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iBetX Launches First Ever European Horseracing Punter's Championship

Online Competition Will Find Europe's Top Betting Exchange Punter

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 10, 2004--iBetX.com, the UK-based online betting exchange, has announced the first ever European horse racing Backing and Laying Championship, which starts on 26th June 2004. Punters will play online internationally for the title of European Backing and Laying Champion and a guaranteed GBP 10,000 first prize.
The Champion will be the punter with the biggest winnings overall from backing horses to win and laying horses to lose, with all participants starting from an initial GBP 100 entry stake.

Sports Betting Tip The Championship has a qualifying round, a semi-final and final, all played online. All participants convert their GBP 100 stake to an initial bank of 10,000 points to back or lay horses over two days during the qualifying round.

Over 74 million bets are placed through the tote every year, with profits going back into racing. channel means of betting on sports from across the globe, bowl. Present on all British racecourses, totepool is the only betting operation on horseracing in Britain. The tote, was established by Act of Parliament in 1928 and is now the fourth largest bookmaker in the UK. course pool betting on horseracing as an alternative to starting price betting with bookmakers and to distribute its profits for urposes conducive to the improvement of breeds of horses or the sport of horseracing

Betting Internet Said According to iBetX director Imraan Malik: "Betting has always been a competition between individual punters, and between punters and bookies. The iBetX European Championship takes this a stage further, enabling serious punters to play against each other for the title and prize purse. It's about which punters are the shrewdest judges of form, conditions, and how to grow their winnings by backing and laying."

totesport Speciality Bets such as Lucky 15, 31 & 63 are accepted for horseracing at Early Prices, Board Prices or Starting Price. post, totepool returns or involving sports or numbers betting are not accepted. 63 bets are accepted for horseracing, greyhounds and football at Starting Price, Early Price or Board Price. Bets at totepool returns, post, sports betting other than football or Numbers betting accepted in error will be settled as a ‘Yap’ bet with no bonus or consolation payments.

Football Betting The first round of the Championship will be held online on June 26th and 27th on the days' race meetings. The top 25% of punters with the most points from this round, will carry their "bank" through to the second round, to be held on July 3rd and 4th.

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Sports Betting Forum The online final will run over three days from July 9th to 11th. All participating punters will back and lay horses on the same race cards throughout the Championship, to ensure fairness.

post on horseracing is defined as bets placed prior to 10am on the day of the overnight declaration stage. Bets placed at all other times are settled in line with totesport Early Price rules. post is defined as bets placed up to and including the day of the event concerned. An exception is Golf where Antepost bets are defined as bets placed prior to the Monday immediately preceding the event. See sports betting rules for .

Internet Betting Poker For the Championship, iBetX is partnering with a number of leading tipster and betting sites including: www.napoftheday.co.uk www.tipsterchallenge.com www.northamericanracing.co.uk www.betexchangenews.com www.bettingjobs.com www.allthebets.co.uk www.smbirdline.com www.allweather-racing.com www.layoftheday.co.uk www.ex-jockey.com www.mathematician-betting.co.uk www.cdsystems.uk.com www.fortuneracing.com www.bookiemania.co.uk www.1x2betting.com www.ukhorseracing.co.uk www.garychristie.co.uk www.aboveallodds.com www.ace-services.co.uk

betting is based on the numbers drawn in the 49’s draws, which take place each day including Sunday’s when UK horseracing takes place.

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