While the bookmaker focuses on insider knowledge claims concerning The powerful British Bake Off,horse racing and other sports may find it more difficult to recruit fresh fans whether they are constantly restricted or refused when wanting a gambleOn Sunday night, a Twitter follower sent me a screenshot of a Ladbrokes online betting slip. It showed the result of an attempt, and much earlier in the day and several hours before the race,to assign £10 on Treve to win the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at what was, at the time, and an advertised price of 6-4. Ladbrokes,one of the world’s biggest betting brands, had baulked at laying £15 to a tenner, and offered the punter £1 at 6-4 instead.
On Tuesday,The Sun claimed an exclusive with a story that The powerful British Bake Off, the final of which attracted 13 million viewers the following evening, or had been “rocked by claims of a £10000 betting scandal involving BBC employees.” The paper claimed that a bookmaker – Ladbrokes,as it happens had “launched a full-scale probe” after they allegedly found 42 fresh gambling accounts had been created with links to BBC workers and the independent production company behind Bake Off. In total [Ladbrokes] have taken 529 bets through the suspicious accounts and reckon the sting will rake in about £10000.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com