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888 Holdings PLC

LSE 888

Hold

888 Holdings Public Limited Company (888) is one of the world's most popular online gaming entertainment companies. 888 develops and manages principal aspects of its operations in-house, including software development, marketing, business development, back office payment processing, risk management, and member relationship management.

Included amongst 888's many online gaming establishments are Casino-on-Net and Pacific Poker, both of which are accessible via 888's centralised Internet gaming venue, www.888.com.

www.888.com

www.Casino-on-Net.com

www.PacificPoker.com

Casino

Poker

Sportsbook coming soon

Sources in the US are claiming that The Department of Justice could try and claw back profits made by 888 in America - $120m (£59.5m). The returns may severly hamper the company's financial viability.

888 Holdings said that first-half trading for Y2007 was in line with expectations, adding that it was 'confident' about its prospects for the rest of the year. The Gibraltar-based company plans to announce its interim results on September 10.

The firm lost about half its sales in October when the US passed a law on Internet gambling, cutting the company off from its primary market. 888 saw results recover slightly after announcing earlier in the year that the growing popularity of online poker in the rest of the world had lifted net gaming revenues by 19 per cent to $47m in the first quarter.

Betfair

Launched in 2000, Betfair is a profitable and debt-free company with annual revenues exceeding £140 million.  Betfair is the world's leading online betting exchange, a concept it has pioneered. Driven by cutting-edge technology, Betfair enables punters to choose their own odds and bet against each other, even after an event has started. Betfair processes 5 million transactions a day and more than 300 bets a second.

Softbank purchased 23% of Betfair in early April 2006 valuing the company at £1.5 billion. In December 2006, Betfair completed the purchase of the horseracing publishing company Timeform (who traded under the name Portway Press Ltd). SoftBank Corp. (Sofutobanku Kabushiki-gaish) (TYO: 9984 ) is a leading Japanese telecommunications and media corporation, with operations in broadband, fixed-line telecommunications, e-Commerce, Internet, broadmedia, technology services, finance, media and marketing, and other businesses.

www.betfair.com

Casino

Poker

Betting Exchange

Mobile

In addition to the exchange, Betfair has an established games portfolio. Betfair Games, Betfair Casino which includes Betfair Poker, is hosted from Malta and is an area which has seen significant growth and investment. The company is also developing new revenue streams by providing automated price feeds to third parties, establishing white-label exchanges and through its own Betfair Mobile product.

Harrah's License Company LLC, an affiliate of Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE:HET), has executed a non-binding letter of intent to form an alliance with Betfair.com that will designate Betfair.com as the Presenting Sponsor of the World Series of Poker Europe through 2011. The inaugural WSOP Europe will debut in London September 6-16. Harrah's Entertainment is the world's largest operator of casino-entertainment resorts.

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) in England has signed a deal with Betfair, the online betting exchange. The two-year deal sees Betfair becoming the RFU’s official betting partner and will allow punters to bet on matches at Twickenham, the home of the England rugby team, from next season.

Bingo.com

 NASD OTCBB BNGOF

Neutral

Bingo.com is the pre-eminent provider of Bingo over the Internet. With over 1,200,000 registered users and more than 800 new users every day, Bingo.com is one of the most recognized and most visited Bingo entertainment destinations on the Web.

www.bingo.com

Bingo

Advertising

Bingo.com results of the first quarter of 2007 included a successful completion of a private placement unit offering of $1,500,000

Boss Media

Stockholm BOSS.ST

Buy

Boss Media is a  developer of innovative software and systems for digitally-distributed gaming entertainment. The company has built a solid reputation in the online gaming industry for its reliable high-quality products, services, and proficient personnel. Boss Media – with its main headquarters in Växjö , Sweden – is a publicly traded company on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.  Boss Media offers innovative e-gaming software and solutions available on a variety of platforms such as internet-enabled PCs, mobile phones, handheld computers as well as through interactive digital television or state-of-the-art Interactive Video Terminal (IVT) systems. Boss Media software includes: Bingo/Lottery, Poker (International Poker Network) and Casino Games.

Sportingbet

William Hill

Gaming VC

Svenska Spel

BWIN

Virgin Games

Casino

Poker

Lottery

Mobile

Boss Media released interim results showing a drop in net profits from Q1 to Q2 of this year from SEK 26.9m to SEK 10.6m. The company has said that the operating margin for 2007 is now expected to be lower than the 15% previously forecast. For the period from January to June of this year, the company reported an increase in sales of 5%, opposed to a 2% increase from April to June. During the six months to June, Boss Media gained its first client for its flash poker offering, Yahoo UK. On 1 July Michael Hallen took up the role of president and chief executive. Net sales for the full year 2007 are expected to be at the same level as 2006. It was also recently that Paddy Power has joined Boss Media’s casino platform, in addition to its existing Wagerworks casino.

