Michael Franzese (born May 27, 1951) is the son of former underboss John "Sonny" Franzese, a former New York mobster and caporegime of the Colombo crime family. After his father was sentenced to 50 years in prison for bank robbery in 1967, Franzese dropped out of Hofstra University's pre-med program...
Why gamblers pretending to be millionaires are fraudsters, why you shouldn't buy anyone's sports predictions, and why Mazi VS doesn't truly make his money from sports betting. Author explain why casinos and sports books eliminate anyone who has an advantage on the books and why it's extremely difficult for handicappers to...
While researching the interaction of thermodynamics and information theory, scientist Juan Parrondo discovered that a system of losing games could create a winning outcome. And it's not simply by playing them strategically; it's also feasible for two sure losers to produce a winner when played at random. The test of our...
It's in our DNA to take a risk. Every day, whether it's gambling on a slot machine or riding a skateboard, we engage in activities that have both a risk and a reward. The surge of dopamine motivates us to take these risks. The same pleasurable reward pathways in our brains...
Mike "The Mouth" Matusow is one of poker's most controversial figures. Some find his outbursts, antics, and frequent talking at the tables amusing, while others find it incredibly bothersome. But, whether you like him or despise him, Matusow is one-of-a-kind. Mike has established quite a poker career over the years, becoming fairly...
Multi accounting is a type of poker cheating that is rather widespread nowadays, but back in 2006, this was one of the first major multi accounting scams that drew the attention of the poker community. In this poker video, we cover how Josh Field, also known as JJProdigy, scammed the...
In the Philippines, we investigate the inner workings of human trafficking syndicates that trick Chinese nationals into illegally entering the country to work in online gambling businesses. Runaways are apprehended, beaten, and ransomed for large sums of money. The Philippines Senate investigates these internet gambling organizations' illicit activities and finds a...
Poker frauds and cheating have been a feature of the game since its inception. In this video, we look at 9 more astonishing poker scams that have stunned the poker community including marked cards, online scams and other.
Let's get one thing straight: when it comes to casino streaming, the only thing you can be sure of is that you can't be sure of anything. It's virtually hard to tell whether a streamer is gambling with real money unless you have complete financial transparency. Those of us who...
There are many remarkable accomplishments and victories in poker, but some are hard to believe. Here are 5 incredible poker stories you probably didn't know about.
Hello there, guys! In today's video, I show how I used math to generate money from sports betting and ended up being blacklisted as a result. This strategy is known as arbitrage betting, and it is a risk-free approach to benefit from betting. In this video, I go over the...
Adam Kucharski examines the long and complex relationship of betting and science, explaining how gambling affected everything from probability to game theory, chaos theory to artificial intelligence, spanning mathematics, psychology, economics, and physics. Adam Kucharski is a Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he studies infectious...
Interview and photograph of Daniel, a compulsive gambler in New York City, by Soft White Underbelly. Compulsive gambling, often known as gambling disorder, is the uncontrolled need to continue gambling despite the negative consequences. Gambling involves putting something valuable at risk in the expectation of gaining something even more valuable.
Daniel Negreanu is a professional poker player from Canada who has won six World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets as well as two World Poker Tour (WPT) championships. Negreanu was named the best poker player of the decade by the independent poker ranking service Global Poker Index in 2014. As of...
Professional Betfair Trader - Caan Berry. In 2009, I began dabbling with something called Betfair trading. Despite my optimism about the possibilities, I had no idea how much it would change my life at the time. I decided to get serious after a year or so of messing around, making...
A World Cup accumulator bet on Lionel Messi was refused payout by bookmakers. They refused to accept the full reward once it had won, claiming there had been a mistake. Check out the results of this football wager here.
