Gambling News - The Best of Dare to Gamble - June 1

We start this week's Best of Dare to Gamble with a question.

Question: What do Google, Las Vegas and Mark Cuban have in common?

Answer: All three are involved in a new professional football league: the United Football League. This project hopes to get off the ground in 2008.

This was but one of the news stories featured on DaretoGamble this week. We seemed to have lots of lawmaking and jurisprudence going on this week. Generally, that means bad news. I guess that held to form this week.

GAMBLING LEGAL NEWS

We reported more fallout from the UIGEA fiasco. It looks like four more microgaming casinos will stop taking U.S. bets. There's still over a hundred Microgaming casinos out there, but it's never good news to hear that someone else is getting out of the American side of the business.

Speaking of the UIGEA, support is growing to repeal the new U.S. gambling law. Several uK-based money processing giants have formed the Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative. The UC Group and Baker Tilly are supporting the Barney Frank IGREA act.

UC and friends hope to make it legal for legitimate foreign online casinos to take U.S. players, thus driving the bad operators out of the U.S. industry.

Meanwhile, the fallout from the WTO ruling on online gambling continues.

Antigua and Barbuda are asking the other 170 members of the World Trade Organization to join in seeking damages against the United States for its ban on offshore online casinos. Antigua has won two court cases against the U.S. and now it is time for the damages phase. Also, enjoy another picture of George W. Bush looking confused.

Juxtaposed with the Bush administration's hatchet job on America's gambling entrepreneurs, we featured a story on the expansion of Texas Holdem in French casinos. C'mon, even the French have their heads on straight with this gambling issue.

UFC 71: LIDDELL VS. JACKSON RESULTS

We analyzed the result of UFC 71, which saw Quinton "Rampage" Jackson take down Chuck Liddell in their rematch, this time claiming the UFC Light Heavyweight title.

THE WORLD SERIES OF POKER

Bodog is offering bets on the outcome of the World Series of Poker. Here are two posts which cover the myriad of propositions bets have to do with this year's World Series of Poker. Appropriately enough, these are labeled World Series of Poker Odds and More World Series of Poker Odds.

If you like proposition betting, we cover the entire spectrum. Dare To Gamble has everything from reality t.v. bets like America's Got Talent or the sports bets like the Michael Vick legal case.

Gambling News - The Best of Dare to Gamble - June 1