Single tickets and part tables are now available for booking ahead of this year’s new look SBC Awards, which takes place on Tuesday 5 December in central London. More than 500 people will be at The Artillery Garden at the HAC, a stunning UK capital city venue, for the presentation of the 17 Supplier awards and 11 Operator/Affiliate awards. Guests …
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Both of our guests made it into the top four in the Tipster Challenge, with Edward Rycroft from LeoVegas edging Pinnacle’s Harry Lang despite achieving fewer victories. On a day of sustained success at Catterick, Rycroft’s three race wins amounted to 7.80 points, while Lang only mustered 7.00 points from four victories including his Nap of the Day ‘Three Duchesses’. Meanwhile, bettingexpert’s …
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SBC News has followed up an iGaming Super Show enforced break by inviting two industry guests to take this week’s Tipster Challenge at Catterick. Edward Rycroft, Sportsbook Manager at LeoVegas, and Pinnacle Marketing Director Harry Lang have provided tips for this week’s seven-race meet. Rycroft and Lang will be forming an industry hat-trick with Stephen Harris, the horse racing guru …
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More than 15 leading industry speakers will take to the stage in the inaugural SBC Betting Forum at this year’s iGaming Super Show in Amsterdam (11-14 July). SBC Events has joined forces with iGaming Business to create a dedicated one-day sports betting conference at the Amsterdam RAI on 12 July, while also providing a meeting place for the industry to …
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It wasn’t just the bookies that took a battering on day two at the Cheltenham Festival. There were similar struggles for our experts in the Tipster Challenge, sponsored by Betting Gods. Harry Lang, Marketing Director at Pinnacle, could only match the 3.50-point return for both Timeform and bettingexpert’s Stephen Harris. All three landed a single winner on Might Bite (7/2), …
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With just seven weeks to go in the Tipster Challenge 2016/17, sponsored by Betting Gods, we head to Cheltenham for day two at the Festival. Harry Lang, Marketing Director at Pinnacle, has been given a second bite at the cherry this week after last week’s abandonment at Fontwell. He will be up against sixth placed Stephen Harris of bettingexpert and …
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Curacao and Malta-licensed sports betting operator Pinnacle has declared ‘another industry first’, by taking wagers on the ‘CrossFit Open 2017’. Pinnacle states that it is the first bookmaker to offer odds on the sport of Crossfit, which incorporates ‘high-intensity fitness programs with aerobic sports training and muscle conditioning exercises’. Sponsored by Reebok Fitness, the Crossfit competition aims to find ‘the …
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Curacao and Malta licensed Pinnacle has become the first online betting operator to open markets on Drone Racing. Updating the market, Pinnacle marketing declared that it would publish odds on the ‘2016 Drone Racing World Championship’ at Kualoa Ranch in Hawaii (October 20-22). The bookmaker disclosed that it would trial Drone Racing as a market, by offering odds on the …
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Next Monday New York will host the first ‘US Presidential’ TV debate. With nationwide US Election polls tightening, the race to the White House is expected to go down to the wire. SBC’s ‘Bookies Corner’ gets the lowdown on ‘Clinton Vs Trump,’ with just 45 days to go until America hits the polls (8 November), the US Election has become …
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Debating industry concerns regarding player bonuses and free bets, BOS ‘Bonus Session’ panel stated that it was time for the industry to address its current ‘conundrum’ or risk continuing its race to the bottom with aggressive and costly acquisition strategies. Opening the session, Harry Lang Marketing Director of Pinnacle observed that the ‘bonus debate,’ had split the industry with stakeholders …
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