an interest in marketing Pimp-Your-Poker.com, we do appreciate it. Click here to go and sign up - we look forward to you being a part of the team that is revolutionizing Online Poker!

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Posted by Daera on November 7, 2008 at 3:08am

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The Dawgg House Online Series of Poker

Posted by BiggDawgg on September 29, 2008 at 5:04pm

The Dawgg House Online Series of PokerOn PDC Poker Starting Sunday October 19th8 Weeks - 2 Satellites Each Week + 1 Main Event8 / Freerolls (Sundays 9pm ET) - 8 / $2 Buy-In's (Wednesdays 9pm ET)Over $500 in Cash and Prizes Added - See DH OSOP for more info

OnTiltRadio will Host Hurricane Ike Relief Poker Tournaments

Posted by Pamela on September 19, 2008 at 2:00pm

Hurricane Ike Relief Poker Tournament

OnTiltRadio, Iron Duke Poker , Raider Poker, & ColoradoPokerFriends will be Hosting fund raising tournements for the Victims of Hurricane Ike..As many of you know, the Gulf Coast of the United States was recently ravaged by Hurricane Ike, leaving millions of people without electricity, clean drinking water, or shelter.Additionally, thousands have been displaced, and travel is now restricted due to limited or no resources and a collapsed infrastructure.The staff at OnTiltRadio, ColoradoPokerFriends and Grande World Entertainment will be organizing a Poker Relief Tournament to help the victims of Hurricane Ike.On behalf of the online gaming industry 100% of the proceeds will be given to APCW Administrator, J Todd and will go directly to those that have been affected by the storm.The APCW will also film giving the funds to victims on an upcoming edition of their weekly web cast.Details about the tournament are posted NOW. Please join us and pledge your support to the families touched by this unfortunate eventIf you would like to become a member of the APCW or would like more information about this worthwhile organization...please visit www.apcw.orgIRON DUKE POKERSaturday Sept 26th, 20089pm est$10.50 ( $5.00 going to prize pool, $5.00 going to Ike Fund, .50 cent fee)This game will be Broadcast Live on OnTiltRadio.comFor every 15 players registered Iron Duke will give 1 $60 seat to the Sunday 20K GTD http://record.ironduke.com/_e265d22d41897a495850bfaef89863c3RAIDER POKERSaturday Sept 27th, 20089pm est$10.50 ( $5.00 going to prize pool, $5.00 going to Ike Fund, .50 cent fee)For every player signed up for this tournement, Raider Poker will donate $2.00 to the Ike Fund~!!This game will be Broadcast Live on OnTiltRadio.com3 GTD tickets will be given to the top 31st will get a ticket to the 10k2nd will get a ticket to the 5K3rd will get a ticket to 1K

https://www.raiderpoker.com/?bonus=ontiltradioThe staff at OnTiltRadio would like to thankyou for your generosity in helping us support the Victims of Hurricane Ike and Please Please help us spread the word and bring your family and friends to all of these amazing events. We are also pledging any and all winnings of these tournements to the fund relief and challenge you to meet of beat our donation~!!!SSexyAzz & ColoPoker

Respectfully,OTR StaffCPF StaffGWE Staff

I GOT THE AWARDED GPWA SEAL OF APPROVAL

Posted by quibbles on September 19, 2008 at 12:20am

I have been busy lately so haven't had time to update my blog, so a bit to catch up on i guess well firstly Ive been working on a new template for http://www.partypokerbonuscode.co.uk in the format of css2.1 (sweat), i have completed about 5 pages including the main page apart from images which i will improve, i think it looks quite clean and pleasing to the eye.I have also been working a banner rotation system that rotates banners as the page is being viewed, now that took some time you just try finding one that will work with the affiliate codes and not cost a mint, took some research and effort i can tell you, oh yea then i managed to get all my sites approved by the gpwa, really happy about that those guys and girls are pretty thorough when it comes to awarding that seal, so I'm pretty happy about making the cut.I seem to have awards on the brain now and i am also trying to get the ecogra seal of approval for the home of poker, not heard anything back yet but early days i guess.As for playing poker i have managed to play three tournaments in the last week, how i found the time to even play i have no idea anyway just to say i finished within 10 places of the money in all three, and lost all three on the kicker card, pretty gutted about that but i guess just gotta move on next tourney and all, anyway i guess that's about it really.LIVE LONG AND PROSPER

$25 Added Tonight, Live OnTiltRadio........!!

