iGaming Business – UK bookmaker William Hill has agreed a three-year extension to its sponsorship of the Ayr Gold Cup Festival horseracing event until September 2016. The bookmaker will retain full naming rights to the three-day fixture under the terms of the deal. In addition, the firm will also continue its sponsorship of the William Hill Ayr Gold Cup, Silver and Bronze Cups, Doonside Cup, Ayrshire Handicap and Kilkerran Cup. William Hill is a long-term supporter of the Festival, having sponsored the annual event since 2009. “By signing this three-year extension both parties can look forward to continuing to work…

iGaming Business – Global Gaming Network, a developer, distributor and aggregator of digital entertainment and sports information for online and mobile platforms, has struck a deal with US fantasy sports provider Atlantic City Fantasy Sports (ACFS). Under the deal, Global Gaming Network will provide ACFS with customised fantasy league software that will be offered to various casinos and sports bars for use via smartphones, tablets, kiosks or on touch screen tables. “We’re pleased to partner with ACFS, the forerunner to be the first to provide fantasy league software to the incipient online gaming industry now being implemented in Atlantic City,…

Washington Post – If New Jersey casinos want to offer their customers the chance to bet on this year’s Super Bowl at the Meadowlands — or any game, for that matter — they will need help from the Supreme Court. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) will ask the Supreme Court to allow sports gambling in state casinos after a federal appeals court said late Friday it would not rehear the case. Professional sports leagues and the NCAA sued to stop New Jersey from pressing ahead with sports wagering after Christie signed legislation in 2012 to make it legal. The…

iGaming Business – UK bookmaker William Hill is planning to make up to 65 positions redundant at its Gibraltar-based telephone betting and customer services operation. According to the Gibraltar Chronicle newspaper, the cuts come in response to a drop in the number of customers using the bookmaker’s telephone betting services, with punters instead opting for electronic methods. Customer services are expected to be outsourced to a service centre, a move that will follow a general trend in the gambling industry. Despite the redundancies, William Hill is planning to create 25 new jobs on the island. The company currently employs 420…

Philly.com – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has denied New Jersey’s petition to have the state’s challenge to a federal sports-betting law heard by all the judges on the court in Philadelphia. A panel of three Third Circuit judges in September upheld a lower-court ruling with a 2-1 decision that the 1992 federal law barring sports betting in all but four states, including Nevada, is constitutional. The state’s only recourse now is the U.S. Supreme Court. Gov. Christie signed New Jersey’s sports-betting law in January 2012, after a question on the issue passed in a referendum…

Online-Casinos.com – The problems facing online gambling on sports in the State of New Jersey USA are somewhat like the problems associated with acquiring a license to offer sports betting in Germany. Germany has been extremely slow in granting 20 online sports betting licenses from the German authorities. The jurisdiction’s gambling authority has been dragging its feet ever since the sixteen provinces in Germany decided to create a federal interstate gambling treaty among themselves which was passed into law and remains a stumbling block in the granting of the sports betting licenses. Apparently forty one applications were filed and almost…

Irish bookmaker Paddy Power has cited unfavorable football and horse racing results for an anticipated fall in full-year operating profits. In a trading update for the period covering July 1 to November 17, the company said that its full-year operating profit for 2013 is likely to be around €11 million ($14.9 million) lower than the figure it forecast three months ago. Paddy Power highlighted unexpected results in the Australian Spring Horse Racing Carnival and the Uefa Champions League club football tournament. “We now expect low to mid single digit percentage operating profit growth in 2013 in constant currency, before currency…

North Jersey – The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday denied Governor Christie a rehearing of a judicial panel’s affirming of the federal ban on sports betting at the state’s horse racing tracks and Atlantic City casinos. The three-page filing signed by Circuit Judge Julio M. Fuentes noted that none of the three judges requested a rehearing, and neither did a majority of the circuit’s judges. The state’s attorneys had sought a hearing from the full circuit — a process known as “en banc” — in part because the vote by the panel in September was 2-1. Judge…