Bet365 pay out of £470m

i did 4 bets with bet 365 and told i could no longer bet with them

Incredibly successful bookmaking business.

She's above and beyond all the other head honchos in her industry put together. Well deserved. At least most of the profit went her way, not some undeserving shareholders who'd done no work. Bet365 is her family's baby.

No doubt this colossal figure is from punters in America and rest of the world from casino games and slots.

In fairness she pays her dues in taxes as well. Not an offshore dodger.
#The family contributed £573 million pounds last year to the treasury.


Still the mind boggles why they wont tAKE A FIVER BET OFF MANY OF US.

Wow, that’s some contribution to the treasury.

Yeah, a company like that should have a minimum liability of at least 50-100 quid per bet, fugging jokers.

They will take bets, just not off people who open accounts and their first bets being £50 ones on the ITV races......

365's usp is being internet based there are practically zero retail outlets ;the cost savings must be immense.

Think she transformed the company which was previously a few Betting Shops (Pinnacle Racing) owned by her dad/family around Stoke On Trent area.

Also, they do not employ shysters/voiceboxes unlike 'ok koral and boyles' on tv telling fibs and outright lies on Eclipse Day at Sandown. The shysters do not come cheap.

impossible...they do

Anyone know what the secret to their success is ?

I know they gave me 100 quid in free bets when I opened the account that must have been the most generous bookmaker offer ever.

Who doesn't like free moneee

'cardiffc', if so I must be watching another racing channel. Bet365 is the best bookie on Oddschecker in every sense eg little or no promotion, but quality on prices; prompt payment; generous ongoing cashouts. The others pale into insignificance.

impossible....i suppose if you dont have any ambition to win they are terrific

The answer is simple , a shrewd business model designed to accommodate punters who can contribute to that enormous treasury sum.

There is so much variation of business models out there and having acquired knowledge of the vast majority via contacts it's no wonder some of them have to knee jerk to make ends meet.

Hats off to a shrewd business woman   

As Fred said they were the first to realise internet was the future. Sold all shops. Got the top tech team together. Went for mainstream punters ( losers ) in big numbers rather than big players that had any idea what they were doing.

fair play to her as long as she pays her staff well and not just the going rate

So 365 are winning fortunes, but where do the shrewdies win their money?

Bet365 has the best user interface of all the big bookmaker sites, at least for racing. It is quick and uncluttered. Of course there are tweaks I wish they'd make but it is far better than any of the others which are typically either slow or constantly trying to push casino games on you.

As far as i'm aware she's.......

Paid the staff throughout covid
Paid the Stoke City staff also
Donated £10 million to her local NHS
Not claimed any government furlough.

Whatever your feelings towards bookmakers that's hard to criticise.

bett365..lose as much as you like but win and acc closed.

great business model.

Now with the toothless Gambling Commission and BHA head honchos (tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum) gone let's hope post affordability review the industry could adopt something similar to Australia where every horse racing punter is accommodated an agreed minimum amount regardless. Otherwise, every bookie on the high street cannot have fobt on site.

@greenteethnarrabacktroutmoy (not easy to type btw) -- "bett365..lose as much as you like but win and acc closed. great business model."

That has not been my experience. Maybe I've just been lucky or maybe it is a certain type of winner they want to avoid.

a lot of clients in africa

I've paid for the carpet on her
yacht

I've not be restricted by any bookie except 'ok koral and ***way' for pinching/forward looking on antepost prices. It was not my fault if their employers had been sleep-walking in their job and got spanked.

Ramruma , they don't want anyone that looks shrewd. You either must look like a dummy ( eg. Foinhaven backer ) and they think you are purely jammy or you have won buttons over a long period of time never beating the price.

Ive e-mailed Denise Coates dozens of times and failed to get any response , I wonder why she feels she can treat her clients with total contempt. an organisation of total filth like all other bookmaking firms .. betfair not much better every time you go to back a horse the price is never there , seems manipulation to force people to take lesser prices is rife on betfair , been going on for a long time.

@howard re never beating the price -- is that code for filthy arbers?