Boyd Gaming

NYSE BYD

Hold

Boyd Gaming Corporation (Boyd), incorporated in June 1988, is a gaming company that wholly owns and operates 16 casino facilities, which are located in eight gaming markets in five states in the United States. As of December 31, 2006, the Company owned an aggregate of approximately 850,000 square feet of casino space, containing approximately 23,500 slot machines, 500 table games and 7,500 hotel rooms. Boyd derives the majority of its gross revenues from its gaming operations, which produced 74% of gross revenues for the year ended December 31, 2006. The Company owns and operates two travel agencies, a Hawaiian-based insurance company that underwrites travel-related insurance, and an offsite sports book located in Las Vegas.

Casino operator Boyd Gaming Corp. posted weaker-than-expected Q2 earnings, hurt by tougher competition, sending its shares down more than 5 percent.

Boyd, which closed the Stardust casino-hotel on the Las Vegas Strip last year to make way for the Echelon, faces increased competition at its casinos on the U.S. Gulf Coast as rivals reopen after Hurricane Katrina, while profit from Borgata in Atlantic City, New Jersey, fell as the seaside gambling town battles competition from nearby Pennsylvania and New York. Boyd's net income in the second quarter doubled to $22.1 million, or 25 cents per share, from $10.2 million, or 11 cents per share, a year earlier.

bwin

WBAG: BWIN

The bwin (WBAG: BWIN) Group, formerly Betandwin.com (until 2006), is an Austrian based online gambling company. The group operates under international and regional licences in countries like Gibraltar, the Amerindian reserve of Kahnawake (Canada), Belize and Germany, Italy, Mexico, Austria and the United Kingdom. The Group offers sports betting, poker, casino games and soft games with most revenue coming from poker and sportsbetting. Competence centres are located in Vienna, Austria, Stockholm, Sweden and Gibraltar.

The parent company, bwin Interactive Entertainment AG, has been listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange since March 2000. The Company provides services for its subsidiaries such as marketing, finance and administration, corporate communications, controlling and IT services. All operational activities are managed by licensed subsidiaries.

www.bwin.com

casino

sportsbook

poker

Bwin, a company with online sportsbetting, casino and poker interests, is contemplating seeking 'hundreds of millions of euros' in compensation from several German federal states after holding the states’ gaming bans responsible for irreparable damage to Bwin’s business and reputation.

Chief Executive Norbert Teufelberger stated that he had complete faith that the European Court of Justice would deem the German states' attempts to guard their gaming monopoly illegal.

Speaking to Germany's Stuttgarter Zeitung newspaper, Teufelberger said that Bwin backed a resolution to the drawn-out wrangle that would allow states to maintain full monopoly in the lottery sector, while regulated online gaming companies are given the opportunity to provide sports betting, casino games and poker services with a 15 percent tax on gross winnings offered in exchange for their new privilege.

Chartwell Technology

TSX CWH

Cautious Hold

Chartwell Technology Inc. (Chartwell) is a leading developer and supplier of Internet gaming software systems to the online and mobile gaming industry. Established in 1998 with over 90 employees in Calgary, Vancouver and the recently established London (UK) office Chartwell is rapidly expanding its current base of branded clients as the online gaming sector continues it's prolific growth.

Casino

Bingo

Poker

Mobile

Skill Games

Highlights for the second quarter of 2007:

- Company completes acquisition of the Poker Community Management business

- New corporate revenue record for a quarter at $5.6 million, a 17% increase from the

comparable quarter in 2006

- License fee revenue matches the corporate record set in the first quarter at $5.3 million, a

20% increase from the comparable quarter in 2006

- Earnings per share of $0.01 for second quarter 2007 which compares to $0.01 in the

second quarter of 2006

- Launched expanded suite of Poker variants for unique European markets

Cryptologic Inc.

