Sportsbook

With this year’s rollercoaster of a season nearing completion and Leicester looking like their fairytale will have a happy ending, the time to decide on the PFA Player of the Year will soon be upon us. A six man shortlist will be revealed on Thursday 14th April with the winner announced later this month. Whilst Riyad Mahrez is heavily expected to win …

Newly merged Paddy Power Betfair (PPB), continues its senior management restructure with the appointment of Ken Robertson to the new role of Advertising Director. Robertson a sixteen-year Paddy Power veteran, who has worked in numerous marketing and brand roles for the betting operator and its Australian subsidiary Sportsbet.com.au, has been promoted to the new role for the merged business. Robertson …

With the current Panama Papers scandal showing no sign of letting up anytime soon, the public is directing considerable focus to MPs and their taxes. After current PM David Cameron, followed by Chancellor George Osborne and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn revealed their own earnings and tax payments, some have speculated that this will lead to regulation coming into play that’ll force each …

UK sportsbook Titanbet has secured a deal with Matchroom boxing to sponsor the return of ‘The Leeds Warrior’, Josh Warrington, at the First Direct Arena in Leeds this Saturday.  After Anthony Joshua’s victory on Saturday, all eyes will turn to Warrington this weekend and he opens at odds of 1/6 with Titanbet to successfully defend the WBC International Featherweight Title against Hisashi Amagasa. This is …

OpenBet, an omni-channel provider to the sports betting industry, handled 22 million sports bets on the day of the Grand National race across all channels. The 24-hour period is the supplier’s busiest of the year. At its peak, the company processed 62,000 bets-per-minute on Saturday 9th April 2016, an increase of 27% from 2015. In addition, OpenBet processed a total …

Members of Denmark’s cabinet are split regarding the potential sale of state-owned gambling operator Danske Spil. Last week Danish news sources’ reported that ruling conservative-liberal party Venstre were considering the potential sale or break-up of Danske Spil assets. At present, it is reported that Venstre and gambling stakeholders would prefer to sell-off Danske Spil’s online gambling assets to the private …

Just three weeks after a ‘worst ever’ Cheltenham Festival, Aintree’s Grand National meeting proved to be pay-back time for bookmakers. According to experts from bettingexpert.com, the bookies raked in an estimated £16.50 per person over the three days. Ladies Day (8 April) was the poorest day for the punters, as not one favourite managed to win a race, leaving bookmakers’ …

Betfair’s trading team has declared that it has witnessed its ‘greatest cash-out of all time’, as a punter this weekend pocketed £53,000 from a potential £1.5 million accumulator. The football punter had placed an incredible 22 match accumulator on this weekend’s football matches (listed below). Betfair detailed that the punter had nerves of steel, as he had been offered a …

Leeds-based independent online gambling company, Sky Betting & Gaming (SB&G), have announced a number of significant internal promotions across all major divisions: Sarah Merrick has been promoted to Director of Gaming Trading Performance Steve Birch has been promoted to Commercial Director, Sky Bet Paul McCormick is promoted to Director of Sports Betting Technology Lee O’Donnell is promoted to Director of …

SeanieMac has confirmed that it will be launching a new online platform this August after closing down its betting service with Boylesports.  The existing SeanieMac platform stopped accepting bets on April 1st but a statement on the site reassures customers with any money left in their account that they will have funds returned to their registered card in due course. …