Gambling News by House of Odds

The Las Vegas winter meetings have come and gone, but Scott Boras and the Red Sox still seem to have the gambling itch, as a high-stakes game of poker has developed between the two sides. The pot is Mark Teixeira's future.

Whenever Todd Witteles signed on to an Internet poker site, the first thing he did was look around for inexperienced players. One day in August 2007, the Las Vegas poker pro thought he had found an easy mark on AbsolutePoker.com.