NASDAQ CRYP

TSX CRY

LSE CRP

Strong Buy

CryptoLogic is recognized as a pioneer and leading software developer with Individuals registered in 240 nations and territories worldwide use our software. They have processed more than US$30 billion in secure electronic deposits from more than 2 million clients.

www.intercasino.com

www.williamhillcasino.com 

www.littlewoodscasino.com 

www.theritzclublondon.com 

www.ukbettingcasino.co.uk 

Casino

Poker

Bingo

Ecash Direct

New partnership in Asia

Signed a memorandum of understanding with Brilliance Technology Co. and 568 Network Inc. to penetrate the high-growth Chinese market with CryptoLogic’s existing games and new games for the Chinese diaspora. Subscription-based ”play-for-fun“ games are planned to be offered over the Internet and mobile phones. ”Play-for-money“ games are planned to be offered through retail locations licensed by the China Welfare Lottery, the nation’s gaming licensing authority

Strategic acquisition

Purchased the poker brand and related assets of Parbet.com, a popular Scandinavian online poker room, and licensed them to a private Maltese online gaming operator

FUN Technologies PLC

LSE AIM FUN

Sell

FUN Technologies plc is a market leader in two of the fastest-growing sectors of online gaming: skill gaming and fantasy sport services. Incorporated in England and Wales, it is a public company quoted on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol 'FUN'.

www.funtechnologies.com

www.SkillJam.com

www.DonBest.com

www.fanball.com

SkillGames

FUN Technologies reported a revenue rise in the second quarter of 68 per cent, to $16.9 million, against the same period last year. For the quarter, the company reported an after tax loss of $7.6 million, down from an $8.8 million loss in the same period in 2006, and up from a $5.2 million loss in the first quarter of 2007

Gala Coral

Gala Coral Group Ltd is a British betting shop, bingo and casino operator owned by private equity houses Candover Investments, Cinven and Permira. In October 2005 it merged with Coral Eurobet for £2.18 billion. The acquisition made it the UK's third largest bookmaker and largest bingo operator. It also owns over 30 casinos. Coral will remain a brand and trading division of the new group.

www.coral.co.uk

www.eurobet.com

B & M

Casino

Poker

Sportsbook

Skill Games

The Group headquarters are in Nottingham Gala Bingo and Casino, Barking Coral & Woking Gala Coral E-commerce.  The Group through acquisitions and new developments have over 1500 Licenced Betting Offices.  The Gala group owns and operates the following online brands:

Eurobet serves clients in over 130 countries, providing online sports betting in the following languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Chinese, Greek, Russian, Turkish, Bulgarian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Albanian and Czech.

Gaming VC

LSE AIM GVCq.L

Buy

Established in 2004, Gaming VC Corp BV is an operating and acquisitions company focused on the growing world of online gaming. The Company was incorporated in Luxembourg to acquire the business and operating assets of Casinos International NV, collectively known as The Casino Club, the dominant on-line casino in German-speaking markets. Larger than William Hill, Sportingbet and Bet 365 from a single market position, The Casino Club boasts 58,000 active customers and more than 100,000 registered users. The associated Casino-Club magazine is well respected among roulette enthusiasts and currently has a circulation of over 100,000. The company said it would also be looking at product diversification in the year ahead and added that its marketing focus was in the process of changing from mostly direct mail marketing in Germany to online marketing. The firm said it hopes to gain a sportsbook licence to trade in Italy within the next quarter and would be launching both bingo and tournament poker after that.

www.casinoclub.com

www.casino-club.com

Casino

Poker

Gaming VC has said diversification away from its core German market will be a key objective in the year ahead after its full-year results showed the impact of goodwill impairment due to the continued unclear regulatory situation in Germany. After the one-off charge, Gaming VC saw pre-tax losses come in at €28.8m (£19.5m) from a profit the year before of €12.8m.

Turnover rose slightly to E40m while operating profit before exceptional items and share option charges was also down a notch at €13.5m from €13.9m.

The company said trading in the first quarter was in line with expectations. In a separate statement, the company showed daily revenue was up 21% on the previous quarter and 12% up on the same period last year at €129,000.

Harrah's

NYSE HET

Strong Buy

Harrah's Entertainment, Inc., through its subsidiary, Harrah's Operating Company, Inc., operates casino entertainment facilities primarily in the United States. As of December 31, 2006, it operated 48 casinos, including 28 land-based casinos, 12 riverboat or dockside casinos, 1 combination thoroughbred racetrack and casino, 1 combination greyhound racetrack and casino, 1 harness racetrack, 4 managed casinos on Indian lands, and 1 managed casino in Canada. The company operates its casino entertainment facilities primarily under the Harrah's, Caesars, and Horseshoe brand names. Its facilities also comprise hotel and convention space, restaurants, and non-gaming entertainment facilities. The company was founded in 1937 and is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

B & M Casinos, poker and sportsbooks

They will be one of the first to go online when legalization occurs in the USA

Harrah's License Company LLC, an affiliate of Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE:HET), has executed a non-binding letter of intent to form an alliance with Betfair.com that will designate Betfair.com as the Presenting Sponsor of the World Series of Poker Europe through 2011. The inaugural WSOP Europe will debut in London September 6-16. Harrah's Entertainment is the world's largest operator of casino-entertainment resorts.

