Did playing all those wager matches in Call of Duty: Black Ops give you the urge to place some real bets? Oddsmakers including Ladbrokes and Paddy Power are taking bets on what game will be the holiday season’s biggest seller. Shocking no one, Modern Warfare 3 is the odds-on favorite. Ladbrokes has 1 in 12 odds, while Paddy Power offers 1 in 16.

Ashley Mitchell, the man who stole Zynga Poker chips carrying a value of $12 million has been sentenced to serve two years in jail. We initially wrote about this story in the beginning of February. Mitchell admitted to stealing 400 billion poker chips in 2009. Mitchell then sold those chips for around $700 per one billion chips. Mitchell managed to sell one-third of the 400 billion of the chips before getting caught. He made approximately $87,000 on the stolen chips.

Being a “serious” gamer I don’t play the little games that come with Windows so much as I like the new experiences and exploration that, bottom line, you just don’t see in a minefield. Instead, I play slot games and I’m happy to hear that Phantom EFX just started a new line of slot games, the Slot Quest series, starting with Vampire Lord. Yes, you’re just playing slot machines and clicking the ol’ left mouse button repeatedly but it’s awesome how shamelessly the programmers rip off the good ideas from the more serious games.

Even as it pulled the plug on 1 vs. 100, Microsoft said there would be content coming for its Primetime Network programming. An e-mail has been sent out seeking beta testers for something called Full House Poker…

For those not willing to risk real money, Phantom EFX has been making casino-style slot machines the last few years under the Reel Deel Slots line and certainly deserve the “#1 Slot Machine Video Game Publisher” title. The company’s latest game, Reel Deal Slots: Mysteries of Cleopatra, features 26 slot machines, each playing under different slot rules, with a mostly Egyptian theme.

Liars & Cheats contains content specific to its name, but also includes everything from the previously announced Free Roam Pack. Rockstar decided to incorporate both packs into one because of restrictions to the amount of free content Rockstar could give away. The result is one massive content update for $10. Liars & Cheats brings games such as liar’s dice and poker into the multiplayer free roam mode.

Gambling in Ohio has been an election season issue for most, if not all, the dozen or so years I’ve been in the state. Since it has yet to pass in any form, gambling is illegal, meaning any device featuring a game of chance that pays out is breaking the law (except, of course, the more »