ValueChecker have launched their fully customisable live odds boxes in time for this year’s biggest betting event – World Cup 2010.

“The free service is as easy to use as uploading a banner. A webmaster can choose what they want to display – the bookmakers they want, the markets, the size and style of the box – they grab the code + they are ready to go. They can be live within minutes.” Sinead Lambert, Valuechecker Affiliate Manager. http://affiliates.valuechecker.co.uk/ 

There is no cost to set up and you don’t rely on payments from a third party as you earn through your own affiliate links and via your existing affiliate deals.

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Denial of Service (Dos) or Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are an all-too-common occurrence in the online gaming and betting industry and as operators know, they can have hugely negative impacts on their businesses.

The industry depends on its sites staying up during key events and in sports betting this has become even more vital with the rise of in running betting. Indeed, it is easy to imagine a punter’s reaction, and the effect it could have on an operator’s business, were he not able to place his bets during a match or a horse race because of an outage caused by DDoS attacks.

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Vision Media one of the largest online gaming operators in Latin America has chosenOddsMatrix the fully managed sportsbook from EveryMatrix to launch a new sport betting service across its gaming network.

The Latin American focused operator manages a host of sites including BetMotion.com, CopacabanaPoker.com,  ApostoGano.com, and ApostouGanhou.com, offering a mix of poker, casino and bingo across all services.

Already a well established gaming operator, it is looking to use the new sports betting service to increase revenue from its existing base as well as a product to attract a new type of customer.

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The iGaming Super Show is going to be the biggest event in iGaming history. With 100+ confirmed exhibitor, four parties announced, and six conference streams, it certainly has a wide appeal. The Show will be broken into two zones, Affiliate and iGaming, creating a comprehensive online gaming  experience under one roof. So why should you not attend? Well, this show might not be for you if:

1. You’re not interested in the latest SEO methods in our now renowned Demon VS Angel SEO panels. Google ranking? Whats that?
2. You don’t want to network with others in the global Sport betting community. Learning from others experiences, finding that key supplier, affiliate or operator is of no interest. 

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The introduction of the UK National Lottery 15 years ago brought with it a decline in fortune for the football pools companies.The subsequent mergers and growth of other instant games might lead some to say that sports pools are no longer relevant. Leaving aside the special relationship horse racing has with pools, are sports pools a dying breed?

Pari-mutuel has its attractions: simplicity, transparent payouts and zero risk to the operator. However, compared to fixed odds bets, it is not as flexible, single bets have worse odds, and live pool betting – I don’t think so.

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What is it?
The iGaming Super Show is a completely new concept and is set to attract over 2,000 delegates, making it the biggest event in the iGaming calendar. The concept is simple: to create a comprehensive show for what has become an established global industry. The show will be completely free of charge for all attendees, and will include multiple networking events, high level conference streams and the biggest exhibition the industry has ever seen.

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The London based operator has become the main sponsor of Romanian football team Rapid Bucharest.

Although Rapid is in the 5^th position only 3 points behind the leaders, the financial problems of the team last for over 1 year, so this deal will bring in the cash needed by the club in order to pay all the wages until the end of the season.

The current contract ends in summer, but both parties have the option to continue the deal for the next season. According to Romanian media the value of the contract is around 100.000 EUR/ month.

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VICTOR CHANDLER (VC) is to launch an in-play running betting product ahead of the football World Cup this summer, EGRmagazine.com can reveal exclusively.

The product is designed by game developer and consulting business Zukido, which will provide the UK operator with a bespoke web front end integrated to VC’s back-end management system, as well as consulting.

The application will feature the live sports VC offers as well as real time odds, live text commentary, real time statistics and affiliate tools, and will be available on all of VC’s different language sites.

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It has come to my attention that the Sports Betting Community (SBC) knows how to throw a real party. I wasn’t even there and I can tell you that everyone was shitfaced! How? Don’t even think about doubting my sources- my drunk English sports betting friends filled me in on allll the interesting details as soon they got home from the event- I pretty much knew everything as soon as it happened. This instant knowledge of mine is especially exciting for all of you because, guess what? Google search is now real time. Look out iGaming world, my bender posts and party pics just got a whole lot more accessible and juicy because the whole world can see them immediately. Mwahahahaahhaha.

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Millions of people watch and follow sporting events where betting on the outcome of the event is rapidly becoming an incentive for the viewer. The development is not only caused by the punter’s desire for betting but is to a great extent attributable to the betting industry’s endless commercialization of more and more sporting activities that in the past only were meant for entertainment. The industry has recognized the revenue opportunities in real money play among the consumers and thus chosen to emphasize the close connection between sport and betting experiences in products, services, and marketing.

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