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Cantor Gaming’s betting tablet shall stay in Las Vegas. — [REVIEW]

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

David Pennock: Cantor’s mechanism is pretty clearly an intelligent automated market maker that mixes prior knowledge and market forces [...].

Posted in Betting, Gambling, Information Technology, Inventions & Innovations | Tagged Betting, Cantor, Cantor Fitzgerald, Cantor Gaming, Gambling, gaming, Las Vegas, tablet computers, tablet PCs, tablets | Leave a comment

Cantor Gaming

Posted on December 26, 2010 by Chris F. Masse

Cantor Gaming @ NYT.

Posted in Betting | Tagged bets, Betting, bettors, Cantor Fitzgerald, Cantor Gaming, Gambling, Las Vegas, risk, spread betting | Leave a comment

Cantor Fitzgerald becomes a bookmaker in Las Vegas.

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Chris F. Masse

In-running betting. Via Mike Giberson

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Terrance Watanabe managed to lose nearly $127 million during a year-long gambling binge at the Caesars Palace and Rio casinos in 2007.

Posted on December 5, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

“In a civil suit filed in Clark County District Court last month, Mr. Watanabe, 52 years old, says casino staff routinely plied him with liquor and pain medication as part of a systematic plan to keep him gambling.” More on … Continue reading →

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Computer beats human experts at poker…

Posted on July 11, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Posted in Betting, Gambling, Inventions & Innovations | Tagged computer science, computer scientist, computer technologist, Eureka, Information Technology, Las Vegas, Michael Bowling, poker, Polaris | 5 Comments

BetFair-TradeFair and the National Security Agency (among others) are giving away $260,000 in tournament prizes to attract the world’s best nerdy geeks (who can’t fry an egg, can’t get a Friday night date, but can decipher a computer algorithm).

Posted on May 7, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

The 2008 TopCoder Open @ Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A. – 2008-05-11~15 BetFair Corporate – Jobs & Careers -

Posted in Events & Meetings, Information Technology, Jobs - Careers - Hiring | Tagged BetFair, careers, coders, computer algorithm, computer technologists, developers, geeks, Information Technology, jobs, Las Vegas, National Security Agency, nerds, Nevada, prediction markets, programmers, TradeFair, United States, USD | Leave a comment

Google’s Bo Cowgill at DIG on enterprise prediction markets

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Thursday, May 15, 2008 @ Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A. – Previously: Do Googleâ€™s enterprise prediction markets work? -

Posted in Events & Meetings | Tagged Bo Cowgill, corporate prediction markets, DIG, enterprise prediction markets, Google, internal prediction markets, Las Vegas, Nevada, private prediction markets, United States | Leave a comment

Professor Koleman Strumpf tells CNN that a prediction market, by essence, can’t predict an upset.

Posted on April 22, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

CNN: FOREMAN: I’ve got something I want you to take a look at. Look at this. It could be the price of a stock or a mutual fund. It isn’t. It’s the odds that a particular candidate, the red here … Continue reading →

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Google’s Bo Cowgill @ 2008 DIG Conference

Posted on March 21, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

2008 DIG Conference: Leveraging Information for Breakthrough Business Performance – (featuring Google’s Bo “Grandizer” Cowgill) – @ Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A. – 2008-05-13~15 – - RELATED NOTE: I’m preparing a long post about the Cowgill/Wolfers/Zitzewitz paper… If you have positive … Continue reading →

Posted in Events & Meetings | Tagged 2008 DIG Conference, Bo Cowgill, Eric Zitwewitz, Google, Justin Wolfers, Las Vegas, Nevada, prediction markets, United States | 1 Comment

Prediction Market Journalism

Posted on March 1, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Credit: Scientific American magazine – Abstract Via Mat Fogarty of Xpree (an innovative firm providing software for enterprise prediction markets) Ask me by e-mail to get a copy of the PDF file. – The problem with the bold statement in … Continue reading →

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