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Big punters of the past were dwarfed by Alan Woods, who spiced his action with Filipino bar girls and ecstasy. Woods, from Murwillumbah, struck gold as a principal player in syndicates looting the Hong Kong exotics. Playing numbers, not horses, and using a computer system, Woods notched nearly $1 billion, according to The Australian Financial Review last year.

The metaphor is an easy one, overused and perhaps even a bit overwrought. We are forging forward into a digital frontier, leaving convention behind, traveling without guides into an uncharted virtual

NEW YORK (AP) - The metaphor is an easy one, overused and perhaps even a bit overwrought. We are forging forward into a digital frontier, leaving convention behind, traveling without guides into an uncharted virtual land where progress and profits are forever around the next bend.