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By her own admission, Denise Coates and her brother John are “the ultimate gamblers”.
It was 2001 and the dotcom bubble had recently burst, but Coates decided to place all her chips online.
The Stoke siblings bought the bet365.com domain on eBay for a reported $25,000 and mortgaged her father Peter’s betting shops to secure a £15m loan from Royal Bank of Scotland to develop the website.
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