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March 14th, 2007
When filling out an NCAA bracket, there are many things to keep in mind. We certainly can’t claim to be perfect — no one is. As experienced bracket pickers know, filling out a bracket sheet can certainly give new meaning to the words March Madness! But here is some information that should be useful.
Some thing to consider while playing NCAA Basketball bracket
1. Overall Performance
The best measure of overall performance is definitely our NCAA basketball Power Ratings. Power Ratings take everything into account: home, away, margin of victory, won/lost, recent games, etc. In short, Power Ratings provide the best measurement of how good a team really is.
2. Recent Play
Some NCAA Tournament teams were lousy in November and great in February. Other basketball teams were great in February but lousy in November. If you’re picking a team to go far, the first is probably a lot better than the second. The best way to look at this is to check out the Last Ten Ratings, which give a good indication of who’s playing the best ball right now. Certainly, this isn’t the ONLY factor — slumping teams sometimes miraculously turn things around just in time for the big dance — but it’s a big one.
3. Home-Away-Neutral
There are a handful of teams in the field that have played very well at home, but poorly on the road. Some teams seem to do well at neutral sites. Usually, only being good at home is a bad sign for the NCAA Tournament. To see how teams have played at home and on the road, check out the Away Ratings and the Home Ratings. The Neutral Ratings are probably the best indicator. A warning here, though; many teams have only played two or three games at neutral sites. If that’s the case, don’t overestimate the importance of those games
4. Consistency
Some teams tend to beat the teams they’re supposed to, and lose to the teams they’re supposed to. Others might beat anyone, but might also lose to anyone. One measure for this is a team’s Consistency Rating. If a team has a high consistency rating, they’re less likely to knock off a team ahead of them, but they’re also less likely to get upset.
5. Overall Odds
If you want to win your pool, I wouldn’t advise putting Northwestern State in the Final Four. By looking at the Overall NCAA Tournament Odds, you can get a sense of just how likely it is that your team will make it to a certain spot in the bracket. As we see every year in the conference tournaments and the NCAAs, there are always upsets. But by picking those that are at least moderately likely, the odds of you completely striking out are not as large.
6. Individual Matchups
Rankings certainly can’t express everything in a basketball game. Every team has opponents that it matches up well with, and others that it just doesn’t play well against. For this, I suggest you check out each team’s page, and click on “Results & Scores” to see how that team has fared against different sorts of opponents. One problem here is that most people haven’t seen much of the field of 64, so it’s tough to know about individual matchups.
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March 14th, 2007
Everybody is concern about how to withdrawal the money from the online casinos, EcoCard may be the answer, according to gamblers and operators who are having a positive experience with the this third party payment processor.
EcoCard Ltd is a European technology company focusing on alternative payment solutions and payment processing.
One of the hardest hit online gambling companies in terms of sending out payments to customers has been the Prima Poker Network, part of the MicroGaming outfit. This firm has addressed the issue somewhat by offering EcoCard as a viable option for US customers, and it seems to be working.
Using the service does come with a price as one poster explains on the popular TwoPlusTwo.com posting forum:
“Myself and many others have used this (EcoCard) for a cashout. It is worse than it sounds. They charge 10, then if you cashout to the US an intermediary bank charges 15, then your bank will probably charge a wire fee as well. My cashout took a little more than a week and about two weeks from request from prima to bank account. However they do pay and it is not a bad service…Actually it is probably the best service still around.”
Another poster writes:
“I just recieved funds from ecocard. It took about 5 days to go from Prima site to ecocard and another 5 days from ecocard to my bank. The cost was $10 USD for each step (-$20) total. Kind of high in my oppinion .. but at least I recieved my funds.”
March 13th, 2007
NCAA Basketball March Madness is yet to begin, and Americans everywhere are filling out their NCAA Basketball brackets. But before you give in to the urge to put the top seeds in your NCAA Final Four, don’t forget that last year, all four top seeds lost in or before the Elite Eight. Will it be different this year?
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March 8th, 2007
Online gamblers will no longer be able to buy virtual gift cards at www.giftcards.com to fund their accounts.
Sometime this weekend, giftcards.com officials removed the virtual gift card choice from their purchasing menu and are now offering only “hard cards,” corporate gift cards, and an ATM card option.
A giftcard.com spokesperson refused to say if the move was related to online gambling.
“There is no comment on any of this,” spokesperson Jason Wolfe said. “We took the service down because we are revamping our fraud system.”
Last week you could buy a virtual gift cards and use it to deposit into a casino within two hours. That made it a great option for U.S. based online gamblers looking to find another deposit method in the post-NETeller era.
And it worked quickly enough that it came close to mimicking the Instacash option once available with NETeller.
Players can still fund their accounts using processors like www.ePassporte.com, but the options are not instant and can take as long as two weeks to process.
March 8th, 2007
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March 7th, 2007
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March 6th, 2007
The Helsinki, Finland, native nabbed Seat 18 at Titan Poker’s exclusive $1 million 20-man freeroll.
Like the 17 players before him, Kenneth Eriksson - otherwise known as muuli - earned the seat by final tabling at three consecutive guaranteed prize tournaments on Feb. 16.
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March 6th, 2007
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