{"id":5804,"date":"2014-11-25T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T07:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colossusbets.com\/?p=5804"},"modified":"2019-11-18T17:39:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T17:39:39","slug":"colossus-bets-wins-egr-operator-award-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colossusbets.com\/blog\/colossus-bets-wins-egr-operator-award-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"COLOSSUS BETS WINS EGR OPERATOR AWARD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>COLOSSUS BETS ANNOUNCED AS \u201cRISING STAR\u201d AT <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>EGR OPERATOR AWARDS 2014 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>London, November 25<sup>th<\/sup> 2014<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colossusbets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bernard.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5817\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colossusbets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bernard.jpg\" alt=\"bernard\" width=\"250\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>COLOSSUS BETS<\/strong>, home of the \u00a310,000,000 Colossus and the world\u2019s biggest football and sports jackpots, was last night announced as \u2018Rising Star\u2019 winner at the EGR Operator Awards. Colossus Bets is delighted to receive this recognition from the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Bernard Marantelli, founder and CEO of Colossus Bets said, \u201cIt is a privilege to receive this award after being live for less than 18 months and we would like to thank our forward thinking partners BETDAQ, Betfair, Boylesports and the other future partners currently integrating our revolutionary pools and thus helping make us the industry\u2019s rising star.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to our B2C offering we are live with 4 B2B partners already, with 12 more signed across Asia, Europe and Africa and at various stages of development. This is also a week which has seen our biggest Pick 4 rollover pool with a \u00a3310,000 pot and we expect 2015 will see our pools offered globally, driving liquidity and growth of the world\u2019s first truly lotto-sized sports pool\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ends<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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> +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>2.5 million bets processed since launch<\/li>\n<li>Over \u00a38.5 million in guaranteed prizes paid out to date<\/li>\n<li>41,000+ 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<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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. 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLOSSUS BETS ANNOUNCED AS \u201cRISING STAR\u201d AT EGR OPERATOR AWARDS 2014 \u00a0 London, November 25th 2014 COLOSSUS BETS, home of the \u00a310,000,000 Colossus and the world\u2019s biggest football and sports jackpots, was last night announced as \u2018Rising Star\u2019 winner at the EGR Operator Awards.<\/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":[174,177],"class_list":["post-5804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insights","tag-news","tag-ticker"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.7 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - 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