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Casino News & Gambling Industry News
- Playtech (Gaming Software provider) plans to raise £175m in IPO
from Casino news; Playtech, a software group that builds systems for online gaming operators, on Friday 16th February unveiled plans to float that will value it at £550m ($954m) and net £70m for Teddy Sagi, the Israeli entrepreneur, its largest shareholder.
The group is taking advantage of investor appetite for online gaming stocks by seeking a £175m placing on Aim. The float will be the biggest so far of 2006.
- Far East syndicate scoops National Lottery jackpot
A Philippines-based company has won a £16.6m jackpot prize on the UK National Lottery after buying thousands of tickets, reports the Sunday Times . Lottery operator Camelot has said it will honour the payout, despite rules which state that only British residents are eligible to receive prizes, because the syndicate used a UK-based British national as an intermediary.
- ukbetting to launch Football365 on 3G network
3G video mobile users will now have access to ukbetting's first branded, stand alone channel Football365. The network is offering a range of free and paid-for football content via the managed-site which will include wallpapers, editorial comment, animations and competitions
- First Mobile Phone Progressive Jackpot!
Spin3 and Microgaming have produced the Web's first 9-line payout progressive jackpot slot, Treasure NileT. It is a fifty-cent, five-reel, nine coin, nine-line progressive slot machine. Treasure NileT accumulates deposits from players and creates jackpots that grow by the minute!
- Labour to Win
A customer with William Hill's has bet £100,000 on Labour emerging as the largest single party in May's general election. Hills make Labour 1/9 to end up with an overall majority, Conservatives 12/1 and Lib-Dems 150/1. A hung parliament is offered at 13/2.
- Bets on Grand National Reached a record high!
An estimated £250m was taken by bookmakers on Saturday, £130m of which was bet on the Grand National, making it the biggest individual betting day in history.
- Casinomeister has merged with Jivemanpoker.com to form a casino portal/pokerroom
"Jiveman" is the three time champion of the Moscow Poker Olympics, winner of the "Texas Hold'em Rodeo" and head of the Petersburg Poker League. Casinomeister is well known for solving problems between players and casinos in his "Pitch a Bitch" section on his website. This will be an intesting partnership and one to keep an eye on.
- Playtech Launches Four New Online Games
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300m resort planned for Yorkshire coalfields
Developers and Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council have unveiled plans for a £300m leisure resort on the site of a former coal mine. The YES! Development will include one million square feet of entertainment facilities.
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High roller loses his £3million win!
The high-roller who won £3m at Stanley Leisure's Star City casino in Birmingham during December has lost all of his winnings, according to unconfirmed reports. The huge win by Paul Newey, 37, contributed to Stanley's decision to issue a profit warning on January 5. However, his luck is said to have run out a couple of weeks ago. Mr Newey, co-founder of Ocean Finance, which provides high-interest loans to financially stretched people, is well-known on both the Midlands and London casino circuits. He is thought to have won and lost the money playing roulette, betting as much as £300,000 on a single spin of the wheel employing the 'full and complete' strategy whilst playing roulette. Stanley's have consistently refused to comment on individual clients.
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- Mystery £3m winner nearly breaks casino - As winning streaks go, he didn't quite break the bank at Monte Carlo. But one punter who won £3 million at a casino has sent shockwaves thoughout one of Britains biggest gaming firms. The unamed gambler is thought to have scooped between £2m and £3m at Stanley Leisure casino in London. The firm has blamed this single player , who had lady luck on his side, for eating into its profits. Stanley Leisure was expected to forcast profits of £52million in its largest trading statement this week. It is now likely only to match last years £41.8million. The announcement caused flutters in the stock market. Shares for the Liverpool based company plunged to a six-month low of 381.25p wiping £63million off its £547million market value.
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- Online Gambling Gets the Female Vote - Recent reports show more and more women are using the internet to gamble at home. In March 2001, only 1,100 registered players were women, but merely a year later the figure had doubled. www.onlinecasinonews.com
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- Would you pay $28,000 for a sandwich?
Golden Palace casino did!! They forked out over $28,000 on 24th Nov, to the owner of a 10-year-old, partially eaten cheese sandwich thought to be embedded with the image of the Virgin Mary -- and then sent the "religious icon" on a world tour.
- UK TV station goes live with betting exchange Channel 4 TV station, has launched an online betting exchange through a white label deal with Irish firm Betdaq.
"This partnership with Channel 4 will bring the [betting exchange] concept to an even broader audience," Rob Hartnett, managing director of Betdaq, said.
Users will be able to access the site through the channel's own website, which attracts over 1.6 million unique users per month, according to Metrics Market.
The Channel 4 site will aim to capitalise on the station's extensive coverage of horseracing, the most popular betting market on the exchanges in the UK.
"We are actively pursuing ways to generate additional commercial return from horseracing and a betting exchange is a logical way of achieving this," Dave Kerr, head of sport at Channel 4's, said.
The TV operator becomes the second major British broadcaster to launch a gambling site. for more news go to Uk online casinos homepage
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