Sixteen years ago last month, the organisers of a party at the Sports Cafe on Haymarket heralded a sports betting revolution. What they launched — known that evening as ‘open market’ but soon renamed ‘exchange’ betting by the media — predicted that technological innovation facilitated by the internet would herald the death of the bookmaker and offer punters the opportunity to take control.
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