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I'm the walking dead when it comes to gambling. Give me $100 at the tables or slots, and I'll smartly turn it into $10.

With the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Las Vegas this weekend, I'm almost embarrassed to pick a winner.

But here goes: I'm selecting Marcos Ambrose to break through and win his first Cup race on an oval Sunday in the Kobalt Tools 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

I'm absolutely crazy, right?

Denny Hamlin, who won at Phoenix last Sunday, is very good on cookie-cutter 1.5-mile tracks. The odds are he'll be up front again at Vegas.

Jimmie Johnson rolls the dice at these places and often comes up a winner. There's no better gambler on mile-and-a-half tracks than Tony Stewart, while Jeff Gordon, Matt Kenseth, Greg Biffle, Carl Edwards and Kyle Busch are high-stakes players in these situations.

Why Ambrose, whose overall performances the past several seasons on these intermediate ovals has not been startling?

Well, even though I stink at laying a bet, I can't refuse good odds.

When I checked the books at Vegas this week, Johnson was 9/2 to win Sunday. Hamlin was 8/1, and Gordon 10/1.

Ambrose was 150/1.

Even if the odds shorten considerably, Ambrose, who drives the No. 9 Stanley/DeWalt Ford for Richard Petty Motorsports, is a great bet.

He is obviously flying under the radar despite strong runs in every Sprint Cup race - points and non-points events - he has competed in so far this season.

He finished third in the Bud Shootout at Daytona in February, followed up with a third in the first Gatorade Duel.

In the Daytona 500, Ambrose, in his fourth full season of Cup, started seventh and finished 13th after running into trouble in the middle stages of the race.

At Phoenix last weekend, Ambrose drove a smart and aggressive race, moving up to third with less than 20 laps left, only to blow an engine and finish 32nd.

He lost eight positions in points and is 21st in the standings.

I guess the odds-makers are looking past Ambrose's recent performances at Las Vegas - or perhaps they missed them completely.

Last year, he finished fourth at Vegas to Edwards; in 2010, he placed 14th to Johnson.

Yes, there's a big difference between running well and winning in what is easily the world's most competitive and hardest-fought racing series.

But, at long odds, Ambrose is great value along the Strip.

Excuse me for using some Australian thoroughbred race track slang but Ambrose is no dead cert to win, although he's no drongo, either.

Plonk a few bucks on this roughie. You may take some bickies home.

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Panaji: As the sun set over the lazy Mandovi, a group of large migratory birds fluttered across the crimson evening skies. Suddenly, they changed directions in perfect harmony and flew just along the surface of Panjim's beautiful river.

My cameraperson instinctively spotted a great shot and panned his camera as the birds flew over the calm waters. And almost simultaneously, I spotted my one defining frame: the birds flying right past a cruise-turned-gambling den named Casino Carnival.

Perhaps there couldn't have been a more telling image to describe the loot in Goa. All you need to do is replace the birds by a motley crowd of politicians perceived to be opportunistic and power-hungry, who now stand accused of turning their government into a casino and leaving governance to the whims and fancies of a dozen odd greedy, black-mailing gamblers.

That said, a carnival lasts only for a few days. The suspected plundering in Goa had continued for much too long. An alleged Rs. 25,000 illegal mining scam, a controversial Regional Plan, key ministries like Mining, Health and PWD that stood accused of systematized corruption and an overall paralysis in governance. A depressing narrative that's plagued the state for over 5 years.

I have covered assembly elections in several states and nowhere else have I ever sensed such a strong anti-incumbency wave on the ground as I did in Goa. And hence, the drubbing the BJP gave the Congress was largely expected.

Enter a public restroom in Panjim and the usher - with just the gentlest of provocation - goes on a vicious diatribe against the ruling Congress-NCP alliance. Sit in a Goan drawing room and they let loose the choicest of abuses in Konkani against the government. A few children died in a bus accident in Aldona in North Goa. Precious lives were lost because of the driver's error. And locals were so angry against their Congress MLA for not completing a bridge in the area, that they even refused to allow CM Digambar Kamat to visit the site. Or for that matter, a group of drivers who complain how they weren't able to secure even petty government jobs as they were all up for sale. They joke on how they want to gift 9 eggs to a particular MLA - one for each seat the Congress won.

"For years now, the people of Goa have been opposing the misrule and poor governance. There have been tens of protests. But this government simply turned a blind eye as if nothing had ever happened. They took Goa for granted," explains Dr Oscar Rebello, a physician and a leading activist in Goa.

