{"id":11845,"date":"2016-06-07T15:25:21","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T14:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colossusbets.com\/?p=11845"},"modified":"2021-03-28T00:15:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T00:15:38","slug":"football-pools-goes-live-cash-pools-colossus-bets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colossusbets.com\/blog\/football-pools-goes-live-cash-pools-colossus-bets\/","title":{"rendered":"The Football Pools goes-live with \u2018Cash Out Pools\u2019 from Colossus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>London, June 2016 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>COLOSSUS BETS<\/strong>, home of the world\u2019s biggest football and sports jackpots, today announced that its pools products, branded as \u2018Cash Out Pools\u2019, have gone live on both web and mobile with <strong>The Football Pools.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bernard Marantelli<\/strong>, <strong>founder and CEO of Colossus Bets<\/strong> said: \u201cThe Football Pools is an iconic brand with a long pedigree in offering life-changing jackpot prizes on football and it\u2019s a significant milestone for us that they have chosen to offer our pools to their client base. Enabling players to bank profits on multi-leg bets through partial cash-out is a key USP of our pools and we look forward to players from The Football Pools taking advantage of the feature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conleth Byrne, Managing Director of The Football Pools<\/strong> said: \u201cCreating winners has always been at the core of The Football Pools. We are always looking at innovative ways to deliver more choice and more ways to win. Colossus Bets provides a suite of complementary pools that I am sure will prove popular with our 200,000 weekly active customers. We are delighted to offer Cash Out Pools which will deliver great value as well as guaranteed jackpots up to \u00a32m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>-Ends-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><u>About Colossus Bets<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Colossus Bets is a multi-award-winning pool betting operator, offering the world\u2019s biggest sports jackpot bets including the \u00a32,000,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colossusbets.com\/blog\/tackling-2000000-millionaire-9\/\" >Millionaire<\/a>. The company\u2019s B2C offering launched in 2013 and since then Colossus Bets has signed almost thirty B2B agreements for the distribution of its pools, with twenty live partners including Betclic, Betfair, Betdaq, Ladbrokes Australia, Matchbook, Bet Construct and ONEworks.<\/p>\n<p>Colossus Bets has pioneered partial cash-out and has been granted a series of patents in relation to the functionality across all forms of betting and gaming. This technology has been used to build the world\u2019s first cash-out slot game, the \u2018Colossus Fracpot\u2019, which went live on Sky Vegas in September 2015 and is the first of a number of \u2018Fracpot\u2019 slots being rolled out to a series of operators in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For further information, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bernard Marantelli (CEO and Founder)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:bernard.marantelli@colossusbets.com\">bernard.marantelli@colossusbets.com<\/a> +44 20 3393 3662<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>About The Football Pools<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Football Pools business is the world\u2019s oldest football gaming company, founded in 1923, outside the world famous Old Trafford football stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past nine decades, this iconic British brand has paid out \u00a33.2 billion in prize money to over 61 million winning customers. 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