Gambling911.com has made Shirley Sherrod’s odds of winning a lawsuit against blogger Andrew Breitbart at 3/1, and ironically we have some experience in this area, which will be discussed below.

  Apparently US President Barack Obama has little time to keep up with pop culture news.  Appearing on The View Thursday morning, Joy Behar asked the president whether Mel Gibson needs anger management, referring to the actor’s recent tirade against his wife caught on voice mail

I got to play in a big cash game in L.A. last week. It was a bunch of fun guys (rich, too) and I really enjoyed it. One of the regulars was a friend of mine that I hadn’t seen for 35 years. He didn’t have two nickels to rub together when I knew him and now he has hundreds of millions. I’d say that is a pretty good success story. I played twice winning one time and losing once.

An important milestone was met Wednesday when HR 2267, legislation that looks to fully legalize online poker in the U.S., passed by markup in the House Subcommittee. But the road ahead will be tough to maneuver. 

One development that didn’t garner too many headlines leading into the World Series of Poker was a unique reward system offered to players represented online poker site UB.com at this year’s Main Event. UB.com set aside a special player pool with funds set aside to distribute to all players competing in the biggest tournament of the year.

YouWager.com has been offering odds on whether Jennifer Keeton will prevail in her discrimination case against Augusta State University (ASU) and claim she has a 75 percent shot.

The online bookmaker BetUS.com is convinced that the Alabama Crimson Tide will make waves again in the SEC for the upcoming 2010-2011 College Football season.

The latest Cake Poker Network card room, UnleashedPoker.com, has vowed to give its customers unparalleled customer care, and they are truly excited to be joining the Cake Poker Network.

With speculation running rampant that the world’s leading online poker room, PokerStars.com, might suffer from any new legislation in the United States, specifically H.R. 2267, that company on Thursday announced it welcomed Wednesday’s 41-22 vote.  H.R. 2267 would license and tax online poker establishments in the States with one important caveat:  Those companies that continued to accept U.S. customers following passage of the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act (UIGEA) would be excluded from licensing.  PokerStars continued to welcome U.S. customers post-UIGEA.