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 more than one million, with active users up to 443,300 at the end of April, up 57% on a year earlier.

CEO David Yu said :’It has been a very exciting year during which significant steps have been taken towards transforming Betfair from a mainly Uk-based betting exchange to the world’s leading legal e-gaming site.

The UK company is an exchange that allows people to bet against each other on racing and other sports online for a small comission and this company has really made a major contribution to the development of the gaming industry in the UK over the last seven years.

Betfair allows its clients to ability to be the bookmaker as they can bet against or ‘lay’ horses in the same way as bookmakers, or their customers can bet on them in the conventional fashion usually at better prices that available elsewhere.