Our Euro 2008 Prediction

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at 8:45 AM
Written by Daniel O
Germany takes on Turkey on Wednesday, and Spain meets Russia the following day, in the semi-finals ahead of the Euro 2008 Football Championship.
Except for Spain, all the teams to have reached this stage have done so from the less favorable standing of second place in their respective Groups. Does this make them favorites?

We don't know! It's hard to tell anymore, with the defending champions Greece out with three losses; the Netherlands, early favorites, falling to Russia in the uarter-finals; crowd pleaser Portugal and superstar Christiano Ronaldo losing to Germany; and Turkey, somewhere around 100th in world standings, impressively making its way to the final four.

Did someone say Turkey?


So how are we to make a prediction with these rather surprising results? I'm still getting over the fact that England isn't playing.

Sports betting sites have already placed Germany as favorite. The same bookies, in double irony, have also sent the message that the underdogs are favorites. Clearly the results support this latter claim.

Push me and I back Russia. But for the heck of me I cannot get the company to join me on this prediction. Guess we'll just keep on following and reporting odds to our site members, who are welcome to place their own odds at any of the sports betting sites we cover and present on the site.

Gambling 'round the world

Tuesday, April 01, 2008 at 3:41 PM
Written by John W

Our dear Weekly Edition presenter Kate has been travelling recently quite a lot (she's visited Bulgaria a few weeks ago and is currently visiting Finland). Only it's not for work that she's been flying, nor is it for gambling!

We've been trying to keep up with her, and to do so we figured we'd send her around the world ourselves.

Check out our latest Weekly Edition video, where Kate takes you on brief tours of the United States, South Africa, and the United Kingdom, all of which have been through some important processes of late, and are witnessing changes to their gambling laws and culture.

You can pick up on each country, and others too, on the News section at the site, where we report on developments as they happen and express our writers' opinions too, sometimes.

So hold on to your seats and enjoy this ride. It is only 2:15 minutes long, but we hope it will leave an impression, and be informative and fun at the same time.



Regards to Kate, and to you