Reuters.com has a rather awesome and interesting tale about three men being removed from a tennis tournament. Seems they had laptops up in the stands and were gambling on the match while it was going on. Their hook: There was a delay between the time a point ended and when it was posted on a web site, giving them some serious advantages. From the story:

Three men were removed by organizers at the Diamond Games after they were found to be gambling via laptops from the stands, a spokeswoman for the event said on Tuesday. “Three spectators were removed. The two Russians and one German were holding a laptop and logged on to a gambling Web site were gambling on ongoing matches,” said spokeswoman Katia Stroobants. Tennis has been dogged by allegations of match-fixing and illegal gambling in the past year. Several male players have said they were approached to fix matches while betting exchanges have noted irregular patterns.The spokeswoman said those who were asked to leave the Sportpaleis in Antwerp late on Monday were allegedly “exploiting the delay between the time a point was won and the time it appeared on the official tournament Web site.”

Seems rather underhanded, though also a little ingenious. Our best Vegas scam is trying to convince the booth workers that we WOULD HAVE bet on a certain team. Sixty percent of the time it never works.

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