The Bookmaker Ratings

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The Bookmaker Ratings
TypeDaily sports newspaper
FormatAnalytical website
Owner(s)Paruyr Shahbazyan
Editor-in-chiefBradley Gibbs
Founded1 March 2012
Language English, Armenian, Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Ukrainian,
Website bookmaker-ratings.com

Bookmaker Ratings is an online publication covering topics related to sports betting and disputes between players and bookmakers. It is published in seven languages: English, Armenian, Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish and Ukrainian.

Contents

History and activity

The Bookmaker Ratings was founded by Paruyr Shahbazyan in 2012. [1] Later that year, the site made headlines after being informed of a possible match-fixing incident in the Russian National Football League between FC Khimki and Petrotrest St. Petersburg, and UEFA asked them to investigate. [2]

The website publishes betting tips for various sports written by the site's authors who range from journalists to ex-players. These authors include commentator Konstantin Genich, former world number 5 tennis player Anna Chakvetadze, football manager of the Russian national team Valeri Karpin, and Russian football coach and a former player Yegor Titov. Other experts in the past have included football World Cup winner Fabio Cannavaro and former heavyweight boxing champion Nikolai Valuev. [3] According to a 2015 interview of Shahbazyan for Forbes, Bookmaker Ratings averaged 1.2 million hits a month, 350,000 of which were unique visitors. [4] The site uses an independent rating system [5] where bookmakers are ranked from 1 to 5 on several criteria.

The site was able to refund more than 1.4m US dollars to players in their first four years of existence. [6]

RB Prize

In 2018, the Bookmaker Rating introduced the RB Prize, an international award in the field of sports and bookmaking. [7] The awards are presented in 28 categories.

In 2021, the main nominations in the award were announced by football player Luis Figo, [8] Fonbet became the bookmaker of the year, Artem Dziuba became the sportsman of the year. [9]

In 2022, the RB Prize was held at the Irina Viner-Usmanova Gymnastics Palace, Fonbet became the bookmaker of the year for the second year in a row, Dina Averin's athlete of the year, Emmanuel Adebayor announced the main nominations. [10]

Award

In 2018, the Bookmaker Ratings established its own international Award in sports and betting. The awards are given in 28 nominations. [11] In 2021, football player Luis Figo announced the main nominations for the award. Fonbet became the bookmaker of the year and Artem Dzyuba became the sportsman of the year. [12]

Honours

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References

  1. ↑ "Paruyr Shahbazyan in Forbes".
  2. ↑ "The bookmaker's office recognized the match "Petrotrest" - "Khimki" as negotiable".
  3. ↑ "MegaObzor about BR".
  4. ↑ "Forbes: How to make money on the betting business".
  5. ↑ "Interview with Paruyr Shahbazyan".
  6. ↑ "How bookmaker players achieve payouts in Russia and abroad". 2018-09-07. Archived from the original on 7 September 2018. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  7. ↑ "Слуцкая и Цзю проголосуют за номинантов Международной премии РБ". РБК Спорт (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2021-02-24. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
  8. ↑ "Фигу назвал международную премию «РБ» в области спорта и букмекерства уникальным проектом". sport-express.ru (in Russian). 2021-04-23. Archived from the original on 2021-05-18. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  9. ↑ "Премия "РБ-2021": как прошло самое масштабное мероприятие в спортивно-букмекерской отрасли". Life.ru (in Russian). 2021-04-15. Archived from the original on 2021-04-17. Retrieved 2021-04-17.
  10. ↑ "Премия РБ 2022: как прошло самое громкое событие в спортивно-букмекерской отрасли". Ведомости (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2022-07-02. Retrieved 2022-07-03.
  11. ↑ "The expert jury will select the winners in the nominations "Athlete of the Year" and "Best Sports Media"".
  12. ↑ "BR-award: how the largest event in the sports and betting industry was going".
  13. ↑ "Betting Awards 2015 winners".
  14. ↑ "Betting Awards 2016 winners".
  15. ↑ "Shortlist of iGB Affiliate Awards 2017" (PDF).
  16. ↑ "Runet Prize 2018 winners". Archived from the original on 28 August 2020.
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