Kings Of Vegas

Poker-Playing Millionaires - spreading like the bird flu

This really isn’t helping to dispell the fad status of Poker like we hoped.

WickedChopsPoker, citing Card Player, reports that 34 players won north of a million dollars in 2005. To put that into a bit of perspective, their were 78 tournament golfers who eclipsed that number in 2005 (and in the last year before the pre-Tiger era, their were only 9).

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NLF Playoffs - Week 2 Lines

Saturday, 1/14/06

Seattle -9 v. Washington
O/U: 42

Denver -3 v. New England
O/U: 44

Sunday, 1/15/06

Indianapolis -8.5 v. Pittsburgh
O/U: 46.5

Chicago -3 v. Carolina
O/U: 31.5

The biggest moves thus far by the “Public” are on Indy which has already been bet up to -9.5/10 in most places.

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Who is William Wesley

Now that football season is wrapping up and we can turn our attention to more important things like vacation. And, maybe just a bit on hoops.

But the question Henry Abbot from TrueHoop.com is asking is “Who is William Wesley?”. Who is the guy that has Michael Jordan and LeBron James on speed dial, and according to Brian Windhorst of the Akron Beacon Journal, is “doesn’t wear a uniform, doesn’t have a desk in any basketball front office and never speaks to the media. Yet, depending on whom you talk to, he is either one of the most powerful and well-liked men in the NBA or everything that is wrong with the underbelly of pro sports.”

Frankly, after reading through the few pages of notes, facts, rumor and inuendo, we are fascinated as well. The popular theory seems to be that he is a power-runner for the league’s elite:

“Welcome to the World of Runners
Eric’s story is this: Wes is the finest runner the NBA has ever known.

What’s a runner? There are hundreds of them. They are guys who befriend basketball players and then deliver them to scouts in exchange for cash.

Eric says he is a runner himself. He says he used to be a runner for agent Arn Tellem. Tellem, says Eric, paid him a total of $250,000 to steer five players his way through the years. (I’m not going to play sleuth on that one, but for what it’s worth, Eric is from New Jersey and says they all got shoe deals from adidas.)”

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