The Upcoming – There’s a distinctly cosy relationship between football and gambling – but is it a good thing or a bad thing for the game? Your view on this will probably depend on whether or not you enjoy a wager. But whether you like it or not, millions of us do enjoy a punt on the football and particularly on the weekly Premier League games. And as other sources of revenue have begun to dry up during these straitened times, gambling sponsorships show no signs of abating. Of course, if you watch any Premier League games yourself on Sky…

iGaming Business – The World Snooker governing body has announced that online gambling company 888casino.com has signed up as the new title sponsor of its World Seniors Championship. This year’s event will take place in Portsmouth, England, on October 19-20, and will be broadcast by UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB. Famous names competing for the title will include Steve Davis, Jimmy White, Dennis Taylor, Cliff Thorburn, Joe Johnson, defending champion Nigel Bond and, for the first time, seven-time World Champion Stephen Hendry. “888casino.com is showing fantastic support for snooker this season through title sponsorship of a range of events,” World Snooker…

Pokerati – Sports fans are wagering thousands of dollars on the performance of professional athletes each day online, and it is all perfectly legal. Known as daily fantasy sports, the games are part of an exemption to federal law banning online gambling. In daily fantasy sports, winners aren’t determined by the outcome of a single game or the performance of a single player. Most fantasy competitions — football or baseball — last a season, but more and more players are looking for their daily fantasy fix. Critics argue that turning fantasy sports into a daily competition edges it closer to…

Digital Journal – Although sports gambling is illegal in all but a few jurisdictions (e.g., Nevada, New Jersey), people are now finding ways to make money from fantasy sports. The legality of online gambling is something that seems to always be up for debate (or legislation), especially in the United States. Although online gambling is making some headway in the States, it’s still relatively rare to see it fully enacted. Of course, most European markets have allowed online gambling in one way or another for over a decade. Online casinos based in Europe are commonplace and many of those living…

iGaming Business – Chinese sports lottery software and systems developer AGTech Holdings has announced that its Beijing subsidiary AGTech GOT Technology has won a tender to supply C8 sports lottery terminals to the Guizhou Sports Lottery Administration Centre (SLAC). The CalvinAyre.com website said that AGTech GOT, which will share business with multiple other suppliers, will provide approximately three-quarters of the total allocation to the SLAC. The news come shortly after AGTech GOT won a similar deal in May in the eastern Anhui province of the country. As a result of the recent deals, the company now supplies more than half…

iGaming Business – Bookmaker William Hill has announced a new promotional offer for fans using the William Hill Mobile Sports app to place wagers on the forthcoming National Football League (NFL) American football season. The ‘1st and $10,000’ promotion will offer more than $25,000 (€19,231) in free mobile wager credits to customers over the 17 weeks of the season. Beginning on the first full weekend of the 2013 season on September 7-8, the bookmaker will award 10 separate $1,000 free bets to active William Hill Mobile Sports customers. Five winners will be selected at random on both the Saturday and…