Leading Irish bookmaker BoyleSports rewarded its biggest losing customers with hospitality tickets to the upcoming GAA All-Ireland finals.
BoyleSports Rewards Biggest Losing Customers With Hospitality GAA TicketsThe firm based in Dundalk, one of the biggest online casinos in Ireland, decided to rewards its best customers – those who have lost the most money betting with BoyleSports, as much as hundreds of thousands – with free tickets in the company box.
BoyleSports Target Customers With Six-Figure Losses For GAA Rewards
BoyleSports Rewards Biggest Losing Customers With Hospitality GAA Tickets BoyleSports Rewards Biggest Losing Customers With Hospitality GAA Tickets.The firm described the practice as simply customers availing of ‘regular promotions,’ but one source familiar with the situation told the newspaper it was an incentive by BoyleSports to get more customers gambling and with bigger amounts.
Unclear If BoyleSports Have Continued With Rewards Since New Legislation
BoyleSports Rewards Biggest Losing Customers With Hospitality GAA TicketsInducement is considered as a “benefit or advantage, the intent or effect of which is, either directly or indirectly, to encourage participation in gambling.”
A spokesperson for the company said BoyleSports was committed to being ‘fully compliant’ with the new gambling laws in the Republic of Ireland and it’s unlikely the GAA reward scheme is being continued in 2025.
BoyleSports, founded in 1982, has over 300 betting shops in the UK and Ireland and before the GAA introduced a ban on gambling advertisement in 2017, it sponsored the Louth senior football team through the 2000s.