2009 January 05 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Britains biggest betting operators will pay more than £500,000 ($730,000) each towards an annual £5m fund to research and treat problem gambling, under government proposals to be announced on Tuesday.

Leading French online bingo news and information website BingoNews.fr has entered a marketing agreement with Media Poets, a London-based media consultancy. Media Poets will oversee BingoNews.fr ad sales, customer relationship management and search engine marketing while BingoNews.fr continues to provide French online bingo players with the latest bingo news, sites and promotions.

Bendalls Group will be working with Betfair UK on a social media marketing campaign as a test in market. The campaign will launch in February 2009 and will focus on Betfair’s sports prediction game TaiKai.

LONDON, England — As reported by the Daily Express: “A series of professional sporting events including top football matches are being investigated by gambling authorities after bookmakers suspected a betting scam by Asian and east European gangs.

Next month, ESPN will deal viewers into eight original hours of coverage of the World Series of Poker from across The Pond — the Europe Main Event from the Casino at the Empire in London.

The wind creek casino in atmore will open its doors Tuesday. NBC 15′S Andrea Ramey toured the building and gives us a sneak peak.

Do your friends or family condemn you for entering contests and sweepstakes? Do they consider it “Gambling”? Make up your own mind about whether it is or not! Here is an article of encouragement for entering contests and sweepstakes.

Bookmakers and other gaming companies will be forced to hand over more than £5m a year to fund education programmes, helplines and research into problem gambling under a plan to be announced today. A voluntary donation scheme has been in place since 2002 but over the past two years major operators have had to step in at the last minute to meet the funding target when smaller outlets refused to …

Developer Ronnie Gilley received an offer to move his Country Crossing entertainment complex to Gulf Port, Mississippi. Gilley and his team plan on keeping the project in Houston County.