Bethard Review

• Overall info
• Bethard Sportsbook Review
• Bethard Casino Review
• Bethard Fantasy Sports
• Customer Service
• Bonuses
• Deposit and withdrawal
• Special Betting Options
• Mobile Apps
• Our Verdict
• Customer Review

Bethard claims itself as an innovative sportsbook seeking out to become a world-leading digital sportsbook and casino. In this Bethard review, we will speak about its pre-match and live betting markets, casino games, and fantasy sports offer to see if they meet the modern standards of the Internet gambling industry. Besides, we will consider the pros and cons of their organizational arrangements: customer support, payment options, bonus, and betting services.

Overall info

Bethard is a Swedish-facing sportsbook, mainly famous for their top ambassador Zlatan Ibrahimovic and the Hammarby IF Football club sponsorship deals. Although the company is a comparatively new member of the gambling industry, it has already gained a pretty established reputation and gathered a large betting pool, primarily coming from Sweden, Finland, Spain, Australia, and Canada. The Bethard website provides users with almost the full range of digital gambling activities: sports betting, live betting, casino, live casino games, and fantasy sports. The platform is available in seven languages: English, Canadian English, Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish, German, and Swedish.

Bethard history

Bethard started its operations in 2012; at these times, it was a small niche bookmaker operating under a second-rate Curacao license. However, it began to gain much popularity after 2018, when Zlatan Ibrahimovic became their co-owner and leading ambassador. A year after, Bethard joined the Betting Integrity Association, the organization combating corruption, fraud, and match-fixing in the sports betting industry. Being initially a company launched by a few enthusiasts striving to create the largest sportsbook worldwide, Bethard now has a 324% gross game revenue year-over-year and a team of more than ninety employees.

Bethard official site

Bookmaker license

The owner of Bethard sportsbook and casino is Bethard Group Limited, a legal entity with headquarters in Malta. It holds the Malta Gaming Authority license and several local gambling licenses in Europe.

Before 2020, Bethard was a part of the British sports betting industry and performed in Great Britain under the United Kingdom Gambling Commission license. However, in July 2020, it left the British market and became a pretty niche bookmaker and online casino available for a few European, Asian, and African countries. Among the allowed countries are Sweden, Ireland, and Spain, where Bethard holds a local gambling license.

Bethard Sportsbook Review

Bethard sportsbook cooperates with SBTech, the leading digital betting software provider, which means the high-end pre-match and live wagering opportunities with a vast choice of betting options for many events.

You can switch between American, Decimal, and Fractional odds formats and set a convenient time zone. The overall layout of the sportsbook is minimalistic and smart, allowing anyone to quickly find sports, events, and markets or to select from the recommended events. Above the list of the disciplines, you will see Quick Links selection for instant access to the current events.

Pre Match Line

Like most other bookies, the Bethard platform has generous coverage for Soccer, but the offer is not limited by the vast choice of Soccer betting markets. You can also find a decent number of Baseball, Tennis, and Ice Hockey betting options, and most leagues involve Futures betting open pretty early.

Bet line

Overall, Bethard offers more than two thousand pre-match betting events and features many unique markets, which are not typical for every mediocre sportsbook. For a better understanding, let’s take a look at the coverage of a random available Soccer event, say, Egypt vs. Argentina playing in the Olympics Men League. Keeping in mind that the event is considered a pretty popular event, one hundred and thirty-four markets are still pretty impressive, so let’s take a closer look at them. The markets are divided into the following groups:

• Main: Moneyline, Totals, Both Teams to Score, 3W Handicaps, Exact Score, Asian Handicap Full Time, Match Winner and Both Teams to Score, Winning Margin, and more;
• Goals: Total Goals, Teams Goals, First to Score, Exact Number of goals, Last to Score, and more;
• Halves: Double Chance 1st Half, Asian Handicap 2nd half, Half with Most Goals, Moneyline for each half, and more, thirty-five markets overall;
• Corners: Asian Handicap Corners 1st Half, Race to 3/5/7/9 Corners, Last Corner, Over/Under Corners for each half, and more;
• Period: Goal Scored 1-15/16-30 Min, Goal Up to 30 Minute, Over/Under up to 70th Minute, and more;
• Specials: To Win To Nil, To Win From Behind, To Win Either Half, Both to Score No Draw, Match Winner and Over/Under, Multi Bet Exact Score, To Score a Penalty, To Miss a Penalty.

