{"id":5310,"date":"2014-10-21T11:14:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T10:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colossusbets.com\/?p=5310"},"modified":"2019-11-18T17:39:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T17:39:39","slug":"colossus-bets-shortlisted-for-egr-operator-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colossusbets.com\/blog\/colossus-bets-shortlisted-for-egr-operator-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"SHORTLISTED FOR EGR OPERATOR AWARDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>COLOSSUS BETS SHORTLISTED FOR RISING STAR CATEGORY AT THE\u00a0<\/strong><strong>EGR OPERATOR AWARDS 2014<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>London, October 15<sup>th<\/sup> 2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>COLOSSUS BETS<\/strong>, home of the \u00a310,000,000 Colossus and the world\u2019s biggest football and sports jackpots, today announced that it has been shortlisted in the category of Rising Star\u00a0at the EGR Operator Awards 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Bernard Marantelli, founder and CEO of Colossus Bets said, \u201cThis is once again a great testament to the continuing growth of the Colossus Bets brand.\u00a0 Having paid out over \u00a36,000,000 in guaranteed prizes to date, we are convinced that our lottery-sized sporting jackpots, together with a Fractional Cash-In feature which enables players to take control of their destiny, is a winning combination. \u00a0Being short listed for the Rising Star category of The EGR Operator Awards highlights how our industry peers have recognized our growing influence in the i-gaming market and in such a short space of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ends<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Colossus Bets: Bernard Marantelli (CEO and Founder)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:bernard.marantelli@colossusbets.com\">bernard.marantelli@colossusbets.com<\/a>\u00a0 +44(0)20 3393 3662<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor\u2019s Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>7 things you may not know about Colossus Bets<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a310 million &#8211; our weekly headline prize<\/li>\n<li>2 million bets processed since launch<\/li>\n<li>\u00a36 million in guaranteed prizes paid out to date<\/li>\n<li>40,000+ Twitter Followers<\/li>\n<li>25,000+ active players<\/li>\n<li>14 B2B partners contracted<\/li>\n<li>4 B2B partners live<\/li>\n<li>5 technology patents granted<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>About Colossus Bets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Founder and CEO Bernard Marantelli is a professional gambler, who after winning significant sums from multi-leg bets around the world, decided jackpot pools were not run optimally. After failing to convince incumbent operators to improve their product offering to generate bigger pools, he set up Colossus Bets to provide lottery-sized jackpot pools on a weekly basis.<\/p>\n<p>On May 31st 2014 Bernard lead one of three syndicates to share a world record \u00a35.4m Scoop6 bonus, after sharing a \u00a310,000,000 pool eight ways the previous week.<\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s biggest bet, &#8216;The \u00a310,000,000 Colossus\u2019 is a seven leg correct score football game offered weekly.\u00a0 Colossus Bets also offers a series of other multi-million pound pools based on correct scores and a suite of correct outcome (Home\/Draw\/Away) games.<\/p>\n<p>Colossus Bets is currently developing multi-million pounds games for NFL\/NBA\/horseracing\/greyhounds\/AFL and ARL.<\/p>\n<p>Colossusbets Limited is licensed and regulated by the UK Gambling Commission. For more information visit www.colossusbets.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Fractional Cash-In<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Colossus Bets goes beyond offering the world\u2019s biggest guaranteed pools; through unique technology, it allows players to Cash-In all or part of their multi-leg bets at virtually any stage of a game. This enables players to bank profits from their ticket whilst retaining part of it and playing for a corresponding share of the Jackpot prize.<\/p>\n<p>Colossus Bets player guide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colossusbets.com\/info\/Player%20Guide\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Colossus Bets how to play video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DFhQS2tgvVU\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLOSSUS BETS SHORTLISTED FOR RISING STAR CATEGORY AT THE\u00a0EGR OPERATOR AWARDS 2014\u00a0 London, October 15th 2014 COLOSSUS BETS, home of the \u00a310,000,000 Colossus and the world\u2019s biggest football and sports jackpots, today announced that it has been shortlisted in the category of Rising Star\u00a0at the EGR Operator Awards 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[673],"tags":[174],"class_list":["post-5310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insights","tag-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.7 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - 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