A busy weekend of sport starts with the latest clash of the big guns at the ICC Cricket World Cup as New Zealand play host to England in Wellington today. The Kiwis thrashed Sri Lanka in their tournament opener before taking their foot off the pedal...
Who could have seen Liverpool’s dramatic turnaround this season coming? After a horrible start in the Premier League and a failed Champions League campaign, the Reds have rediscovered their best form to remain the only EPL team still...
The future of Macau’s Canidrome looks shakier than ever with an impending shake-up of the greyhound industry in Australia – where Asia’s only greyhound track sources the vast majority of its racing dogs. Australia’s greyhound...
This article first appeared in the Mar/Apr 2015 issue of WGM. Poker in Vietnam has just taken a giant leap forward with WGG signing on as The Grand Ho Tram Strip’s poker partner and set to hold the country’s first major tournament in...
This article first appeared in the Mar/Apr 2015 issue of WGM. There was a time not so long ago when China was merely a bit-part player on the world sporting stage, but those days are long gone. No longer content with Olympic dominance alone, China...
The UEFA Champions League enters the knockout phase this week and that’s bad news for German side Schalke who have drawn defending champions Real Madrid in the last 16 for the second year in a row. The Germans will still be having nightmares...
As expected, tournament co-hosts Australia and New Zealand plus big guns South Africa and India all began their 2015 World Cup campaign with important wins over the opening weekend but look beneath the surface and there was a lot to be learned from...
The world’s best snooker players converge on Wales this week to battle it out for the latest rankings event title at the Welsh Open. There are at least half a dozen players good enough to go all the way in this one but the form line has us...
It’s a clash of the big guns v the minnows as the West Indies play Ireland in the ICC Cricket World Cup. The West Indies are very short here at $1.20 but the fact is that this is about as sure a bet as you’re going to get. On their day...
The mood in Macau may look somewhat sombre right now in the wake of China’s ever-broadening anti-corruption crackdown but one intriguing by-product has been a growing focus on alternative gaming destinations in and around Asia. One project...
The schedule for this year’s World Series of Poker in Las Vegas was released last week and there were some notable changes – most good, some bad. The 68 bracelets on offer in 2015 is three more than last year and the most ever offered in a...
It’s All Star weekend in the NBA and today sees a new concept introduced with the NBA Rising Stars Challenge. This game pits the best first and second year players from the USA against the best first and second year players from the rest of...
The ICC Cricket World Cup gets underway this weekend and we thought we’d get in early with some futures bets on the overall winner. Call us predictable but we can’t go past the tournament hosts Australia and New Zealand with both worthy...
In recent days, Macau gaming industry news has been all doom and gloom. Vice President of the Macau Economic Association, Jack Chang Chak Io, recently said publicly that the best years of the gaming industry are behind us. Visa controls have been...
A busy mid-week round of the English Premier League sees Everton make the trip to Chelsea looking to continue a run of three consecutive clean sheets. But this one is going to really test their resolve. The Toffees parked the bus in front of goal...
After a tough run in recent weeks, the Chicago Bulls have started to show signs of a recovery with a massive 35-point win over New Orleans followed by a tight road win against Orlando. Back on their home court tonight they have a great chance to...
There is nothing sadder to watch on the sporting field than a once great champion trying to relive their glory days when it is clear that the game – or their aging body – has passed them by. Occasionally, such as last year when Roger Federer...
Having taken a break following the Australian Open, a star-studded field lines up this week for the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in the Netherlands. They include Andy Murray, Stanislas Wawrinka, Tomas Berdych, Milos Raonic, Grigor Dimitrov...
It’s all about football this weekend with some huge games to be played right across Europe including a couple of massive derbies in the EPL as Tottenham host Arsenal and Liverpool travel across town to Everton. Picking a winner in these games...
In 2014, the World Series of Poker marked 10 years since moving from Binion’s Horseshoe Casino to the Rio by announcing a guaranteed US$10 million to the winner. It was a nice bit of publicity for the WSOP and a well-earned payday for Martin...
Fresh from her star performance at last weekend’s Super Bowl, international superstar Katy Perry has announced that she will bring her sell-out live show to Macau later this year as part of her The Prismatic World Tour. Perry will perform at...
WGM’s parent company, World Gaming Group (WGG), has announced the signing of an agreement to create, develop and maintain poker operations at Vietnam’s only integrated resort, The Grand Ho Tram Strip. WGG will immediately begin work on...
For a side sitting fourth in the West and comfortably top in the Northwest, Portland have certainly stunk up the court of late with seven losses from their past nine starts. Scoring has suddenly become a problem for the Trailblazers and that could...
Liverpool dominated last week’s FA Cup clash between these sides at Anfield but couldn’t beat Adam Bogdan who had a blinder in the Bolton goal. The two sides meet again at Reebok this week in what will be a tougher assignment for the...
We’ve spoken before about great feats in poker, from Johnny Chan coming within a whisker of three consecutive WSOP Main Event victories between 1987 and 1989 to Mark Newhouse reaching back to back final tables against massive fields in 2013...
Manchester United are the latest big club in action today hoping to avoid joining the likes of Manchester City and Chelsea on the FA Cup scrapheap. That shouldn’t be a problem against League Two side Cambridge United who we expect to be under...
We were interested to read earlier this week that the WTA isn’t at all worried by the gaping hole left in Chinese tennis by the retirement of Li Na, despite an obvious dip in ticket sales to a number of events in China last year following...
It’s all a bit quiet on the global sporting scene today so we’re going to skip a few days ahead to Sheffield United’s FA Cup clash with Preston North End. A big-name clash it isn’t, however we earned a tidy profit last week...
It’s a huge weekend of sport across the globe with football fans in for a real treat as the EPL returns and the Asian Cup draws to a close with the final between Australia and South Korea to be played in Sydney. Let’s start with the...
The PGA Tour is warming into 2015 with the world’s best off to Phoenix this week for the amusingly named Waste Management Phoenix Open. We really like the look of world number four Bubba Watson to finish high on the leaderboard here. He has...
