Punters: How Paddy Power Bet Billions and Changed Gambling Forever

The story of Paddy Power’s growth from a small chain of Irish bookies to the biggest gambling company in the world.

Flutter Entertainment, the parent company of Paddy Power, is the largest gambling business in the world. The evidence of that success is visible everywhere, from shop fronts and bus shelters to sporting arenas and smartphone screens.

The company’s rise to this point has been rapid, but like any gambler worth their salt, Paddy Power has always succeeded in finding an edge. At the outset those innovations were modest, like offering odds on television shows and giving punters money back on losing bets, but as the company’s ambition grew, so too did its determination to stay one step ahead of the competition, whatever the cost…

Impeccably researched and informed by dozens of insider interviews, Punters is the incredible story of how an unlikely band of misfits and visionaries bet on the future of the gambling industry and won big. But it’s also the story of how that victory may have come at an extraordinary cost – to their customers and society at large.

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Punters: How Paddy Power Bet Billions and Changed Gambling Forever

The story of Paddy Power’s growth from a small chain of Irish bookies to the biggest gambling company in the world.

Flutter Entertainment, the parent company of Paddy Power, is the largest gambling business in the world. The evidence of that success is visible everywhere, from shop fronts and bus shelters to sporting arenas and smartphone screens.

The company’s rise to this point has been rapid, but like any gambler worth their salt, Paddy Power has always succeeded in finding an edge. At the outset those innovations were modest, like offering odds on television shows and giving punters money back on losing bets, but as the company’s ambition grew, so too did its determination to stay one step ahead of the competition, whatever the cost…

Impeccably researched and informed by dozens of insider interviews, Punters is the incredible story of how an unlikely band of misfits and visionaries bet on the future of the gambling industry and won big. But it’s also the story of how that victory may have come at an extraordinary cost – to their customers and society at large.

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Punters: How Paddy Power Bet Billions and Changed Gambling Forever

Punters: How Paddy Power Bet Billions and Changed Gambling Forever

by Aaron Rogan
Punters: How Paddy Power Bet Billions and Changed Gambling Forever

Punters: How Paddy Power Bet Billions and Changed Gambling Forever

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Overview

The story of Paddy Power’s growth from a small chain of Irish bookies to the biggest gambling company in the world.

Flutter Entertainment, the parent company of Paddy Power, is the largest gambling business in the world. The evidence of that success is visible everywhere, from shop fronts and bus shelters to sporting arenas and smartphone screens.

The company’s rise to this point has been rapid, but like any gambler worth their salt, Paddy Power has always succeeded in finding an edge. At the outset those innovations were modest, like offering odds on television shows and giving punters money back on losing bets, but as the company’s ambition grew, so too did its determination to stay one step ahead of the competition, whatever the cost…

Impeccably researched and informed by dozens of insider interviews, Punters is the incredible story of how an unlikely band of misfits and visionaries bet on the future of the gambling industry and won big. But it’s also the story of how that victory may have come at an extraordinary cost – to their customers and society at large.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780008463892
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/14/2021
Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: eBook
Pages: 416
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Aaron Rogan is currently News Correspondent at the Business Post and was previously Senior Reporter at The Times Ireland. Rogan’s journalism has focused on investigatory work into the online gambling industry and general reporting on the business of Flutter, the parent group of Paddy Power Betfair.


Aaron Rogan is currently News Correspondent at the Business Post and was previously Senior Reporter at The Times Ireland. Rogan’s journalism has focused on investigatory work into the online gambling industry and general reporting on the business of Flutter, the parent group of Paddy Power Betfair.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Origin Story 15

2 Tax Wars 34

3 Political Punt 55

4 Cat and Mouse 72

5 Online from the Bunker 94

6 Let's Make Things More Interesting 115

7 Quants 131

8 The Kennedy Era 156

9 We Hear You 168

10 Future Expected Margin 190

11 The First Europeans 196

12 Tony10 222

13 Vanguard 240

14 Spot the Stallions from the Mares 251

15 Vatican City to Pyongyang, via Tallaght 262

16 Nobel Prize, or an Oscar? 283

17 Betty Power 304

18 Rise of the FOBTs 326

19 Green Street 336

20 Addiction by Design 354

Epilogue 385

Acknowledgements 403

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