Posted by Redeyed on September 10, 2008 at 2:55pm

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Superbowl, OnTiltRadio LIVE and Freakin Fridays! Full Calendar at forum!

Posted by Redeyed on September 4, 2008 at 3:42pm

OnTiltRadio and Reds Raiders team up with Raider Poker to bring you Saturday Night Fights, Sunday Smack Down, and Wednesday Nights Hump Day Booty Bounty.Both Sat & Sun will be Double header fights. Starting off with an Impressive $50.00 freeroll at 6pm est then 8pm est 2 hours immediately following will be a $3.00 buy-in with $25.00 added.Then we bring you Wednesday Night Hump Day Booty Bounty, $3.30 buyin with $1.00 added to bounty pool , .25 cent unlimited re-buys for the first hour, also $25.00 added.Saturday Night Fights:6pm est $50.00 freeroll8pm est $3.30 buyin with $25.00 addedpw : redsontitlradioSunday Smack Down:6pm est $50.00 freeroll8pm est $3.30 buyin with $25.00 addedpw : redsontitlradioWednesday Hump Day Booty Bounty:8pm est $3.30 buyin with $1.00 to bounty prize and $25.00 added. Bounties will be collected after rebuy period is over.25 cent unlimited rebuyspw redhumpsOTRPlease also note:All players that play buyins and make a dep will be entered into an impressive freeroll at the end of each month as well.All games will be Broadcast Live on Ontitlradio.com also35% rake back, what more could a pirate ask for!!http://ontiltradio.com/forum/index.php http://ontiltradio.ning.com/http://redsraiders.com/https://www.raiderpoker.com/?bonus=sharkbaitRed and I hope to see you putting up One Helluva Fight~!!!Respectfully~SSexyAzz and RedEyed

$500 in freerolls for 500+ members

Posted by Sharon on September 4, 2008 at 5:37am

Maximum Poker League has reached 500 members plus! In order to celebrate we are throwing $500 worth of freerolls throughout September.Instead of just having the normal poker freerolls, we have decided to do something different. We will be having slot tournaments and a black jack touranment. Not to worry, we will still be having poker freerolls.The freerolls begin this Sunday, September 7th at Doms Casino. We will begin with 4 slot tournaments at 12pm, 2pm, 4pm & 6pm. Following the slot tournaments will be the black jack tournament at 8pm (all times are EST).The slot tournaments will run 15 minutes and whom ever has the most coins at the end of that 15 minutes is the winner and wins $25. There will be 4 of the slot tournaments each worth $25.00. We will also have a $50 black jack tournament. The black jack tournament will run up to two hours max. The top 3 in chips win (1st $25, 2nd $15, 3rd $10).PLEASE NOTE: You MUST send me your username & email for Doms Casino in order to play these events!! The touranments will be restricted list only! You must provide me with your Doms Casino username & email no later then Friday at midnight! Please PM me at MaximumPokerLeagueWe will also have poker freerolls at Big Daddy, Landshark, and Reefer Poker.Please visit MaximumPokerLeague for a complete list of all events.

BETONLINE "FIVE ALIVE" COLLEGE FOOTBALL CONTEST Okay Everyone. One of the Top sportsbooks in the world has agreed to Sponsor our NCAA Football Contest this year. This is a great opportunity to sta

