WGM was stunned to find that newly crowned Spanish champions Atletico Madrid are paying $4.00 to win tonight’s Champions League final against local rivals Real Madrid. Sure, Real are far more experienced on this stage having won the title...
Author - Ben Blaschke
Numbers keep rising
It’s already been a record breaking year for poker in Macau. In January, the 20th running of the Macau Poker Cup came within a whisker of cracking the 1,000 player mark for the first time, with 995 taking part to beat the old record of 891 by...
WGM’s tip for 23 May: Geelong Cats
We’re off to Australia for the AFL tonight as Geelong host North Melbourne at Simonds Stadium. The Cats haven’t been in the greatest form of late, having lost in Fremantle last week and only just scraped past struggling Richmond in their...
Suarez hits the poker tables
For those of you who didn’t hear the news this week, Liverpool striker Luis Suarez has signed a sponsorship deal with online poker site 888poker. While signing high profile sports stars has become a popular publicity stunt in recent years with...
WGM’s weekend preview
With the football seasons now over and all eyes on the World Cup, our attention turns to other codes for a few weeks and what better place to start than rugby league’s State of Origin. League might not be the biggest sport in Asia but Origin...
WGM’s tip for 22 May: Sri Lanka
It’s the first match of the five game One Day series between England and Sri Lanka and is also the beginning of a new era for the hosts – or so they hope. After their disastrous Ashes campaign in Australia, they head into this series with a...
WGM’s tip for 21 May: Zach Johnson
The PGA Tour continues its journey around Texas with the Crowne Plaza Invitational taking place at Colonial from tomorrow. Another red hot field is booked in to fight it out for a first prize of around US$1.2 million but we like the look of...
APPT Macau attracts big numbers
APPT Macau is off to a lighting fast start with an impressive 752 players taking part in the first four events ahead of tomorrow’s Main Event. Macau’s longest running tournament, the eighth running of APPT Macau has so far been...
The race for world number one
For those of you who missed it, a rare event took place in the golfing world early on Monday morning. Tiger Woods – the man who has held top spot for the past 60 weeks and prior to that for a record 281 weeks straight – lost the world number one...
WGM’s tip for 20 May: Indiana Pacers
It’s Game II of the Eastern Conference finals as Indiana host Miami looking to end the Heat’s dominance of the NBA. Many questioned the Pacers’ ability to win this series after failing to match their hot start to the season in...
WGM’s weekend wrap
It’s official – Atletico Madrid are the new kings of Spanish football! After a tense final day in La Liga that saw the stranglehold that Barcelona and Real Madrid have held for so many years finally loosened, Atletico needed only a draw...
WGM’s tip for 19 May: Manly Sea Eagles
We’ll look to Australia and the NRL tonight as competition powerhouse Manly hosts struggling Newcastle at Brookvale Oval. The Sea Eagles have a few injury concerns to key players but even without three of their biggest names they almost beat...
WGM’s tip for 18 May: Marc Marquez
It’s a dangerous ploy to describe any event as “easy money” when it comes to sports betting. After all, the great thing about sport is its unpredictability. But it’s fair to say that Marc Marquez is the closest thing to easy...
WGM’s tip for 17 May: Arsenal
With the Premier League season now over, all eyes turn to the FA Cup final as Arsenal look to win their first piece of silverware in nine years against a Hull side yet to win anything. It’s hard to see any result other than a Gunners victory...
WGM’s tip for 16 May: Barcelona
With so much sport on this weekend, we thought we’d get in a day early for the biggest game of the Spanish La Liga season as Barcelona and Atletico Madrid fight it out for the title. The equation is simple – if Barcelona wins tomorrow they...
APPT Macau ready to rock
One of the most popular stops on the Asia-Pacific tournament circuit gets underway at the PokerStars LIVE room at City of Dreams today with the opening event of APPT Macau. APPT Macau might not be the biggest event held in the PokerStars LIVE room...
WGM’s tip for 15 May: Keegan Bradley
The PGA Tour is off to Texas this week for the Byron Nelson Championship and we’re going to go with American Keegan Bradley for a top 5 finish. Why? Because he has a strong record in this event – having won it in 2011 and finished runner-up...
WGM’s weekend preview
With the EPL season now done and dusted, attention now turns to Spain for the final week of La Liga and Saturday night’s blockbuster between Barcelona and Atletico Madrid to decide the title. With Real Madrid now out of contention, it all...
WGM’s tip for 14 May: FC Seoul
It’s the second leg of the Asian Champions League Round of 16 ties and we like the look of FC Seoul tonight. Having topped a tough group that also boasted Japan’s Sanfrecce Hiroshima and Australia’s Central Coast Mariners, they...
WGM’s tip for 13 May: San Antonio Spurs
They needed seven games to overcome Dallas in their first round playoffs match-up but San Antonio has really put the foot down against Portland to race to a 3-0 series lead. They can sweep the series and progress to the Conference Finals tonight and...
King of clay no more?
Rafael Nadal won his fourth Madrid Open, 27th Masters event and 44th clay court title last night, yet for the first time since he burst onto the scene by winning the French Open in 2005, his standing as the king of clay appears to be under...
WGM’s weekend wrap
There was plenty happening across the sporting globe over the weekend but it’s fair to say much of the world’s focus last night was on England as the most dramatic of EPL seasons came to an end. Unlike two years ago, when Manchester City...
Zhao wins in Manila
China will have to wait a bit longer for its next poker title after Singapore’s Feng Zhao dominated the final table to win APT Philippines at Resorts World Manila this week. Chip leader heading into the final day’s play, Zhao enjoyed a...
WGM’s tip for 12 May: Serena Williams
We’re off to Italy for the Italian International tennis and we’re going to focus on the women today with Serena Williams our tip to go all the way in this one. Williams has a great record here in Rome, having won the event last year, and...
WGM’s tip for 11 May: Daniel Ricciardo
His results don’t tell the full story, but with the exception of Mercedes duo Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg it’s hard to go past rookie Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo as the most impressive performer so far in 2014. He finished...
WGM’s tip for 10 May: Manly Sea Eagles
We stopped dead in our tracks when we saw that the Melbourne Storm were strong favorites in this game, with Manly paying $2.85 for the win! Sure, they are missing influential five-eighth Kieran Foran, but the Storm has struggled all season while...
WGM’s tip for 9 May: Washington Wizards
Indiana has been far from their brilliant best so far in the playoffs, but they managed to scrape through their first round series against Atlanta and levelled this current series against Washington two days ago after going down in the...
APT China postponed
The eagerly anticipated APT China event, originally scheduled to take place in Guangzhou from 18 to 25 June, has been postponed to the end of the year. Despite working hard to gain full government approval, Asian Poker Tour organizers were informed...
WGM’s tip for 8 May: Matt Kuchar
The PGA Tour is headed to Florida this week for the Players’ Championship – one of the most prestigious events on tour and unofficially referred to as golf’s “fifth major”. The list of winners here reads like a who’s...
China vying for APT Philippines triumph
China will be vying to add an APT Philippines title to the nation’s growing poker resume when the final eight players gather together later today at Resorts World Manila. After three days and 23 levels, a truly international final table has...