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Carnival of Gambling Vol.11

The 11th edition of the Carnival of Gambling is published today and 14 new articles talk about NFL, Holdem poker, luck, political betting and an interview of the latest WSOP champion, Peter Eastgate. As always, if you have a blog and have been an active blogger, why don't you send one of your popular blog posts to make it in the following edition of the carnival of gambling, here in Jimmakos.com.

Free Betfair Poker Video: 20NL tables

Another free online poker video is available as of today in my poker blog. This time I recorded a couple of 20NL 6-max tables over at Betfair Poker, as the article was getting published in the Greek Betfair Blog where I try to help Greek gamblers. That is also why the video comes with sound as I explain my moves in Greek. The video lasts 30 minutes and is about 36MB in size.

Free Online Poker video: 200NL PokerStars

I played at 4 PokerStars 200NL tables in today's free online poker video. I'm using Poker Tracker 3 with HUD and have selected the tables with TableTracker available through Poker Tracker. There are TAGs, LAGs and fishes, all shown with their stats. The online poker video is free to download (44MB) but there is no sound. This is a video recording of the right monitor of my dual-monitor setup and I play 4 more tables on the other one at the same time.

Greek Stock Market: Downtrend ends, is Financial Crisis over?

The Greek Stock Market has been in a downtrend since January but the daily and weekly charts show evidence that the downtrend might have ended. Stock traders are eager to enter the market and buy millions of shares from reputable companies. While this seems reasonable, there's big possibility the trending market converts into a ranging market and the money to get trapped inside for a long time. I would personally wait for a major reversal indication before I risk any money in the Greek Stock Market.

Technical Analysis in Betfair Horse Racing Charts

Technical analysis can be applied in Betfair betting markets and many Betfair traders make money trading with it. Here are the Betfair charts of the favorite horses of 6 horse racing betfair markets which took place yesterday. Besides the odds movement, I have added to the Betfair graphs some technical analysis' elements, mainly trendlines, support and resistance levels. In that way I can discuss how to apply technical analysis in Betfair showing real examples.

Betfair Chart: How to make money from a Breakout

Betfair charts help a lot in Betfair trading without doubt. BetAngel goes even further providing real-time charts with candlesticks. In this betfair trading video I show you how to make money when a breakout occurs in the betangel's charts and how to spot the odds' trend. Once again I'm trading the horse racing markets in Betfair before the start.

Carnival of Gambling Vol.10

The 10th edition of Carnival of Gambling presents articles about learning online poker, how to become a pro poker player, new poker tournaments' ideas, NHL suggested bets, trip reports and sports exercises. There is also an article describing how credit card numbers are created and generated!

Betfair Premium Charge: How much would I pay?

A huge discussion is taking place all over the online betting and trading forums about the Premium Charge Betfair have introduced last month. The charges led successful traders to flee over to Betdaq but liquidity isn't there; yet. Out of curiosity, I looked at my 2005 betfair trading stats to find out how much more would I pay if the Premium Charge would have been applied back then. It turns out that Premium Charge would have a huge impact in my Betfair winnings.

Scalping EUR/USD pair with a small bankroll

EUR/USD has fallen from 1.60 to 1.27 since July and nothing seems to be able to stop it from falling even more. Today I tried trading EUR/USD by scalping and having a stop loss at 10 PIPs. My bankroll in OANDA, which is the forex platform I use, is just $330 but managed to make around $150 in 3 hours by following easy rules and making good use of the charts.

How popular is political betting?

I received an email today by a journalist from a very well known Greek newspaper which made me wonder how popular political betting is. The 2008 US presidential election is in 2 weeks and online betting on Obama or McCain has exceeded 10 million euros just in the Betfair markets. I guess people are not only interested in who the next US President will be but also betting on their own political prediction.

How to make money in an inactive Betfair market

"Buy low and sell high" is the general concept in Betfair trading. The issue though is that sometimes the Betfair markets seem inactive and the odds don't move that much, fluctuating just a few ticks around a mean price, making it difficult to make money. The solution that is described in this trading video is to trade just one tick at a time, usually a method that is known as scalping. You'll need a trading platform for this trading technique from Betfair Developer Program. My favorite is Bet Angel Professional.

