Rafa Benitez is at betting odds of 5/1 to watch his Liverpool team lose the Merseyside derby against Everton and subsequently leave his post before the Reds’ next league game.

English bookmaker Ladbrokes offers 8/5 that the famous Goodison Park clash produces more goals than the London and West Midlands derbies on Sunday.

Wigan are 500/1 to again concede nine goals, this time against Sunderland. Roberto Martinez’s men are 300/1 to notch nine for themselves following their drubbing defeat by Harry Redknapp’s Tottenham Hotspur.

Newly appointed Avram Grant is 5/6 to be Portsmouth manager on the first day of next season and 16/1 to secure major silverware for his new club. Read the full post …

Editor’s note: Doyle Brunson recently released his autobiography "The Godfather of Poker" and was kind enough to share one of his favorite chapters with ESPN.com. In the following excerpt, Brunson recounts his feelings during his run at his first WSOP main event title.  You can buy his book at http://www.cardozabooks.com.

Sometimes your mind slows things down and you see events playing out like a movie up on the big screen. The 1976 World Series of Poker was one of those times. I’d already watched my poker-playing buddies — Johnny [Moss], [Amarillo] Slim, Sailor [Roberts], and Puggy [Pearson] — take down the championship and I really wanted to win this thing. I

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November 23 – Rival Gaming is proud to announce the launch of A Switch In Time, a brand new 20-line i-Slot. This time traveling adventure has you play as a genius scientist from the not so distant past who builds a time machine. You will travel to 3 different time periods where you will make some friends, some enemies and save the day.

The unique Rival Powered I-slot games remember how far you have progressed in the bonus features, and each time you activate the bonus round, you are taken back to your last position, not only making your slot play more exciting, but also adding many different ways to win.

The three stage bonus features in "A Switch in Time" are in the present, past, and future.

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eGaming Review Magazine is reporting on Friday that Austrian-based BWIN and online gambling giant 888.com have dismissed acquisition talks.  Rumors have been swirling that BWIN might take over 888.

Commenting on rumours emerging from the German investment community and widely reported in the UK and German-speaking press that Bwin is in the process of raising cash to carry out the acquisition, co-chief executive Norbert Teufelberger told EGRmagazine.com: "We have contacts with everybody [in the industry] and common goals in that we want to operate in regulated markets.

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Around two dozen alleged mobsters were busted Wednesday morning during a massive probe into a multi-million dollar sports betting and loansharking operation in the New York City area. Police believe those arrested are associates of the Gambino and Lucchese crime families.

The feds busted 22 captains and a Sanitation Department official who was caught on tape calling his relative, Michael Murdrucco, tipping him that the city agency was seeking new concrete barriers, a multi-million dollar contract, that he should try to get, sources told The Post.

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November 14 – Digitote – a provider of advanced sportsbetting software and ancillary web development and back office applications, has successfully achieved the Certified Software accreditation seal from independent player protection and standards organisation eCOGRA.

Currently eCOGRA are working on an ongoing basis with over 25 leading software providers and 25 top casino and poker room operators. 13 Software providers have achieved accreditation for their software in the form of the eCOGRA Certified Software seal. 145 online gaming sites are accredited with the eCOGRA Safe and Fair seal.

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Phil "Poker Brat" Hellmuth Jr. is drowning his poker sorrows in alcohol.

The 45-year-old poker superstar, who owns a record 11 World Series of Poker (WSOP) championship gold bracelets, didn’t win any gold at the most recent WSOP.

That has him so upset, he says, that he has begun drinking more heavily.

In a blog post at his website, www.philhellmuth.com, the "Poker Brat" wrote: "Since the WSOP ended I have been drinking more than usual.

"Now, do not get the wrong impression. Twice I had six drinks in one night and that is the most, but generally I have two to three drinks a night.

"So I haven’t been abusing alcohol. I ha

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A little while ago we brought to your attention that top online bingo operator Wink Bingo is the head sponsor of the funny British TV Show Harry Hills TV Burp. Wink Bingo now decided to let its players join the fun themselves by spinning the Harry Hill Kitten Wheel.

Bingo and TV Shows
Wink Bingo is a great bingo room for a lot of reasons. One reason is that it listens closely to what its roomies desire, and by linking its offerings to popular TV Shows it seems to be right on the money. A good example of this new trend is the recently launched X Factor Steps to Stardom Slot.

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Super Slots There are only a few days left before one of the biggest online slot tournaments of the year comes to a conclusion. Halloween Party ends on November 1st, but there is still plenty of time for players to try and win a piece of the $100,000 prize pool.

Super Slots is one of the top online casinos when it comes to slot games. Once in a while the casino offers the type of tournament that online players from all over the world want to take place in. Halloween Party is that tournament.

It is only $10 for a player to enter and the reward could end up being well worth the risk. Read the full post …

Lion Slots Online Casino Online casino operators are overjoyed that they are not in the business of sports betting after this past weekend. The NFL provided sports books with one of their worst Sunday’s in history this past week, leaving gamblers with extra money to play at online casinos.

In the UK, many online casinos are run by companies that are linked to sports betting sites as well. Unfortunately these sites were not immune to the problems of this past Sunday. Read the full post …