Jamaicans love their sports and they love to win money, so why not combine the two?

Supreme Ventures Limited, in collaboration with Greece-based sport betting company Intralot, has created Justbet, a new gaming alternative. The Justbet team held its first media lyme at Acropolis on Thursday, December 4, to introduce itself and its product to the Fourth Estate.

All around the restaurant area, large-screen televisions showed various sporting events including live matches like the battling West Indies against Australia and taped international rugby. Guests mingled and learned about the newest innovation.

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Supreme Ventures Limited (SVL) executives Carlene Edwards (left) and Sonia Davidson check out the Justbet betting machines with Intralot Jamaica Brand Manager Andrei Roper. Justbet is a new sport betting game created by SVL and Intralot.

The game will be played basically like the regular Lotto games (in terms of buying your tickets) and the representatives from Intralot instructed how to fill out the betting sheets. Cricket, the NFL (American football), football, plus track and field, are among the sports gamblers can try when the game gets going. Other sports to come include ice hockey and tennis. By the way, the official launch date is being kept hush-hush.

But the lyme was all about having fun. Guests also got the chance to win betting vouchers and free dinners and the DJ kept a lively mix going, from feel-good reggae to soca and hip hop.

Media guests out for the occasion included Simon Crosskill, Dania Bogle, Howard Walker, Allison Watson, Don and Ayesha Creary, Kamal Bankay, Maia Chung, Kevin Jackson, Roy Sweetland, Al Edwards, Carol Francis, Oral Tracey, Elon Parkinson, Fiona Bailey, Chris Serju and Maurice Foster.