History Betfair
Union companies Betfair was established in 2000 in the UK. The authors of the ideas are Andrew Black and Edward Ray, in projects which included the use of proprietary technology in the practice of betting. It was decided to postpone the principle of exchange on the world of sports betting which at that time was strictly divided between several major bookmakers. Betfair literally made a revolution in the market for similar services, and within a very short period, has broken all records of popularity.
In March, 2007 Betfair players became available in the new service - Betfair Radio, which broadcasts live commentary during the horse racing, as well as the results of competitions and sporting news, 7 days a week.
In the history of its activities Betfair was awarded more than 60 awards, including The Queen's Award in the category of International Business (April 2008) wins "most rapidly growing business in the United Kingdom" (May 2006) "Company of the Year in the UK" (November 2004) Entrepreneur of the Year - Andrew Black and Edward Ray "(October 2002).
Today, Betfair is the world's largest betting exchange with a client base of one million people and a weekly circulation of funds, 50 000 000 GBP. Betfair has all necessary licenses in Australia, Austria UK Germany Italy and Malta.
Web information
Discarding fact that Betfair are hundreds of events every second and there are dozens of buttons and links page is structured very intelligently. Matches are divided into categories (cricket, football tennis, etc.). But first, have a little try, to come to terms with the fact all formed. The dominant color - blue, same as the emblem and logo of the company.
Page available in English (for Asia, UK Ireland Canada USA and Australia - NZ) Bulgarian Czech, Danish German, Spanish, Finnish, Greek Italian, Norwegian Polish Portuguese, Russian, Swedish Turkish and Chinese.
In some cases, games can be displayed on video screens in the online mode for users Betfair, but more common is the situation if you want to put at least 10 pounds, to watch the match.
Registration
If you want to join the users of Betfair, you need to do it from the official site betfair.com On the home page you will see a window to enter the registered customers and the button «Join Now» to register a new account. This link can be overcome on the registration page. From the new arrivals want to give such information, as name, address date of birth, which will confirm you reach the age of 18 and will, finally create a user name and password.
Once you implement all these simple manipulation to your specified e-mail sent to a link in confirming that registration is completed. In some cases, the system can suspend the registration until There will not be monitored and confirmed the information related to age. After registering you'll be able to return to the page which began, and enter a user name and password in the above-mentioned special window. Now all the multifaceted world of Betfair in front of you!
Betting
When you find yourself on page Sports, then you jumped out information on all sections of this section - any sports including relatively rare and little known. Home Page of this section shows the rates for that day (ie, all events which can deliver today). Apart from sports to compete in intuition can be on the political, TV's and others.
Celebrity and respectability of the site does not mean that from you immediately need to lay all that is. First, minimum deposit to the account equal to 25 pounds - not exactly big money for to open the door to the world of Betfair. Secondly, You can bet size to just 2 pounds - that is, can gradually learn and play more confidently.
But the greater the level of rates, the more points you can earn, and the greater the discount. Example, You have won £ 400, The amount charged by the commission is 5%. If you already have a discount received by the skillful play on Betfair, and it is 40%, you pay one commission 12 pounds, instead of the original 20. In this case you get 120 points Betfair.
Preferred options for the betting is huge and is likely to offer personal bets with the corresponding coefficients. One, that it must be remembered this is how realistic is the coefficient you suggest fact, probably you want someone to accept it and to race with you in the discernment.
Odds and commission
When compared with other similar sites, Betfair at the most advantageous rates for visitors. Often, the coefficients on one and the same event on Betfair and other similar sites will differ by one even more with a higher coefficient is given on Betfair. In fact have their own reasons.
The order of betting on Betfair makes it possible to raise rates in some cases - so when rates take full sportsbetting in an effort to protect themselves from losses He defines this level of coefficients, that whatever the outcome of a win-win which affects the attractive rates for players. In the case of Betfair, which from the beginning was to work on the latest principles Exchange assumes no loss in gain or lose any of the parties, consequently, through the elimination of such risks is able to offer more enticing factor.
Commission to win (actually on the amount of money, which add to your original bet) is 5%. Example, If your bet was $ 20, but you won at a rate of 1.5, would end up totaling $ 30 Commission will be held from 10 dollars and won will be only $ 0.5. Money who are registered to you at the expense - $ 29.5. Result: even after paying commission winning looks decent.
Deposit and Withdrawal
If you already have undergone the registration the process of sending money to an account in the cellar. Clicking on «My account» you find yourself in a small submenu where you can see, how much money was lost or won, and how to send money to or withdraw them.
Top-up account at Betfair can afford the following systems: credit card, Webmoney, Moneybookers, Neteller, PayPal, ClickAndBuy, Western Union, bank transfer check.
Out the money there is the possibility of the following ways:
• Webmoney (if more than one account on Betfair for each should be a separate purse);
• Moneybookers (the derivation of Betfair conducts additional monitoring to security that could delay the process);
• bank transfer (in the derivation of money from the account will be charged the amount of $ 15 per service bank);
• VISA and Mastercard;
• debit cards VISA Electron (when transferring money to the account of bank commission of 1.5% the derivation of the commission is not charged).
All payments are conducted daily, except weekends.
Action "and drew for you!"
In brief meaning is: you advise your friend to register and bet on the fact this exchange rates Also, this person can not be a family member or relative, and naturally You can not themselves act as a "friend". An additional condition is truly the first visitor register at Betfair. Unlimited number of players involved.
To Betfair has been informed that someone has invited new players he must enter a unique code, you will gain as a participant in the action "and get attracted. Consequently, After successful registration of your friend to Betfair, your account will be credited the bonus 20 pounds only if the new player pick up 210 or more points within 1 year and after 3 months depending on whether how energetic your friend, quite realistic to make another significant bonus.
In situations when all someone you know already intimately familiar with Betfair, and you are overwhelmed with constructive ideas, you can offer your program to attract new players to the site and make deductions when they exercise rate. Consequently, has the potential to earn up to 4,000 pounds per player!
Safety Games
Site is easy to use and safe, so that we can not be afraid for your personal information with the banking instructions provided by the exchange. This can confirm the following facts:
- Your data on your credit card completely protected - in an encrypted form, they are sent for verification only at the time of first registration
- After this operation, information about your credit card is encrypted again and stored on a special server, Betfair, protected from any unauthorized access
- Your safety is guaranteed by a certificate of conformity server protection Verisign Class 3.
- When implementing secure payments betting exchange Betfair preferred leaders in this field - the company DataCash and Royal Bank of Scotland.