‘Betting Firms Should be Taken Out of Sports Sponsorships’, Playtech Issues Warning

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4 November, 2017

‘Betting Firms Should be Taken Out of Sports Sponsorships’, Playtech Issues Warning

Betting Companies Sponsorship of Sports Clubs Should be Stopped in Fight Against Addiction - Betting firms as well as alcohol companies should be taken out of sports sponsorship to help combat gambling addiction, a conference on ethics in sport has heard. Sports agent Fintan Drury said it was “a scandal that we have a situation where broadcasters are allowed to promote gambling companies during the afternoons before the watershed that applies to booze”. Read More Here

Playtech Issues Warning Following Crackdown - Problems in Asia and a troublesome bingo contract have forced gaming and spread-betting company Playtech to issue a profit warning sending the shares plunging by a fifth.

Management at the Isle of Man-based business, which was founded by billionaire Teddy Sagi, said it expected annual profits to be 5pc lower than the bottom end of market expectations, prompting analysts to wipe about €20m (£17.8m) off their full-year earnings forecasts and sending Playtech shares down 218.5p to 768p. Read More Here

Can't Play With Kalshi From Washington State - WTF?

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Knoxville Tennessee is Getting a New Nonstop Flight to Las Vegas

Southwest Airlines has announced it will begin flying nonstop flights between Knoxville, Tennessee and Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturdays and Sundays, which will compliment Allegiant Airlines Monday and Friday nonstop flights.

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ISPs in France Ordered to Block Polymarket

France’s gambling regulator said on Friday it had instructed internet service providers to block access to the Polymarket betting website, citing concerns that it ‌could expose users to significant gambling losses and that some wagers offered on the platform could be manipulated.