A Win For Winston at Borgata --  Roy Winston claimed the title in the 2007 Borgata Poker Open, triumphing over a potent final table that also included Mike Matusow and Haralabos Voulgaris.  Winston held the lead entering the day’s play and mowed through the other five finalists, quickly pocketing the week’s biggest poker prize -- $1,575,280.

Mackay Wins $580,000 in WCOOP --  The young guns struck again over the weekend.  James "mig.com" Mackay took down Event #14 at PokerStars’ World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP).  Mackay, among the youngest-ever WSOP bracelet winners, added $580,212.50 to his career earnings by taking down the $1,030-buyin no-limit event.  Mackay’s among a growing handful of poker millionaires barely out of their teens.

Bodog Relocates... Again --  From Bodog.com to Newbodog.com to Bodoglife.com.  Anyone taking bets on the next one?  Bodog’s journey to a safe-domain haven landed at Bodoglife.com this past week in a move that Bodog CEO Calvin Ayre pitched as being a more accurate representation of Bodog... life and style.  Oh, wait, we get it!  The move is the latest chapter in Bodog’s nomadic wanderings following the loss of that original bodog.com domain to 1st Technology LLC in a default patent judgment.

No, He’s Not Amarillo Slim’s Iranian Half-Nephew --  The unexpected item of the week came from Las Vegas, where news leaked out that Shahram "Shawn" Sheikhan, a high-stakes regular who became famous for jawing with Mike Matusow during the 2005 WSOP, was arrested on a deportation hold by U.S. customs officials.  At issue is an old conviction for "Sheiky" from 1995, when he was accused of assault/indecent behavior in a California incident.  Sheikhan served nine months in prison on that conviction, and the immigration official in charge of the case is seeking Sheikhan’s deportation to Iran for multiple instances of "moral turpitude."  Sheikhan remains persona non grata at the Bellagio owing to a separate incident.

UK Gambling Survey Released --  Eight years after the last time they conducted a government-sponsored study on the topic, the United Kingdom revisited the study of gambling behavior.  The results?  Not much has changed, although the extensive report contains nuggets of information that both sides, pro or con, could use.  To make a long story short, problem gamblers exist, but they exist in roughly the same proportions no matter how easy the access (re: online gambling opportunities) seems to be.  Contrary to the nanny-staters, the evidence suggests that online gambling does not increase the prevalence of addictive behavior.