Harrah's Entertainment Reports Second Quarter 2007

- Revenues rise 13.8 percent over 2006's second-quarter total

- Property EBITDA up 6.1 percent, same-store sales up 5.7 percent on a year-over-year basis

- Adjusted EPS from continuing operations up 1.0 percent

- Company stockholders approve $90-per-share all-cash acquisition proposal

- Company announces plans for $704 million casino resort in Biloxi, Miss.

Interactive Systems Worldwide Inc.

Pink Sheets ISWI

Neutral

Interactive Systems Worldwide Inc. (”ISWI“), incorporated in 1995, has designed, developed and patented an interactive hardware and proprietary software system, the SportXction® System, which enables play by play wagering in the emerging interactive sports gaming market. ISWI, through its wholly-owned subsidary, Global Interactive Gaming Limited, operates the Sportxction®System, in conjunction with established media and traditional wagering partners. ISWI's common stock on the Pink Sheets under the symbol ISWI.

http://www.isw.com

In February 2008, the Company reported its unaudited financial results for the fiscal first quarter ended December 31, 2007. Revenues for the quarter ended December 31, 2007 were $241,000, as compared with $55,000 during the same period in the prior year, an increase of 338%. The increase was due to the successful launch in the UK of the Company's enhanced, fully-integrated version of the SportXction(R) System with Sportingbet and Ladbrokes, two of the world's leading bookmakers, as well as revenue generated by a Purchase Order for software development to add additional features to the SportXction(R) System to satisfy the requirements of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation ("OLG").

Net loss and net loss per share applicable to common stock (basic and diluted) for the three months ended December 31, 2007 were $300,000 and $0.02, respectively, compared with $1.0 million and $0.09 during the same quarter last year.

The Company's operations currently do not generate positive cash flow.

Intralot

ASE INLOT

Buy

Intralot is a Greek company, specializing in gambling infrastructure that originally provided infrastructure for the national lottery in Greece. It has now expanded its operations to, or is under contractual obligation to do so, in Israel, Chile, Russia, Romania, Bulgaria, Malta, Serbia, the FYROM and probably many more.  Other than providing the infrastructure for the national lotteries, Intralot's operations include running telephone betting systems, football game betting, and owning stocks in a major local gambling company. It is also known for its great expansion in the world through the acquisition of many known lotteries.

See Global Operations

Intralot is an affiliate of the Intracom Group. Intracom is a Greek technology company, specialising in telecommunications. It is owned by Socrates Kokkalis, who also owns other major businesses in Greece. Also Mr.Demetriades has a large stake in Intralot as well as in the Intracom group.

Company recently won new contract to operate the South Korea online lottery and won a tender to provide an online gaming system for the New Mexico lottery in the US. The contract will run for an initial seven-year period beginning November 2008, with the option of a further three-year extension. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Ladbrokes

LSE: LAD

Buy

Ladbrokes plc  is a British based gambling company. Ladbrokes plc is a world-leader in the global betting and gaming market, taking up to 10 million bets each week and £12 billion in stakes each year. With its comprehensive range of betting and gaming services, its leading technology and 14,000 skilled staff it is targeting growth opportunities in Europe and Asia.   It is a member of the FTSE 250 Index, having been relegated from the elite FTSE 100 Index in June 2006. Until 23 February 2006, Ladbrokes owned a major hotel business, including the Hilton hotel brand outside the United States. From 14 May 1999 to 23 February 2006 it was known as Hilton Group plc.

www.ladbrokes.com

Ladbrokes has announced it will return as much as £250m to shareholders by using its £725m debt facilities to fund a share buyback programme, reducing the chance of a private equity acquisition. Between £150m and £250m is expected to be paid to shareholders, although Ladbrokes’ finance director, Brian Wallace, confirmed the final amount would depend largely on Ladbrokes’ acquisition and investment spend.

Ladbrokes is focused on long-term growth opportunities in betting and gaming in the UK and increasingly in the global market.

Company in Continental Europe with a focus on Italy and Spain

Ladbrokes has recently gone into partnership with the Chinese government to offer the first betting shops in China betting on the state lottery.

Las Vegas Sands Corp.

