While parent company Sportech continues its transformation to become a gaming business with international reach, Littlewoods e-gaming division, which operates littlewoodscasino.com and littlewoodspoker.com, successfully built upon the improvements made last year by more than doubling its first half operating profit to £1.1m. Gross win increased by 29% to £6.6m, with the total number of active customers up 26% to 23,000.