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By Graham Hiscott What are the odds? Bet365 made a £72million loss last year, while the boss Denise Coates made £271million in pay and dividends. Ms Coates, Britain’s richest women and best-paid boss, was pulling in the equivalent of £742,000 a day as her total earnings since 2014 hit £2.3billion. Ms Coates, whose fortune is now estimated at £6.2billion, set up Bet365 from a portable cabin in a car park in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs, in 2000. She is now listed among the UK’s biggest tax payers, she and her family estimated to have paid £460.2million into the Exchequer last year. Bet365 said it als…

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