Mancunian Matters – Stockport barber Alex Wooliscroft is fighting back against his severe gambling habit by campaigning to get himself banned from every bookmakers in Britain. Father of one Alex, 26 is begging every bookie to stop him coming into their betting shops after blowing £25,000 in eight years on computerised roulette machines. Already Alex has handed photographs of himself to bookmakers near his home in Stockport urging them to refuse him admittance after he became addicted to playing the ‘fixed odds’ terminals. Today he began a round of TV and radio interviews in a further bid to make his self-imposed…

iGaming Business – UK bookmaker Coral has been named as the title sponsor of the 2014 UK Open darts tournament. The event, sanctioned by the Professional Darts Corporation, will run from March 7-9 and take place at the Butlins Minehead holiday resort following a move from its decade-long home of Bolton. The tournament will be shown live on UK digital-terrestrial television channel ITV4. “We are delighted to strengthen our relationship with the PDC through another major darts sponsorship and one which, thanks to its format, promises to thrill sports fans and appeal hugely to Coral betting shop and online customers,”…

Belfast Telegraph – Alarm bells should be ringing for Irish League football. Betting was suspended on two recent games in Scotland’s lower leagues, a level of football on a par with the local game here. Scottish football chiefs already have anecdotal evidence of suspicious activity. Scottish FA Chief Executive Stewart Regan said: “What we are seeing is evidence of activity in the stands where individuals are commentating on matches into laptops on everything from the Lowland League to Under 17 games.” That is, to say, on matches that barely attract one man and his dog. There have also been accusations…

White label solutions provider Genting Alderney, a subsidiary of Genting International, has partnered sports betting platform provider FSB Technology to launch a mobile and online sports book. GentingBet was soft launched in October last year with a desktop and mobile version utilizing FSB’s managed sports betting solution. The branded sports book is now fully integrated into Genting Alderney’s new online platform. Gentingbet.com will become the first operator to go live with FSB’s managed service, which the firm said has been designed to help brand owners offer sports betting products to their existing customer base without having to set up and…

Las Vegas Review Journal – Sports betting is big business in Nevada with $3.45 billion wagered in race and sports books statewide in the last reporting year. It also helps bring in millions of tourists annually to wager on the Super Bowl and NCAA basketball tournament. “Sports betting has been tremendous for us this year,” said Matthew Holt, vice president of business development at CG Technology, formerly Cantor Gaming. “We expect huge numbers this weekend from the final four in the NFL playoffs. Denver versus New England and Seattle against San Francisco will do very well.” But Las Vegas casinos…

iGaming Business – Bookmaker William Hill has announced that its ‘Cash In My Bet’ cash-out option is now available to access on mobile devices. Cash in My Bet allows customers to cash in on their bet before a sporting event has finished, enabling them to take profit if the game is going in their favour or get out with some of their stake still intact. The service is available for every football match in each league around the world. Customers can access the service pre-match, in-play and on both multiples and singles. The service can also be accessed in accumulator…