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Revealing how one lucky punter turned €8 (£6.40) into €83,000 (£66,217), Paddy Power said it is still recovering from an almighty spanking at the Galway Races. “It is far from easy to pick the winner of the Galway Hurdle – one of the feature races of the seven-day long Galway Festival that is as lively off the track as on it. …

A William Hill customer has gambled £600,000 on a NO vote in the upcoming Scottish Independence Referendum. The company said the punter staked a record political bet of £400,000 in June, when the odds were 1/4, but has since returned to the same Hill’s branch in Surrey and added an extra £200,000 to his wager, this time at odds of 1/6. He stands …

. The Sunday Times reports that shareholder pressure is mounting on Ladbrokes Chief Executive Richard Glynn The Newspaper claims that a group of top-level shareholders of Ladbrokes are currently waiting on the publishing of the operators interim financial report . The Shareholders will than ask the board to remove Glynn from company operations. According to the Ladbrokes consensus forecast, revenues …

Tailored digital gaming solutions Finnplay, today announced the launch of daily fantasy sports operator FantasyBet using Finnplay’s BillFold platform to run their fantasy gaming engine. FantasyBet is targeting the high growth in live fantasy sports games across Europe in time for the new English Premiership football season. A combination of innovative daily fantasy sports features such as ‘Flash Mode’, which …

Sportradar has penned an agreement with the Thai Premier League to monitor betting during the 2014 season. The association builds on the organisation’s existing partnerships in the region with the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and Football Federation Australia (FFA), and will see Sportradar scrutinise betting behaviour and patterns for all 380 games of the campaign, including those games that were completed earlier in the year. Speaking about …

SIS has been appointed as the official data partner of the Liga de Futbol Profesional (LFP) to collect and exclusively distribute live data from the Spanish leagues to the betting industry. Liga BBVA, won last season by Atletico Madrid ahead of Barcelona and Real Madrid, is watched by more than 300 million viewers across the globe. The three-year agreement, from …

The Gambling Commission has joined forces with the independent charity Crimestoppers as part of a strategy to protect against match fixing impacting GB sports and the betting industry. Crimestoppers will now pass on any reports from the public about gambling-related criminality or corruption to the Commission’s Intelligence Unit at the same time as they are reported to the police. Nick …

Celtic Football Club’s unexpected reprieve from Champions League elimination is causing some bookmakers a headache as curious punters get in touch to see if their previously losing bets are now, in fact, winners. Celtic lost on Wednesday night 2-0 to Legia Warsaw in the CL qualifier, with an embarrassing 6-1 loss on aggregate. However the Polish side brought on a …

New online bookmaker  666Bet will be the new  shirt sponsor of London football club Leyton Orient for the 2014-15 campaign. The record sponsorship deal for the Club will see the 666Bet company logo printed on the front of the home and away shirts from the first game of the season. 666Bet is a fully registered online gambling website. Its goal is …

Playson, the  game studio behind games such as Alice in Wonderslots and Lucky Pirates, is one of 25 active studios to join the Odobo Developer Program. Based in Malta, with technical development in Ukraine, Playson is a rapidly expanding studio with 250 employees and extensive game production experience. Playson takes pride in the skill of its team, its games’ high production values and impressive …