Organisations

• Bet365
  Bet365
  bet365 Group Limited, is a United Kingdom based gambling company. bet365 is one of the world’s leading online gambling groups with over 6 million customers in 200 different countries...
  
  
• Betcris
  Betcris
  BetCRIS is a company offering online gambling services, including sports betting, online casino games, online bingo and mobile gambling.The company currently operates in the Republic of Costa Rica with satellite offices in Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Argentina, Spain, Mexico, Panama, Brasil and...
  
  
• Betfred
  Betfred
  Betfred is a United Kingdom-based bookmaker, named after its co-founder Fred Done.Pronounced to rhyme with "bone". It was first established as a single shop in Ordsall, Salford, in 1967. Its turnover is over £3.5 billion having risen from £550 million in 2003. The company has more than 1350 betting...
  
  
• BetOnline
  BetOnline
  BetOnline, with website at BetOnline.com, is a privately held online gambling company offering sports betting, casino games, and wagering on horse racing. The company’s CEO is Eddie Robbins III. In 2006, according to Casino City Press, BetOnline.com was among the top 60 online sportsbook,...
  
  
• Betsson
  Betsson
  Betsson Malta Ltd. is an online gambling company that offers online poker, online casino, scratch cards, exchange betting and sports betting. The company is headquartered in Malta and owned by the OMX listed public company Betsson AB.- History :...
  
  
• BetUS
  BetUS
  BetUS.com is a privately held online gaming company offering sports betting, casino games, poker and horse racing.-Products:The company accepts bets on sports and horse racing, and operates a casino and poker room.-Proposition wagers:...
  
  
• Boylesports
  Boylesports
  Boylesports is the largest independent bookmaker in Ireland. Headquartered in Dundalk, County Louth, Boylesports has 161 retail branches throughout the country. In addition to their retail stores, Boylesports operates a telephone betting service, "Fon-A-Bet", and Internet-based betting and gaming...
  
  
• Bwin
• Centrebet
  Centrebet
  Centrebet is an Australian bookmaker licensed in the Northern Territory.Centrebet originated from Alice Springs, Northern Territory and was the first bookmaker to be licensed in Australia in 1993 and the first bookmaker to go online in the Southern Hemisphere. Centrebet was acquired by its biggest...
  
  
• Eurofootball
  Eurofootball
  Eurofootball is the first private Bulgarian bookmaker, as well as the country's largest. It began operating on 6 October 1990 and was officially registered in 1993, officially receiving a license on 20 October the same year. The first nation-wide draw was performed on 21 August 1993...
  
  
• Gala Coral Group
• Ladbrokes
  Ladbrokes
  Ladbrokes plc is a British based gambling company. It is based in Rayners Lane in Harrow, London owned by Bhavin Kakaiya. From 14 May 1999 to 23 February 2006, when it owned the Hilton hotel brand outside the United States, it was known as Hilton Group plc...
  
  
• Liga Stavok
  Liga Stavok
  Liga Stavok is the trade name of First International Bookmaker Company. They are a Russian based gambling company. Liga Stavok is one of the leading Russian gambling companies with over 1 million customers...
  
  
• Paddy Power
  Paddy Power
  Paddy Power is Ireland’s largest bookmaker. Offline it conducts business through a chain of licensed betting offices and by operating Ireland's largest telephone betting service. Online it offers sports betting, online poker, online bingo, online casino games and spread betting...
  
  
• Pinnacle Sports
  Pinnacle Sports
  Pinnacle Sports is an online gaming website that was founded in 1998 and is operated by Pinnacle Sports Worldwide. Since its inception, Pinnacle Sports has become one of the world’s largest, fully licensed, online sportsbooks. Presently, the company has customers in over 100 countries and is...
  
  
• SBOBET
  SBOBET
  SBOBET.com is an online sportsbook. The website has operations in Asia licensed by the Philippines and operations in Europe licensed by the Isle of Man to operate as an international sports bookmaker...
  
