Sportingbet Review

Sportingbet Overview

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Basics

Site Name: Sportingbet
Software: Proprietary
Online Since: 1998
Bonus: 100% up to £100
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US Players Accepted: No

Features

  • Up to £100 free bet for new customers
  • Comprehensive statistics
  • Weekly Podcast

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Pros

  • Trusted UK brand
  • Huge depth of betting coverage
  • Ongoing podcast free bet offer
  • 24/7 support

Cons

  • Slightly complicated free bet offer

Sportingbet

Sportingbet was founded by Mark Blandford in 1997 who launched the bookmaker website in 1998. He went on to be voted AIM Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002.

Sportingbet has over 2.5 million registered customers in 200 countries, who place over one million bets (casino, poker, sports and virtual games) per day. It was awarded eGaming Review’s 2007 European Sportsbook of the Year.

You may recognise the Sportingbet logo due to shirt sponsorships of several football teams including Wolverhampton Wanderers of the Premier League,  Bulgarian football club Slavia Sofia and Steaua Bucuresti of Romania.

Betting Coverage

Unlike a number of other online bookmakers, Sportingbet is not focused mainly on UK and Irish betting markets.

If you are a fan of mainstream UK sports you are covered but you are equally catered for if you want to bet on European or American markets.

The depth of coverage for each event is excellent and in many cases you can enjoy dozens of betting markets enabling you to focus on specific areas you understand best.

You may also be interested to know you can use a single account to also play at Sportingbet Casino and Paradise Poker.

Free Bets

Sportingbet offers new customers up to £100 in free bets which can be claimed as follows:

  • Place a qualifying single bet of at least £10 for a matched free bet of up to £10.
  • Place a qualifying double bet of at least £10 for a matched free bet of up to £30.
  • Place a qualifying treble bet of at least £10 for a matched free bet of up to £30.
  • Place a qualifying 4-fold bet of at least £10 for a matched free bet of up to £30.

The Sportingbet weekly podcast is also worth listening to, not at least for the opportunity to win a £100 free bet. All you need to do is predict a winning bet for five weeks in a row. Listen to the podcast for all the details.

About David Walker  (43 Posts)

David has been involved in the online gambling industry since the late 1990s and prides himself on tipping good value winners. His biggest win was a 47/1 four-team accumulator and he successfully tipped Blackburn's last victory at Arsenal in 2002 at odds of 9/1. A season ticket holder at Cardiff City for many years, expect a first-hand insight into football below the Premier League.