In fact, Goa can be an apt case study to understand how to commit political hara-kiri and give a walk-over to one's opponent. As if allegations of scams and corruption against top cabinet ministers weren't distressing enough, the Congress party seemed to compliment their alleged misdeeds by doling out 12 tickets to family members of 5 of its most influential and powerful leaders. That's 12 out of the 40 seats - 30% of seats - the alliance was contesting.

The BJP rightly sensed the pulse of the people and screamed "family raj" and "nepotism." Their intelligence insulted and challenged, the Goan voter retaliated with vengeance: a record 82 % turnout on voting day and the writing on the wall was clear. Come counting day and the decimation was complete. Congress was able to win only 4 of these 12 "family" seats and ended with an embarrassingly paltry total of only 9 out of 40 seats.

It wasn't that the BJP had put up brilliant candidates. Or promised the moon to Goa. What did the Congress in was over-confidence that bordered and often crossed into arrogance. In an interview with Kamat, I asked him was it so hard to find deserving candidates that go beyond family members of MLAs and he said, "If some people who are working in their constituencies have won the confidence of people and if they deserve a ticket and can win the seat, why should the party see whose son or daughter they are? Ultimately this is a democracy. The people have to be blamed for whom they elect. You can't blame the party or the chief minister."

Or take the case of how sitting MLAs have increased their wealth by stupendously unbelievable amounts and turned crorepatis several times over. Former chief minister and speaker Pratapsingh Rane from the Congress, nonchalantly told me, "No, no. It's just inflation. You give a beggar Re 1 today and he will throw it back and demand Rs. 10."

As they say, when in Goa, leave logic at home!

But the real game-changer was the disenchantment of the Christian voters, who deserted the Congress lock, stock and barrel. In South Goa - particularly the Christian belt of Salcette - which for the first time was swept by the BJP.

"They thought Christians are munkars which means 'tenant' in Konkani. As if we were blind and electorally always available for the Congress, irrespective of how corrupt they were or how they had performed," explained Juino De Souza.

This tectonic shift in voting patterns also saw another first. The Church - perceived to be pro-Congress - was actively sermonising to vote against the party. A far cry from 2002, after the Gujarat riots, when the Church took an anti-BJP stance. This time the mantra was 'vote against corruption'. Even several Muslim groups, fell short of asking their community to vote for the BJP, but publicly advertised to vote against the Congress.

Forget the above. It's an old strategy in war where it is said that half the battle is won by studying the enemy closely. A record number of Christians had come forward seeking tickets from the BJP which ultimately was supporting or fielding Christians in as many as 35% of the 40 seats. Had the Congress had one ear -and both feet - to the ground, this could have been a good indicator to gather the mood in the minority community. But the Congress failed on this count too.

They all seemed to be in la-la land.

Days before Goa went to the polls, I asked Kamat i

Assembly committee Monday that a referendum won’t be necessary to allow online casino gambling if the bets are processed though Internet servers in Atlantic City.

John B. Wefing, a professor at Seton Hall University who has taught numerous courses dealing with constitutional law and the state judiciary, said the 1976 referendum legalizing casino gambling in Atlantic City contained “broad” language, allowing “wide discretion to a Legislature to determine what games are allowed in Atlantic City.”

Wefing was an invited guest to the Assembly Regulatory Oversight and Gaming Committee’s second public hearing of a bill (A-2578) that would allow residents from any location in the state to play poker and other casino games online if the servers, hubs and other computer infrastructure are sited within Atlantic City.

Assemblyman Ruben J. Ramos, D-Hudson, chairman of the panel, said lawmakers could take action to legalize the new form of betting later this year.

“We’ll have more discussion and try to clean the bill up and try to resolve this in the best way and do it the right way, whether we have to go for a vote by the public or just do it through the Legislature,” Ramos said. “We’ll try to make that decision in the next couple of months. “

A similar bill was approved and sent to Gov. Chris Christie last year, but Christie vetoed it, writing in his veto message that “the creation of a legal fiction deeming all wagers to have ‘originated’ in Atlantic City cannot overcome the clear and unambiguous language of the state constitution.”

Wefing said Christie probably should have signed the bill if he supported other elements of it, letting the courts handle any challenges.

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Andrew Rosewarne, managing director of testing lab NMi UK, told InterGaming that there will be major changes made to the gambling landscape in several jurisdictions.

“Obviously the big opportunity in the latter part of 2012 is expected to be in Germany, via Schleswig-Holstein,” he said, explaining that the publication of the technical requirements for online gaming services is expected within a matter of weeks.

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Elsewhere in Europe, Ireland, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Bulgaria and Hungary are among those understood to be considering changes to their respective gaming regulations, although NMi believes that most countries' regulations are likely to be under review.

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