Tag Archives: Sky Bet

Thanks to a selection of bets placed during the first four months of the season, bookmaker Sky Bet stands to pay out £5m if Leicester maintain top spot and win the Premier League title this season. Twenty Sky Bet customers will win a combined £1m if Claudio Ranieri and his men do what was deemed the impossible. A single punter stands to win …

Sky Bet has announced the details of its latest partnership with talkSPORT 2, a new 24-hour sports radio station which itself launches on the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival. Broadcasting from Sky Bet’s box at the Festival on Tuesday March 15th, talkSPORT 2 will focus on a wide range of live sport including football, horse racing, cricket, tennis, golf, rugby and US …

Deloitte has released its technology media telecommunications (TMT) forecast for 2016, and it makes for some interesting reading in regard to eSports.  It is estimated that as an industry it will grow by 25% and create global revenues of $500m (£346.8m) in 2016. This is up $100m (£69.4m) from last year. Deloitte’s predictions fall some way short of some of last year’s …

Leeds-based online betting and gaming operator Sky Betting & Gaming (SB&G) has today confirmed that it has been granted a prestigious ‘Best Companies to Work For’ award in its first year as an independent company. The Top 100 Best Companies lists are widely acknowledged as the most extensive research into employee engagement in the UK. All the scores and ratings …

Jordan Spieth, Jason Day and Rory McIlroy are the current superstars of world golf. Having collected 5 of the last 8 major championships between them, the trio are expected to dominate again this year. Indeed, Sky Bet came straight in with a special market, offering inflated odds for the new ‘Big 3’ to land all four major titles between them …

It’s a thankless job being the January transfer window. It’s frequently criticised by managers with prices pumped up by clubs looking to capitalise and make a good return, meaning only the clubs with the heftiest bank balances can afford to buy. The flip side of the coin of course is that it protects smaller clubs by allowing them to hang onto their key players for …

Digital content and technology supplier NYX Gaming Group (NYX) has announced that one lucky casino player enjoyed a post Christmas treat after winning £2,389,933 on ‘Sky Millions’. The Sky Millions slot is a variant of the Millionaires Club progressive jackpot game. It recently joined NYX’s portfolio after the acquisition of Cryptologic. Following this win on December 27th, the jackpot fell to £175,000 but has since …

A Sky Bet customer was in a jubilant mood on January 9th following a win on the bookmaker’s Super 6 competition.   Owen Burrows, a 25 year old from Cambridge, correctly predicted the scores of six FA cup third round ties to win the £250,000 jackpot. Burrows said of his win: “I genuinely can’t believe I’ve won, it feels like a dream.” The …

Sports betting software provider OpenBet, has renewed its license, development and support agreements with Sky Betting & Gaming. The deal extends the long-term relationship between the two; OpenBet has supplied the Leeds-based operator since it was formed in 2001. OpenBet will continue to provide Sky Betting & Gaming with its online and mobile sports betting platform for a further five years, and …

A Sky Bet customer, Chris Hughes, is celebrating after cashing out on a £25 bet for a win of £10,000. The bet, a ten fold accumulator, would have become a loser just minutes later. All of the other nine selections had come in but the Newcastle v Everton match, a stalemate until Cleverley’s winner in the 93rd minute, sealed a win for …