The UK football pools company Sportech launched a major £5.5 million advertising and promotional campaign this month aimed primarily at driving traffic to its New Football Pools website at Football Pools.com.

The British team as a whole have had their best Olympic medal total in the history of the summer games. All in all the British team won a total of 47 medals – with 19 golds, 13 silvers and 15 bronze medals at the Beijing Games.

A Devon man who excelled at online gambling was jailed recently after he took a trip to America to play poker rather than put in community service hours imposed by the courts previously.

When he’s not gliding through water with ridiculous ease and speed Olympic legend Michael Phelps likes nothing better than playing a hand of poker.

Robert Maheu, the FBI agent ad CIA fixer who worked for Las Vegas casino mogul Howard Hughes has died at the age of 91.