Online casino and sports gambling news

Regular readers of our online casino news features here at onlinecasino.ie will have become accustomed to us regularly reporting on the travails of Ladbrokes, as they continue to struggle with their online casino and online sports betting platforms. These problems have been accentuated further by the apparent growing success the digital operations of one of their biggest rivals, William Hill. In fact one of Ladbrokes latest attempts to catch their rivals has been to seek help from the online casino software company Playtech, who are widely thought to be responsible for William Hill’s success in the online gambling sector. This month however our casino news features a rare setback for William Hill, with a significant fall in their third quarter profits. Ralph Topping, William Hill’s chief executive reported that a combination of exceptionally warm weather in July and what he called punter-friendly football results had knocked around £20 million off the bottom line over the period. Clearly one of the features of operating a sports gambling business has always been the unpredictability of results and we’re sure that nobody at William Hill is panicking at this temporary setback, particularly when they can also report a massive increase in turnover for their online sports betting site in August and September. Nevertheless it makes a change to be able to report on a setback for William Hill rather than further disappointing news from Ladbrokes, and of course it’s also nice to report on success for the punters. Also in this month’s casino news is the potential sale of Gala Coral Group’s bingo club chain. This may well be a prelude to the expected flotation of their online gambling business next year, so we await further developments.