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Bet365 Bookmaker Company Overview

bet365 Sportsbook is widely considered one of the world’s leading online gambling entertainment companies with over 14 million customers in 200 different countries. Bet365’s gambling services are available in seventeen different languages and has a support team of more than 2,000 people located in the United Kingdom and Gibraltar.

Bet365 is not just a sports betting website, they cover all facets of gambling including more than 250 traditional online casino games, live casino services with real-life dealers, online poker with that always has a lively number of active tables going, skill-games gambling as well as online bingo. All of the aforementioned gambling services Bet365 have are great but sports betting definitely is their forte! They feature the hottest sports wagering options 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on all major sports including Football/soccer, Tennis, Cricket, Golf, Horse Racing, Greyhound Racing, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Snooker and much more.

Bet365 is a masterpiece of a business that was created by billionaire businesswomen, Denise Coates. Today, Denise shares the limelight of Bet365’s success with her billionaire brother (John Coates) and business savvy daddy (Peter Coates) however, it was this econometrics graduate of the family that set Stock-on-Trent a fire with her business acumen and vison of how the Internet would revolutionize the way punters bet on sports.

Denise conceived of Bet365 in January 2000 and spent a year building this online betting website and launched it in 2001. Bet365 has grown into one of the world’s largest online gambling companies and is seen as a leader in innovative sports betting by top British bookmakers.

Denise’s Bet365 is only 15 years old and has already placed her as being number 28 on Forbes magazine’s annual rich list with an personal fortune estimated to be USD $2.5 billion. If Forbes is accurate, this makes Denise the 723rd richest person in the world! Denise also became a recipient of the OBE (Order of the British Empire) in 2012 and was tagged as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Woman’s Hour at BBC Radio 4 in 2013. Denise has started to share her wealth with others over the past couple of years via the Bet365 Foundation which has donated £100m to 20 UK charities between 2012 and 2015.

Bet365 won the prestigious “Operator of the Year” award in 2010 at the eGaming Review Operator Awards held by eGaming Review magazine.

Why Bet365 Bookmaker?

• Bet365 is full-service online gambling company that offering fixed-odds sports betting, in-play sports wagering, Internet poker, a vast variety of online casino games, skill games within a gambling environment and online bingo rooms. They also offer video streams of all top sporting events for their customers.
• Bet365 was founded in the year 2001 and has grown into one of the world’s largest online gambling companies based on providing excellent gambling services via the Internet to a global audience.
• Bet365 were one of the first online bookmakers to offer in-play live betting on sporting contests and continue to always have an abundance of wagering options daily. They broadcast more than 19,000 live sporting events on an annual basis . Evidence of Bet365’s commitment to product and service excellence regarding their in-play betting is their investment in vFabric private cloud technologies to deliver these live in-play services to their players. By using this vFabric technology, Bet365 is able to handle thousands of changes per second, and the data latency has decreased to less than two seconds. This development has enabled Bet365 to deliver a continuous stream of real-time information whilst simultaneously receiving and processing large amounts of incoming customer data.
• Bet365 maintain a very popular sports information website for punters that features the best in news focused on betting as well as sports. Sports enthusiasts will always find previews on the hottest games, match-up reports, recaps on teams’ previous meetings as well as stories that sports bettors find insightful from betting perspectives. Bet365’s sports information website covers betting news on all the major sports including football/soccer, cricket, golf, tennis, horse racing, greyhound racing, rugby, snooker as well as many other sporting events from all over the world.

Bet365 Bookmaker Accreditation & Accolades

• The Bet365 Group employs over 2,000 people and is one of the United Kingdom’s largest private companies.
• Bet365 is recognized as one of the world’s largest online gambling groups with over 14 million customers in 200 different countries.
• Bet365 is affiliated with IBAS (Independent Betting Adjudication Service) and abides by the decisions IBAS renders on any disputes their customers not resolved via Bet365’s internal company player services.
• Bet365’s parent company, Hillside (Gaming) LP is licensed by the Government of Gibraltar and regulated by the Gibraltar Gambling Commission (RGL number 077)
• For sports betting, Bet365 is licensed and regulated by the United Kingdom’s Gambling Commission and can be verified via this link
• Bet365 has a bookmaking business in Darwin, Australia and it is regulated and licensed by the Northern Territory Government of Australia. Verification of Bet365’s Australian gaming license can be viewed here.
• Bet365 was ranked as one of the fastest growing privately owned technology, media and telecoms companies in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 league table.
• eGaming Review magazine has ranked Bet365 the number one Internet gaming company in 2010, 2011 and 2012 as part of its annual Power 50 list of the top 50 most influential Internet gaming companies.
• Denise Coates, founder and joint CEO of Bet365, received a CBE in the 2012 Queen’s new year honours list for services to the community and business.
• Tristram Julian William Hunt, FRHistS who is an MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central in Staffordshire, England said the following of Bet365, “This is a great British business success story and we should be hugely proud to have it in the heart of Stoke-on-Trent. This is a company that provides high quality, well-paid jobs for the city, and unlike some other gambling businesses it pays its taxes in the UK.”

Bet365 Essential Data

Gaming Services Offered –
Fixed Odds Sports Betting, Live In-Play Wagering on Sports While Games in Progress, More than 250 Traditional Online Casino Games, Live Casino Gaming that Features Real-life Dealers Serving Customers in Real-Time, An Online Poker Room that is reported to have at least 1,000 Players Per Day, Internet Skill Games in a Gambling Environment and Online Bingo Rooms.

Countries Serviced –
Bet365 services customers in more than 150 countries in all parts of the world. The best way to discover if you can become a Bet365 Member is to first scan the “Countries NOT Serviced” list on this page and if your country is not listed, go to Bet365’s registration page and see if your country is available as an option within the drop-down options for Country.

Languages Supported –
Bulgarian, Chinese, Danish, English, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Swedish.

Currencies Accepted –
Argentine Pesos, Australian Dollars, Brazilian Reais, Bulgarian Leva, Canadian Dollars, Chinese Yuan Renminbi, Czech Korun, Danish Kroner, Euros, Hong Kong Dollars, Hungarian Forint, Icelandic Krónur, Japanese Yen, Malaysian Ringgits, Mexican Pesos, New Taiwan Dollars, New Zealand Dollars, Norwegian Kroner, Romanian Lei, Singapore Dollars, South African Rand, Swedish Kronor, Thai Baht, UK Pounds Sterling and US Dollars.

Payment Methods Offered –
1-Tap, Bank Wire Transfer, Check/Cheque, CLICK2PAY, Direct/Local/Fast Bank Transfers, EntroPay, Maestro, MasterCard, NETELLER, paysafecard, Skrill, 1-Tap, Ukash, Visa Delta, and Visa Electron.

Countries NOT Serviced –
American Samoa, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, French Guiana, Guam, Guadeloupe, Hong Kong, Netherlands, Northern Mariana Islands, Martinique, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Spain, Syria, Turkey, United States of America, U.S. Virgin Islands as well as the United States Minor Outlying Islands

Corporate Office Locations –
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom – Gibraltar – Darwin, Australia