Playtech sees no reason for share price fall

Sunday September 10, 2006

Playtech Ltd said it sees no cause for the fall in its part cost this dawn being the word that Sportingbet PLC non-executive chair Peter Dicks has been detained by US Authorities.

Online betting stores corrected being the intelligence on fears of a farther crackdown by US government on online gambling.

Playtech said it does non offer sports betting software and that it is non an online play operator.

It added its operations are the supplying of licensed software to operators in online casino, poker and bingo markets, and thus it does non control a legal account for the part terms drop.