Coin-op / Pay-to-play News

Too little too late, is the message which is going back to the British Government, which plans to help the UK bingo industry this week with extra payout machines. It is widely expected that the £500 jackpots on Category B3 machines will be doubled.
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The online poker business has been very successful for Funworld, managing director Josef Ohlinger told InterGame. At the IMA trade show in Düsseldorf, the company showed its Play4fun terminal in single and double formats.
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Six British pubs are closing each day. Pubs, the backbone of the UK street market in AWP machines, are in deep trouble. The British beer and Pub Association - which has a meeting next week at the Ibis Hotel during the IGX show - has gone on record with the statistic that 39 pubs are closing each week on average. This is a rate 20 times higher than three years ago.
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Webak of Austria is setting up a new company to look after its German business. Webak Deutschland is in the course of being established and the company is already recruiting staff.
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Germany's IMA trade show closes its doors at the Dusseldorf Messe today at the end of a four-day run.
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The UK industry was saddened earlier this week to hear of the death of Harry Case, a lifetime operator of seaside arcades and adult gaming centres. Harry, one of the best-known of the South Wales operators, was also a familiar figure at trade industry events and BACTA meetings where his common sense and humour were always welcomed.
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