Weekly Feature: Drinking Stories
April 3, 2009 by Amy Tucker
Filed under Drinks
Today’s drinking story comes to us from Hollywood Dave Stann and involves not a small amount of drinking and betting.
Let the story begin:
OK, so this isn’t the most insane drunk story I’ve had but it’s certainly the most recent…
Last week was my buddy Mike’s birthday so a bunch of us went out for drinks in Hermosa Beach. Mike is a degenerate online poker specialist, and also in attendance was his roommate Melissa who does video interviews for an online poker news site, and another degen gambler Eddie who’s definitely won his fair share of live tournaments. It would only be …read more
Bettors ejected from Diamond Games
There were no nuggets of betting information to be had at the Diamond Games as three spectators were ejected from the stands for online betting.
The three were suspected of capitalizing off the split second differential between when a point was played on the court to when it was posted to the official online scoring page.
But ejection is a little strong and not really true. The trio was given the option of handing over their laptops or leaving – they chose the latter. Ejection implies they had no choice, but they did. Somewhat of a minute point but I like those …read more
Davydenko jumping into the fire
Nikolay Davydenko is under fire again from the ATP as the organization is after Davydenko’s wife’s and brother’s phone records for another round of investigations into the suspicious betting activities surrounding one of Davydenko’s tennis matches several months ago.
Anyway, that long explanation shortens a very long article about the debacle on whether the ATP has jurisdiction over third party records, so on and so forth.
The point? Just don’t bet. Throw your money into some investment or something.




