{"id":11325,"date":"2015-11-30T02:14:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T02:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bb-auae-prd-ext-blog-01.azurewebsites.net\/more\/michael-sullivan-is-back-with-bluebet\/"},"modified":"2023-06-28T09:53:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T09:53:14","slug":"michael-sullivan-is-back-with-bluebet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/press\/michael-sullivan-is-back-with-bluebet\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Sullivan is back with BlueBet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Press Release &#8211; 30th November<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Big Betting bookmaker Michael Sullivan has launched a new Australian betting company to take on the wave of English corporate bookmakers who currently dominate the industry.<br \/>\nSullivan is also returning to the betting ring in Sydney to compliment bluebet.com.au, the new online business.<\/p>\n<p>\u0093I really believe these big English bookmakers don&#8217;\u0092t understand what the Australian punter is after and we will be offering a far more personalised service,\u0094 Sullivan said.<br \/>\nSullivan was previously CEO of Sportingbet and Centrebet who were the biggest bookmakers in Australia at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u0093Back when we started Sportingbet in Australia in 2002, we really gave punters an experience they hadn\u0092t been exposed to before and we will be servicing all punters in the new business whether they bet in $1 or $100,000,\u0094 he said.<br \/>\nSullivan said he also supported calls for the reigning in of gambling advertising during live sport.<br \/>\n\u0093Watching sport is Australia&#8217;\u0092s favourite hobby and I really don&#8217;\u0092t think it needs to be littered with ads from all these pommy bookmakers,\u0094 he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u0093I said the same thing when I was CEO of Sportingbet and I really think some self regulation so Australians can watch sport without been bombarded with betting offers is a good idea.<br \/>\nSullivan will have his first day back at Rosehill on Saturday for Derby day while bluebet.com.au is already up and running.<\/p>\n<p>Ends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release &#8211; 30th November Big Betting bookmaker Michael Sullivan has launched a new Australian betting company to take on the wave of English corporate bookmakers who currently dominate the industry. Sullivan is also returning to the betting ring in Sydney to compliment bluebet.com.au, the new online business. \u0093I really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15415,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11325\/revisions\/15415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}