Neil Channing

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Nick Luck alongside Neil Channing and Will Kajani for your favorite political betting podcast.

I don't know how many there are, to be honest with you, but what I will tell you is that Neil has a max bet for you, which is a good job because this is Bet the House.

[upbeat music] Yes, welcome along to the podcast that never tells you how to vote, but does tell you how you are going to vote.

... for the two, for the two listeners that there are here in TW 11, you might...

I can just hear them shouting just from down the road.

What about the Lib Dem? What about the Lib Dems? What about the Lib Dems, Neil Channing?

I don't know.

He's won over 25 million, and, um, he's put, he's put a tale in there.

And of course Neil Channing's well known for his poker as well as everything else and, and, and he's in there too.

And Jeff Kimber's another, another poker player.

We've got Barry Carter, who's written, who's wrote many books on poker strategy.

Um, um, uh, quite a long time ago, and he's put a story in there.

And another one, James Moore, who's actually the head, he's the principal betting investigator for the BHA at the moment.

But before that, he used to work with, uh, Neil Channing and Nigel Sealy, who's also done a story in the book when he used to work at a spread betting firm.

So they've-

And the war of words intensified today as Stuart Kenny, the founder of Paddy Power back in 1988... and now a critic of the gambling industry, laid into Betfred founder Fred Doan, accusing him of scaremongering.

Neil Channing has his say on that.

Another controversial figure, Peter Volandis, though often extremely successful in his tenure as the boss of Racing NSW.

Will he step down? Michael Felgate has his say.

And the former boss of Paddy Power, Stuart Kenny, who co-founded the company in 1988, has issued a fairly significant rejoinder to the comments made by Fred Doan about the future of the industry in light of the government's proposals to raise machine gaming duty.

He's accused Fred Doan of scaremongering over the potential damage of increasing taxes on the gambling sector, saying he used the same script when he was still in the industry, according to a report by Ashley Armstrong in today's Financial Times.

Our gambling industry analyst, Neil Channing, is with me now.

Neil, what do you make of Stuart Kenny's intervention?