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A lot of time has passed since 1966, but can England return to its glory days and win the 2010 World Cup in South Africa? The betting odds suggest this English team is a strong chance, with only two teams - Spain and Brazil - rated higher by most bookmakers with just over a month to go until the beginning of proceedings. England is 11/2 at William Hill Sports to win the World Cup, behind reigning European champion Spain, 4/1, and five-time World Cup champion Brazil, 5/1. In betting on champion/top goalscorer, the double option of an England World Cup win and Wayne Rooney winning the golden boot is paying 25/1. In the odds for Group C, the boys are unsurprisingly 3/10 favorites, ahead of the USA, 9/2, Slovenia, 10/1, and Algeria, 10/1. William Hill is paying 6/5 on England and the USA qualifying for the second stage of the tournament by finishing in the top two in the group stage. Special emphasis is being put on the June 12 fixture between England and the USA, with William Hill offering a variety of options including the margin. The most likely scenario is for England to win by one goal, 11/5, while a draw is paying 13/5. And if you needed proof of how good a bookmaker William Hill is, it won the top three awards at the annual Betview Awards in London last week - for betting shop manager of the year, betting chain of the year and bookmaker of the year.
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The UK's Responsible Gambling Trust has just announced that Marc Etches will head the new body as its CEO. The Trust is a new charitable organisation that was created following the merger of the Responsible Gambling Fund and the GREaT Foundation. The new Trust is set to be officially launched in April 2012 and will become responsible for the fundraising and commissioning roles that originally fell within the ambit of the two merged organisations. The GREaT Foundation raised funds through voluntary donations to support socially responsible gambling research, education and treatment while the Responsible Gambling Fund tackled problem gambling. The objective of the newly formed Responsible Gambling Trust is to minimise the level of problem gambling in the UK through promoting education and prevention techniques, and the general purpose of responsible gambling. Etches stated that he plans to continue to develop effective partnerships with a number of players within the industry including representation bodies, treatment service providers, researchers, legislators and regulators. The Trust will be chaired by Neil Goulden who congratulated Etches on his new appointment. The merger will take a couple of years to complete and additional staff changes will be announced in due course.
British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced the biggest changes to gambling legislation since the reforms of seven years ago, telling online operators that betting would now be taxed according to whether wagers are made in the UK or offshore. What are the changes? How will they affect players? Point of Consumption Tax Osborne said to new “point of consumption” tax regime, to be implemented in December 2014, would create a more level playing field. He added that the current situation in which 90% of online gambling is supplied from outside the UK “is clearly not fair – and not a sensible way to support jobs in Britain.” Treasury documents estimate that if the new tax is levied at the existing rate of 15% of gross profits, the impact of this would be that the Exchequer earns extra revenues of £55m in 2014-15m, £240m in 2015-16 and £270m in 2016-17. The new tax would be similar to those already instituted by other European countries toward gambling operators. The Labour Government’s 2005 Gambling Act taxed remote gambling operators according to place of supply and not place of consumption. As a result, most large UK gambling companies, including Ladbrokes and William Hill, moved their remote gambling servers to offshore locations such as Gibraltar. Companies React William Hill CEO Ralph Topping summed up the feelings of the larger online gambling operators, saying that his company remained confident about its future on the Internet, but that smaller companies should begin to worry about the impact the legislation will have on them in 2015 and beyond. Mobile gambling operator Probability’s CEO Charles Cohen made similar remarks, saying that it would be great for the big boys but a disaster for everybody else. “It will cultivate a big black market,” he said, referring to expectation that it will be difficult for smaller business to compete with their larger competitors through the usual legal channels. Current State of Play Online casino and sportsbook operator bet365 is now the l
Leading online poker operator PokerStars is one of the best places a British person can find employment. This is the conclusion made by workplace assessment consultancy group The Great Place to Work Institute’s latest study. PokerStars top 50 PokerStars made the list of the UK’s 50 best workplaces on the back of robust employee benefits and rewards, strong professional development opportunities and a diverse workforce. PokerStars, London’s Vision Clin, Star, Virgo Health and Jobwise were among the companies selected from amongst thousands of different firms employing millions of people. This online gambling provider’s feat is made all the more impressive when one takes into account Great Place to Work’s assessment that this was a strong year for workplaces. According to CEO Tom O’Byrne, the companies that stood out were those in which the employees themselves agreed it was a great place to work. Work in online gambling The online gambling industry is one of the fastest growing employers of people in the UK. About half of PokerStars’ 1,200 global employees are based in its London and Isle of Man offices. Bet365, one of the leading companies based in the UK, employs over 1,700 people and is the largest private employer in the city of Stoke-On-Trent. Employment has risen to unprecedented levels in Europe in the past few years, so it is good to see that while most industries are suffering, at least one (online poker and gaming) is able to make a meaningful contribution to citizens and the economy by providing gainful employment and job satisfaction.
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