Nice start for Colossus

Colossus Bets had its first big weekend this past weekend, and made a very encouraging start. It had over 15,000 bets in its weekend pools, and I remember when we started Betfair back in June 2000 we had a few dozen bets and 35 players on our first market…

The guys had one particularly nice piece of feedback from a leading industry professional, quoted below: Congratulations. I was impressed when I was first introduced to you, but this site is far better than anything I could have imagined. The size of the guarantees and the updates of tickets sold before the games - the goal flashes and updates of live tickets as the games progress and the fractional cash-in offers at natural breaks in the pools are all features that will keep people on the site watching and they worked so well on day 1 that I am sure the customers will all be back. I also expect you will get the quantum leap in ticket sales for the big guarantee pools in the coming weeks.