UK bookmaker Ladbrokes extends their portfolio of virtual products through their relationship with Inspired Gaming and temporarily drops their eSports market from their sportsbook.

Back when gambling was more important than feeding my son, I was a sucker for a system. I was the guy at the end of the email chain signing up for the next big secret that would make me millions.

They never worked.

Like the time I had a Greyhound Martingale system and reached the bookies betting limit before I could claw back my money. Or the time when I got into arbitrage betting and came home one day to realise one bookmaker had failed to put any of my bets on.

In this week’s Calling The Clock we bring you news of a potential merger between William Hill and Amaya Gaming, a trio of tales from partypoker including the opening of their new Twitch channel, and lots more.

The major story of the week is the talk surrounding a proposed reverse takeover with William Hill taking over Amaya Gaming. Both Hills and Amaya have seemingly been in the shop window for a Betfair/PaddyPower type deal for some time now. Hills recently turned their back on a three-way deal with Rank & 888, while former Amaya God, David Baazov, pulled out of his plan to take the company private, GVC has gone quiet, and rumours of Isaia Scheinberg taking the company back under his wings are yet to fruit.

The deal, if it went ahead, would expose PokerStars online poker players to William Hills sportsbook, and Hills punters to the largest online poker room in the world.

The deal could hinge on two major issues. The first would be Hills exposure to the unregulated waters that Amaya likes to swim in, and the second is a yet unresolved legal dispute ongoing in Kentucky that could cost Amaya $870m in damages. Hills won’t want any part of that bill.

In this week’s Calling The Clock we bring you news of a potential merger between William Hill and Amaya Gaming, a trio of tales from partypoker including the opening of their new Twitch channel, and lots more.

The major story of the week is the talk surrounding a proposed reverse takeover with William Hill taking over Amaya Gaming. Both Hills and Amaya have seemingly been in the shop window for a Betfair/PaddyPower type deal for some time now. Hills recently turned their back on a three-way deal with Rank & 888, while former Amaya God, David Baazov, pulled out of his plan to take the company private, GVC has gone quiet, and rumours of Isaia Scheinberg taking the company back under his wings are yet to fruit.

The deal, if it went ahead, would expose PokerStars online poker players to William Hills sportsbook, and Hills punters to the largest online poker room in the world.

The deal could hinge on two major issues. The first would be Hills exposure to the unregulated waters that Amaya likes to swim in, and the second is a yet unresolved legal dispute ongoing in Kentucky that could cost Amaya $870m in damages. Hills won’t want any part of that bill.

In this week’s Calling The Clock we bring you news of a potential merger between William Hill and Amaya Gaming, a trio of tales from partypoker including the opening of their new Twitch channel, and lots more.

The major story of the week is the talk surrounding a proposed reverse takeover with William Hill taking over Amaya Gaming. Both Hills and Amaya have seemingly been in the shop window for a Betfair/PaddyPower type deal for some time now. Hills recently turned their back on a three-way deal with Rank & 888, while former Amaya God, David Baazov, pulled out of his plan to take the company private, GVC has gone quiet, and rumours of Isaia Scheinberg taking the company back under his wings are yet to fruit.

The deal, if it went ahead, would expose PokerStars online poker players to William Hills sportsbook, and Hills punters to the largest online poker room in the world.

The deal could hinge on two major issues. The first would be Hills exposure to the unregulated waters that Amaya likes to swim in, and the second is a yet unresolved legal dispute ongoing in Kentucky that could cost Amaya $870m in damages. Hills won’t want any part of that bill.

The largest shareholder of UK betting operator William Hill has publicly opposed the company merging with Canadian online gambling operator Amaya Gaming, the parent company of PokerStars.

Last Friday, word broke that Hills and Amaya were considering a “merger of equals” that would create an omni-channel gambling behemoth. On Thursday, London-based Parvus Asset Management, which owns 14.3% of Hills, said it was “extremely concerned” by the merger talk.

In an open letter to Hills’ board of directors, Parvus said the proposed tie-up was based on “limited strategic logic.” Parvus co-founders Mads Eg Gensmann and Edoardo Mercadante told the board to “stop wasting valuable time and shareholder resources pursuing this value-destroying deal,” while urging the board to pursue “all alternative options available, including a sale” of the UK bookmaker.

Gensmann later told Reuters that it “shouldn’t take more than five minutes of the board’s time to realize this deal doesn’t pass the smell test.” Parvus’ principal objections center around Amaya deriving the vast majority of its revenues from online poker, which Parvus called the financially least-attractive segment of online gambling.