Heavy Wimbledon Internet Betting Triggers Alert
A Reuters newswire article by Paul Majendie, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
An Internet bookmaking firm has contacted tennis authorities about unusual betting patterns after hefty sums were bet on a first round match at Wimbledon won by Britain's Richard Bloomfield.More here.
The alert was raised by the online betting exchange Betfair after up to 340,000 pounds ($619,300) were traded on world number 89, Argentina's Carlos Berlocq, to lose just hours before he went down 6-1 6-2 6-2 to Bloomfield, ranked 259, in Tuesday's match.
That was around 30 times as much as had been invested on similar matches between relatively unknown British players at the tournament.
But it was dwarfed by the six million pounds wagered on the first round match of Britain's Tim Henman, four times a semi-finalist at Wimbledon.
posted by Fergie @ 6/28/2006 07:23:00 AM
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