Posted by dirty on September 3, 2008 at 9:32pm

BETONLINE "FIVE ALIVE" COLLEGE FOOTBALL CONTESTOkay Everyone. One of the Top sportsbooks in the world has agreed to Sponsor our NCAA Football Contest this year. This is a great opportunity to start playing at a great book.How To Enter* ·Sign up at Gambling IQ* ·Open an Account at BetOnline.com if you don’t already have one. Please Click one of the Banners on the Site.* ·Deposit $150 Into Your account. You will receive a signup Bonus depending on your method of play. Reduced Juice or Big Bonus. The More you Deposit the More you will receive in Bonus. $50 of this deposit will be placed into a separate prize pot. The Other $100 is yours to play with along with your Bonus* ·You will Then Email Customer Service c.quinn@Betonline.com and transfer $50 Into Account #GIQContests.* ·After the transfer is complete send an email to dirty@gamblingiq.com with your BetOnline account number and your posting name.* ·Post in the Official Contest thread so I know you sent an email. Sometimes they go to the Junk Folder from certain domains.* ·I will update the Entries and Prize Pool DailyFormat* ·The Contest will Begin on Saturday, September 13, 2008 and will run through Conference Championship games on Saturday, December 6, 2008.* ·Each player Will make 5 plays each week.* ·The Plays will be graded at -110 except parlay and teasers (odds will be next to plays below). All Rotation numbers, Teams and Lines have to be posted or the plays will be graded a loss* ·The Top 3 players will be awarded the Cash Prize at the end of the Contest* ·In Case of a Tie We will Move onto the Bowl Season to break it.* ·You Must make all 5 plays each week. 13 Weeks for a Total of 65 plays. Any week you do not make plays or if you fail to make all 5 plays then the plays not made will be counted as losses* ·Plays Must be in by 12 Noon on Each Saturday. Early Week Games can be played up until Kickoff on those days.* ·All Lines will be Posted by Wednesday of Each week. Games Played Earlier than that will have the lines posted On Monday Morning.* ·Any rules not covered by this or any disputes will be decided by the Gambling IQ Staff. Their decision is final.Plays to be Made each week1. One Side2. One Total3. One 3 Team parlay (6.5:1 payout)4. One 3 Team 7 Point Teaser (11:10)5. One Play of the week worth 2 UnitsPrizes1. 60% of the Prize Pool2. 25% of the Prize Pool3. 15% of the Prize PoolLet’s go guys. If we get enough Interest and Signups BetOnline may throw some Money into the Pot. This is a fun format and appeals to all kinds of bettors.Contest Thread to Sign Up

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What did we Learn the First Week of College Football

Posted by dirty on September 2, 2008 at 12:36pm

After a weeks worth of games...what observations did you make over the weekend?My biggest 2 were that the ACC and Big East were Jokes.... and USC is very fucking good

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Dirty’s NCAA Football Week 2

Posted by dirty on September 2, 2008 at 12:35pm

YTD: 5-4+1.2 UnitsGot these this morning... should have gotten Miami sooner...but oh well302 Vanderbilt +10313 Georgia Tech +7333 Miami, Fla +21.5Will try to have a write up on each game later today or tomorrow. Just don't have time right now.Gambling IQ College Football

