Gains distributed in line with the "small, but many" principle, stakes ranging between 5 and 10 RON per player, football attracting over 80% of the bets of people entering a betting agency and investments of tens of thousands of euros to reach as far as cities with 30,000-50,000 inhabitants. This is what the market of sports bets where Romanians spend almost 150m euros annually, similar with the budget earmarked for chocolate tablet purchases, looks like. The market has continued to grow aggressively this year, amid the arrival of billionaire Dinu Patriciu, who opened the first 41 coffee shops-agencies, 1x2 Bet Café Arena, and the opening of tens of new locations by the main players on the market looking to improve coverage. Romanians spend around 100-150m euros on sports bets, a market where there's an agency per 7,500 inhabitants, compared with Croatia, which has 2,000 agencies against a fourfold smaller population, cashing in around 500m euros from bets. Around 1,500 private betting agencies operated by 14 companies holding licences for this type of activity are active on the market.

Gains distributed in line with the "small, but many" principle, stakes ranging between 5 and 10 RON per player, football attracting over 80% of the bets of people entering a betting agency and investments of tens of thousands of euros to reach as far as cities with 30,000-50,000 inhabitants. This is what the market of sports bets where Romanians spend almost 150m euros annually, similar with the budget earmarked for chocolate tablet purchases, looks like. The market has continued to grow aggressively this year, amid the arrival of billionaire Dinu Patriciu, who opened the first 41 coffee shops-agencies, 1x2 Bet Café Arena, and the opening of tens of new locations by the main players on the market looking to improve coverage. Romanians spend around 100-150m euros on spo