But all this is probably old-fashioned. See the Entain thread and the press release therein about using artificial intelligence (AI) to classify customers. I expect we'll see more of that with bookies looking to steer clear of addicts who might get them a million pound fine for encouraging them, and at the opposite end, sharks and shrewdies. Nothing personal but computer says no.

@matso -- re email.

When I worked as a low-level corporate drone I got hundreds of emails a day. I expect DC gets thousands and any not from a pre-approved list of senders (what we used to call whitelisted) is automatically binned. There are not enough hours in the day. I'm slightly surprised she does not employ a team of assistants to check them but...

they don't want anyone that looks shrewd. You either must look like a dummy ( eg. Foinhaven backer ) and they think you are purely jammy or you have won buttons over a long period of time never beating the price.

correct.

So many casuals lose with them and then they must have a few bigger punters who they know are long term losers who they allow to get on. I'd love to know how much bookies make from the virtuals and games/casinos compared to bets they take on sports.

Money like that  - can only come from the FAR EAST.

Quite how it is 'attained' in the First Place - by Far East Punters  - including Chinese using VPNs - is a Question nobody is prepared to ask.

The few times I've been in casinos to play a bit of poker it was staggering to see the conduct at the roulette machines. A lot of middle eastern lads throwing chips on what looks like a huge amount of possible outcomes. I'm not sure they understand the mathematics of casino betting or maybe they were just absolutely loaded.

The Chinese are filthy rich with money to burn (literally). Also, they are gambling fanatics. Has anyone not noticed Monday nights at the casinos? The clientele are almost entirely Chinese outside London.

Oh yes, same as the Chinese in regional casinos. The Chinese just enjoyed putting chips on the table; usually every number was covered on every spin.

Now that the bookmakers are setting the SP there is even less reason for them to be allowed to restrict/ban anyone.

Its embarrassing in that her package reported at the start of this thread is £470 million yet they feel the need to restrict me and many others to win a maximum £10 on certain markets

Licensed thieves

You are lucky to be restricted to £10!

It is disgusting that her hourly equivalent pay of £54k and she doesn't take bets from everyone. Even if they took £50 e/w or £500 liability a horse would be something but to take nothing because they only want the mugs through their introducer network is disgusting.

All the gambling charities, pretend caring groups, restrictions of affordability are all complete utter bull5hit and B3p's profits just confirm that.

Fair play to the woman

The only thing I’d question is why racing is on its arse?

yet these bookmakers are making fortunes...to think she’s made 473 million for herself and paid 1/2 billion in tax, racing surely contributes plenty to the profit, so why isn’t a percentage taken to go back into racing??

Surely the percentages and contributions to racing are a mile out?

That’s the ‘glass ceiling’ argument buggered then.
If women want more equality of CEO pay perhaps men need a pay rise to level up.

(Responding to Harry's post) The main stakeholders are struggling to agree on horseracing’s future and have been for some time now. This gets brought up time and time again in the racing media. The sport needs independent scrutiny otherwise it'll continue to fall into a mire with vested interests just squabbling between themselves. What is needed is a strong evidence base so that intrenched views can be challenged. From what I can gather so far, it’s not there. For example, do we know what happens to every racehorse from "cradle to grave"? How much financial information could be obtained from betting companies in a sufficiently disaggregated form for it to be useful? How much money comes back into racing and how is it distributed? You start to realise things are not as they should be when a rehoming charity like the Racehorse Sanctuary sends out a twitter message on the 16th March, during the Cheltenham festival, but doesn't see a surge in donations to their JustGiving winter covid appeal.(They also had a Reliant on Racing slot on ITV racing which would have been viewed by a large audience). The Wellchild sponsorship at the Cheltenham festival, which raised £200,000, was a wonderful idea but this should not distract from the truth.

when you see how much they make and how difficult it is for lots to get any sort of bet on its difficult for them to deny they must be encouraging problem gamblers

I think it’s time to separate the regulator the BHA and the finances of the sport carveth tbh

A separate body that looks after the finances and looks into bookmakers gains really needs addressing?