Time to Import Hands in Pokertracker 3

I formatted both my desktop and laptop yesterday and today I did a fresh install of the newest beta version of Pokertracker 3, although there is a stable version of this online poker software as well. I have been using Poker Tracker 2 with PokerAce HUD for over 3 years and decided to make the move, since there are more useful stats in the PT3 nowadays, there's been huge improvement regarding the HUD and importing hands in the online poker database is known to need less time to complete. So, I started to import a directory of more than 1 million hand histories and 3 hours later the import actions have finished.

F1 2008: Make money with a Stop Loss

Since last Sunday’s F1 Grand Prix in Japan the F1 teams are preparing for the 2008 Chinese Grand Prix this weekend. We have discussed about the betfair’s odds of the F1 drivers in the Championship market and followed their movement since the Singapore race. Let’s see our past trading progress and how a stop loss can make us money.

F1 2008: Qualifying in Japanese Grand Prix

The Qualifying in Japan for the F1 Championship has just finished. Lewis Hamilton will start the race from the pole position having Kimi Raikonnen next to him, while Kovalainen and Alonso will be starting from the following positions. The second favorite for the F1 championship title, Felipe Massa, will start his engine from the 5th place. Here are the qualifying results for the F1 2008 Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix.

Best Hosting Company for a Sports Blog

Since I changed the web hosting company of my sports blog from GoDaddy to HostGator, the speed improvement in page loading times has been substantial. Although GoDaddy is the best registrar online and I would never think to register any of my other blogs or sites with another company, the HostGator's hosting plans and service are somehow better and is considered one of the best hosting companies. Therefore, while I suggest GoDaddy for domain registration, I recommend blog hosting with HostGator hosting company.

Improve Your Win Rate with Rakeback

Rakeback is a promotion well known to many online poker players. Like the sign up bonus, it is a way for online poker sites to get new players. This need for new traffic is one that players can take advantage of to improve their win rate.

Since you can only sign up with a new online poker site once, you may need to choose between a large sign up bonus and a rakeback plan. Your choice depends on a number of factors. One of these factors may be the method for calculating the rakeback.

Starting Hands in Texas Holdem

The first decision you will have to make when playing Texas hold’em online is what starting hands to play. This may seem like a trivial decision, but in fact, it is one of the most important ones you will make.

A fundamental of poker is that early mistakes compound as the hand progresses. The early mistake does not seem that costly, but by the end of the hand, it can be devastating. If you can cut off that early mistake, you can save yourself a lot of money in the long run.

F1: Championship now, Japan later

After 15 races completed for the Formula 1 Championship, the title of the F1 2008 champion seems to being decided, while the F1 racing teams prepare for the visit to Japan. With 3 more circuits left in the F1 2008 calendar (China and Brazil), Lewis Hamilton has 84 points, Felipe Massa 77 and Kubica and Räikkönen follow up with 64 and 57. Is it now an appropriate time to back Hamilton or would we better chasing an outsider like Massa?

Carnival of Gambling Vol. 9

The October edition of Carnival of Gambling is published today in my sports blog! I didn't receive many articles this time but still the content linked from this post is quite interesting. Ross discusses the Big Brother Show, Michael talks about Football Card Values, Poker Anon presents a poker strategy for beginners, Malcolm is shooting for big poker tournaments, Dave comments on the return of Rick Neuheisel and Michael from Online Casino Blog has sent 6 articles about casinos and poker.

My Page Rank Increased!

Apparently the search engine optimization I've been doing lately has led to an increase of my sports blog's page rank from 3 to 4 today! Although I didn't buy any text links from top search engine ranking websites with higher ranking, the link exchange with gambling sites and blogs of similar pagerank certainly helped my sports blog. Additionally, my Alexa link popularity increased while the traffic rank seems steady below 400,000. I managed to improve my page rank after studying a lot about search engine rankings, keywords, seo tools and reciprocal link exchange. What does this increase of my page rank mean though?