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Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day on Idabet.com on Saturday, March 17 with our Holiday Bonus Cash Holiday.

Just wager at least $500 throughout the day and we’ll bonus you an extra 1% cash rewards which will be credited to your account by Monday.

See if the Luck of the Irish is with you when you make selected WIN bets on horses with a holiday theme name.  We’ll be searching for you a list of horses with names related to the holiday that include words or phrases like Irish, St. Patrick’s, Paddy or even Corned Beef and Cabbage.

Check this page after 9pm on Friday, March 16 or our Facebook page for a list of horses.  Then just bet at least $2 to win on one or more of the horses.  If one of them wins, you not only get the payoff, but we’ll bonus you an extra $25.

If you bet a horse that wins, be sure to email me, Steve@Idabet.com so we can properly credit your account by Monday.

There is a limit of one $25 win bonus per player and the promotion is limited to one per household, account and/or email address.

Put a little green into your March Madness Weekend and may some Irish luck rub off on you.

Jan 25, 2013

Recently we changed our betting menu with its many new features.  On March 1, we will make even more convenient and useful changes to the menu.

The big changes will be on the LIVE VIDEO features.  You will now be able to view the LIVE RACES in a screen next to your betting menu without having to open a new window.  This allows you to start betting another race or racetrack while watching your live race.

You can also easily switch to race replays on the same page to help with your handicapping from previous races or to review races you bet earlier.

The video page includes the new preview section.  You will be able to preview 3 other tracks from the screens below or watch multiple action all at once.  The 3 additional screens will become a PREMIUM FEATURE after a trial period and will be available for a small fee.   Unfortunately, such technology is very expensive and 4 screens open at once takes up enormous bandwidth on the internet which is costly.  Without the fee, these pages would be open all the time and we would have to pass on the expense to all players including those not using it.

The video screen page can also be opened by itself without the betting menu page for a larger viewing screen.  However, there will be a mni program next to your race to display the runners names, numbers, odds, etc. to better help you follow the race and your bets.

Please let us know what you think of the improvements as well as any suggestions you may have by sending a note to CustomerService@Idabet.com.

Thank you players for sharing information with us from our recent survey we sent.  We are going through each and every one to follow through on any suggestion or comment that we can do something about.  Due to the large number of surveys returned, this will take a bit of time, but be assured we are listening to you.  Of course, as always, just send us an email at any time with any other suggestion, problem or complaint.

As you have seen, we recently made changes to our betting platform page and there are more to come.  Our goal continues to offer the best services possible while trying to maximize your daily rewards.

Other ADW’s have a few gimmicks here and there and maybe even way out graphic and video that really doesn’t enhance your play overall.  We rather reinvest with you the player by providing the best cash rewards allowable by law and restrictions by each host track.

Keep your eye out for our continuing changes and remember it’s a two way street wit you, so let us know anything at anytime.

Here we are again, the biggest TV, sports and party weekend of the year…The Super Bowl.  I guess we can use this column to talk a bit about football.  After all football handicappers are just one step away from discovering the joy of racing handicapping.

I am sure for many going to the Super Bowl is a once in a lifetime experience, but I guess unless your team is in the game, this is one event truly made for TV.

Growing up in Baltimore, my highlight of the year of course was the Preakness, though the most exciting races always seemed to be at Laurel.  I will never forget Affirmed and Alydar in the Laurel Futurity.

I barely can remember the Colts losing to the Jets in Super Bowl 3 and for some reason I have very little recollection of the Colts beating the Cowboys two years later.  After that, the memories are much stronger as I became a season ticket holder, only to watch a decade of disaster (except a brief 3 year run with Bert Jones) and a team owner who destroyed a love affair with the city.

In the late 80’s I created the first racetrack sports bar that televised every NFL game (pre DirectTV) at Delaware Park.  I discovered that you could indeed promote to football fans and get them into racing.

We had some great promotions over the years including the likes of Ron Jaworski, Wilbert Montgomery, the late Jerome Brown and very young Mike Golic, now of ESPN’s Mike and Mike in the Morning.

I got out of racing for a decade and operated a business.  One store was located across from the Ravens training complex when they won the Super Bowl and met many of those players and even got to touch the fabled Lombardi Trophy.

But like most everyone else, the Super Bowl is a national holiday in front of the TV.  So I will give it my best to handicap this game.

The Giants had a stretch this year where you wondered if they would even beat out the Redskins, but then they turned it all...