Bill Ordine

The real story of parlay betting, especially as sports wagering spreads throughout the U.S., isn’t the entertaining tales of jackpot hits. Rather, it is that parlays are becoming an increasingly influential attraction within sports gambling. And the effects of that reality have yet to be realized.

"Mattress Mack" is at it again. He's putting $3.46 million down on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers getting points in Sunday's Super Bowl.

When betting with an offshore site, you have no recourse if a wager gets canceled. Here's one cautionary tale of what can happen.

Just years after the NFL shunned sports betting, Arizona Cardinals owner Michael Bidwell was a keynote speaker at Global Gaming Expo.

A day after Maryland sports betting was signed into law, one of the state's professional sports teams, the Baltimore Ravens, announced a partnership with BetMGM.

The U.S. legal sports betting market is still in a growth stage but top leaders at the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas are sending out warnings about there being too much gambling advertising, especially on television.

The outage that hit several prominent sportsbooks on Super Bowl Sunday is inexcusable when you consider their offers increased the number of bettors. How could they not be ready for the increased betting activity?

Tonight’s Packers-49ers Thursday Night Football game in San Francisco is perhaps the most dramatic example yet in terms of COVID-19 impacting wagering. A game that 10 days ago was a pick ‘em now has Green Bay as a 7.5-point favorite.

Three gaming company CEOs fielded questions about the gambling business at-large, including sports betting, and their own companies.

Lem Banker, who died at 93, practiced his craft in pre-Internet days by gleaning intelligence from out-of-town newspapers and crunching numbers the old-fashioned way. That meant using paper and pencil rather than relying on esoteric algorithms and computer-generated simulations like some of the 21st century betting pros. He was noted for his gentle manner, friendliness and generosity.

Bookmakers find themselves with huge Super Bowl futures liabilities when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers meet the Kansas City Chiefs on Feb. 7

The Browns-Chiefs line saw substantial movement Sunday when Sharps, or professional bettors, started putting their money down.