Amber Hanover, who won Station Casinos’ Last Man Standing contest last season, pushed last week with under 23 in the first half of the Raiders-Giants game.
Jim Barnes
Reporter: Sports betting
Email: jbarnes@reviewjournal.com
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Jim Barnes covers sports betting and the World Series of Poker for the Review-Journal. He first joined the Review-Journal as a copy editor in 2012. The Fort Worth, Texas, native previously was the sports editor at the Waco Tribune-Herald and also covered high school sports for the Dallas Morning News. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000. He is an experienced gambler who has competed in the Westgate SuperContest and the World Series of Poker Main Event.
The amateur player, then an accountant from Tennessee, helped ignite the mid-2000s poker boom with his victory in the 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event.
Baylor, a 5½-point home underdog against the undefeated Sooners, is among five best bets for Saturday’s Week 11 college football slate.
The line on the NFL Week 10 opener between the Baltimore Ravens and Miami Dolphins has moved a full point leading up to kickoff Thursday.
The Circa Sports Million paid out its second-quarter winners, and the Westgate SuperContest completed the in-season contest for weeks 7 through 9.
Ryan Cristopherson, of Spokane, Washington, won a last-minute one-hand satellite to earn the final seat in the WSOP Main Event, the $10,000 No-limit Hold’em World Championship.
Georgia tightened its grip on the top spot in the Westgate SuperBook’s power ratings after the Crimson Tide struggled in a 20-14 victory over LSU.
Poker legend Doyle Brunson played most of the day next to a player dressed as a pirate, while Phil Hellmuth entered the WSOP Main Event dressed as Gandalf the White.
Gonzaga, which fell one game short of perfection last season, is the 6-1 favorite at the Westgate SuperBook for this season, which starts Tuesday.
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Dan “Jungleman” Cates won the $50,000 buy-in Poker Players Championship, prevailing at a marathon final table that didn’t finish till after 3 a.m.
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Ten handicappers offer five picks each on college football games throughout the season. Paul Stone leads at 25-20 after nine weeks.
Amber Hanover, who won Station Casinos’ Last Man Standing contest last season, won in Week 8 with under 23 in the first half of Panthers-Falcons.
Doyle Brunson, the 10-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and two-time Main Event champion, entered Day 1A of the Main Event on Thursday.
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