Posts Tagged "Skybet"

Sky Bet’s client scoops the Super 6 jackpot worth £250,000

Sky Bet’s client scoops the Super 6 jackpot worth £250,000

It was a brilliant day for one client of Sky Bet after he miraculously won the Super 6 jackpot and pocketed a total of £250,000. The winner who goes by the name Owen Burrows is a 25 year old who resides in Cambridge. He apparently made a total of six FA Cup correct predictions that would see him accrue the substantial amount. He claimed that he wasn’t expecting all these games to go as he had predicted, it was like a dream come true for him.

The six games gave out total odds of 770,000/1. The games which he predicted were as follows, a 3-1 win of Arsenal over Sunderland, Stoke to win 2-1 away at Doncaster, Crystal Palace to beat Southampton by 2-1 margin, Manchester City to thrush Norwich by 3 goals to nil, West Ham to win by a solitary goal against Wolves while the same margin of win be awarded to Watford against Newcastle. To his surprise, all his prediction came out to reality as respective teams won by the same margin Owen had predicted.

After the amazing win, the Head of PR at Sky Bet, Sandro di Michele was the one who came out first to give a congratulation message to the lucky winner. He claimed that for the first time, a jackpot has been clinched via correct scores predictions of the FA Cup. It was a unique thing to happen and he dearly congratulated Mr. Owen on behalf of the entire Sky Bet team for his massive win.

He continued to claim that the lone strike by West Ham striker Nikica Jevalic proved to be the turning point for Mr. Owen who stood beyond all doubts to win £250,000 in a Super 6 selection. Forever, he will have the memories of that lone goal scored in Upton Park.

Read More

Sky Bet and Football League extends their deal

Sky Bet and Football League extends their deal

The English second division tier Football League and their main sponsors Sky Bet have decided to sign a three year deal as an extension to their existing one.

Sky Bet has been the main sponsor of the League as from 2013 and signed a three year deal that is scheduled to end in August 2016. However, the new extension deal is scheduled to start from August 2016 and scheduled to end in August 2019. The deal comes to a great advantage to the Football League’s 72 teams who will oversee their income increase drastically.

The Football League has been in existence for a long time with teams in first to third place at the end of every season being promoted to the higher league. Those finishing at the bottom three positions definitely get a demotion to the lower league. The Football League recently claimed that it will change its identity to EFL and with Sky Bet as their main sponsor up to 2019; the league will be entitled as Sky Bet EFL. However, respective names of various individual leagues including Championship, League one and League two will not change.

Richard Flint who is the Sky Bet Chief Executive claimed that it was with pleasure that his company has extended their deal with Football League for another three years. He claimed that it is the durability, the amazing fans and the entertaining clubs that have attributed for the deal extension. He concluded that he was happy to invest in such a competitive league and claimed that they would bring this enticement to their betting clients.

At the same time, the Chief Executive of the Football League Shaun Harvey claimed that the main agenda of the League lies on its future and this case includes the renaming of the League. He claimed to be pleased in the manner in which their main sponsors have faith in them to an extent of extending their deal up to 2019. He concluded that the contract extension is a good way to conclude their competitive year and on behalf of the clubs and other stakeholders, he thanked Sky Bet for their support to date.

Read More

BetVictor Launches In-House Developed cash out service

BetVictor Launches In-House Developed cash out service

Licensed and operated by Gibraltar, BetVictor is launching its cash out service for its sports betting this week. Following its competitor’s bet365, William Hill and Skybet, BetVictor is the latest bookmaker to install acash out service, opening up a new solution developed by its in-house technology team.

To begin with, Cash out services will be made available to UK customers across all networksfor in-play betting and pre-match in five of the most popular football markets. This includes Win-Draw-Win, Correct Score, Both Teams to Score (BTTS), The Win &BTTS market and over/under goals.

Considering that BetVictor’s in-house technology team developed the service, they are qualified to make adjustments and developmentto the service more fastercompared to outsourcing the solution.

The launch of cash out service follows the release of the new version of BetVictor’s iOS app into the Apple’s App store, as the operator looks forward to enhancing its football offering at the start of the upcoming football session.

The company is planning to offer cash out in non-UK markets, as well as a variety of new markets across different sports.

The flowing statement was made by Head of BetVictor’ssports book product, Eoin Ryan regarding the service:

The introduction of Cash Out to the Sports book is a major milestone in terms of our development.

“It’s a crucial product that the modern day bettor expects to have access to, and we know that it will help us continue the sustained growth and progress we have seen, especially in our football business, over the past few years.”

The firm pointed out that over the coming months they will continue to make better the initial launch of their product and will swiftly look towards extending their scope to house more sports and markets and bring in new functionalities.

Read More

Recent Comments

    Always bet responsibly and never gamble what you cannot afford. Here at sports-bettingsites.com we support responsible gambling. If you think that problem gambling is affecting you and/or those close to you you might want to contact gamcare and if you want to gain greater gamble awareness you can visit gambleaware.co.uk for more information.