Book Blurb

Sean Lawless is a name that may not be familiar to many, but his untold story is one that demands attention and recognition. In a world dominated by International Gambling Corporations, Lawless stood alone in his fight for fairness and transparency. He was the single bookmaker who dared to challenge the formidable forces controlling the Gambling Industry. The Big 4 Bookmakers, Ladbrokes, Corals, Hills, and Mecca joined forces and formed SIS who illegitimately set about to wipe out independent bookmakers and proceeded to exploit the most vulnerable customers in the industry. The independents fell like dominoes, except Lawless, who has since relentlessly pursued the Big 4’s SIS for breaching and illegally tampering with their contract.

Over the course of nearly three decades of battling SIS, Lawless endured personal struggles, spending five weeks in a facility for depression. Having gone through the Courts, Lawless briefed one of the top 3 International Law Firms in Ireland, who failed him, and latterly two additional eminent Law Firms who also failed him. Lawless realised that, if he continued to pursue this matter, it could end as life-threatening. However, Lawless decided to pursue the matter as a lay litigant, despite the threat to his health. Gathering his accumulated evidence, Lawless ultimately appealed to the Supreme Court after exhausting his efforts in the lower courts.

In 1962 UK bookmakers opened shops to the public. Ladbrokes and Corals tried to merge in 1998. The merger was blocked following the release of  the Monopolies and Mergers Commission (MMC) report, commissioned and presented to the British Parliament by the then Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. 

The latest twist: In 2018 Ladbrokes and Corals who had been in business for over one hundred years, respectively, were collectively purchased by GVC, a gaming corporation merely 14 years old, for a massive £3.5 Billion. Subsequently GVC and its holdings were acquired by a bigger gaming corporation called Entain. Surprisingly the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), didn’t intervene to stop them.

Warning: this book does show how to make a $Billion, but the means of getting it may not be entirely legitimate.