NYSE LVS

Buy

Las Vegas Sands Corp. and its subsidiaries develop and operate hotel, gaming, and resort businesses. It owns the Venetian resort-hotel-casino and the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada; and The Sands Macao Casino in Macao, the People's Republic of China (PRC). The company's casino resorts include hotels, exhibition and conference facilities, casinos, showrooms, shopping malls, spas, restaurants and entertainment facilities, expo and convention centers, and other attractions and amenities. It is also developing the Venetian Macao resort-hotel in Macao, the PRC; the Palazzo resort-hotel-casino in Las Vegas, Nevada; Sands Bethworks in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; and the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Las Vegas Sands Corp., the casino company controlled by billionaire Sheldon Adelson, said net income for the second quarter fell 69 percent from a year ago to $34.4 million, or 10 cents per share, due to higher expenses for planned casino openings in Macau, Singapore and the United States.Revenue rose 18.6 percent to a record $612.9 million. Adjusted net income, which excludes one-time items, fell 32.4 percent to $81.9 million, or 23 cents per share, from $121.3 million, or 34 cents per share, a year earlier.

Leisure & Gaming PLC

LSE AIM LNG

Sell

Leisure and Gaming plc is focused on building a global interactive betting and gaming company, incorporating multiple brands, products and geographies.

Leisure & Gaming’s focus is on emerging markets, particularly Italy and Central and Eastern Europe.  Its operating subsidiaries have offices in the UK, Italy, Cyprus, Greece and Romania.  Between them, these companies hold a UK bookmaker's permit and betting and gaming licences from the Netherlands Antilles, Romania, Cyprus and Italy. 

www.betshopitalia.com

www.betshop.com

www.goalslive.com

www.acropoliscasinos.com

SportsBook

Poker

Casino

PariMutuel

Its main operations consist:

MGM Corporation

NYSE MGM

Buy

MGM Mirage, through its subsidiaries, engages in the ownership and operation of casino resorts in the United States. It offers gaming, hotel, dining, entertainment, retail, and other resort amenities. MGM Mirage, formerly known as MGM Grand, Inc., was founded in 1986. The company is based in Las Vegas, Nevada. MGM Mirage is a subsidiary of Tracinda Corporation.

The company operates casino resorts under the names of Las Vegas Strip, Bellagio, MGM Grand Las Vegas, Mandalay Bay, The Mirage, Luxor, Treasure Island, New York-New York, Excalibur, Monte Carlo, and Circus Circus Las Vegas. It also operates other casino resorts under Circus Circus Reno, The Laughlin Properties, Railroad Pass, MGM Grand Detroit, Beau Rivage, Gold Strike-Tunica, Gold Strike- Jean, and Nevada Landing names. In addition, the company has 50% interest in Silver Legacy, Borgata, and Grand Victoria resorts. Further, MGM Mirage owns and operates golf course, Shadow Creek, Fallen Oak, and Primm Valley Golf Club. As of April 13, 2007, the company owned and operated 19 properties located in Nevada, Mississippi, and Michigan. It has strategic alliance with the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation.

MGM Mirage posted a second quarter 2007 net income of $360.2 million, more than double the $146.3 million it reported in the same period last year. Earnings from continuing operations increased to $182.8 million in the period, while revenue rose 10 per cent to $1.94 billion in the quarter.

NETeller PLC

LSE AIM NLR

Sell

The leading service providers in the industry, the firm has been providing secure online transactions since 1999. A NETELLER account acts as an e-wallet that enables customers (individuals who open NETELLER accounts) to load, withdraw and transfer funds. Customers can instantly transfer funds to/from any merchant website that supports NETELLER's online payments system, and to/from other NETELLER customers.

Online payments

Ecommerce

Gateway Processing

Online bank Transfers

Neteller has revealed the full extent of the damage done by its withdrawal from the US with a delayed first quarter trading statement released this afternoon.

After restructuring costs of over US$12m and other expenses the company posted a pre-tax loss for the three months to March 2007 of US$14m compared to a profit of US$16m the year previously.  It said it had cash balances after its recent US$136m settlement with the US authorities of US$74.5m.

Neteller recently announced its deal with the UUS attorney’s office for the southern district of New York that saw it plead to certain chargers in exchange for the cash settlement of US$136m. This followed the guilty pleas on the part of founders and ex-directors Stephen Lawrence and John Lefebvre.

PaddyPower

EIRE PAP.L

Strong Buy

Paddy Power is Ireland’s largest bookmaker. Offline it conducts business through a chain of licensed betting offices and by operating Ireland's largest telephone betting service. Online it offers sports betting, online poker, online bingo and online casino games.

