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Martin Kaymer's odds of winning this week's British Open were cut in half by William Hill Sports after his win at the Barclays Scottish Open at Loch Lomond. He has now been backed in to 29.00 to win the tournament, which begins Friday at Scotland's Turnberry golf course, after being cut from 67.00 to 34.00 immediately after the victory. Ladbrokes is still offering odds of 34.00 for the German to win it. As usual, Tiger Woods leads the betting, with short odds of 3.25 at both William Hill and Ladbrokes. Nobody else comes close to challenging the American, who has won 14 major championships in his career, including three British Open trophies in 2000, 2005 and 2006. Only four more players lead Kaymer in the odds at William Hill, beginning with Spaniard Sergio Garcia, 21.00, and followed by the UK's Lee Westwood, 26.00, Rory McIlroy, 26.00, and Ian Poulter, 29.00 In the specials, William Hill is offering odds of 2.00 on someone hitting a hole in one during the tournament. Ladbrokes is focusing more on Tiger Woods, giving odds of 67.00 on the world number one to hit a hole in one, 11.00 for him to miss the cut, 51.00 on him to win by seven shots or more and 1.33 on him not to win the tournament. The odds of the tournament being decided by a playoff are 3.50, with 1.28 for this not occurring.
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Poker in the Park returns to London for a third straight year and is expected to draw in some 25,000 poker fans.The two-day event, being held at Leicester Square in the center of town, begins on Thursday August 13 and continues all day on Friday August 14.It includes free poker tournaments, lectures by the UK's biggest poker stars, and sale of merchandise and poker books.Poker in the Park is being sponsored by online poker room PKR and produced in conjunction with poker publication Bluff Europe.PKR marketing director Simon Prodger said: "This year's Poker in the Park is going to be even bigger and better than last year's and, because it's free to participate, it creates an interesting experience for all kind of people passing through the heart of the city."As the event is two weeks away, you're invited to come over and practice your poker skills at one of our reviewed poker rooms.
Online bingo sites owned by the St Minver network, (recently acquired by the global gaming technology leader, GTECH), will now be accepting PayPal transactions. The first partner to offer PayPal to its UK customers is ChitChat Bingo while other sites such as Littlewoods, Yahoo, Ann Summers, BingoJoy, InterBingo and MetroBingo plan to go live in August.Added Attraction for Bingo Lovers"We are very excited about being able to offer our UK bingo partners the comfort, ease and security that comes with using the PayPal service," says Johan Berg, Chief Operating Officer of GTECH G2. "We are always looking at ways to serve our bingo licensees better and this latest deal will further enhance our already very high level of core capabilities in this high-growth area."The UK bingo market offers a plethora of online bingo sites, all of whom are in fierce competition for the British punter. The partnership of PayPal with the St Minver group sites will give them added attraction to online bingo lovers.A Safe Choice for GamblersPaypal has more than 153 million global users, covering 18 different currencies. In the UK there are 23 million PayPal accounts. It is an attractive choice for the online market as its third party position means that players can feel secure about a successful transaction without releasing their personal details or secure data to online gambling sites.
British novelist Hilary Mantel has become the betting favorite in the odds for the 2009 Booker Prize, with the popularity of her book Wolf Hall propelling her to 3.00 outright favoritism at Ladbrokes.South African J.M. Coetzee, who won the award previously in 1983 and 1999, was installed as favorite to win it a third time after his fictionalized memoir Summertime was announced as one of the 13 books on the longlist - or Man Booker Dozen - two weeks ago, but he has since slipped to equal-third in the odds at 8.00.Colm Toibin is second favorite at 6.00 for his work Brooklyn, while Sarah Waters appears to be the other strong contender for her work The Little Stranger. She is level with Coetzee at 8.00.The surprise emergence of Mantel contradicts initial Ladbrokes predictions - a spokesman was quoted by British newspaper The Guardian two weeks ago as saying Coetzee's reputation would have literary punters "quick to back the author's bid to create history."Books GiveawaysTo celebrate the longlist announcement the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, London will see book lover Graham Fudger on Tuesday, 11 August at 11am reading extracts from the prize's 13 longlist titles.One of each of the books will be given away to the public.Man Booker PrizeThe Man Booker Prize for Fiction, or simply the Booker Prize, is a literary award given each year for the best original full-length novel, written in English, by a citizen of a Commonwealth country or Ireland. In the past it has been won by such big names as India's Salman Rushdie (Midnight's Children, 1981), Australia's Thomas Keneally (Schindler's Ark, 1982) and India's Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things, 1997).This year's prize has seen active betting so far, largely for the high profile author Coetzee and his celebrated chances to win for an unprecedented, third time.The 2009 winner will be announced on Sunday September 6.
William Hill Online is renowned for its high-quality online poker and online casino. Now William Hill has made big strides in teaming up with Payments Service Provider SafeCharge International.Mutually beneficialThe bonds created by the union of these two giants will have knock-on effects for everyone. Both William Hill and Safecharge are enamoured by one another's reputations and clout. But it's the players who will be the winners. Now the safety and security of online gaming has just gone up a notch.SafeCharge uncoveredSafecharge is a well-known winner with expert knowledge of risk assessment. They are 3D Secure, they offer unique rules and checks, and they actively combat fraud which then maximizes conversion to sale. What's it all about?With multi-banking, now players have more options. And it complies fully with regulations and is naturally fair and completely legal. Players wanting to deposit or withdraw their funds will be able to use this SafeCharge payment processor with greatly enhanced security features. For William Hill this move is intended to provide merchants and players alike with many more accessible payment solutions. This lends itself to greater client retention. With thousands of offices in the UK, William Hill is a mega-star of the online gaming industry. Payment processors are independent technical entities offering viable means of transferring cash from players to online casinos and vice versa.
Another player has emerged in the effort to legalize online gambling in the United States, with the Telegraph revealing that British companies are spending millions lobbying lawmakers in Washington on the issue.Sportingbet, PartyGaming and PokerStars have all hired high-profile American lobbying firms to represent them in the bid to help open up the US online gambling market, the British newspaper reported.The report highlighted UC Group, an online payment services company, as a firm that is spending millions in an effort to influence gambling legislation across the pond. According to the report, UC Group has already spent over $5 million on lobbying fees in recent years.On beyond gamblingAccording to the newspaper, gambling-related companies are not alone in this new trend. Ten UK companies, including British Airways and mining company Anglo-American have spent $3.5 million in the last 12 months, it reported.But it is UC Group's lobbying on behalf of 10 gaming companies that has been particularly eye-catching, given that it spent around half of its pre-tax profits from last year on lobbying expenses.The company's CEO Kobus Paulsen said the group was positive its lobbying would have a positive effect in the long-term."We are certain that our efforts will yield an open market for non-US based gambling operators," he was quoted as saying by the Telegraph.Hearings on pro-gambling legislation introduced by US Congressman Barney Frank (D - MA) are due to be held in September.Frank introduced the bills as part of the push to overturn the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), which effectively banned Internet gambling in the United States.
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