England coach Fabio Capello is at odds of 2/1 to quit the Three Lions after watching his side crash out of the World Cup against Slovenia on Wednesday, according to bookmaker Ladbrokes.
And the currently under fire Italian is at betting odds of 11/4 not to be in charge of the Three Lions’ Euro qualifier opener.
Ladbrokes spokesman, Nick Weinberg, said: “It could be three strikes and out for Capello. Another poor display will surely see his position become untenable.”
The betting firm offers 8/1 about a member of the squad being sent home from South Africa, whilst Chelsea’s John Terry is 5/6 to reclaim the England captaincy again at some point in the future. (Read the full post about ‘World Cup 2010 Betting – If England Loses Against Slovenia Capello Could Leave’…)
As was previously reported, this year, poker fans had a unique opportunity to have a direct impact on one of the more prestigious tournaments at this year’s World Series of Poker. Specifically, the tournament directors opened up fan voting to decide 20 of the participants in this year’s 27-person Tournament of Champions. The first 5 slots were reserved for past Tournament of Champion winners and the Main Event winners at the US WSOP and WSOPE, and there were also two sponsor exemptions. One of the exemptions went to the winner of an invitation only sit and go among the best poker pros to never win a WSOP bracelet.
(Read the full post about ‘Tournament of Champions Field Now Final at the WSOP 2010′…)
Let’s take a moment to picture the scene, it’s the World Cup final and the big game is about to kick off. Whilst sitting in your brand new leather lazy boy chair in front of your big screen television, your friends are eating a BBQ whilst sipping beer. Sound like the perfect World Cup party? Well it could happen, at your house thanks to Circus Casino!
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Mike Mizrachi won through in the $50,000 buy-in mixed game Player’s Championship at the World Series of Poker early Wednesday, besting a field of 116 of the best players in the world to win his first WSOP bracelet, $1.55 million in cash, and the Chip Reese Memorial Trophy.
“It’s definitely worth the wait,” a delighted Mizrachi said.
(Read the full post about ‘Mike Mizrachi wins WSOP $50k player’s championship’…)
Australian gambling remains politically red hot. With the changes in town comes a new watchdog… yep, a man of a different breed who appears to be a shoot straight, and takes a balanced view of the industry. Media Man, Gambling911 and our pack of sniffer dogs pound the pavement and sniff out the story… Ruff
Meet Mr Ches Baragwanath, Australia’s new Gambling Watchdog.
(Read the full post about ‘Australia Gets New Gambling Watchdog in Town: Woof!’…)
Virgin Casino launched the Wagerworks-developed online slot Noah’s Ark as the week closed. Based on a highly successful IGT land slot, which is a fave with players around the world, Noah’s Ark is a 30-payline game that has an innovative Split Symbols feature.
Split Symbols counts as two symbols when hit. A winning pay-line may have as few as three and as many as 10 matching symbols. In a great twist, every Wild symbol can count as a split symbol, maximising the player’s wild wins. There is also a Free Spins bonus with a 281% average return-on-bet per free spin.
Warren Eloff, product manager at Virgin Casino, said: “Noah’s Ark is one of many great recent additions to our ever expanding casino, which offers games from a number of top developers.
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Addressing the company’s annual general meeting in London today (Thursday), Playtech plc chairman, Roger Withers, said he was delighted to report another year of growth and progress by the company.
“In 2009 the company saw gross income rise by 23% to €137.3 million and revenues by 3% to €114.8 million,” Withers revealed, commenting that the strong growth drivers behind Playtech’s business has helped deliver a 25% increase in adjusted EBITDA to €93.7 million, including the group’s share of profit before amortization from William Hill Online.
Given this strong financial performance, the Board has recommended a final dividend payment of 9.4 cents, giving investors a total dividend for the year of 18.3 Euro cents per share, he added.
(Read the full post about ‘Playtech reports 25% annual increase in EBITDA’…)
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Europe’s largest dedicated gaming television network, The Poker Channel, has announced its expansion into Africa and Latin America with deals in Argentina and South Africa.
In Argentina, a new agreement will see The Poker Channel serving as the only all-poker network broadcast in the country. It will offer six hours of daily programming including international tournaments, interviews with top players, training shows and coverage of major tournaments such as the World Series Of Poker to an estimated audience of one million subscribers.
For South Africa, the network will be telecast via digital satellite to nearly two million subscribers from June 7. (Read the full post about ‘The Poker Channel is expanding its borders – Online Casino News’…)
The folks from Two Plus Two posed an interesting question this weekend: Who are the biggest losers in online poker?
Full Tilt Poker should be thrilled. Most of the biggest losers play with them.
Sure they’re the number two biggest online poker room in the world, but PokerStars has only a single biggest loser among the top 20.
Matatuk, Beardos, Brian Townsend and Patrik Antonius all rank among the top 5 biggest losers in online poker. Matutuk is down $1.5 million so far.
Other big name players in the world of online poker include Ziigmund, down over $500,000, and Josh Arieh, down more than $300,000.
These are the losing amounts during the past year.
(Read the full post about ‘Online Poker: Who Are The Biggest Losers?’…)
While most are fed up with the volcano ash cloud being spewed by Eyjafjallajökull, some creative minds are benefitting in the most enterprising ways.
Ireland’s largest bookmaker, Paddy Power, just launched a brand new website, VolcanoBetting.com.
The site features an airplane maneuvering around an erupting volcano while a young disgruntled passenger seemingly lugs her two bags around in the foreground.
The Iceland volcano has disrupted flights in Europe over the past few weeks. Paddy Power’s home base of Ireland has been among the hardest hit by flight cancellations.
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(Read the full post about ‘Paddy Power Launches Iceland Volcano Betting Site’…)