Gambling IQ Commentary On the Bodog Fiasco

Posted by dirty on August 29, 2008 at 5:49pm

August 29, 2008The Bodog Fiasco has been going on for Months on end now. It only seems to get worse. The hard thing to grasp is that there are potentially 10’s of thousands of players who possibly have funds at risk right now.We have been watching this Situation very closely. What we are seeing is very disturbing. Every website you go to from the Poker Players Alliance to Gambling 911 you see horror stories of payouts taking a minimum of 40 days. No matter how big or small the sports forum is you see several complaints. This has been going on Since early in the year and is not getting better. Right Now if you put in a payout request at Bodog you may get it in time to buy a turkey for Thanksgiving. That is totally unacceptable for online gambling site.Lets talk a little history here. Just some speculation on our part with some of this. Slow Payments at Bodog have been heard of and on the increase for the past couple of years. At first you just blew it off as an effect of the UIGEA that caused many problems for almost all online gambling portals. But the problem is Bodogs payment time rarely was better than 30 days for a check and slowly all the other payment methods would dry up. What Caused this?Was it the acquisition of WWTS when they pulled out of the US market right ofter the UIGEA was passed? After a couple of other deals from prominent sportsbooks fell through at the last minute Bodog swept in and bought the accounts and merged them into Bogog. Did they underestimate the Damage that taking on all this added debt was going to damage the company with the limited access US players had to deposit? I know for a fact of One deal that fell thru to buy WWTS because of the trouble of transferring funds around now because of the gambing act. Did Bodog not do their due diligence as a company? Did these decisions eat into their cash flow with players cashing out of Bodog once rollovers were met because of Bodog’s limited betting options? When you go from a Solid shop like WWTS to Bodog who does not offer hafltime lines on most games, No totals on games with big spreads, lines up 2 hours before kickoff, etc. it is a real eyeopener to many players. Going from a book with many options to a book that only wants squares and gives a true bettor no real options to play had to cause some kind of run on the bank.You add that into the other failed ventures that had to eat into their cashflow like Bodog Music, Bodog Fights, Bodog TV, etc.. There was hardly anything Bodog didn’t have their name on at one time. We even have where Bodog stiffed one of their own fighters under Contract. They did not honor their contract with former US Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler Matt Lindland. They cost him no telling how much money because it was an exclusive contract and he could not fight elsewhere. How many more are out there that we don’t know about?Then you add into the fact that Calvin Ayre was flaunting Bodog in the US Governments face for years. He was throwing parties in Vegas, advertising on the Radio and TV virtually all over the United States. Basically telling the US Department of Justice to screw themselves. He did not learn a lesson from disgraced BetOnSports owner Gary Kaplan and Top Executive David Carruthers that you don’t tell the US Government to screw off. Instead of learning from their mistakes he goes out and puts himself on the cover of Forbes magazine claiming he was a Billionaire playboy.Lets move on to them losing a almost $49 Million lawsuit to 1st Technology LLC and having to spend untold millions in rebranding their company from Bodog to NewBodog and Bodoglife. You can’t put a figure on the amount of money they potentially lost just by the hit from search engines.We also have many reports that Bodog was nothing more than a name ran be several shell companies. Plenty of sources have came forward (Matt Lindland is one) to make this claim. They are likely correct in their assessment. We know from experience in the past that we would have to be in contact with 2 or 3 different people at companies just to get Contest winners paid that Bodog would sponsor. This would be a 2 week process at least. Then they would have to audit the player. Several times they would claim the guy was not eligible after the contest was over, virtually changing the rules after the winners were announced. This laborous and unethical process by the old Riptown Media caused all contests on the forums we were involved with at the time to stop. It was not fair to our players.Then we get into the seized funds by the feds that has been well documented. We are talking two seizures of funds worth approximately $24 Million in cash taken from what is being strongly rumored were nothing but shell companies for Bodog. You can read the complaints against Bodog for the $14 million seizure here and the $9.8 Million seizure here. As you can see Calvin Ayre’s name is plastered all over these documents. That does not bode well for anyone involved in this. Then you add in the fact that Calvin mysteriously resigned after the first round of funds was seized early this year. He retired and transferred ownership to Morris Mohawk gaming. After his retirement he is reportedly on the run and said to be living in Antigua.Calvin is reportedly still running the company but that can’t be confirmed.You can probably safely say that if it were not for Bodog Poker this company would have been under by now. Poker is huge money maker for the company and brings a influx of immediate cash to the table. But you can only rob Peter to Pay Paul so long. We have sadly seen in the past that companies that do not hold post up funds in escrow to pay out players eventually get caught with their hands in the cookie jar and go under.Is Bodog going under tomorrow? Probably not. Will they Go Under at all? No one can answer that question at this time. But things do not look good. This is all going to depend on if they can start paying out people in a timely manner. I am talking 2 weeks maximum to get funds to players. Once enough people get paid from them they will not send more. They will move on and Bodog will have to go the Route of BetOnSports and hope to get new players to make up for the exodus of players leaving. This is a very dangerous business model and is most likely going on at this moment as evidenced by the more than 200 layoffs by their marketing and support firm Fiver Media (formerly Riptown Media).You just have to ask yourself One Question. Why all the layoffs at the start of Football season when Most other books are adding employees? This is most Books busiest time of the year. Especially ones that are US facing. It absolutely makes no sense. Even books on the ropes have been begging for football to get here for the influx of deposits.What is sad is all the players who do not know about online forums and can inform themselves of this situation.In Conclusion Gambling IQ believes that no player should send money to Bodog at this time. Their are too many red flags and warning signs out there. You can see the smoke signals coming off the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory. Is it a desperate call for Help? We hope not.Any Forum Owners who can honestly send their players to play at Bodog right now need to be shut down. It is Unethical and not prudent for the player, the Posters of the forums or the Online Industry. How these forum Owners can look in the Mirror is amazing and it gives a huge slap in the face to every forum owner in this Industry. Lets just hope that the posters can see through all the fluff and circumstance and find Online Gambling forums that have the players interest truly at heart.It is time for the Sportsbooks and Poker rooms to PULL ALL ADVERTISING AND CLOSE ALL AFFILIATE SHEETS for these forums that promote promote this type of action. All you have to do is look at the Banners flying at the top to see what kind of forum you are a member of. Until the Onwers of the respected and Highly rated Online Gambling sites stick together (B rating or Better at SportsBookReview) then players will be thrown to the wolves.Are we saying turn your back on a book or poker room that is having temporary trouble? No way should that happen. But at some point you have to say enough is enough. All books have processing troubles from time to time and they pull out of it. But Most books don’t have all the warning signs seen in this situation. It is following a eery script we have all seen in the past with a book going from Highly respected to out of business in a matter of months.Do we hope Bodog goes under and 10’s of thousands of players get stiffed on untold millions of dollars? The Answer is an emphatic NO. But at the same time you have to protect your current posters and readers so the losses are limited to the players that are there at this time. You don’t want to let anyone else get caught up in the Fiasco that builds every day.There is no excuse to send money there when you have Sportsbooks like The Greek, Bet Jamaica, BetOnline, Looselines, 5Dimes, The PIG, Legendz Sportsbook, WSEX, Matchbook, Carib, and many more that are paying out in a timely manner. Many in just a few days. Some within Minutes of your request with certain Withdrawal methods. You have many respected Poker rooms like Doyle’s Room, Full Tilt, Poker Stars, Party Poker, Carbon Poker, and many more as well that are highly respected and paying out quickly.In Short. Gambling IQ does not recommend sending any money to Bodog at this time or even in the near future. There is not ONE Reason anybody can give a player to send to Bodog at this time.Please as a Poster at these forums do your homework and only support the forums that actually have your best interests at heart and are not worried if that advertising Check the bad books send them each month clear the bank.Thank you.Please Feel Free to Visit our Forums and Comment on this SubjectBodog Article ThreadGambling IQ Forums

