With the 4 million euros paid out to Trump bettors, this is the biggest loss recorded by the site during the election.
The root cause of the costly error, the operator Unibet, mistakenly paid nearly 1 million euros to those who bet on Hillary Clinton last November. Everything in sport is much simpler, almost always the best wins, and in politics, nothing excludes that it is the worst… This lack of “political culture” of the bookmakers is undoubtedly an important cause.
Otherwise, the bookmakers have a harder time with political bets: too much uncertainty and a lot of work on a subject about which they don't know much contrary to the soccer betting. But, just like at Eurovision or at the Oscars, the bookmakers consider their presence on their website as essential, because it is one of the opportunities for which the non-sports media and to be included in the general media. Prior to this, political betting had never had the opportunity to truly compete with sports betting. Politics the new playground for Bookmakers Fourth place, just after the fight between boxers David Haye and Tony Bellow, is unprecedented! If more evidence was needed, to prove the particularity of this presidential election. Who would have thought that the presidential election of the French Republic would fascinate British online sports betting companies? On Friday, March 3, the odds on politics have changed since the Fillon Incident, the right-wing Juppe's "Plan B" is in the news, and Le Pen ranked third and second in Paris numbers. From now on, the bookmakers bet on Macron and Marine Le Pen. Then the Fillon affair changed everything. After François Fillon's victory in the primary, the French electoral landscape seems to have been written in advance.
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