As you can see from this example, Bethard is superior in terms of various special bets and provides different Asian Handicaps; many of Bethard’s markets come at very lucrative odds, but we will discuss this point further in the review.

Another part of a sportsbook we pay much attention to is the eSports action line. We were glad to see that Bethard covers various digital sports leagues from China, Brazil, Turkey, Spain, South Korea, Japan, and International leagues, too. Among the top cybersport leagues and events included in Bet Hard betting offer are:

• League of Legends European Championship;
• Valorant Champions Tour;
• Dota 2 BIX Invitationals;
• Counter-Strike: GO LPL Pro League;
• Call Of Duty Leagues;
• Rainbow Six leagues from the UK, Europe, Japan, and more.

The eSports coverage depends on an event, but overall it is not the most generous offer in terms of various markets, and the number of betting options may be limited to two – six, like Winner Full Time, Spread Full Time, Over/Under Full Time, and Winner Map.

Live Betting

Bethard’s in-play betting markets will definitely satisfy Soccer, Tennis, and Basketball punters. Still, there are more than thirty thousand events available per month, so you can catch offers for Cricket, Baseball, eSports, Golf, Boxing, and other sports, too.

The odds are displayed in a convenient format when you can instantly check the odds fluctuation in real-time; when the odds are highlighted in green with a green arrow, it means the odds become higher; when the value decreases, the odds will have a red arrow.

Live betting

Soccer and Tennis games may include up to seventy markets, including the Fast Bets:

• Next One Minute;
• Next Five Minutes;
• What Will Happen Next In Next Five/One Minutes.

Live Streaming services are not available for any discipline but eSports. However, Visualization and Live Statistics are convenient enough to not consider broadcasting absence as a significant drawback.

Bethard Odds

Bethard provides punters with competitive odds for Football, Basketball, and Tennis but the particular offer depends on the selected markets and matches.

Overall, Bethard odds are comparatively competitive, mainly for the Moneyline and Asian Handicap markets.

Bethard Casino Review

Bethard’s casino offer consists of a vast number of slots and a moderate amount of virtual table games, including live dealer titles. There are games from various software providers; among the most popular ones are Microgaming, Netent, iSoftBet, Quickspin, BluePrint Gaming, and Evolution Gaming. Both casino sections, online and live dealer, are available for instant play and do not require any downloadable software.

Slots

The Slots section contains a lot of entertainment options: from the classical three-reels fruit machines to modern progressive jackpots and 3D games. Bethard’s casino lobby has a special selection of the top popular slots choice; the list includes the following titles:

• Starburst Touch By Net Entertainment;
• Gonzo’s Treasure Hunt by Evolution Gaming;
• Dragon Tribe by Nolimit City;
• Bonanza by Big Time Gaming;
• Money Train by Relax Gaming;
• Sweet Bonanza by Pragmatic Play;
• Wild Swarm by Push Gaming;
• Blaze of Ra by Push Gaming;
• Buffalo Rising Megaways by BluePrint, and more.

The other categories of slots include more than fifty Megaways titles, several Buy-Feature slots like Merlin’s Millions, Money Train, Deadwood, Snake Arena, and Rick And Morty, and Daily Jackpots with the famous Gonzo’s Quest, Bounty Raid, Lucky Little Devil, and Thor’s Lightning.

Casino games

The Bethard online casino collection is not limited by slots, though. Bethard offers a selection of Instant Win number games and Scratch Cards; among the titles are the Lucky Number, Scratch Em, and more. However, the table games library is disappointingly small and involves only fifteen titles as follows:

• Dream Catcher First Person;
• Mega Ball First Person;
• Lightning Roulette;
• Dragon Tiger;
• Football Studio;
• Baccarat;
• 20p Roulette;
• European Roulette;
• Blackjack Classic;
• Blackjack First Person;
• Casino Hold’Em Touch;
• Jacks or Better Double Chance;
• Roulette First Person;
• Live Roulette Classic;
• BlackJack Classic.

