10 Years of Online Sports Betting and Intertops.com is Still on Top!; Online Gaming Pioneer Celebrates 10th Anniversary.LONDON -- A number of guests from the online gaming See gaming. world gathered in London on Wednesday 25th Janauary to celebrate the 10th birthday of Intertops.com, (www.intertops.com), the world's first online sports betting Sports betting is the general activity of predicting sports results by making a wager on the outcome of a sporting event. Perhaps more so than other forms of gambling, the legality and general acceptance of sports betting varies from nation to nation. company. In 1994 as the internet was still in its infancy and nobody really thought about successful commercial use, Intertops head of technical Ian Sherington discussed this topic with Intertops founder Detlef Train. After further investigations they found out that already 30 million people had access to the internet. This was the magic number for Detlef Train. Detlef Train founder of Intertops said, "There was no experience and nobody to learn from back in the day. Everything had to be developed and invented, Payment Gateways, Credit Card processing - Everything!" "It didn't take long though as within little more than a year we had found a way. Even today in an age of off the shelf turnkey solutions this is a very short period of time to turn an idea into reality." There was a huge demand from people to bet online and the business rocketed from the very start. By 1999 the company added one of the world's first Microgaming online casinos Online casinos, also known as virtual casinos or internet casinos, are online versions of traditional ("brick and mortar") casinos. Online casinos enable gamblers to play and wager on casino games through the Internet. , but strict monopoly laws meant that the company was forced to relocate re·lo·cate v. re·lo·cat·ed, re·lo·cat·ing, re·lo·cates v.tr. To move to or establish in a new place: relocated the business. v.intr. to operations from the beautiful Austrian city of Saltzburg to exotic Antigua in the Caribbean - where it continues to flourish today. Intertops.com is now a multi-million dollar operation handling over 1,000 online betting transactions daily and allowing sports fans to wager as much as they wish, whenever they wish - on whatever sporting opportunity! Michl Posch, Head of Marketing Intertops.com, said: "2006 may be our tenth anniversary, but it is just the beginning of a truly exciting future for the company and for the online gaming industry as a whole. "I hope that all of our valued customers and industry colleagues alike will join us in raising a glass to Intertops.com, a true pioneer of the online gaming industry which has helped paved pave tr.v. paved, pav·ing, paves 1. To cover with a pavement. 2. To cover uniformly, as if with pavement. 3. To be or compose the pavement of. the way for what has grown to become an outstandingly exciting, fast-moving, multi-billion dollar global market." Notes to Editor --1. Intertops.com is licensed in Antigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda (ăntē`gə, –gwə, bärbu`də), independent Commonwealth nation (2005 est. pop. 68,700), 171 sq mi (442 sq km), West Indies, in the Leeward Islands. , the Mohawk Territory of Kahnawake in Quebec, Canada and Malta, and is a member of the European Betting Association, the International Gaming Council and the Antigua Offshore Gaming Association. --2. Intertops was founded in 1983 in London by German Bookmaker Detlef Train who holds a UK Bookmakers Licence. Intertops relocated to Austria in 1992. --3. In 2000, Intertops.com showed its innovative muscle yet again when it developed a WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. portal in-house, enabling it to accept mobile bets. By 2003 Intertops.com began online poker Online poker is the game of poker played over the Internet. It has been partly responsible for a dramatic increase in the number of poker players worldwide. In 2005, revenues from online poker were estimated at US$ 200 million per month. operations as part of the PartyPoker Network, progressing to online skill-based gaming in under a year. --4. Quite appropriately, special guest at the 10th anniversary celebration was Finnish enthusiast Jukka Honkavaara who, on 17 January 1996, placed a US$50 bet on the outcome of a soccer match between UK teams Tottenham Hotspur Hotspur: see Percy, Sir Henry. Hotspur Sir Henry Percy, so named for his fiery character. [Br. Lit.: I Henry IV] See : Irascibility and Hereford United - picking up a whopping US$52 in winnings as a result! |
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