Best Bets and Tips for 2010

BEST BETS 2010… but first a funny video Right, forget the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, here are some of the best tips for this year, and not from Alan (!) What are the best bets in 2010? You need look no further than the world of sport this year. Plenty of good online casino reviews etc on Oggs main site, but let’s look at the sporting tips in certainly a busy year to come. Let’s start with the World Cup football in South Africa this summer, Ladbrokes and other bookies have these odds 11/2 for England to heal 44 years of hurt and win. Sky Bet offer 150/1 on David Beckham clinching the trophy by hitting the winning penalty in a... Continue reading...

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
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Christmas No 1 – Rage Against The Machine v’s Cowell’s Xfactor Winner

The Xfactor, Britain’s most watched TV talent show, crowned Joe McElderry its winner last weekend. Simon Cowell’s creation in recent years has then grabbed the UK’s coveted Christmas No 1 Single position, but this year there is a groundswell of protestors on both Facebook and Twitter leading a campaign to put real music, not manufactured and manipulated pop on top of the charts. It’s alleged that Cowell has a large stake in Sony Record’s Rage Against The Machine and even this face off between the two contenders is just a way for him to make even more money. Let’s not put it past him, the manipulation of the media week after week by who and what happens on Xfactor is... Continue reading...

This entry was posted on Sunday, December 20th, 2009
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What are the odds on a white Christmas?

Here we snow, here we snow, here we snow! Yes it’s that time of year again when every paper, commentator and Joe Public start to discuss the odds of it being a white Christmas. Well as most of the UK knows today it’s already white and slushy, what with an early blizzard covering large swathes of the British Isles. So is it an odds-on dead cert that Christmas Day will be snowey or just slush or bare with no more flurries. In the UK you can bet by city, so offering a better opportunity of calling it right. Paddy Power and Sky Bet offer some of the best odds and offer introductory bonuses too when you join them. I had... Continue reading...

This entry was posted on Sunday, December 20th, 2009
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See The Stars! – Sports Personality of the Year 2009 – spread the word!

Christmas is coming, awards season is coming and not only at Oggs, but also at the BBC with the annual Sports Personality of the Year Awards to be decided in just a few weeks time. Such greats as Henry Cooper, David Beckham, Nigel Mansell, Princess Anne, Dame Kelly Holmes, the list goes on and on for more than 30 years, have won the coveted silver TV camera trophy. This year could be the most open there has ever been. Not an Olympic or World Cup year the achievements in the big sports, like Football, Tennis, Golf, Athletics, Rugby and Cricket have not thrown up any major achievers, but perhaps it’s a fight out between an athlete, boxer or racing car... Continue reading...

This entry was posted on Friday, November 27th, 2009
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World Cup the Final Countdown

This weekend saw the first of the two leg World Cup play-offs and many of the favoured teams are still not safely on the plane to South Africa 2010. France, Portugal, Russia and Uruguay all take one goal leads into their second legs on Wednesday night. Elsewhere minnows New Zealand booked their place, the first time in 28 years joining Australia who also had pre-qualified and gives the Oceania group its strongest showing ever in the football finals. Egypt looked like they would be staying at home until the 94th minute and a last gasp equaliser versus Algeria now requires a further one-off play-off game between the two sides to split the difference and send one heading south next year... Continue reading...

This entry was posted on Monday, November 16th, 2009
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Fall In Soldier! COD 6 – Modern Warfare 2 – Gaming History

Today is the official launch of COD6 Modern Warfare 2, dubbed the most anticipated game of the decade by many gamers across the world. Oggs reviewer JC got his hands on a copy 24 hours early of the eagerly anticipated sequel to Call of Duty 4 – Modern Warfare and his verdict after 8 hours straight gaming? AWESOME! Playing through the many levels the action is fast paced, breathtaking at times and the cut scenes look no different to the gameplay, the graphics, sound and feel is that precise and good. All the buttons are the same, the amount of kit and mods has been cranked up and 18 player multi-player works so sweetly you just can’t put it down.... Continue reading...

This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
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Future of Gaming: games bigger than films!

It was with great interest today that I viewed on YouTube the longest advert I’ve ever seen for a game. It wasn’t a walkthrough video, nor the developers talking about how they created it. It was in fact a 14 minute and 11 second epic film, setting the scene for the upcoming Assassins Creed II out this Autumn across the world. It just goes to prove that the video games industry, not even the gambling industry nor the film industry is now the main driver of entertainment. The rise of home entertainment, electronics, computing power and bandwidth are transforming areas of the leisure industry once deemed nerdy and geeky and the lines between passive watching and interaction are firmly merged... Continue reading...

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
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Gambling Best Prices Facts

Last season William Hill customers enjoyed more top prices than any other leading bookmaker. This season is no different. The price comparison was taken from the Racing Post (Saturdays) 09/08/08 – 03/10/09 (Tuesdays) 11/08/09 – 06/10/09 comparing team prices covering domestic and cup fixtures and World Cup and friendlies. Oggs has reviewed many of these and sportsbook betting is available via their online casino review links on our website – Online Bookmakers

This entry was posted on Friday, October 16th, 2009
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Drama as London Poker Season ends

Some of the world’s top poker players ended London’s three week poker fest in dramatic style this week. It was Peter Eastgate and Aaron Gustavson in the London leg of the European Poker League Tour and Daniel Negreanu and Barry Shulman in the final of the World Series of Poker Europe. Celebrity players were in attendance too with ex-England international , Manchester United and West Ham player Teddy Sherringham coming through both competitions way ahead and smiling. It seems that Teddy has taken to the cards since his professional football days and done rather well, even though he is rumoured to be flirting with playing for non-league Beckenham Town FC in the FA Vase this season. Other celebrities included the... Continue reading...

This entry was posted on Saturday, October 10th, 2009
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Bookies Open A Book On Books

Book World’s Super Thursday, Man Booker Prize, Nobel Literature all available at the Bookies! This is Book Week, or perhaps Bookies Week, or more closer to the point a week that encompasses three of the largest events in the Book calendar each year and for the first time is being covered by British Bookmakers. Today is the book world’s Super Thursday; 800 books are launched today in the run-up to Christmas. Over 40% of book sales happen in the next three months and it can make or break a publisher, bookshop or author. Tomorrow, 1st October is the main UK book award the 2009 Man Booker Prize, hundreds of books have been whittled down to just half a dozen with... Continue reading...

This entry was posted on Thursday, October 1st, 2009
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