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What does Betfair offer?

Betfair is an online betting exchange, which allows gamblers to choose their own odds and bet against each other, through its telephone betting service and internet betting site. Betfair also allows bets whilst the event is taking place.

Betting with Betfair

Betfair’s website, www.betfair.com enables you to bet on a large number of sports and special events such as:

• Football – the soccer section of the site enable you to bet on Premiership matches, League matches, FA Cup matches, World Cup matches, UEFA Cup matches, internationals and many more. Many different types of football bets are offered, including goal scorers, Full time and Half time results, first booking of the match and special bets for individual matches. If you would like to know more about How to Bet on Football or more about forthcoming Football Events, visit our Football pages.

• Horseracing - you can bet on daily race meetings or on future key events in the horseracing calendar such as The Queen Mother Champion Chase, the Cheltenham Gold Cup, the Grand National, the 1000 Guineas, the 2,000 Guineas, the Melbourne Cup and the Arkle Chase. If you would like to know more about How to Bet on Horse Racing or more about forthcoming Horse Racing Events, visit our Horse Racing pages.

• Greyhound Racing - you can bet on daily greyhound racing and special events such as the William Hill Greyhound Derby, the Cashmans Irish Laurels, the Coral Puppy Cup and the Irish Puppy Derby through the greyhound racing section of the site.
• Other sports – you can also bet on a wide range of other sporting events through Betfair including: American football, Australian rules football, basketball, baseball, boxing, cricket, cycling, darts, golf, ice hockey, motor sports, rugby league, rugby union, snooker and tennis.
• Special events and bets – you can also use Betfair’s site to make bets on special events. For example, you can:
• Bet on television shows (the X-Factor, the Eurovision Contest and Sport’s Personality of the Year.
• Bet on current affairs (such as the results of the next General election, the next leaders of the main political parties, who will become the next President of the USA).
• Bet on the financial markets
• Bet on annual events such as whether or not there will be snow at Christmas and who will be number one in the charts at Christmas.
• Bet on sporting events such as the Olympics and games such as Bridge

Playing Poker with Betfair

Betfair has a dedicated section for internet poker on its website at www.betfairpoker.com. Betfair offers you the chance to play online poker for free, for cash prizes. You can play 7-card stud poker and variations of Texas Hold’em Poker or Omaha. You choose to play multi-player games or head-to-head games.

Betfair offers special points, which can be redeemed on their betting site to reduce commissions. They also offer the opportunity to be paid to play if, for example, they want you to play on a new table rather than wait for a table.

If you would like to learn more about how to play the various types of poker available on www.betfairpoker.com visit our Poker pages.

About Betfair

Betfair is an internet betting exchange and is now the largest online betting company in the UK with over 100,000 punters and 3 million transactions a day.

History of Betfair

Here are some of the key events in the history of Betfair.

• 1998: Andrew Black met Edward Wray to develop his idea about a betting exchange
• 1999: The Sporting Exchange Ltd was set up
• 2000: Betfair was launched
• 2001: Betfair launched a telephone betting service
• 2004: Betfair launched its poker site via Cryptologic

To see what other users think of www.betfair.com, take a look at our Reviews page.

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