Apostaganha and Betting News

Football Money-Back Special Madness!

That’s right! In the lead up to Christmas Paddypower have some very popular Money-Back Specials on the table.

One of this weekend’s fixtures Read More

Probability launches first games for iPhone, iPod Touch

MOBILE gambling games specialist Probability has launched its first games specifically designed for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Customers of the company’s LadyLuck’s consumer brand will from today be able to gamble for real money on three games from the Probability portfolio – Roulette, multi-hand Blackjack and Poseidon’s Slots, with a fourth game, Goldrush slots, scheduled for release during the summer.

Distribution is backed by AdMob, Read More

Streaming Wimbledon or World Cup Internet Betting is Better

The internet is getting faster and faster and so are the computers that we use to play our favourite games or watch our favourite sports.

Right now the internet is providing millions of people all over the globe an opportunity to actually see the FIFA World Cup soccer tournament or for those who love tennis there is this year’s Wimbledon 2010. Professional tennis is a sport that many punters gamble on and especially online as they can watch it live on the net. Experts claim it is set to be one of the most exciting tennis Grand Slams ever. Read More

YouTube opens up to gambling advertisers in Europe

Google is continuing to relax its policies regarding gambling advertising with licensed operators now able to promote their online gaming services via the popular video-sharing website YouTube.com.

The site, which Google acquired in 2006 for $1.65bn, had previously banned all gambling related advertising. The change in policy follows Google’s lifting of a self-imposed blanket ban on gambling advertising in October 2008 which enabled UK and European licensed operators to target Read More

UK’s Football League signs Coral as new betting partner

Having recently redeveloped its sports betting website, Gala Coral’s online betting brand Coral.co.uk has signed a three-year deal to become the official betting and gaming partner of the Football League, the national membership organisation for 72 football clubs in the UK.

Under the three-year deal which begins on July 1st 2010, Coral will also become the official online betting and gaming partner of FL Interactive (FLi), the digital arm of the Football League which manages and develops the online and mobile rights for 82 clubs from the Football League and Premier League.

Through the deal with FLi, Coral will be able to provide customers with access to bets Read More

2010 World Cup Betting Fever Begins Online

The World Cup of Soccer 2010 is really exciting for many fans around the world and none are more patriotic about their home team than the British.

Bookmakers everywhere are going their level best to make the odds attractive but as some bookies have announced already they do have concerns about the so called worst case scenario if England beats Spain in the World Cup Final. Ireland’s biggest bookmaker Paddypower is publicly stating if the English Team wins against the favourite Spain then “We’re all basically stuffed,” said a spokesperson for the company. Read More

Champions League Money Back Special

Bayern and Inter go head to head in the Champions League Final at Madrid’s Bernabeu Stadium in an attempt to clean up in the season’s trophy department. Inter are the favourite at 5/4 but it really is anyone’s game! Paddypower think it will go right to the end so we’re offering the following money-back special:

Penalty Points! Champions League Final

Saturday 22nd May Live ITV1, RTE 2 Read More

Full Tilt sponsors Virgin Formula 1 team

Full Tilt Poker has signed a sponsorship deal with Formula 1 racing team Virgin Racing ahead of this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, the companies have announced.

Team Full Tilt’s Chris Ferguson said:

“Full Tilt Poker.Net partnering with Virgin Racing is a brilliant culmination of a great deal of thought and effort on behalf of both brands.”

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Student blows bankroll on Cup of Nations

An unfortunate student lost his entire student loan betting on the African Cup of Nations earlier this month when he lumped a whopping £4,400 on Angola to beat Mali in the group stages – with the former team 4-0 up at the time.

To make matters worse, there were only 11 minutes remaining when the hapless punter made his fateful wager – which stood to reap a £44 return – but two goals from Seydou Keita either side of a Frederic Kanoute header set up a tense finale. Read More

Czech Republic Proposes to Ban Online Gambling Advertising

The Czech Republic is proposing an amendment to it’s gambling laws that if passed will ban foreign online betting companies from advertising their products in the country.