Paddy Power was founded in 1988 by the merger of three existing Irish high street bookmakers. The company also markets its services in the UK and is a publicly quoted company, listed on the Irish and UK Stock Exchanges.

www.paddypower.com

In 1988, Paddy Power had just 8% of the Irish off course betting market. This grew to approximately 33% in 2001. The company's telephone betting service, Paddy Power Dial-a-bet was launched in 1996 and the online betting site, paddypower.com followed in 2000. The shares of the company were listed on the London and Irish Stock Exchanges in December 2000. Paddy Power has now commenced an expansion program into the UK through licensed betting offices, telephone and online channel.  At the end of 2005 Paddy Power operated 195 outlets (150 in Ireland and 45 in the UK). The total number of employees was 1,374.

Parlay Entertainment

TSX PEI

Hold

Parlay Entertainment Inc.  is the world's leading developer and dominant licensor of Internet bingo solutions.  As the inventor and patent holder of  Internet bingo, Parlay is the first company in the world to develop and deploy a commercial Internet bingo product.

www.parlaygroup.com

Bingo

Casino

Lottery

Party Gaming PLC

 LSE: PRTY

Sell

Founded in 1997, PartyGaming Plc is one of the world’s leading online gaming companies and owns and operates PartyPoker.com, the world’s largest online poker room. Other online gaming activities include casino, principally through StarluckCasino.com and also online bingo through PartyBingo.com.

PartyPoker.com,

PartyBets.com 

PartyCasino.com,

PartyBingo.com 

PartyGammon.com

Poker

Bingo

Casino

Sportsbook

Backgammon

Sources in the US are claiming that The Department of Justice could try and claw back profits made by the PartyGaming in America - $900m (£445m).  The returns may severly hamper the company's financial viability.

Prior to passage of anti-online gambling legislation by the U.S. Congress, the company was the world's largest online poker brand (based on ring game revenue and number of players); though its total number of active players has diminished with the loss of its U.S. customers, the company attempts to grow a  European presence.  On 3 August 2006, the Group acquired Gamebookers, a non-US-facing sports book.

Phantom Fiber Corp

NASD OTCBB PHFB 

Neutral

Phantom Fiber is the leading developer of wireless platform software that enables our customers to deliver high-performance applications across global communications networks to mobile users. Our wireless platform extends the rich multimedia content and user experience of existing Internet web sites securely and instantly to a wide array of wireless devices including PDAs and programmable cellphones.

Mobile Poker

Mobile Casino

Mobile Lottery

Mobile SportsBook

Mobile P2P

Mobile Betting-Exchange

Mobile PariMutuel

Playtech

LSE AIM: PTEC

Neutral

Playtech Cyprus Ltd. is a gaming software development company founded in 1999. The company provides software for online casinos, online poker rooms, online bingo games, and fixed-odds arcade games online. Playtech was incepted in 1999 by Teddy Sagi. The United Kingdom based company floated early in 2006 on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol PTEC for approximately £550m at a flotation price of 257p.

Some of the notable companies using Playtech software include GoldenPalace.com, Betfred, Ritz Club Online (associated with the Ritz Club Casino in London), Centrebet, ToteSport, Bet365, Stanley Ho's Dr Ho 888 casino, The Rank Group's Grosvenor Casino, and Christchurch Casino's Kiwi Gaming. Other key Playtech casino brands include Casino Tropez, Europa Casino, and Prestige Casino.

software -

casino

poker

bingo

fixed odds arcade

The first visible benefits from Playtech’s acquisition of the Tribeca Tables poker network can be seen in the company’s second quarter figures released tthis month.  Poker revenue over the three months to the end of June rose 50% on the previous three-month period to US$6.3m. This also represented a whopping 288% over the same period last year, excluding the US.  Casino revenues over the period rose to US$17.4m from US$15.2m in the first quarter 2007. This also represented a 46% increase on the same period in 2006.

Rank Group Plc

LSE: RNK

Buy

The Rank Group plc (LSE: RNK) was established on December 22, 1995 as a public limited company in England and Wales and in October 1996 it became a holding company owning all the outstanding shares of the Rank Organisation.  Rank is a leading European gaming business, based in the UK and listed on the London Stock Exchange.

The Group's principal activities are: the operation of bingo clubs and casinos in the UK with complementary on-line gaming and bookmaking services.

Rank's main gaming brands: are Mecca bingo, Grosvenor Casinos and Blue Square.