Bodog to Leave US Market?? -- Fiver Media, their Marketing Company, lays off over 200

Posted by dirty on August 28, 2008 at 3:28am

The Bodog online gambling empire continues to crumble. On Thursday, I received an e-mail from a reader who said Fiver Media (formerly Riptown Media), which provides marketing and website support for Bodog from offices in Vancouver and Toronto, had just laid off more than 200 people.Gambling911.com, a Florida-based website that focuses on the online gambling industry, similarly reported that Bodog, "under intense scrutiny by the U.S. Government, has laid off hundreds of its employees this week, leading to speculation that the online gambling firm will be leaving the U.S. market."If Bodog abandons the United States, it may as well fold its tent. It isn't licensed to do business in Europe, and it doesn't do business in Canada -- most likely because the last online gambling firm to operate in Canada, Vancouver's Starnet International Communications Inc., was shut down by the RCMP.That leaves only the United States market, which is evaporating quickly. U.S. authorities have been exerting heavy pressure on all online gambling firms that take bets from U.S. citizens, including Bodog.Earlier this month, Forbes magazine reported that, since January, the U.S. government has seized $24 million from U.S. bank accounts linked to Bodog. This has caused the firm serious problems. Gambling911.com reported that Bodog has been slow paying customers and vendors, and was considering whether to withdraw its endorsement of the Bodog gambling site.Bodog was founded by former Vancouver resident Calvin Ayre. In June, after U.S. authorities had seized millions from Bodog accounts, Ayre announced he had sold the business to the Morris Mohawk Gaming Group, which runs hundreds of gaming websites from the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal, and was retiring.His retirement, however, really amounts to an exile. He dares not set foot in the United States, lest he be arrested, or even Canada, where RCMP would most certainly arrest him at the behest of U.S. authorities if he was indicted.Bodog's support operations in B.C. consist of Fiver Media, which operates from an office in downtown Vancouver, and Triple Crown Customer Service, which provides customer account service from an office in Burnaby. Triple Crown's status is unclear: Its website is currently reported to be "under construction."It's also difficult to determine what's happening at Fiver Media. On Tuesday, I dropped into its office at 333 Seymour St., but nobody would talk to me.Fiver Media is run by Jim Phillips, a Vancouver chartered accountant and former senior partner with the Vancouver accounting firm Morgan & Company. Although he was in his office when I dropped by, he did not show his face.Phillips prefers to work in the background, Wizard of Oz style. But make no mistake: He has played an instrumental role in the development of Bodog's online gambling activities which, as noted, are viewed as illegal in the United States. I would not be surprised if the U.S. Justice Department doesn't have him, as well as Ayre, in its crosshairs.dbaines@vancouversun.com© The Vancouver Sun 2008Where is Ian Thow?Gambling IQ

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Posted by Greg Tingle on August 3, 2008 at 10:27pm

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