  
• Sky Bet
  Sky Betting and Gaming
  Sky Betting and Gaming is a British-based gambling company, and a subsidiary of BSkyB, with offices at Sky's headquarters in Isleworth, London and in Leeds, West Yorkshire. The company consists chiefly of five websites and two TV channels...
  
  
• Sportingbet
  Sportingbet
  Sportingbet plc is a British e-gaming operator. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE SmallCap Index.-History:The Company was founded by Mark Blandford in 1997. Sportingbet acquired Paradise Poker in October 2004...
  
  
• Stan James
  Stan James
  Stan James is a British bookmaker established in 1973, and trades online under the name StanJames.com. The company is based in Marina Bay, Gibraltar with offices in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. The companies which operate Stan James, Stan James Limited and Stan James Limited, are privately-held companies...
  
  
• The Tote
  The Tote
  The Tote, formerly the Horserace Totalisator Board, is a British bookmaker with head offices in Wigan. It was owned from its formation in 1928 by the UK Government but was sold to Betfred in July 2011. Under the brand totesport the Tote has 514 high street betting shops, outlets on Britain's 60...
  
  
• unibet
  Unibet
  Unibet is an online gambling company that offers online poker, online casino, scratch cards, sports betting, live betting, bingo and soft games. The company is headquartered in Malta and owned by the Nordic OMX listed public company Unibet Group plc...
  
  
• Victor Chandler International
  Victor Chandler International
  Victor Chandler International is one of Britain’s leading independent bookmakers, specialising in online sports betting, casino, poker and games...
  
  
• William Hill
  William Hill (bookmaker)
  William Hill plc is one of the largest bookmakers in the United Kingdom. Its headquarters is in the north London suburb of Wood Green and in Leeds, West Yorkshire. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.-History:...
  
  

People

• Victor Chandler
  Victor Chandler
  Victor Chandler is chairman of the company that bears his name, Victor Chandler International.Frequently styled ‘The Gentleman Bookmaker’, in 2006 The Racing Post described Chandler as "arguably the most famous bookmaker in the world...
  
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• Barney Eastwood
  Barney Eastwood
  Barney Eastwood is an Irish boxing promoter and bookmaker.Eastwood was introduced to boxing through the weekly boxing tournaments at the nearby US air base and by the tutelage of a school teacher of his from County Cork...
  
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• Phillip Giaccone (1932–1981)
• Freddie Williams
  Freddie Williams (businessman)
  Freddie "Fearless" Williams , was a Scottish businessman and bookmaker. Born in the Ayrshire mining village of Cumnock, he was spared a career as a miner due to ill health at the age of 15 and went on to work for local soft drinks company Currys...
  
   (1942–2008)
• William Hill
  William Hill (businessman)
  William Hill was the founder of William Hill, one of the United Kingdom's largest firms of bookmakers.-Career:...
  
   (1903–1971)
• Ratan Khatri
  Ratan Khatri
  Ratan Khatri is considered by many to be the pioneer of the gambling/betting movement in India. Khatri, who hails from a Sindhi family, started from humble beginnings and like most Hindu Sindhis living in India, he came to Mumbai from Karachi, Pakistan when he was a teenager during the 1947 partition...
  
  
• Martin Krugman (1919–1979)
• Frank Rosenthal
  Frank Rosenthal
  Frank Lawrence "Lefty" Rosenthal was a professional sports bettor, former Las Vegas casino executive and organized crime associate. The film Casino is loosely based on his life.-Early years:...
  
   (1929–2008)
• Cyril Stein
  Cyril Stein
  Cyril Stein was an English bookmaker, businessman and finally philanthropic supporter of many Jewish causes and charities who first bought Ladbrokes in 1956, then floated it in 1967 and finally left it in 1993.Born in the East End of London into a family of migrants from Russia...
  
   (1928–2011)
• Terry Page (1942–)
• Helen Vernet
  Helen Vernet
  Helen Vernet was the first woman in the history of horseracing in Great Britain to be granted a license that permitted a person “of fit and proper character” to legally carry out business as a bookmaker on a racecourse in accordance with the Betting Houses Act of 1853 and subsequent...
  
  (1876–1956)