What do you do with medium pockets pairs (sevens, eights, or nines) as you play Texas Holdem? The immediate gut reaction of most every Texas Hold’em Poker bettor when they’re dealt any sort of pocket pair is to hang in there and play. After all, it’s a pair. The difficulty with pocket sevens, eights and nines is that they’re so prone to overpairs.

One of the most popular No-Limit Texas Holdem tourneys that fit right into the quite loose style of today’s poker, particularly online poker, is the rebuy competition. Players that are knocked out early can simply rebuy more chips and get right back into the match in a rebuy competition.

Several Texas Holdem participants have a “favorite hand” in the betting online. It could be a hand that won a championship for them, or some other memorable hand. Certainly, everyone’s favorite is pocket aces, but some have “personal attachments” to others.

Andy Murray will probably be the third choice in US Open gambling behind the two favorites, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer.

Andy Murray is likely to be the 3rd choice in US Open gambling behind the two faves, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer.

As the last major of the golf year starts on Thursday, August 12th, Tiger Woods is the favorite in PGA Championship gambling.

It’s usually fairly effortless to isolate 2 or 3 players that are just about certain to win in terms of wagering on Major competitions in pro golf, but this year the Majors have been wide open and the PGA Championship wagering ought to be 1 of the most capricious competitions yet.

The next few weeks will be a remarkable chance for tennis betting buffs to get a look at the leading contenders in this year’s US Open betting competition.

Since Vitaly Petrov will be driving for Renault, F1 betting is going to have the first Russian driver on the board this year. It’s been a long season for team Ferrari, a team that’s thought to be F1 betting royalty, in each sense of the word, as the team’s victories have been few and far between. Nevertheless, its number 1 driver and former F1 odds champion Fernando Alonso grabbed his second victory of the year by winning the German Grand Prix in Hockenhiem. The squad was in fine form over the weekend.

Sebastian Vettel is the fave at the offshore sportsbook to win the German Grand Prix that occurs on Sunday.

Vettel is +155 in offshore sports books probabilities in formula one gambling, followed closely by Mark Webber and Lewis Hamilton.