It’s Grand Final time in the southern hemisphere’s Super Rugby competition as Australia’s NSW Waratahs play host to New Zealand’s Canterbury Crusaders. There has been some vocal support for the Crusaders this week with many...
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WGM’s tip for 1 August: Manchester City
Although their fate in the pre-season Champions Cup will rely on the result of the other Group B match between Liverpool and AC Milan following their penalty shoot-out loss to the Reds on Wednesday, it’s hard to see anything but a win for...
Chen wins Beijing Millions
Holding a poker tournament in mainland China, particularly in Beijing, was always going to present unique challenges and even though it was sanctioned by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Sports, updates on the progress of the inaugural Beijing...
WGM’s tip for 31 July: Keegan Bradley
The PGA Tour heads to Ohio this week for one of the more esteemed events outside of the majors – the World Golf Championships: Bridgestone Invitational. It was none other than Tiger Woods who romped to an easy seven stroke victory on this course...
WGM’s weekend preview
It’s a quiet time for some of the world’s most popular sports at the moment. The big European football leagues don’t kick off for another few weeks, the NBA season is still a few months off, the world’s top tennis stars are...
WGM’s tip for 30 July: Manchester City
England’s top two sides from the 2013/14 Premier League campaign renew their rivalry in the pre-season Champions Cup and although Liverpool would no doubt like some revenge, we’re sticking with Manchester City to prevail...
Ivey intervention can’t help Phua
Renowned Hong Kong businessman and high stakes poker player Paul Phua remains in custody in the United States today despite friends and fellow poker players Phil Ivey and Andrew Robl posting US$2.5 million in bail on the weekend. Phua, his son...
Is Tiger Woods a spent force?
When Tiger Woods burst onto the scene back in 1997 – the year he won his first major by an incredible 12 strokes and reached the top of the world rankings for the first time – many predicted he would not only surpass Jack Nicklaus’ record...
WGM’s tip for 29 July: Real Madrid
They lost their opening match of the Champions Cup on penalties against Inter Milan but it’s hard to see the UEFA Champions League winners falling twice in a row given the class they possess across the field. They face another Italian side...
WGM’s weekend wrap
It was another busy weekend of sport around the globe and we’ll start in the United States where the giants of European football have played their first matches of the pre-season Champions Cup. It was a good weekend for the English sides with...
WGM’s tip for 28 July: Canberra Raiders
It’s Monday Night Football time in the National Rugby League again as the fourth-placed South Sydney Rabbitohs head to Canberra to place the 15th-placed Raiders. Seems like a simple pick, but there are external factors at play here – not the...
WGM’s tip for 27 July: Manchester City
Manchester City plays their first game of this year’s pre-season Champions Cup against Italian giants AC Milan and we like the look of the English champions. Having stormed home to win their second EPL title in three years, they quickly found...
WGM’s tip for 26 July: Sydney Swans
One of the games of the AFL season takes place tonight as Hawthorn face high-flying Sydney at the MCG. This will be the first time that former Hawks premiership-winning forward Lance Franklin has returned to face his old club at the MCG since moving...
MPC21 just around the corner
Today marks exactly one week until the 21st running of the Macau Poker Cup (MPC) gets underway at the PokerStars LIVE Macau room at City of Dreams. It was a little over six years ago now that the very first MPC was held with a tiny field of just 33...
WGM’s tip for 25 July: West Coast Eagles
The West Coast Eagles play host to a rejuvenated Richmond Tigers in tonight’s AFL clash in Perth, Australia. Although we’re leaning towards the Eagles on home soil, the fact that they have made significant changes to their squad this...
WGM’s tip for 24 July: South Africa
Sri Lanka host South Arica in the second Test in Colombo and after we successfully tipped the South Africans to win the opening Test we’re going to stick with a winning formula. The Proteas proved far too strong with bat and ball in Galle and...
WGM’s weekend preview
The World Cup has come and gone but the world’s best players haven’t had much of a chance to enjoy some rest and relaxation with the big guns from England, Italy, Spain and Greece all in the United States this week for the pre-season...
WGM’s tip for 23 July: Liverpool
English giants Liverpool and Italian powerhouse Roma meet in an intriguing pre-season friendly at Fenway Park in Boston. These two sides met at this same location two years ago with Roma prevailing 2-1. This is a much-improved Reds outfit though –...
WGM’s tip for 22 July: Dustin Johnson
We’re going to get in a few days early for this week’s Canadian Open as the golfing world gets back to normal in the wake of last weekend’s Open Championship. The majors can lead to some quirky results in the following week as...
WGM’s weekend wrap
Irishman Rory McIlroy has won his third major and made his father a wealthy man after dominating the British Open at Royal Liverpool over the weekend. The 25-year-old entered last night’s final round leading a by a massive six strokes and...
Sport’s greatest winning streaks
In two weeks’ time, MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez will head to Indianapolis looking to make it 10 wins from 10 races in 2014. The 20-year-old Spaniard became the youngest rider in history to win nine in a row when he took the chequered...
WGM’s tip for 21 July: Manly Sea Eagles
We love our Monday night football here at World Gaming and with State of Origin now behind us it’s full steam ahead for Australia’s National Rugby League as the 16 clubs set their sight on the finals. Tonight sees the vastly improved St...
WGM’s tip for 20 July: Lewis Hamilton
The Formula 1 season heads to Hockenheim in Germany this weekend as the Championship battle between Mercedes duo Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton continues. While the likes of Red Bull and Williams have closed the gap a fraction over the past few...
APT returns to Cambodia
The Asian Poker Tour continues to expand its borders with the latest stop of this year’s popular tournament series taking place in Cambodia from mid-next week. Having first been held in the south-east Asian kingdom in late 2013, the APT...
WGM’s tip for 19 July: Lin Dan
Having enjoyed a lengthy break following the 2012 Olympic Games, China’s superstar Lin Dan is on his way back having celebrated his first Superseries victory in almost two years when he won the Australian Open last month. Lin has been making...
WGM’s tip for 18 July: Cronulla Sharks
The NRL season continues on in earnest in the lead-up to the finals as the Cronulla Sharks play host to the North Queensland Cowboys. The Sharks have been extremely disappointing in 2014 with the shadow of the ASADA drugs investigation continuing to...
WGM’s weekend preview
The World Cup might be over but there is no shortage of sport elsewhere in the world with the British Open golf, Formula 1, Super Rugby finals and much more to keep us entertained. Let’s start in Liverpool where the world’s golfing elite...
2014 WSOP November Nine
The 2014 November Nine has been set! Eight days after a huge field of 6,683 players took their seats with dreams of going all the way and claiming the US$10 million top prize, just nine players remain as they take a well-deserved four month break...
WGM’s tip for 17 July: Justin Rose
The Open Championship – one of the most famous gold tournaments in the world and one that has made and broken the dreams of many over the years. It’s not easy picking the winner of a major but it’s hard to ignore the form of local hope...
WGM’s tip for 16 July: South Africa
The world’s number two Test team South Africa face the world number six, Sri Lanka, in Galle. The rankings alone suggest the South Africans should get up here but recent results mean Sri Lanka actually head into this match as slight...