Update from Sportech Racing and Digital 

Sportech Racing and Digital, a division of Sportech PLC, successfully expanded their Tote Services Agreement with Boyd Gaming Corporation (“Boyd Gaming”) upon conclusion of a competitive bidding process. Sportech extended an agreement with Boyd Gaming’s Evangeline Downs and Delta Downs racetracks in Louisiana and further expanded the agreement to include a third thoroughbred racetrack, Belterra Park in Ohio.

Boyd Gaming is one of the largest and most successful casino entertainment companies in the United States, where the company owns and operates 29 gaming properties.

Under the terms of the new agreement, Sportech will provide ToteServices to all three racetracks with its Quantum™ System software – the world’s most widely-deployed pari-mutuel betting software. Betting devices deployed for the Boyd Gaming properties include Sportech’s BetJet® Series for self-service and teller betting as well as the Digital Link® mobile betting app, which delivers a feature-rich betting experience for customers who prefer the convenience of mobile betting on track. Sportech will provide on-site maintenance and support of all Sportech terminals and systems.

Tom Kelso, Director of Sales, North America, commented, “Sportech are delighted to have extended this key U.S. client relationship and to welcome Belterra Park to the Sportech client base. This is a strong endorsement of Sportech’s performance for the Boyd Gaming properties over several years and we look forward to continuing to provide racing and betting fans in Louisiana, and now at Belterra Park, with an exceptional betting experience.”

For more information about Sportech Racing // Digital, visit www.sportech.net.

Update from Sportech’s Bump 50:50

Have you ever wondered how Bump’s 50:50 raffle works? Luckily, Bump’s incredible clients, the Colorado Rockies, created a training video for their team that gives a behind-the-scenes peek.

The Colorado Rockies use the Bump 50:50 platform to generate jackpots to support their charitable mission at every regular season home game. The 50/50 raffle tickets are sold throughout Coors Field by Metro State University Denver Alumni Association volunteers and, as with all 50/50 raffles, half of the jackpot goes to a lucky winner and the other half to the Colorado Rockies Baseball Club Foundation.

For more information about Bump 50:50 and their electronic raffle systems, visit the Bump 50:50 website.

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Also Victor Bigio, our Head of Sportsbook, will be on the panel “HORSE RACING – What can be learned about the country’s existing punters?” in Conference Room 1 on April 25th at 3:50pm. You don’t want to miss it!

For more information about Sportech Racing and Digital visit the Sportech Racing and Digital website and more information on Betting On Sports visit the SBC Website.

Update from Sportech’s Bump 50:50

Bump 50:50, a division of Sportech Racing and Digital, successfully raised $143,000, comprised of three individual jackpots, over the weekend at Texas Motor Speedway.

Last year Bump announced the partnership with the Texas Motor Speedway for electronic 50/50 raffles to be conducted over race weekends to help the organization’s charity, Speedway Children’s Charities. Dan Tanenbaum, President of Bump 50:50, recognized, “this is a great win for our NASCAR client”.

For more information about Bump 50:50 and their electronic raffle systems, visit the Bump 50:50 website.

Update from Sportech Venues:

Sportech was in the Connecticut capital of Hartford on February 26^thto testify before the Connecticut Legislature’s Public Safety Committee in support of legislation that would permit regulated sports betting through Connecticut’s current licensed betting operators, including Sportech.

Sportech Executive Chairman Richard McGuire, Sportech Venues, Inc. President Ted Taylor, and Sportech Chief Legal Officer Rich Pingel testified that Sportech has been delivering responsible betting entertainment in Connecticut for 25 years and has invested heavily in its Connecticut operations.

They asserted that sports betting is a logical and reasonable extension of services it already delivers through its 16 betting venues and via online and mobile betting operations.

They emphasized Sportech’s continued commitment to the State of Connecticut, its residents, and the 400 employees of Sportech who call Connecticut home, and reaffirmed that Sportech is regulated and ready to partner with the State to deliver responsible sports betting to consumers and new tax revenues to the state.

For more information about Sportech’s position on sports betting in Connecticut visit their information website.

Update from Bump 50:50

Bump 50:50, a division of Sportech Racing and Digital, hit a record jackpot at this year’s Daytona 500 event. Daytona International Speedway raised $233,022 using the Bump 50:50 platform, a record jackpot for the 3-day event.

50/50 raffle ticket proceeds benefit Vet Tix, Daytona International Speedway’s chosen charity, which provides major sporting event tickets to more than 21 million Military Service Members and Veterans.

The jackpot of the 50/50 raffle is split in half, raising $116,511 for Vet Tix while $116,511 goes home with the lucky winning ticket holder.

For more information about Bump 50:50 and their electronic raffle systems, visit the Bump 50:50 website.

Update from Sportech Venues

The case for legal, regulated sports betting in Connecticut is clear, as Sportech lays out in a new video published by Sportech to support its efforts to establish Sportech’s Winners as the Regulated and Ready partner for sports betting in the State.

For more information about Sportech’s position on sports betting in Connecticut visit their information website.

Update from Sportech’s Bump 50:50

 Bump 50:50 customer the Montreal Canadiens hit a record jackpot on February 2nd, using the Bump 50:50 platform to reach their all-time highest regular season jackpot of CN$125,610.

The 50/50 raffle tickets are sold in the Bell Centre by Foundation volunteers from Montreal Canadiens Children’s Foundation and, as with all 50/50 raffles, half of the jackpot went to the lucky winner and the other half to fund the foundation’s charitable mission.

For more information about Bump 50:50 and their electronic raffle systems, visit the Bump 50:50 website.

Update from Sportech Venues:

Sportech Venues in Connecticut is spreading the word about the opportunity for Sports Betting in Connecticut, as State lawmakers take up consideration of laws to regulate Sports Betting during the current legislative session.

Sportech has been working to communicate its position on the introduction of a common-sense framework for legal, regulated sports betting in Connecticut to combat current illegal activity and provide consumer protections while also delivering tax dollars to the State.

With a campaign that launched in early February, Sportech is making sure that its Winners, MyWinners.com, and Bobby V’s Restaurant & Sports Bar patrons know that the legalization and regulation of sports betting is under consideration in Connecticut and that Sportech will be ready to take action as Connecticut’s REGULATED and READY partner for betting, if and when legalization occurs.

For more information about Sportech’s position on sports betting in Connecticut visit their information website.

Update from Sportech PLC

On 1^st February, Sportech announced it completed the acquisition of 100% of LOT.TO Systems Limited (LOT.TO), a leading UK-based digital gaming technology business.

This acquisition will provide Sportech with a leading digital gaming platform, iLottery, and a specialist team focused on innovative digital gaming technologies. It will support Sportech’s opportunity to grow through broadening the suite of gaming services we offer currently and will solidify our global gaming capability’s and services position.

LOT.TO is recognised as a digital specialist in the lottery sector providing turn-key solutions to its B2B client base.  Whilst its proprietary ‘Rapid Lotto’ and lotto betting verticals online have been its core consumer products, LOT.TO’s iLottery platform has the capability to operate in any gambling vertical including self-service POS terminals plus online and mobile interfaces.

Richard McGuire, Executive Chairman of Sportech, said: “This acquisition will enhance the digital capabilities across all Sportech business lines.  In addition, it will accelerate a strategy to further develop those growth opportunities, consolidate our sports betting capability, enhance our existing Lottery product capabilities and support the digital development of our global pari-mutuel capabilities in an efficient and effective manner.”

For more information on LOT.TO visit the website here

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