Tag Archives: minister
BetFair Australia rebuffed by an Australian state, Western Australia.
Via betting expert Niall O’Connor, the government of Western Australia:
Betfair application to publish WA race fields not in the public interest
11/10/07
Betting exchange operator Betfair has had its application to publish Western Australian race fields information rejected, Racing and Gaming Minister Ljiljanna Ravlich announced today. The Minister’s decision to reject Betfair’s application to publish WA race [...]
NEXT SUNDAY, THE FRENCH WILL ELECT REPUBLICAN NICOLAS SARKOZY AS THEIR PRESIDENT.
The Economist tells me I should vote for Nicolas Sarkozy. Well… if they really think he’s “the man”…
The French presidential election
France’s chance
Apr 12th 2007
From The Economist print edition
After a quarter-century of drift Nicolas Sarkozy offers the best hope of reform
No French presidential election in 50 years has looked as unpredictable [*] [?? - [...]
If the British legal betting companies offer bets on the sport, it is because there is demand for bets on the sport —and if that demand were not offered in a regulated environment, it would be filled in an unregulated one (like what we see with TradeSports-InTrade and MatchBook in the US market).
Mark Davies of BetFair (PDF file):
International Leaders in Sport conference, Auckland, New Zealand. April 3-4th 2008.
Keynote speech, April 4th. Mark Davies, Betfair.
“New Understandings in Sports Betting”
Minister, ladies and gentlemen… Thank you very much for your kind invitation to speak to you today. I have once before been asked by sport to address it, as a [...]