Online Bookmaker: Sportingbet

Overview

Online bookmaker Sportingbet was founded in 1998 and has grown to become one of the most popular bookmakers in the industry. They have grown over the years and have acquired several smaller online gambling companies like SportingOdds.com and Paradise Poker which made them much stronger and much more competitive on a worldwide basis. The online bookie operates many different betting sites serving customers in over 23 languages. Individual brands are tailored to specific market needs, each offering a wide range of betting and gaming products from sports betting to poker and online casino games. Football fans in the United Kingdom might be familiar to Sportingbet as its popularity has grown from sponsoring numerous English and European football teams.

Sportingbet Sportsbook

Markets and odds
From the Premiership to the Moldavian Football league and from Wimbledon to the Melbourne Cup, Sportingbet offers an excellent range of sport events to its customers. There are over 30 different betting markets on offer across Europe, Australia, Canada, South America and South Africa. The online bookmaker is localising each product and offers an abundance of betting opportunities on local events to offer better and more customised services. There is great coverage for horse racing with early bird prices, radio commentaries, race cards & results for every major UK meeting. Sportingbet offers a lot of additional markets and their odds are arguably some of the best in the UK. Whether it’s about big European leagues in popular sports or less popular leagues, sports betting punters will find good prices and many events to place their bets.

The betting site
Sportingbet's betting site is light and user friendly. Nice menus and clever icons make it easy to find your way around and there are also convenient links for the popular events of the day. With regards to horse racing there is a dedicated section with ‘Today’s Races’ and ‘Racing Specials’ that is more than enough to satisfy all racing fans. Other handy features include live sores and statistics. The layout of the registration form is clear and to the point and registering for an account with the online bookmaker is quick and easy. Sportingbet also offers a unique rewards programme working with loyalty points giving away big ticket prizes and freebies including luxury getaways and iPods.

Live Betting
Sportingbet has a quality in-play betting service and the live console has extensive coverage from a wide variety of sporting events and betting markets. The betting website offers live video streaming in a good number of sports and races which makes it ideal for betting in-play. There is extensive coverage of popular televised European events, especially Basketball, Handball, Ice Hockey, and Volleyball. Sportingbet offers a selection of 2 ways for live betting. Players can choose between a Flash version, which is more graphic oriented and interactive or a lighter (non flash) version which is better suited for users with slower connections. This is a very nice feature that is not supported by many other bookmakers.

Sportingbet Casino

Sportingbet Casino is a great and prestigious online casino featuring games from across all the most popular gaming categories with a variety of Roulette, Blackjack, Slots, Video Poker and many more. At Sportingbet casino players will also find a section with Top games and Multiplayer games as well as a dedicated section for Live Casino. Casino players can pick from a number of glamorous and gorgeous Blackjack, Roulette and Baccarat croupiers and they can interact as they play. By joining Sportingbet’s casino players can claim - besides the normal deposit bonus - a Monthly Casino Bonus worth up to a massive £1,500 per month! There is also a VIP club for the most loyal and highest staking customers. Sportingbet's casino players can win VIP hospitality at premium sporting and other events, regular loyalty bonuses, VIP reload weekends, exclusive days with 10% added to all VIP members’ net winnings, 10% of net losses refunded on certain days and much more.
Ways to play at Sportingbet Casino
Sportingbet casino has a download and a flash version casino so players can either download the software or play instantly from their browser.

Sportingbet Casino software
Sportingbet casino operates a multiple supplier policy, meaning that they are able to offer games from many of the industry-leading games suppliers like netent, boss media, entraction and xgames to name a few. This gives players an enormous variety of casino games to choose from.

Sportingbet Poker

Paradise Poker (a brand of Sportingbet) was founded in 1999, and is one of the oldest online poker sites on the internet. Paradise Poker has a great selection of games to choose from and play from Texas Hold'em to Omaha High, Omaha Hi/Lo, 7 Card Stud, and 7 Card Stud hi/Lo Tournaments. There is also a number of guaranteed tournaments and satellites to live events. Paradise poker players can also find extra features like statistics and player notes. The Poker Room also offers their players free access to a Poker School where poker players can find tools, top tips as well as articles for learning new systems and strategies and help them improve their poker play.

Other Gaming Products

Sportingbet has a Games section where players can find all the classic and favourite instant games from slots, sports games, table games and high-low games. The Games section has a welcome bonus and an extra bonus up to £1.500 where players can get depending on their loyalty. Finally, Sporting bet offers a 1v1 section where players can compete with each other in games like Backgammon, Brag and others.

Bookmaker's Company Information

About
Founded in 1998 Sportingbet was one of the first, and remains one of the largest, online gaming companies in the world today. The company's ethos is 'it's all about sport'. Sport is inherent in both the company name and their core branding. Sport inspires their employees, entertains their customers, involves them in the local community and provides a never-ending range of betting opportunities which help form the strong foundations on which they operate. Sportingbet's aim is to provide adult customers with high-quality betting services in an environment that is convenient, entertaining, fair, regulated and secure.

The online bookmaker continually develops its market leading internet sports betting platform, which offers their customers innovative betting opportunities every minute of every hour of every day via a secure, user-friendly and efficient interface.

Licence
Sportingbet is licensed to accept bets via electronic media on a global basis under (i) their sports betting licence held by Interactive Sports (C.I.) Limited in Alderney; (ii) their Class 3 Remote Gaming Licence held by Spread Your Wings Limited in Malta (no. CL3/571/2009) and (iii) their gaming licences held by Internet Opportunity Entertainment (Sports) Limited in Antigua and Barbuda.

Betting Markets
Football, Horse Racing, Tennis, Euro Basketball, US Basketball, Baseball, US Football, Motor Sports, Greyhounds, Cricket, Rugby Union, Rugby League, Golf, Boxing, MMA, Snooker, Cycling, Darts, Volleyball, Athletics, Poker, Politics, Specials

Security
There is no need to worry about placing a bet with Sportingbet over the Internet. Their website has been designed by experts on the field and their secure server software encrypts all of your personal information (debit card number, name, address and more) so that it cannot be read as the information travels over the Internet.

Payment Methods
Visa and MasterCard, Visa debit card, Switch, Maestro, Laser, Neteller, Click2pay, Moneybookers, MoneyTransfers, Bank Transfers and paySafeCard.

Currencies
UK Sterling (GBP), Euro (EUR), US Dollar (USD), Canadian Dollars (CAD), Hong Kong Dollars (HKD), Singapore Dollars (SGD), Swedish Krona (SEK), Danish Krone (DKK), Swiss Francs (CHF), Australian Dollars (AUD), Japanese Yen (JPY)