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John Bollom Highlights YGAM Contributions as Safer Gambling Charity Celebrates 10th Year
As Bacta celebrates its 50th year, President John Bollom has expressed the trade association’s admiration and congratulations to safer gambling charity YGAM which is also marking a milestone anniversary in 2024.
YGAM, the award-winning charity which was founded by Lee Willows in 2014 with a mission to use education as a tool to raise awareness and help safeguard against gaming and gambling harms, has made a key contribution to the safer gambling debate delivering numerous projects many of which have been supported by Bacta members.
Heralding YGAM’s impact John Bollom noted: “After YGAM was founded by Lee Willows, Anne and Keith Evans joined the fledgling organisation in 2016 following the tragedy of their son Alan Lockhart’s suicide after years of gambling addiction. YGAM quickly became a powerful agency for change working in partnership with a broad church of stakeholders including Bacta and many of our members.
“As chief executive of YGAM Lee was instrumental in engaging with the industry and demonstrating how it was possible to work in partnership without fear of compromising on core principles.
“YGAM’s success can be measured both culturally and in terms of what it has delivered.
“Since 2014 its portfolio of evidence-based programmes has reached over 3-million children and young people. In addition 17,000 delegates have been trained by YGAM including more than 11,000 teachers.
“It’s this contribution which has earned it the respect and admiration of stakeholders including Parliamentarians, academics and the low stake land-based gambling entertainment sector represented by Bacta.”
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New software option replaces standard table announcements across cash games, tournaments and formats including All-In or Fold and Spin & Gold.
GGPoker on July 9, 2026 announced Action Voice, a new software feature that lets players replace standard table announcements with voice packs recorded by poker personalities, including Doyle Brunson.
The initial lineup named by the operator includes ten-time WSOP bracelet winner Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi and Kevin Martin, with additional voices “to be confirmed in the near future.”
Action Voice is available now across GGPoker’s product offering, including cash games, tournaments and formats such as All-In or Fold and Spin & Gold. Players can select voice packs in the desktop client via ‘My Page’ and then ‘My Action Voice’.
“Doyle Brunson may not be at the tables in the way that he used to, but his voice still can be,” said Sarne Lightman, Managing Director of GGPoker. “Action Voice is our way of keeping the legends who built this game part of the everyday experience – right alongside the players carrying it forward today, like Daniel and Michael. It’s a unique and fun new element to our software, and we can’t wait to reveal the rest of the lineup soon.”
GGPoker said more Action Voice packs will be announced in the coming weeks as it rolls out the full roster.
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GGPoker introduces Action Voice, letting players hear poker icons – including Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi and more – call their action at the tables
GGPoker, the World’s Biggest Poker Room, today unveiled Action Voice, a unique feature that gives players the option to replace GGPoker’s standard table announcements with those voiced by some of poker’s most iconic figures. For the first time, players can bet, raise, call, and fold to the voice of ten-time WSOP bracelet winner and back-to-back Main Event champion Doyle Brunson – alongside a growing roster of legends including Daniel Negreanu, Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi, Kevin Martin, and additional names to be confirmed in the near future.
Action Voice is now available to all GGPoker players, who can select their preferred voice pack in the GGPoker software and hear it call their action while playing their favorite GGPoker games, including cash games, tournaments, and exclusive formats such as All-In or Fold and Spin & Gold.
“Doyle Brunson may not be at the tables in the way that he used to, but his voice still can be,” said Sarne Lightman, Managing Director of GGPoker. “Action Voice is our way of keeping the legends who built this game part of the everyday experience – right alongside the players carrying it forward today, like Daniel and Michael. It’s a unique and fun new element to our software, and we can’t wait to reveal the rest of the lineup soon.”
To select a new voice from within the desktop software, click on ‘My Page’, then ‘My Action Voice’. Choose your preferred voice by selecting the avatar, click ‘Apply’ and you are ready to hit the tables!
Additional voices will be revealed in the coming weeks as GGPoker rolls out the full Action Voice roster.
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International bettors back Haaland’s Norway to beat England in World Cup Quarter Final Clash
Kaizen Gaming shares Betano users’ predictions on teams heading to the World Cup semi-finals
As the World Cup moves into the last eight stage, Kaizen Gaming unveils exclusive proprietary data from its Betano platform, which reveals Argentina, Norway, Spain and France as the most backed teams by users globally to progress into the semi-finals.
Predicting the teams to qualify to the semi-finals (selections from the “To Qualify” market):
- Norway backed by 75% of users to qualify over England
- Argentina favoured by 80% of users to win over Switzerland
- Spain narrowly predicted to come out on top over Belgium with 55% of users’ bets
- France has been selected by 67% of users to pass through Morocco
With regards to two of the biggest surprises of the tournament this far, Brazil’s defeat to Norway and Germany’s elimination by Paraguay, it seems that for Betano users the shock wasn’t that big. In fact, 42% of users had seen Paraguay’s qualification coming, and 45% had predicted Norway getting through Brazil to reach the quarterfinals.
*The data shared has been extracted on the morning of July 8, 2026 from across 18 markets, excluding the UK. The international data sources may vary according to betting option availability per market.
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