The bingo club and casino operator Rank Group has set its sights on further growth as it announced strong set of results and profit growth across all brands in the year to June 30.

Henry Birch, Chief Executive of the Rank Group, announced a full year group revenue amounted to £738.3m ($1.2b), up 4% from the £707.7m posted during the previous 12 months.

The company enjoyed 21% surge in digital revenue, while operating profits in its digital division climbed 14% to £3.1m despite the UK’s 15% point of consumption tax on online gambling that has cost the group £6.6m since its introduction in December.

Rank’s brick and mortar businesses Grosvenor casinos and Mecca bingo clubs also saw growth in revenue, up by 8% to £423.4m and 2% to £289.6 respectively.

Warren Buffet once said, “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.”  Today, a business is at risk of a situation that can jeopardize its reputation in just a few seconds with a click of a button. Imagine how this single click can maneuver a digital wildfire, spread across your industry and the public, grow and burn every bit of what you have worked hard for years. Not a good sight, right?

This is the dilemma organizations face today and yet, there are still too many companies that don’t have an existing management plan to protect and rebuild its reputation once a crisis strikes. In a world where everything spreads quickly, you should know that FAST is the name of the game. Here are tips on how you can manage a crisis in the digital age:

Assess the issue

When a situation affecting your organization, your stakeholder or the public takes place online –let’s say it’s a negative post about your service shared a hundred times on Facebook– the first thing you should do is get the FACTS. There are plenty of trolls out there and you want to make sure that what you are dealing with is/are ONLY the fact/s.

Lee Davy brings you a quick recap of all the weeks poker news including Isaac Haxton owning up to knowledge that Brian Hastings was using the NoelHayes account, a million bucks lands in the bank account of Omar Zazay, and much more.

The NoelHayes saga continues to motor along like Little House on the Prairie. Three plot twists to speak of, the first involving one of the most respected people in poker.

PokerStars Team Online sponsored pro, Isaac Haxton, has been revealed as the PokerStars pro who was aware that Brian Hastings had been playing on PokerStars, from the U.S., using the NoelHayes account.

David ‘Bakes’ Baker was the player who spread the news that a PokerStars player was involved before directly naming Haxton as the culprit. Haxton returned fire with a statement on 2+2 where he said that he only became aware that Hastings was using the account after the three-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet holder reached out to him via Skype on the last Sunday of SCOOP.

Lee Davy dissects An Astronauts Guide to Life on Earth by the Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield and finds 5 tips that can improve your poker game.

Chris Hadfield is not only the author of An Astronauts Guide to Life on Earth, and the first Canadian to ever walk in space; he even out Bowied David by singing Space Oddity from the International Space Station (ISS) and turning it into a video that has been seen by millions of people around the world.

He is a great man. He wrote a great book. I highly recommend it. Here are 5 lessons from Hadfield that I think will improve your poker game.

1# Create a Better You

Casino operator Las Vegas Sands won’t make its original deadline for opening its new Parisian Macao resort casino.

LVS’ Asian division Sands China reported its H1 earnings last week, and the report contained a warning that its in-development $2.7b Parisian property on Macau’s Cotai strip might not meet its April 2016 opening target.

That’s a problem, as the company is required to meet that deadline or risk forfeiting its concessions on the land underneath the resort as well as its Sands Cotai Central resort. This would result in Sands losing the ability to operate any facilities on these properties and force it to book a charge covering all or some of the combined $6b in capitalized construction costs related to these two properties.

On Wednesday, Sands China told the Macau Daily Times that it had applied to the Macau government for an extension on this deadline. The company now hopes to open the Parisian sometime in the second half of 2016.

South Korea casino Kangwon Land managed to boost revenue despite a sharp decrease in tourism following an infectious disease outbreak.

Kangwon Land, the only one of South Korea’s 17 casinos that allows local residents to gamble, reported revenue up 9.3% year-on-year to KRW 389b (US $328.2m) in the three months ending June 30. All but KRW 10.2b of the property’s revenue came from gaming. Operating profit rose 19.7% to KRW 148b but net profit fell 3.2% to KRW 97.4b ($82.2m).

Profits were undone by KRW 23b in non-operating costs, a nearly tenfold increase year-on-year. Slightly less than half this sum came via additional tax costs following a tax probe at the end of last year, the result of which the company has appealed.

Apart from these one-offs, casino metrics were solid, with casino visits up 4% year-on-year to 723k, the third straight quarter of increased traffic. Table drop was up 7.3%, drop per customer rose 3.2% and hold rate improved 0.2 points to 23.2%. All gaming segments posted gains, with slots up 13.8%, VIP gaming up 13.5% and mass market tables up 3%.

Lee Davy takes a look at five ways in which constraints can be viewed in a more optimistic light to help you improve your poker game.

1# Basketball Shot Clock

I am from the UK. That means I have a stiff upper lip, drink copious amounts of tea, and no fuck all about basketball. But each time I watch it I get excited. And it has nothing to do with the excitement of seeing a little white dude trying to compete with all of these 12-feet black guys (man I would not like to be that guy in the showers). It’s the 24-second shot clock.

Without that clock, basketball would lose something. There are people who could view that clock as a constraint. I view it as a great way to inject excitement into a game, which in turn broadens the game’s appeal. Do you see players complaining about the shot clock? It’s part of the game. Somewhere in the annals of time they adapted.