Info about the bookmaker
Bwin is a world-renowned bookmaker (until 2006 known as Betandwin) which was established in 1999 by Norbert Teufelberger and Manfred Bodner. The company is headquartered in Vienna, Austria, and the operational activities of the bwin Group are run from Gibraltar under the terms of its Gibraltarian licenses. The Bwin Group boasts in excess of 20 million customers. In 2000, the company entered the Vienna Stock Exchange.
Bwin bookmaker was honored the title of the Best European Bookmaker of the Year in 2010 during the eGR Awards. In 2011 the newly created company Bwin.party received awards in categories of the Best Italian Operator, Socially Responsible Operator and the Best Spread Bets according to eGaming Review.
In 2013 during the prize distribution from The International Gaming Awards the company became the prize winner in the category of the Best Bingo Operator of the Year.
Bwin.com is the most visited betting side in Europe, receiving up to 30,000 bets daily which span across approximately 90 sports. In fact, Bwin's offers very wide sports betting category where one can find such sports as soccer, volleyball, alpine skiing, bandy, beach soccer, bowls, chess, rink hockey, aussie (Australian rules football – a combination of soccer and American football), table tennis, water polo and many more disciplines.
During the 2010 eGaming Review Awards, bwin was voted the European Sports Operator of the Year. At the 2009 EGR Awards, bwin bookmaker took Operator of the Year award.
In October 2010, bwin online bookmaker introduced racebook section with European, US and Canadian Thoroughbred races, thus completing probably the most comprehensive sportsbook in the world.
Bwin's superb soccer section covers leagues and cups from as many as 100 countries and even the most exotic leagues. The web site offers many attractions for football fans including video highlights of the German Bundesliga or video previews of the Spanish Primera Division.
What deserves particular respect is bwin's unique live betting. Bwin proves that creativity knows no boundaries, as the section features a huge variety of betting markets. As far as the layout, graphics and the overall organization of the live betting section is concerned, it appears simply to have no equals. Live betting section is fantastically supplemented by first-class high-quality sports live streaming, more than 3,000 live events per month, and by audio commentaries.
Bwin.com offers entertainment in the form of a great online poker room (it includes amazing multimedia poker school and poker tutorial), casino and games. As far as gaming awards are concerned, Bwin's Poker Room boasts Poker Site of the Year (the UK Gambling Awards in 2006), as well as Top Poker Software (the Online Gambling Magazine Awards in 2005).
The Bwin group has gained world wide fame for their cooperation with European football giants – jersey sponsorship of nine-times European champions Real Madrid (2007-2013) and seven-times European champions A.C. Milan (since 2006, till 2010), and partnership with four-times European champions Bayern Munich (since 2008).
The Austrian-based sports betting company is the official betting partner of the first-level Portuguese football league for the 10/11 season, as well as the main sponsor of the second-tier Italian football league which for the duration of the deal (2010-2012) has been renamed Serie bwin.
Among other sponsorships partners are the MotoGP World Championship, Volvo Ocean Race yacht race and the International Basketball Association (since 2006). The annual Hahnenkammrennen World Cup Alpine ski races in Austria are also sponsored by Bwin (since the 70th staging of the event in Jan. 2010; sponsorship till 2012). Bwin's logo is also featured in the Lady Gaga 2009 hit “Poker face.”
