What Happened to the Paddy Power Cash Card Plus Scheme?

Anyone like me, who once signed up for a Paddy Power Cash Card+, will have gotten an email the other day alerting them that the cards are being discontinued. This means that there is only a short time left in which funds can be loaded onto them, before they will become redundant and people who…

PaddyPower TV Advert Banned After 3 Complaints

Paddy Power have received another slapped wrist for one of their TV ads, becoming the latest in a long line of banned commercials. While it’s true that the famously tongue in cheek bookie have overstepped the mark in the past (the transgender spotting advert in 2012 was a real clanger) this latest ban seems overcautious….

Ladbrokes Scolded for Refusing to Repay £102 Million Furlough Cash

During the height of the pandemic many businesses had no idea how or even if they would survive and make it out the other side. High street bookies were no different, and just like many other businesses many took advantage of the Government’s furlough scheme, allowing them to keep their staff members on full pay…

Entain Agree New Deal With Oddschecker

Most online bettors will know of Oddschecker. It’s an odds comparison site where punters can quickly scan to see if they can get a better price for the market they want to bet on somewhere else, among others things. Well, in July last year I wrote about how GVC Holdings (as Entain were then called)…

UK Betting Firms Pledge Safety Commitments

It’s only been a few weeks since a group of cross-party MP’s looking into gambling related harm began a campaign to reduce online gambling stakes to a maximum of £2 – to match the regulations imposed on FOBT’s earlier in the year – and already the gambling industry has responded. 10 of the UK’s most…

Flutter & Stars Group Create Gambling Behemoth

A new chapter in the history of several of the nations biggest betting brands looks likely to begin in 2020, with a merger that will create the biggest gambling conglomerate in the entire world. Flutter Entertainment, the company created by the merger of Paddy Power and Betfair, and The Stars Group (TSG), who acquired Sky…