People say the french model of a tote take out isn’t good but at least it fund’s the sport...Australia works on a tab system that once again goes back into racing...some of the greyhound races in Australia are worth more than British races and that’s day to day....so it’s clear the sport is being raped by the betting firms, that is clear because of the profits these companies are making

I mean bet 365 have basically made over a billion pounds, it is a monster...racing needs to know exactly how much of these profits are made through horse racing...

The direct payments made to the levy per race isn’t good enough...it should be what are the yearly profits made from racing and the wealth should be spread more back into the sport...we wouldn’t end up with 4 runner races anymore if the racing is sustainable and the bookmakers would make more on turnover, they are just diluting the product as people now take the good horses abroad as they have had enough of the poultry prize money

Looking at the french, you can’t tell me they make nearly the turnover on their racing, yet its competitive because the prize money is good...

These profits bet 365 are making just shows how little these bookmakers contribute to any sport they take bets on

if the tote wasnt greedy it could be very strong,it needs to cut the take out and then advertise how many times they beat sp,just like how betfair started and then they might get more ordinary and bigger staking punters using it,at present i suspect the bigger stake punters only really get involved in the scoop 6 and jackpot and even then only after a few rollovers

pure greed..I'd say trading standards need to look into these firms that class themselves as bookmakers.  They don't make books anymore, they copy the odds from betfair, add their margin, and ban anyone that shows "potential" to squeeze a little profit.  Her wealth is the result of exploiting desperate, ill-informed punters, some of which, have serious gambling problems.  Disgusting firm!

I agree bookies should not be allowed to restrict punters revs...

However, I don't think she is profiting from those with gambling issues I just think they have a massive share of the casual punter market due to offering £100 in free bets and being the best platform (IMO and others on here... I'm not alone).

Her salary was more than twice the company's profits from the entire year, but if punters make a couple of hundred quid their maximum stakes are reduced to virtually nothing. It's a completely unfair system and would not be tolerated in any other business.

revs, or anyone else, have any of you wrote to the gambling commission about bookies putting prices up and either refusing to take a bet or letting you have penny's on. I wrote the other day about this, don't think it will get any thing done but the more people that complain about these firms the better. GET THOSE EMAILS SENT TO THE GAMBLING COMMISSION.

Come the glorious day comrades.... up against the wall!

Fuzzer you're 100% right.

if the tote wasnt greedy it could be very strong,it needs to cut the take out and then advertise how many times they beat sp


I think the point is missed here tbh...if bet 365 are making over a billion a year...what is the take out from horse racing? And what percentage of that profit goes towards horse racing?

Why can we not have the figures?

None of it makes any sense to me...

If I worked at the BHA I’d have to question why the sport is on its arse and not thriving when I see these profits...government intervention and a separation is needed for the sport to progress

fuzzer and punts, sit back moaning and do nothing. Saying nothing will get done and not doing anything will never get ANYTHING CHANGED.

she,s basically laundering drug /criminal money from south america,far east etc

what ever her business model is its working. fair play to her. started in a small porto cabin. even tho im restricted etc shes better than all the other betting companys ceos combined.one of the main advantages is ther easy to use site. a lot of the other sites are very cumbersome.the pp one particularly so.

75% of the T/O comes from abroad
In the Wild west where profit margins are
HUGE

Seems her charity has almost £400m in reserves
of which only £10 m is availaby for donations
Perhaps sum begging letters is needed

Not seen the details but imagine charity is set up to be DC's retirement job (and probably her ticket to the House of Lords as Lady Bet365 of Stoke).

Conversely, the other reason for rich people setting up charities is to keep the relatives occupied so the thickos do not have to be found jobs in the main company where they can seriously stuff things up. Worst case on the charity is they accidentally send dying kids to Center Parcs instead of Disneyland.

I think she deserves every penny given she and her dad out-thought and out-manoeuvred all the other behemoth public bookmaking entities. Her annual contribution to The Exchequer, support of local charities and full payment of her staff during Covid pandemic not utilising government financial package something even the major supermarkets eg Tesco, Sainsbury, etc, cannot match.

So she pays HERSELF over a million a day. But wont take a tenner on a 4-1 shot from a punter they SUSPECT is shrewd. Clearly they, and indeed all, are masquerading as bookies and a serious investigation just has to happen. And the robotic games are clearly suspect shall we say.