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The Finnish Slot Machine Association (RAY) and its lottery counterpart Veikkaus have been given the government green light to push ahead with legal online gambling ventures that include online poker and casino action (for RAY) and online bingo and similar number-based games (for Veikkaus)

RAY intends to introduce a variety of internet poker and casino games, which it believes will create an income of around €25 million annually.

Finnish media sources report that the new government licenses come into force on March 1, 2010, and that RAY hopes to start real money operations before August this year.

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Who has the best Super Bowl picks?  How about a psychic nun?

Her Super Bowl picks record is better than most expert handicappers at 16-8. 

Sister Jean Kenny of St. Francis Borgia Parish has fashioned herself into quite the media darling, the Chicago Tribune tells us.

And she gives her Super Bowl picks in rhyme. 

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What are the Super Bowl props that will be getting the most betting action this weekend?  Heads or Tails!  It’s the Super Bowl coin toss.

The Super Bowl coin toss is likely going to be the winner in this category.

Sports Interaction.com, like most online sportsbooks, offer odds on the Super Bowl coin toss at slightly below even (-110). 

As far as Super Bowl props go, there is some important trending in regard to the coin toss.

"The coin toss is probably among the most popular prop bets because it is usually the first bet determined as a winner or loser," explains Don Shapiro of Gambling911.com.

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Gambling911.com has been waiting for these Brangelina divorce odds, and BetUS.com has come through.

Amidst reports of non-stop squabbles and family members taking sides, the strength of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s marriage has come into question. Fans across the country are speculating as to whether the Hollywood power couple will make it, or whether they are headed down the same path as so many other tinsel town romances.

Heading into Friday morning, BetUS.

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Australian Open odds featured at Sportsbook.com included set betting on Federer vs. Tsonga, the best of 5 sets.  3-1 Roger Federer wins pays US$225 for every US$100 bet.

Federer was a favorite to go 3-0 however with near even odds paid out.

The world number one, Federer, achieved his life’s ambitions last year when he won the French Open for the first time before passing Pete Sampras’s record of 14 grand slam titles at Wimbledon.  He will play Frenchman Jo-Wilfriend Tsonga Friday.

The last time Federer failed to make the last four was at the French Open in 2004. No other player in history has appeared in more than 10 semis in a row.

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UB’S online championship tournament series continued last night with UBOC 3, the $100,000 Guaranteed 4-Max NLH event hosted by DEBO34.

476 players ponied up the $300+20 buy-in creating a prize pool of $142,800.00, easily exceeding the $100K Guarantee. At the end of play 52 places were in the money, with 1st placed KUNKLES27 walking away with $37,845.00.

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Paddy Power Casino are at it again, bringing you guys some of the most amazing promotions within the entire industry with some of the biggest cash amounts to be won, and the ‘Race To Win £200,000’ is no different.

For three months, Paddy Power Casino is giving players the chance to win a share of £50,000 in January, £50,000 in February and £100,000 in March! The theme is to be based around horse racing with the Grand Nationals just around the corner!

It’s dead easy to enter and play, all you need to do is to do what you already love doing…that’s a b

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Good will is coming to Haiti these days from all walks of life. Different industries are doing their part to help out the devastation of Haiti. Calvin Eyre, the founder of Bodog, has called out those within his own industry, online gambling, to help with the relief effort.

Ayre posted on his blog that he has ordered his foundation to send GBP 10,000 to UK based Oxfam. He did not stop there, however, with Ayre going on to ask for help from others within the industry. Ayre claimed his foundation will match any donations from persons within the online gambling industry up to $1,000,000.

“It is a disaster in Haiti. I know they have had a tough go from Mother Nature recently, hurricanes and now this earthquake.

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Online gambling legalized in New Jersey?

Gambling911.com was the first to break the story last week that Senator Raymond Lesniak had drafted two bills that, if passed, would make online poker, sports betting and casino Web gambling legal in the state (sports betting is one separate bill).

But Jim Perskie of the Press of Atlantic City questions the motivations behind such bills.

"It’s about helping the racetracks," Perskie insists.

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