Amaya have announced that Full Tilt will join the PokerStars platform this spring to form one market-leading poker product. Following the merger, each site will retain its own look with a few unique promotions. As reported in Casino News, the two biggest names in poker industry are coming together to form a gaming powerhouse on the biggest online platform in …
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Gambling-related harm targeted in ground-breaking study
Two local authorities are the first in the UK to map people at risk of gambling-related harm in their communities. This comes before a change to regulations on April 6th, which will require all gambling premises to prepare a local area risk assessment. Westminster City Council and Manchester City Council teamed up with Geofutures to produce the report. The two local …
Read More »Matchroom Boxing announces William Hill will sponsor IBF World Title Fight
Matchroom Boxing is delighted to announce that the IBF World Heavyweight showdown between Charles ‘Prince’ Martin and Anthony Joshua MBE will be sponsored by William Hill. The eagerly anticipated bout between the two unbeaten fighters will take place on the 9th April at the O2 Arena in London. The fight, which is expected to be one of the biggest boxing bouts on …
Read More »OtherLevels agrees deal with bwin.party
As reported by iGaming Business, OtherLevels has agreed a deal with bwin.party to manage the online operator’s digital communication reach across its range of mobile products. Under the agreement, the OtherLevels digital marketing platform will help bwin.party to engage users with more relevant and timely content across its mobile applications. The partnership will cover a host of key product areas, …
Read More »Tennis caught in majority of suspicious betting patterns
During the final quarter of 2015, ESSA’s alert system identified 35 sporting events that were reported to the relevant regulatory body as being suspicious, with 24 (69%) of the cases from Tennis and 8 (23%) from Football events. The role of ESSA is to provide an early warning system with the specific aim of detecting and deterring the corruption of …
Read More »Tipster Challenge Results – Experts fail to Danceintothelight
It was the same story as last week in the Tipster Challenge, as all four tipsters returned a pair of winners, with the Guest tipster taking victories at more profitable odds. Steve Mullington’s final flourish took 888sport to a total of 5.58, leaving the Guests just 0.27 points behind long term leaders SBC News. Timeform and bettingexpert continue to push hard …
Read More »Unibet announces the launch of its new casino mobile app
As reported in iGaming Business, Unibet has announced the launch of its new casino mobile application, which will be made available on the Apple iPhone for the first time. ‘Unibet Casino’ has been developed for iOS devices and was previously accessible on iPad devices, but this will now also be extended to iPhones. The app is available now in Apple’s …
Read More »Tipster Challenge at Musselburgh – Full house for Oscar Lateen
It was two wins apiece last week for our tipsters at Carlisle, as Michael Shinners of Sky Bet collected 9.50 points to move the team of Guests on to the shoulder of SBC News atop the leaderboard. This week we are at Musselburgh for what promises to be another exciting day of racing. We will be taking on regular tipsters …
Read More »Coral Head of Trading Sam Foulkes resigns
As reported in eGaming Review, Head of Trading Sam Foulkes has quit Coral. He left earlier this month having tendered his resignation in December, and is now seeing out a period of gardening leave. News of Foulkes’ departure comes just five months after he had been promoted to the head of trading role, which saw him relocate from Coral’s Stratford headquarters to …
Read More »Camelot spokesman defends National Lottery pay-out
The National Lottery are facing a boycott from gamblers, after paying out just £883 of a huge £28.6 million jackpot. New rules left players furious, as the promised jackpot was not won because no-one had all six numbers, or five balls plus the bonus number. These new rules make it harder for anyone to strike lucky, as shown by the …
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