Just a few days after the climax of the World Series of Poker Europe event, another big poker tournament was played to a finish in London. The second leg of the European Poker Tour came to the capital with the EPT London event held at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino.

The online gambling sector in the UK was given a strong vote of confidence this week from a high profile figure who said it was at present “largely unaffected by the credit crunch”.

A new survey has discovered that more than one in ten men in the UK are gambling online. Market research companies YouGov together with Ipsos MORI interviewed 6,000 adults up and down the UK to determine how many of them participated in online gambling.

This week saw the launch of BBC’s three part comedy entitled Sunshine which stars Steve Coogan and deals with the life of a gambling addict who just can’t help raising the stakes.

Leading high street bookmakers have attacked news reports that they are driving smaller operators out of business.