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British bookmaker William Hill has signed a three-year deal to sponsor Welsh Champion Hurdle, it was announced last week. The six-figure sum agreed upon with Northern Racing - an operator of 10 racecourses across the United Kingdom - will see William Hill sponsor the two-mile race until 2013. February Race The deal continues the good news for the Welsh Champion Hurdle, which was abandoned due to bad weather in January after the Ffos Las Racecourse was chosen to host the first run in eight years. The previous race had been run at Chepstow in 2002. Now, if all else goes as planned, the inaugural William Hill-sponsored race will take place on February 5, 2011, with some £45,000 in prize money up for grabs. The Ffos Las Racecourse was only opened in 2009 and this event offers it an opportunity to host a showpiece race that will be held just six weeks before the Cheltenham Festival. A spokesperson for William Hill said the company was delighted to put its name to the race, especially as it "completes a full sweep of high-profile sponsorships for us in each of the home nations."
Northern Irish horse racing jockey AP McCoy has been named BBC Sports Personality of the Year, costing British bookmaker William Hill a six-figure sum. 2010 Sports Personality of Year According to William Hill, the biggest bet taken on McCoy was for £7000 when he was priced at even money. The champion jockey, who has ridden more than 3,000 winners in a career spanning almost two decades, was priced at 1/4 by the time of the award on Sunday morning. "McCoy has made a habit of costing us money over the years. However, we are more than happy to let him off this once as the award was fully deserved," a William Hill spokesman said. Next: 2011 Sports Personality The bookmaker has now released odds for the 2011 BBC Sports Personality of the Year, and WBA heavyweight champion David Haye is the early favorite, ahead of tennis star Andy Murray and formula one driver Lewis Hamilton. With no major football tournament or Olympics in the summer of 2011, the bookmaker is predicting that someone else will have to step up to the plate. William Hill's odds for 2011 Sports Personality of the Year: - David Haye, 5/1, Andy Murray, Lewis Hamilton, 6/1, Lee Westwood, 10/1, Amir Khan, 12/1, Rory McIlroy, 16/1, Paul Casey, 20/1, Graeme McDowell, Ian Poulter, Justin Rose, Wayne Rooney, Jenson Button, 25/1, all others 33/1 and over.
British bookmaker William Hill has announced that it will close 20 of its Irish retail shops in March, with closures in the cities of Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Tralee and Wexford. Business As Usual? The company did not name the specific reason for the closures, although it said that shops are closed every year in the UK and Ireland depending on their profitability. The remaining 15 shops in the country - in Dublin, Galway, Wicklow and Tullamore, will remain open, while the company's strong online operations will also go unaffected by the cuts. Online Empire For Irish customers this will no doubt push many to William Hill's online gaming network, which has gone from strength to strength in recent years. Aside from the ever-popular William Hill Casino Club, there are also online sports betting, poker, bingo and Vegas games facilities, as well as the new mobile casino offering that allows you to play wherever you are. New signings to the casino club will be rewarded with a 150% welcome promotion. To claim the generous bonus, simply click on download or instant play to enter the online casino, then make a first deposit and you will instantly receive a bonus to a maximum of 150 euros.
Amidst all the doom and gloom about jobs being cut in the Irish betting industry, the latest news out of the Emerald Isle shows that is isn't all one-way traffic, with the success of new sports betting side Betbidder. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs The Irish start-up, founded by former Central Bank executive Enda Morgan, currently employs 14 people but has plans to expand to include up to 50 new jobs in 2011, as it casts its eyes toward Europe. A unique concept, the site is based on penny auctions, in which users bid for cash prizes or tickets for sports events that are payable on the successful result of sports games or tournaments. For example, Betbidder hosts an auction for a cash prize of 100 euros, payable if team A beats team B. Each bid by every player in the auction increases the price for that specific cash prize. The last bidder standing wins the auctions and the prize pays out if team A wins. According to Morgan, users pay 70% each time they bid. There is a maximum number of bids for each auction, ensuring a fair process. This also ensures that people are limited from spending too much money on any one auction. Not Alone The good news about Betbidder follows the announcement last month from Paddy Power that it would expand its global reach, which will see it create some 1,440 new jobs in Ireland, the United Kingdom and Australia by 2013.
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One hundred new jobs will be created in Ireland in a big new recruitment drive by a Dublin-based subsidiary of Full Tilt Poker, the world's second-largest online poker room, the Irish Times has reported. Pocket Kings represents industry growth Pocket Kings has acted as a service provider to Full Tilt Poker since 2006 and its latest move will bring to 800 the number of people it employs at its Dublin headquarters. Proving the growth of the online and now mobile poker industry, the company will have more than doubled its employee numbers in the last two years once the new recruits are brought in, according to figures provided by a spokesperson. Ireland remains attractive for online gambling firms The Pocket Kings experience demonstrates that Ireland has remained an attractive location for companies in the e-gaming business, even as the ongoing economic crisis refuses to go away. Some of the new jobs at Pocket Kings are specialised, including fraud analysts for European and other markets, with a number of employees needing a second language such as Italian, German or French. A company spokesperson said Ireland has always been an attractive location, with "accessibility to a skilled and educated workforce... along with an attractive corporation tax rate."
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