According to the Association of Betting Service Providers Czech tax laws require gambling companies operating in the country to make charitable contributions of up to 20 percent of revenues on top of normal taxes.

This situation is giving licensed companies operating in Europe catering to Czech clients, a clear advantage. Read More

TV Broadcaster AB Groupe Joins the Party in France

PartyGaming’s French poker network is continuing to grow despite not having yet been launched with French TV broadcaster AB Groupe the latest to join.

PartyGaming said the multi-year agreement with AB Groupe, its second B2B deal in France after PMU, will see AB Groupe launch a LuckyJeux branded poker site on Party’s French poker network alongside PMU and PartyPoker.fr. Read More

Bwin, Sportingbet, Unibet, 888 win French casino law suit

BWIN, Sportingbet, Unibet and 888 have won a lawsuit against them in the Paris courts by a group of top French casinos.

As reported on EGRmagazine, Barrière; Joagroupe, Tranchant and the Casinos de France trade union sued the four operators for “illegal competition” in February because the operators offered casino games such as slots, blackjack and roulette to French internet users.

The casinos alleged that offering the games is in contravention of current gaming Read More

Brussels Commits To EU Online Gambling Agenda

Belgium’s chief gambling regulator has spoken of his country’s desire to focus on the issue of cross-border gambling in the EU during their upcoming 6 months in possession of the Presidency.

Etienne Marique said that his country will be looking to find “legal clarity” on several issues within the industry, and encouragingly, Marique stressed that the member state will be staying well clear of the long-winded, hampering path of roundabout beaurocracy seen so many times Read More

Sky Bet & mkodo Team Up for iPhone Sportsbook Launch

Sky Bet, the interactive gaming division of British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB), has announced the launch of a new mobile betting service specifically for iPhone customers through a partnership with mobile specialist mkodo.

According to Sky Bet, iPhone customers represent approximately one third of the total user-base of the company’s SkyBet.mobi site. The new mobile sportsbook service was launched last Friday ahead of the largest single betting day in the UK calendar, the Grand National horse race at Read More

Apostaganha now goes Worldwide!

ApostaGanha.pt will be available now in two languages.

The contents of the portal can now be viewed also in English! with our new version – Sports Betting Picks and Tips by ApostaGanha! at http://www.apostaganha.com/

The largest sports betting site in Portugal, apostaganha.pt, offers a News Service, Information, Picks, Tips, Predictions and Forecasts for national and international sports, only in Portuguese, until now.

With the launch of this English version, ApostaGanha.pt will now provide information to visitors from all around the world, allowing any visitor to use and enjoy ApostaGanha.pt Portal through the English version. Read More

Tombola Replaces Boylesports as Sponsor of Sunderland AFC

Online bingo operator tombola has become the latest online gambling operator to join the ranks of Premiership football sponsors with the signing of a two-year agreement to become the official shirt sponsor of Sunderland AFC for the start of the 2010/11 season.

Under the initial agreement, tombola’s logo will be emblazoned on Sunderland’s new home and away shirts for the 2010/11 and 2011/12 seasons, with branding across key locations throughout the club’s 49,000 capacity Stadium of Light. tombola will replace the club’s current sponsorship agreement with Irish bookmaker Boylesports which ends at the end of this season. Read More

Ladbrokes sells loss-making Italian retail business to Cogetech

Ladbrokes has agreed to sell its loss-making chain of Italian betting shops to an affiliate of Italian gaming and betting business Cogetech for €5.25m.

The cash sale price represents an 83% discount on the business’ quoted carrying value of £26.7m (€30.3m), as of 31 December 2009. Cogetech will assume responsibility for approximately €18m of guarantees currently provided by Ladbrokes.

The sale follows Ladbrokes’ appointment last month of Richard Glynn from pure online business Sporting Index to the post of chief executive, as Read More