Tennis Pro Becomes Poker Ambassador

Formerly the world’s No. 1 professional tennis player and six-time major singles winner, Boris Becker is the latest stellar name to sign with partypoker as a brand ambassador. The online poker site has been busy recruiting ambassadors and sponsored professionals of late as it looks to expand its reach into countries around the world. This year alone, partypoker has signed Patrick Leonard, Roberto Romanello, Sam Trickett, Natalia Breviglieri, Jackie Glazier, Beata Jambrik and Joao Simao as ambassadors or sponsored pros, joining the legendary Mike Sexton, Tony Dunst and four-time world champion boxer Carl Froch on partypoker’s books. Becker, who was…

European Sports Security Association flags tennis and football in integrity report

iGaming Business – The European Sports Security Association (ESSA) has highlighted tennis and football as the two sports that generated the most unusual betting patterns during 2013. In its ESSA Integrity Report 2014, the organisation recorded 148 unusual betting patterns, with an additional 30 alerts found to be suspicious and subsequently referred to the relevant sporting and regulatory authorities. Of the alerts registered in 2013, 44% were in relation to tennis while 38% referred to unusual betting in football. Snooker was the next highest sport, having accumulated 3.5% of all alerts in the last year. A betting pattern is only…