Doubles specialists Frantisek Cermak and Michal Mertinak have been found guilty of betting on matches by the ATP.

Doubles specialists Frantisek Cermak and Michal Mertinak have been suspended and fined by men's governing body the ATP for betting on tennis matches.

The Czech Republic's Frantisek Cermak and Slovakia's Michal Mertinak became the latest players to be banned and fined for betting on tennis matches, the ATP said on Monday.

Washington, D.C. (July 22, 2008) – Former Senator Alfonse D’Amato, chairman of the Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with over one million members nationwide, today issued the following statement in response to recent online poker cheating scandals.

Magistrate Judge Mary Ann L. Medler on Friday issued a long-awaited recommendation in the BetonSports case, which saw a motion to dismiss the case, based on the United States' violation of a World Trade Organization treaty, denied.

It has been two years since the arrest of David Carruthers, CEO of now-defunct BETonSPORTS. Two long, drawn out years for nearly 70,000 players. The 2nd anniversary of the arrest on Wednesday sparked dozens of calls and emails all asking the same question. “What is going on with the payouts?”

Entraction announces that it has signed a deal with yet another established poker operator, Bet1128, to supply them with poker software and access to the Entraction poker network. Bet1128 is a successful poker site focusing on the Italian market, and will start the migration to Entraction in August.

The Government said today it was preparing to put the Tote up for sale on the open market this autumn.

The Government is expected to confirm this week that it will press ahead with its plans to sell the Wigan-based Tote, the state-owned bookmaker.

The government has begun to prepare for a possible sale of state-owned bookmaker, the Tote, in the autumn.

Financial spread-betting firm IG Group said volatile stock markets have tempted punters to increase their bets, driving annual profits up 41pc.

Britain's biggest spread-betting firm IG Group (IGG.L) met forecasts with a 40 percent rise in full-year profit on Monday as increased financial market volatility encouraged clients to place more bets.

Lottomatica S.p.A.’s wholly-owned subsidiary GTECH Global Services Corporation has signed an agreement with Pinbridge Ltd., the holder of a 10-year sports-betting license in Ghana, to be the technology solutions and consultancy services provider for the first online sports-betting wagering system in the country.

China has a long history of gamblers willing to place wagers on just about anything and it is exactly this love of betting that is worrying Olympic organisers ahead of the Beijing Games.

Imagine being able to lay a bet on a New England Patriots-Green Bay Packers game while eating at a casino buffet, instead of being stuck in a smoky sports book.

Research shows online gambling can be more dangerous than casino gambling

Minister of Finance and the Economy Dr. Errol Cort said the nation’s Internet gaming industry has a strong future, despite the measures put in place by the US government to curtail access to what was the main gaming market and the drawn-out and still unresolved battle between Antigua and Barbuda and the US at the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

William Hill has called in a headhunter in the search for an internet executive to take charge of its online relaunch

The Government will tomorrow stress its commitment to selling its Tote betting business despite suggestions it may get only about £280m against the £400m it once hoped for.

Betfair, the Great Britain-based online betting exchange, continues to negotiate with officials in the United States and is inching closer to a deal by which it would compensate horsemen for use of their product.