Sport is made for betting

Doubt this will agree with too many directives from the EU, but they are going to do it anyway. I wonder how this will affect BetRadar and Bet Genius, two of the online bookmaker's essential right-hand-man services, which have some of their technical teams based in Tallinn..... Estonian online gaming blacklist ISP blocks start Monday Internet Service Providers in Estonia have begun to implement measures to block citizens' access to illegal online gambling sites following the release of the first blacklist by the country's Tax and Customs Administration. Included in the preliminary list seen by Gaming Intelligence are 175 international sites, including some of the best known brands in the market. There could be chaos amongst bookies on Monday if some of them have to go back to doing the work themselves!!

At the International Gaming Exhibition in London this week, I've been looking closely at some of the modern bookmaking systems. Companies such as BetRadar supply real-time odds feeds from over 250 bookmakers spread around the world, and then you can generate your own odds from that. Set your margins, choose the bookies you want to follow, post the prices, turn on the monitoring which tracks market changes from as few or as many bookies as you like, and you're done. Very few bookies do not take this service, although most just use it to keep an eye on the opposition in real-time, and use it to track mistakes (alerts pop up when a match start time is different to other firms) and potential arbitrage/sure bet opportunities. Dozens of smaller firms - the ones listed on odds comparison sites but you never see any of their marketing etc - do all this with virtually nobody at the controls. Other companies like Entraction and Odds Matrix can offer you a 'bookie in a box' produc...