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It has been announced that ELEAGUE and Twitter will partner to provide live streaming coverage of this week’s ELEAGUE semifinals and championship, featuring Valve’s popular Counter-Strike: Global Offensive game. The live event competitions will be held Friday and Saturday, July 29th and 30th, from Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta.  This will mark a milestone in that it’ll be …

After being commended at the back end of last year for its use of Twitter, mobile casino LeoVegas is launching an engaging social media campaign to promote its new Michael Jackson-themed game. It is a five-reel slot with 25 paylines, featuring wilds, scatters and two free game features (Beat It and Smooth Criminal). Bally Technologies created the game for real money …

The NFL last week announced Twitter as its ‘Global Streaming’ partner, a $10 million deal which will see the social media network stream ten NFL Thursday night matches (in conjunction with CBS and NBC broadcasts). The decision to partner with Twitter, shocked sports’ insiders as it was revealed that tech giants Yahoo, Verizon and Amazon had all outbid Twitter’s winning …

Twitter has been announced as the surprise streaming service for NFL Thursday nights. The social media network won the ‘NFL Global Streaming’ bid competing against the likes of Yahoo, Amazon and Verizon Global. Twitter will be allowed to stream ten NFL Thursday Night matches (in conjunction with CBS and NBC broadcasts) to its worldwide user base of approximately 350 million. …

Super affiliate Better Collective has launched Dailyaccas.com, a new affiliate site to help punters find the accumulator that suits them on a daily basis. The site takes upcoming football games within the next 12 hours and mixes them into three simple accas to suit the player’s profile. The ‘Banker’ safe selection, the ‘Risky One’ containing three bets with odds of …

The verified status on Twitter is exclusively reserved for key figures across major industries. Despite maintaining a huge audience and accounting for some of the most engaged userbases on the platform, Twitter has been reluctant to verify any eSports figures except for a very select few. Players from the teams Cloud9 and Team SoloMid were verified earlier this week, and the …

Tweets from three bookmakers have been banned for breaching Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) age restrictions by featuring a photo of American golfer Jordan Spieth. Coral, Bet365 and Totesport all sent tweets featuring a photo of the then 21-year-old Spieth in relation to the US Open. ASA officials  challenged whether the ads were irresponsible and breached the code because they prominently …

The Betfair betting exchange suffered severe downtime on Saturday afternoon, leaving eager punters furious with the operator’s services. A jam packed sports schedule, which featured afternoon Premier League matches and the Rugby World Cup semi final between New Zealand Vs South Africa proved to be too much for the betting exchange servers to handle. The embarrassing incident for Betfair, would …

Dmitrijs ‘PokahPPL’ Meless has been named ‘The Greatest Poker Player in the Universe’ after competing in the very first Universal Championship of Poker tournament series (UCOP), organised by MPN. Over the course of 12 events, the series attracted thousands of players from over 100 different countries, awarding over €240,000 in cash prizes to the winners. One of the unique features …

Darren Moore, founder of tipping website Betting Gods, explains how a focus on quality means that its customers remain happy and its tipsters remain at the top of their game. SBC: What does the Betting Gods service provide that sets you apart from the competition? We feel we’re more personal than most of the big tipster networks out there, with …