Sign-Up Bonuses

Sign-Up offers can be known as welcome offers, welcome bonuses or sign-up bonuses too. They are usually offered as free bets or deposit match. A free bet offer is when the bookmaker returns the equal amount of your first bet (made at specific odds) no matter if you lost or won, while a match deposit is when you get a certain percentage of your first deposit as a bonus. For example, a 100% match deposit bonus on a £50 means additional £50 on top of your deposit.

Odds, Markets, Betting Coverage

All of these things vary between bookmakers. There is no perfect online bookie that offers the best odds including all possible markets and a complete betting coverage as per your preferences. Some bookies may offer excellent odds across the board, but may not have the strength to offer wide range of markets section and a decent coverage. Others may offer a great betting coverage but have fewer markets and odds that are not that impressive, and so on. Top bookmakers are those that can offer the most of all three aspects and very attractive feature, live streaming on events. This is where top bookmakers distinguish themselves from your average online sports betting website.

Countries and Territories

Bookmakers have their own strict policies about accepting players from specific countries. Although there are cases where bookmakers don’t have country restrictions and accept all players, most of them have restrictions. These restrictions are mainly based on bookie’s substandard experience with players coming from those countries, usually being bonus abusers or scammers as we mentioned previously, or just because online payments related to gambling activities are not allowed (as in the case of USA).

How to Choose the Best Bookmaker

If you read carefully all that was written by now, you should have a fairly good idea of what to look for. Let’s sum all up. First thing to do is comparing bookmakers. Choose your favourites and compare them, and then compare their sign-up offers. Once you’ve done that, you can look for the finer things: Is the bookie licensed and where? Does it offer payment methods suitable for you? What is the range of the markets offered? Are the odds favourable? Can you place bets through your mobile device? Does it offer live streaming? And the last and very important aspect, does the bookmaker accept punters from your country? When you take all of these factors into consideration and perform a little online research to find feedback by other punters, which shouldn’t take more than 10-15 minutes, you should be just fine. In the end, good bookmakers will find you. Good bookmakers are praised and known far and wide, just watch out not to get bogged down at average sports betting websites or even worse, scams.