Bookmakers were left counting the costs after joint favourite, Comply or Die won the 2008 John Smiths Grand National. This year’s Aintree spectacle is estimated to have attracted over £400 million in bets placed in betting shops and on the internet and following the result, bookmakers are reporting big losses on the race for the […]

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The Sportingbet betting site is now amongst the best in Europe and this is the viewpoint of the egaming awards sponsored by Income Access and yes Income Access supply the software for Sportingbet to power their sports book affiliate programme.
Betfair won the operator of the year award and no one could deny them this as […]

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Betfair really is Betting fair and that is the message that should be taken from the Kieron Fallon trial in that it while Betfair has permitted all and sundry to lay sports events they now provide the paper trail to catch those that try to make profit from trying to influence results and while this […]

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The Betfair Poker product which has only been introduced in the last year is someway responsible for the significant additional numbers visiting the site as active user numbers are right up to over one million users today and that is a significant improvement as they said today that the number of registered customers is now […]

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A new Betfair big bets record has been set by a Rugby punter with the Australian branch of Betfair who has bet the kitchen sink on New Zealand to win the 2007 Rugby World Cup on Betfair the number one betting exchange and could well be one of the largest in sports betting history.
The bet […]

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The Channel 4 Racing bets are all on once again after the a firm owned by the Dubai government began exclusive negotiations for a two-year £4m sponsorship deal and this will permit the Channel 4 coverage to continue as it was reported that it would come off the air if a new sporsor was not […]

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The Reality Show Big Brother will have about £1million will be gambled in the final twenty four hours of the show accoring to bookmakers and the clear favourite are the twins, Amanda and Sam Marchant, overwhelming favourites to take the £100,000 prize tonight.
One firm, Boylesports, is convinced they will win and has already paid out […]

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One of the great things about Betfair and laying a horse is that it permits you to become the bookmaker and it is so simple to do with an account on Betfair the betting exchange. betfair works by putting together backers with layers of any event online and the winning part of the bet pays […]

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The online sports betting exchange Betfair could make a Horse Racing bet in the coming months as the online bookmaker totesport is about to pull the plug on their association with Channel 4 there are a number of other gaming operators looking to fill their shoes and in particular Betfair the online betting exchange which […]

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Betfair have been forced to take the decision to void £3.6m of illegal bets placed on a tennis match in Poland due to suspicious betting patterns. Betfair said it had acted “in the interests of maintaining integrity and fairness in all our markets” after the price on the world No4, Nikolay Davydenko, drifted out after […]

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