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In May 2018, William Hill sold their Australian business, Seeing Waterhouse to a two-year non-compete agreement. Leaving behind his career as a bookmaker, Tom Waterhouse takes back control of his brand TomWaterhouse.com as a racing tipping service straight away. Trying to help punters beat the bookies.

In July 2014, Waterhouse became CEO of William Hill Australia operating the TomWaterhouse.com, Centrebet, Sportingbet and William Hill brands operating from three countries with approximately 500 employees, one million clients and over two billion dollars in turnover.

In August 2013 TomWaterhouse.com was sold to international betting giant William Hill (bookmaker) where Waterhouse then continued as Managing Director of TomWaterhouse.com

At the 2013 Sydney Cup day on 27 April at Randwick Racecourse, John Singleton fired Gai Waterhouse (Tom's mother) as trainer of his horses amid allegations that Tom Waterhouse gave acquaintances inside information that Singleton's horse More Joyous was unfit to win the All Ages Stakes. Tom Waterhouse denied any wrongdoing and was cleared in a stewards enquiry conducted by the Racing NSW. Waterhouse was warned not to use his mother's name to promote his bookmaking business.

Waterhouse was included in the SmartCompany's Hot 30 Under 30 class of 2012, group of entrepreneurs aged 30 years and younger. Tomwaterhouse.com was ranked 19th in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Australia 2012.

Tom Waterhouse married wife Hoda Vakili in 2011, in the Italian town of Taormina. The couple met at Sydney University, where Vakili was studying her Master's in Architecture. Close friends for years, Vakili even worked at the track for Waterhouse for three years taking bets during her degree.

He is the co-host of Sportsline on Sky Business, and the racing-focused Two Cups and a Plate on TVN. He pays to appear on the Nine Network's Wide World of Sports and is a regular during Nine's coverage of the Wallabies, and featured during the Rugby World Cup 2011. Waterhouse is a regular guest on 2GB with Alan Jones on Friday mornings during Autumn and Spring to discuss racing and sports. He regularly featured during the Channel Seven's coverage of Wimbledon 2012, and Ascot on TVN.

In 2010 Waterhouse launched an online gambling business tomwaterhouse.com. The company was one of Australia's largest corporate bookmakers, with offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Darwin, and claims a client list of 100 "high-net-worth individuals" whose minimum bet is $1000. In this time, the company grew from a start up with three people to over 100 and from less than 1,000 clients to approximately 250,000.

Waterhouse was a contestant on Dancing with the Stars in 2006. He was the second contestant voted off.

After obtaining his bookmaking licence he began working as a bookmaker on course in 2003. By 2008, Waterhouse was Australia's biggest on-track bookmaker, holding more than $20 million over four days at the Melbourne Cup carnival, more than all the other bookmakers combined.

In 2001, Waterhouse's father, Robbie Waterhouse, asked him if he would help out at Rosehill Racecourse, which Waterhouse enjoyed. He was only six months into his Commerce degree, but he immediately rearranged his timetable so that he could attend the races for the rest of the week.

Waterhouse's father, Robbie Waterhouse and grandfather William "Bill" Waterhouse are also bookmakers. They have attracted controversy in the past including the loss of their bookmaker's licences for eighteen years (originally life bans) due to their involvement in the Fine Cotton substitution scandal in 1984.

Thomas Robert "Tom" Waterhouse (born 11 June 1982) is an Australian business man, Director of TomWaterhouse.com Tomwaterhouse.com, and co-founder of investment firm ListedReserve.com. He is the fourth generation of the Waterhouse racing dynasty, and the grandson of one of the first official bookmakers in Australia.

His grandfathers on both sides were involved in the racing industry. William "Bill" Waterhouse was the worlds biggest bookmaker in the 1960s and 1970s. The late trainer Tommy J. Smith trained 279 Group One winners, including two Melbourne Cup winners.

Tom Waterhouse is the fourth generation of the family to embrace racing, a tradition that began in 1898 when his great grandfather Charles Hercules Waterhouse, took out a licence to operate in at the flat at Randwick. The family tradition was carried on from 1954 by Bill, who set a huge betting record as the world’s biggest bookmaker.

The first bookmaker in the family was Charles Waterhouse, who attained his licence in 1898. Waterhouse's maternal Grandfather, T.J Smith was an Australian racehorse trainer. His mother, Gai Waterhouse (maiden name Gabriel Marie Smith) is a leading Australian horse trainer, businesswoman and a former actress. Gai Waterhouse served an apprenticeship under her father for fifteen years before receiving her own trainer's licence.