Scientific Games

NASDAQ SGMS

Buy

Scientific Games Corporation supplies technology-based products, systems, and services to gaming markets worldwide. It operates in three segments: Printed Products, Lottery Systems, and Diversified Gaming. The Printed Products segment provides instant lottery tickets and related services, including ticket design and manufacturing, as well as value-added services, such as game design, sales and marketing support, specialty games and promotions, inventory management, and warehousing and fulfillment services.

Scientific Games reported a second quarter revenue rise of 13 per cent, to $269.6 million, against the same period last year. Net income increased to $27.1 million in the period, up $2.1 million from the 2006 results, while revenues for the six months ending June 2007 were reported at $511.8 million.

Sky Bet

LSE: BSY

Buy

Sky Bet is a betting service run by British Sky Broadcasting. The service is available on two satellite channels, Sky Vegas and Sky Poker, on Sky's interactive service Sky Active and online. It is also available by phone and on mobile internet.

www.skybet.com

Sportsbook

Casino

Skill games

Poker

Sky Bet has seen revenues rising 27% to £47m (US$96m) over the year to June according to parent company BSkyB’s results published. The company said the operation befitted from five months of contribution from its 365 Media acquisition and ”good growth in internet sports betting and TV games“. Elsewhere in the results, BSkyB said it had seen new customer additions over the year of 1.4 million with annual net customer growth of 400,000 taking the total to 8.6 million. Sky’s broadband offering hit over 700,000 customers. Total revenues increased to £4.6bn with EBITDA hitting the £1bn mark.

Sportingbet PLC

LSE AIM SBT

Sell

Operating out of regulated and licensed markets, Sportingbet Plc has been listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange since 2001.

www.sportingbet.com

www.paradisepoker.com

SportsBook

Poker

Bingo

Casino

Sportingbet operates local-focused sportsbooks plus bingo and casino sites, and the online poker cardroom, Paradise Poker. Overall, the company has over 2.5 million registered customers in 200 countries, who place over one million bets (casino, poker, sports and virtual games) per day.  Multilanguage

Sportingbet operates several websites. The largest of these are wholly owned and operated by Sportingbet. They also uses a system similar to a franchise, in which independent website operators use Sportingbet's centralized software, financial services, grading, and customer service under license. These web sites receive a cut of the profits their customers generate.

Sportech PLC

LSE  SPO 

Hold

Employing over 500 people, Sportech PLC operates primarily in the United Kingdom through its main business Littlewoods Gaming, offering a wide portfolio of gaming and betting opportunities to customers in the home.

www.littlewoodsgameon.com, www.littlewoodspools.co.uk 

www.zetters.com 

www.betdirect.net www.betdirectcasino.com

www.betdirectpoker.com 

www.littlewoodscasino.com 

www.littlewoodspoker.com 

SportsBook

Poker

Casino

Lotto

Tabcorp

ASX TAH

Hold

Tabcorp is the largest gaming and entertainment brand on the Australian Continent, and one of the largest publicly traded gambling companies in the world. New reports released by the company now show that Tabcorp's online gambling division is equally successful, and is actually the company's fastest growing market.

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Gamblers who wager at Tabcorp's online gambling division wagered an astonishing $1 Billion during the company's last financial year. The gambling giant, which is the largest in Australia, reported that annual revenues from it's internet division grew by 25% last year, bringing in a total of $1.012 Billion in wagers.

Victor Chandler

Victor Chandler International offers online and telephone sports betting as well as Web-based gaming, with customers in more than 70 countries and offices across the globe. Virtually no major sport is left untouched by the Gibraltar-based bookmaker, including the NFL, NHL, NBA, horse racing, golf, and baseball. Established in 1946, chairman Victor Chandler -- the grandson of founder Victor Chandler Sr. -- heads the company.

www.victorchandler.com/

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Wynn

NYSE WYNN

Hold

Wynn Resorts, Limited is traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol WYNN and is part of the NASDAQ-100 Index.

Wynn Resorts owns and operates Wynn Las Vegas (www.wynnlasvegas.com), a luxury hotel and destination casino resorts located on the Las Vegas Strip. Wynn Las Vegas features 2,716 luxurious guest rooms and suites; an approximately 111,000 square foot casino; 22 food and beverage outlets; an on-site 18-hole golf course; approximately 223,000 square feet of meeting space; an on-site Ferrari and Maserati dealership; and approximately 76,000 square feet of retail space.

On September 6, 2006, Wynn Macau, a destination casino resort in the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, opened. Wynn Macau currently features 600 deluxe hotel rooms and suites; approximately 256 table games and 477 slot machines in approximately 110,000 square feet of casino gaming space; casual and fine dining in four restaurants; approximately 26,000 square feet of retail space; a health club, pool and spa, along with lounges and meeting facilities.

