Betway is betting big on esports. As one of the foremost promoters of esports amongst the UK’s major bookmakers, it recently sponsored a Betway Fight Night between Team Fnatic and Team Astralis. We spoke to Director of Marketing and Operations at Betway Anthony Werkman about this, how its carving out a reputation in esports communities and the particular need for a separate …
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SBC’s Football Odds Expert Jeevan Jeyaratnam, of odds compiling firm Super Soccer GPS, explains what happens when an unfamiliar name unexpectedly hits the team sheet. The promotion of Marcus Rashford into the starting XI for Manchester United’s must-win Europa League game with Danish champions Midtylland on February 25th 2016 was a landmark for the player, but created a wave of rapid …
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BetITBest‘s Nico Jansen is interested in discovering the best in people. This week it’s Anthony Cousins. Anthony Cousins has worked for Unibet for almost 15 years, and has seen first hand the company transform itself from a handful of staff into a huge business. Anthony started as an odds compiler in July 2001, and has been Head of Sportsbook (Commercial Relations) since …
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We’re into the month of March, and the Cheltenham Festival is nearly upon us. So it was only right that we caught up with the resident horse racing guru at bettingexpert, Stephen Harris. We asked him how he feels about Cheltenham, how easy (or difficult) it is to pick a race winner, and how confident he is feeling about his …
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RankR is aiming to become the home of esports, where the community can meet to find an opponent for any game, join a team (or build and manage one) or find upcoming events and read news from the industry as a whole. Whilst the past year has seen an increasing number of esports suppliers and operators, in varying capacities, the …
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Almost all betting operators have stated that through intelligence and effective data gathering they are becoming smarter…but so too are professional gamblers who are looking towards ‘big data’ to gain their advantage on bookmaker markets! Scott Longley examines new trends and strategies taken on-board by pro-punters… ______________ Scraping through against FC Midtylland may have given Manchester United boss Louis Van …
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Having launched BtoBet’s ‘B Neuron- intelligent sports betting platform’ at ICE 2016, SBC caught up with CEO and Co-Founder Alessandro Fried, who details his company’s core aim of catering for modern digital consumers’ habits and trends. An industry veteran Fried, tells SBC that betting development must learn engagement mechanisms and learnings from outside the industry as the majority of …
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On Monday Ladbrokes announced a deal which gives them exclusive naming rights to two of the biggest events in Snooker next month. We caught up with PR Manager Jessica Bridge to discuss the deal and its importance to Ladbrokes as part of a growing portfolio of sporting sponsorships. SBC: Hi Jessica. Ladbrokes recently signed a deal with World Snooker to …
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Toronto listed gambling investment firms buying industry assets in 2014 & 2015 were branded as game changers for the sector. In 2016 business-wide scepticism and criticism has grown of these merged enterprises and their governance, Scott Longley examines how and why opinion has turned on these new Canadian giants. ________________________________ David Baazov, the chief executive of Amaya, may be intent …
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The Gambling Commission has published its latest report which sheds some light on gambling behaviour in Britain in the past year. Vitally, and for the very first time, this research includes extensive information about how people gamble in terms of which devices they use, where they gamble and how many accounts they use for it. Paul Hope, Gambling Commission Programme Director, …
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