Operators across industry spectrum welcome Cheltenham Festival boost

The Cheltenham Festival helped some firms to record figuresCredit: Alan Crowhurst

The gambling industry has been totting up the figures from the Cheltenham Festival, with sportsbook platform OpenBet reporting a record week.

OpenBet said they processed more than 39 million bets, an increase of nearly ten per cent on the previous year, while the number of bets per minute placed through a single operator during the festival using the OpenBet platform peaked at 15,800.

On Gold Cup day more than 10.9m bets were placed, an increase of 2.3m over 2017.

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Bill BarberIndustry editor

Published on 26 March 2018inFeatures

Last updated 14:05, 26 March 2018

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