Wynn Resorts Ltd posted a profit for Q2 that topped Wall Street targets on strong results out of Las Vegas and China's gambling haven of Macau, and the company's shares jumped more than 10 percent in extended trading. The company  reported second-quarter net income of $89.6 million, or 82 cents per share, compared with a net loss of $20.1 million, or 20 cents per share, in the year-ago period when it booked preopening expenses. Adjusted net income for the second quarter was 92 cents per share, dwarfing analysts' average estimate of 53 cents per share, according to Reuters Estimates. Net revenue jumped to $687.5 million from $273.4 million.

William Hill

LSE: WMH

Buy

William Hill plc (LSE: WMH) is one of the two largest bookmakers in the United Kingdom alongside Ladbrokes. It is traded on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.  In May 2005 William Hill announced that it had agreed to purchase 624 betting offices in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Isle of Man and Jersey from Stanley Leisure for £504 million. The acquisition gave the company, which had previously been strongest in Southern England, good geographical coverage across the United Kingdom and briefly took it past Ladbrokes into first position in the UK betting market.

Besides William Hill's online sportsbook operations, the company also offers online casino games, skill games, and online poker. The poker room sponsors the William Hill Poker Grand Prix.

www.williamhill.co.uk

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www.williamhillradio.com

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UK-bookmaker William Hill recently announced an increase in gross win of 4.2 per cent, to £498.2 million in its interim trading results for the first half of 2007.  Profits before finance charges and exceptional items rose £1.2 million to £161.2 million while cash generated from operations before tax and interest fell slightly to £189.7 million. 

Chairman Charles Scott said he was confident of the group's future prospects, and announced that the bookmaker intended to resume its share buy-back programme.

Adjusted basic earnings per share (EPS) pre-exceptionals were also up by 12.2 per cent, and basic EPS post-exceptionals increased 16.5 per cent on the comparative period.

WorldSpreads Group

LSE AIM WSPR.L

Hold

WorldSpreads operates in Dublin and the UK and has commercial relationships in Eastern Europe and South Africa. The Company trades under two distinct brands; SportsSpread for sports betting, which offers spread betting prices on all major sporting events, whereby you win or lose money based on how close or far off you are in your bet, and WorldSpreads for financial market trading, which allows you to use your trading judgement to place bets without having to buy the product you wish to trade. The WorldSpreads business in the UK is a sophisticated trading platform which is FSA regulated, giving the business credibility in the market place, and the IPO indicates that the UK gaming sector can continue to grow by fostering innovative gaming businesses that are non-US facing.

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Financial markets trading

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In a move that points to new growth in the UK gaming sector in the wake of changes to US regulation last year, Olswang has advised new client, WorldSpreads Group on its placing and admission to trading on AIM on 1 August. Upon Admission, the Company’s market capitalisation at the placing price of 47p per share was approximately £18.9 million (€27 million).

WPT Enterprises

NASDAQ WPTE

Buy

WPT Enterprises, Inc. engages in the development, production, and marketing of televised programming based on gaming themes. Its multi-media entertainment business involves in the domestic and international licensing of broadcast and telecast rights. The company licenses the WPT series for telecast in the United States under a license agreement; and has license agreements for the distribution of its WPT episodes in approximately 150 markets, as well as to telecast the Professional Poker Tour series. It also operates an online gaming Web site, WPTonline.com, which features an online poker room and an online casino with a selection of slots and table games.

WPTOnline.com

Poker

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WPT recently announced financial results for the second quarter ended July 1, 2007. Business highlights for the quarter include the delivery of nine episodes of Season V of the World Poker Tour® (WPT) television series, a broadcast-rights agreement with GSN for Season VI of the WPT, a partnership with Grup Peralada, the largest operator of casinos in Spain, television distribution agreements for Season IV and Season V of the WPT in the Netherlands and Australia, which both are included as part of the PartyGaming sponsorship agreement, and the re-launch of the Company's online gaming site. Subsequent to the end of the quarter, the Company signed a five-year agreement with the China Leisure Sports Administrative Center, the government sanctioned body that oversees poker and other leisure sports throughout China, to become the exclusive marketing and sponsorship partner for China's popular card game, Traktor Poker, known as Tuo La Ji. The World Poker Tour will be identified with one of the most popular activities in China, build significant brand awareness throughout the country and derive potential future revenues from sponsorship, television and certain online opportunities.