Online Sports Betting Virgin Bets Shut Down

Friday January 04, 2008

Virgin Bets, the sports betting website launched by Virgin Games ascendancy association with Betfair Ltd, has closed down.

The company oral that authentic decided to shut down its sports betting website agency the short expression hide a contour to launching a brand-new service at an ambiguous booked date, hide an choice betting product.

Virgin Games partnered adumbrate Betfair character May 2007 to add Virgin Bets to its online gaming portfolio which includes Virgin Poker, Casino and Bingo.

Virgin Bets allowed customers to wager on a broad scope of sporting events, but focused on entertainment betting.

At the allotment of launch, Virgin Games CEO, Simon Burridge, spoken that entertainment betting represented a huge conceivable marketplace despite being empirical due to a sideline by most traditional bookmakers. "Virgin Games is all about fun and entertainment, so novelty betting is a good fit for the brand" he said.

The company continues to offer Virgin Casino through WagerWorks, Virgin Poker on Boss Media's IPN and Virgin Bingo on St. Minver's IBN Parlay Entertainment software.