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MERKUR supports England Hockey vision
The MERKUR UK Community project is supporting an initiative aimed at identifying the nation’s Olympiads of the future following a £10,000 award to promote England Hockey’s ‘Pick up a Stick’ campaign.
With the opening ceremony of the 2024 summer Olympics taking place 26 July in Paris, England Hockey aims to harness the momentum awareness of the sport and in the process, to create an Olympic legacy based on increased participation at all levels.
Tony Boulton, MERKUR UK’s director of public and political relations has overseen the launch and implementation of MERKUR takes the total generated by MERKUR Community to over £60,000 since its launch in January 2024, he said: “As a global celebration featuring athletes from 196 nations participating in 329 events across 32 sports the Olympic engage with current, lapsed and most importantly generations of new players. “England Hockey oversees the sport’s management and development, spanning from grassroots initiatives to elite-level activities and the MERKUR Community funding will go towards facilitating coaching courses so clubs can train additional members to deliver hockey sessions in the local community providing
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states nearly half of participants aged 18 and over in the past four weeks.
equipment for the ‘Adopt a School’ campaign and developing a tool kit of interactive digital resources.
“We are absolutely delighted to be able to help fund the work of England Hockey and encourage greater numbers to play the game regardless of their previous hockey experience.”
Tangam Systems announces its partnership with Caesars Southern Indiana, a leading entertainment and casino destination. The collaboration has highlights Tangam Systems’ SODA analytics and operational optimisation solution software.
Tangam Systems’ SODA platform has provided three different solutions for Caesar Southern Indiana;
Slot Floor Reconfigurations: Caesars Southern Indiana has successfully reconfigured its slot floor to better align with player preferences. This has resulted in enhanced player engagement and improved performance.
Industry Support:Caesars Southern Indiana has benefited from Tangam Systems’ industry leading operations support, resulting in an optimised slot floor that keeps up with the gaming trends.
Advantage Player Identification:SODA’s advanced algorithms specialise in identifying advantage players, ensuring that Caesars Southern Indiana maintains a fair and enjoyable gaming environment for all guests.
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Caesars Southern Indiana stated, “The Caesars Southern Indiana and Tangam Systems partnership has been nothing but flawless. The deep-dive analytics of SODA and the expert training and support is our main tool for driving positive results throughout our slot floor. From slot floor reconfigurations, maximising slot floor yield, pinpointing individual player preferences, and even identifying advantage players, the SODA system, and their team of data and casino experts, has exceeded all of our expectations.”
Tangam’s SVP and head of North America business, Ari Mizrachi, expressed his enthusiasm for the partnership, “we are proud to see the tangible impact of SODA at Caesars Southern Indiana. This partnership exemplifies our commitment to delivering innovative solutions that drive operational excellence and superior guest experiences. We look forward to continuing to support Caesars Southern Indiana in achieving even greater heights.”
The survey outlined that participants were more likely to gamble online than gamble in person (37 percent and 29 percent), however, when removing lottery involvement, 18 percent of participants had gambled in person and 15 percent preferred online gambling. Male participants (52 percent) were more likely than female participants (44 percent) to have participated in any gambling in the past 4 weeks.
The publication provides insights into attitudes and gambling behaviours, preferred gambling choices and overall participation numbers by age and gender. Responses from 9,804 people were used for data and expected to increase to around 20,000 by next year. Tim Miller, executive director of research and policy, explains the purpose of the survey: “One of our aims as a regulator is to ensure we gather the best possible evidence on gambling step forward in our journey on creating a robust source of evidence for gambling in
of a new baseline, against which future changes can be compared1 and as such will prove invaluable in deepening further our understanding of gambling across the country.”
Professor Patrick Sturgis, professor of quantitative social science at the London School of Economics, added: “The new design patterns and trends in gambling behaviour. “With an annual sample size of 20,000 individual interviews across the nations and grained and timely data across a broad range of key indicators.
“Using a push-to-web mixed mode design and random probability sampling from the Postcode Address File, the survey implements state-of-the-art methodology to a very high standard.”
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