If you’re looking to place a real money wager on a variety of sports at a licensed online sports betting website, here are some important tips you should remember before signing up to any old site. Some of the most trusted sports betting sites out there today are those that are licensed by the UK Gambling Commission. More specifically, the top sites are ones that originally stemmed from the high street and have decades of experience in the gambling industry.
Here are five useful tips you should always bear in mind when searching the internet and choosing the best sportsbook for you.
Tip 1: Never sign up to an unlicensed or unregulated site
The worst thing you could do would be to sign up to an unlicensed sports betting site that’s unregulated. One of the most trusted online gambling licensing authorities in the world with the best legal framework in place is the UK Gambling Commission. This trusted authority currently licences some of the most trusted online sports betting sites in the world that offer the best rugby league betting and football league betting services. In other words, try and look for a site that is licensed by the UK Gambling Commission.
Tip 2: Look for the reputable operators
Some of the most trusted online sports betting operators in the world also have decades of experience in the offline/land-based betting industry, and they are often the most renowned names. These particular sites are controlled by responsible owners with proven track records, which means that you can trust them and that you will receive the proper legal backing you are entitled to if in the unlikely event an issue should ever occur and not be resolved.
Tip 3: What type of player support is available?
In a similar way that you can tell how good a restaurant is by popping your head in the kitchen or taking a peek in their customer toilets to see how clean and tidy they are, you can tell a great deal about an online sports betting site by what type of player support methods are available, and how responsive and helpful that player support is.
At many of today’s top sites, the player support will be toll-free and available 24 hours per day (although the telephone number may only open between certain daytime working hours). Live chat and email support, and occasionally Skype or WhatsApp support methods on a mobile device may or may not also be available. At a reputable online sports betting site, the professionally trained player support agents will generally be quick to respond and will never leave your question unanswered or your technical issue unfixed.
Tip 4: Find out what payment options are accepted
It would be a good idea to head to the cashier section or contact the player support to find out exactly which payment methods are accepted. For example, you don’t want to sign up to a site that doesn’t accept Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, NETELLER or Skrill if one of these reliable payment solutions is your preferred online payment method. Make sure that your preferred currency is also accepted because there’s nothing worse than having to gamble/play in a currency that you may not be so familiar with.
Tip 5: Check out some reviews for the site
If the vast majority of reviews for a site that you have your eye on are either good or outstanding, then you can pretty much guarantee that it is a trustworthy sports betting site that’s worth signing up to. Likewise, if the reviews have a particular site pegged as bad or ‘rogue’, or for example, one out of five stars, then the chances are that it’s a gambling site that’s not to be trusted and is not worth signing up to.