'Mr Two Million' marks international direction of the exchange as punters sign up from far and wide.

Betfair has signed up its 2,000,000th customer and, in a sign of the worldwide popularity of the betting exchange, the history-making punter is not English, Irish, Scottish or Welsh but a 59-year-old civil servant from Sweden.

Bo Öhrman of Linköping was shown the website by his brother and instantly saw the potential to make money. Accordingly, his first bet - a fl