Betfair Casino Review

IN A NUTSHELL

Here’s what we could call the best of all worlds. Betfair unites a top-of-the-line download casino with instant play and mobile apps for both Android and iOS,

sports Playtech’s wide range of quality games, and brings it all together in a neat and new stylish interface.

The Betfair casino is part of a much larger network, including sports betting, a live casino, poker and bingo. In fact, it’s the world’s largest Internet betting exchange. Their revenue went past 380m in 2012, which is only one of many pointers that this operator is serious business.

The Betfair casino is licensed in Malta, which means that they’re required to go with all the required limits and rules to their business. They’re audited on a regular basis and committed to responsible gambling, providing links to the relevant institutions.

WELCOME BONUS

Register as a new player with Betfair and you will receive a huge welcome bonus for your troubles - or at least you will if you are from the UK or Ireland.

Players from all territories eligible to sign up with Betfair will then receive an exclusive welcome bonus as a reader of this site. We’ve teamed up with Betfair to double your bonus from the standard 100% bonus to a 200% bonus up to £100/ 100 when you make that all important first deposit. So deposit 50/£50 and you’ll end up with /£150 to play with - just follow our links to the Betfair site, register and then deposit.

OTHER BONUSES AND PROMOS

Here’s a casino that’s famous for its promotions. At any given time you’ll find more than a dozen specials advertised on their site, and as they’ve understood that you only attract people by keeping at it, make sure you keep your eyes open for the odd Betfair deposit bonus code on landing and review pages and so on. Bonuses include free spins, prize draws, reload bonuses and plenty of weekly and monthly specials. There’s also a refer-a-friend bonus.

SOFTWARE PROVIDER

This casino runs its games on Playtech’s famous platform. They’ve been a standard particularly for download casinos for a long time now and have recently done a lot to adapt to the newest technologies on the net. They’ve been around for many years, and their experience as well as quality work has made them a leader in the market. Their software is only supported by Windows, so you can’t download the Betfair casino for Mac; you can get around this issue by using their instant play feature or getting their app for iOS.

GAMES SELECTION

The Betfair casino as this review is written has 100-odd slots, 32 progressive jackpots, 17 table games, 20 card games, 52 arcade games, 16 variations of video poker and 4 live dealer games available. Their selection is available for instant play, for mobile devices and as the Betfair PC download that you then install on your computer. Games include all the casino classics like blackjack, roulette, baccarat and craps, and they’ve got one of the best selections of variety games this reviewer’s ever seen in their arcade section.

JACKPOTS

At the point this review is written, there are 32 jackpots at Betfair. As usual, they’re among the most popular games of the casino, mainly because they’re part of a global network that allows its participants to play for more money than they could in a regular game. Here are the details.

If you try to win a jackpot at Betfair, you’re in good company. Thousands of people contribute a small part of their wager to the total winning sum, which means that the more players are busy with a game, the quicker the sum increases. This makes the game popular and attracts more players, and the resulting dynamic can drive jackpots to incredible sums.

Every time a progressive jackpot is won, part of the winning sum goes straight back into the pot — this is called re-seeding the game, which means that it will start at an already impressive amount of money to be won. This makes the game popular again and attracts players, and the circle begins anew.

We leave it up to you to decide which is the best jackpot at Betfair — just have a look at their site. At 32 games and with evergreens like Gladiator, The Fantastic Four, Gold Rally and Everybody’s Jackpot, there’s something for every taste to be had there.

PAYMENT OPTIONS

Once you’ve had a look around their website and found out how to play at Betfair, you might want to try playing for some real money. You’ll need a real player account to do that, and you’ll also need to make a deposit. There are several ways to do this; here’s how.

Payment methods at Betfair include the classic bank transfer. This works well and gives you the possibility to receive payouts also; the downside is that it’s slow, transfers may take several days to process.

Credit cards are an Internet standard: Both Visa and MasterCard are accepted. Because these ways to make a deposit at Betfair cost the casino money, there’s a 1.5% fee on any deposit you make using a credit card.

The quickest and cheapest way to transfer money to the operator are e-wallets. Skrill, Neteller and PayPal are all accepted here. Make sure you have a look at the site’s promotional deals — sometimes they offer a preferred payment method bonus for these. They’re also practical because they allow you to receive payouts.

In any case, if you want to play at Betfair for real money, make sure you’re looking at the options available in your country of residence.

LOYALTY PROGRAM

The loyalty program at Betfair consists of a comp points scheme as well as a series of promotions to reward regulars. Comp points are gathered on from the moment a player signs up for a real money account. Different games count differently towards the comp points balance. Points can be redeemed at any time at a rate of 1 for 100 points.

Additional promos include double comp points on select games; check out their promotions page for more details. There’s also a VIP club that has players move across five tiers to higher reload bonuses and comp point benefits.

MOBILE-ADAPTED

In the past few years mobile devices have become incredibly popular. This has created a whole new market, as people are now able to go and stay online pretty much regardless of where they are. Casinos have been quick to adapt to this to get their share of the market — Betfair is no exception.

The Betfair mobile app is available both for Android and iOS users, which means it can be downloaded and installed on any Apple device as well as any other that runs Google’s mobile operating system. As they don’t have an instant-play site available online either, you can’t play mobile casino with Betfair in a browser, which puts users of other systems at a disadvantage.

Availability for different operating systems:

Betfair for Android — works very nicely. The app is available on the casino’s website.

Betfair for your Windows phone — no test reports available.

Betfair for your iPad — the app runs without any trouble. Sometimes the larger screen stretches the graphics a little.

Betfair for your iPhone — works flawlessly.

CUSTOMER SERVICE

Support at Betfair is available by e-mail contact form, phone and, brace yourselves: Twitter. They’ve got a neat little quick link attached to the top right corner of their site that lets you get in touch with their help desk anytime by tweeting them. An overview of their contacts is a little hard to find, but if you go to the bottom of the page and click „About us“ in the responsive menu of the „About Betfair“ link, you’ll find them at the very bottom of the sidebar.