Most games are available for playing free of charge, without any real-money deposits, and work via the main website and the mobile version.

Live casino

Although the table games library is very limited, the Bethard live casino with real dealers options compensate for this drawback: the selection is much better than here and involves famous and popular games along with some rare titles. Still, it is not the most extensive collection ever but covers the most typical games you are used to seeing in a digital casino.

Live dealers

The multi-provider live dealer casino involves tables from NetEnt, Evolution Gaming, and Authentic Gaming with the following activities:

• Roulette: twenty various titles and variants of gameplay, from the Classic Auto Roulette to such options as Grand Roulette Mobile, Great British Roulette, and Lightning Roulette. Among the cons is the absence of the American version;
• Blackjack: six options including the Free Bet Blackjack and Infinite Blackjack Touch with unlimited seats by Evolution Gaming;
• Baccarat: five titles by Evolution Gaming;
• Video Poker: seven games with Texas Hold ’em and Live Caribbean Stud, plus five less popular options;
• Game Shows: twelve games, for instance, Mega Ball, Monopoly, Crazy Time, Sic Bo, etc.

Bethard Fantasy Sports

Bethard Fantasy sports is a part of Scout Gaming Group; still, there are exclusive events available only on Bethard. Bethard Fantasy Sports section features five hundred seventy-six leagues and is not limited by Soccer, like many online sportsbooks’ fantasy offerings. Among the leagues are the following:

• Russian Premier Soccer League;
• UFC;
• Olympic Tennis Men and Women;
• Denmark Super League;
• Copa America;
• Olympic Basketball;
• NBA, and more.

Besides, there are Dota 2, Hockey, Cricket, Baseball, and Counter-Strike: GO leagues.

The events are divided into Admin-Created, Draft-And-Go events, and User Events. The first category includes the tournaments coming directly from the gaming provider. The seat number varies from 100 to the second one is dedicated to the head-to-head events, with tournaments of up to six members. Besides, Draft-And-Go events include high-stake professional-level tournaments. The User events is a separate section where you can launch your personal tournaments.

Fantasy Sports

The Live Results tab visually represents Live Events and Player Statistics per week or for a chosen date.

Customer Service

Bethard support agents are available via Live Chat or email. You can contact them 24/7 every day; the email replies take up to an hour, while the Live Chat support is instant. Our personal test message to the customer support showed that the chat works quickly, and the advisors speak politely and show their willingness to solve the issue. Evidently, there is no lack in the employees, and the customer service standards are high. Unfortunately, there are no contact phone numbers.

The Support Section also has a FAQ section; however, we did not find it very comprehensive. There is no convenient search by the issue category or keywords, and the list of questions is pretty doubtful, as, in our opinion, it lacks a pretty vast number of topics that may be essential for the new and existing Bethard customers.

A separate Support tab is dedicated to account verification with a complete verification guide.

Bonuses

Although Bethard does not offer anything for sports bettors beyond the welcome bonus, there are a couple casino tournaments for new and existing customers. Overall, the range of bonuses is rather frustrating, even providing pretty competitive odds and comparatively low margins. In fact, the most lucrative part of Bethard’s Promotions page is three welcome bonuses for Sports, Casino, and Live Dealer Games. However, a customer can select only a single bonus, and there are payment methods and country limitations applied to the welcome offer, so overall, it is not the most generous and profitable welcome campaign in the industry. We will describe the basic terms for claiming each of the existing promotions, but we recommend you get acquainted with the detailed rules on each bonus’ page.

Deposit and withdrawal

Bethard accepts only fiat currencies and does not offer any cryptocurrency deposit and withdrawal methods. However, the list of available banking options is wide enough to satisfy most customers. The main Bethard’s currency is EUR, and USD is also accepted.

To top up your Bethard account, you can use the following methods:

• Visa/Mastercard credit and debit cards;
• Neteller;
• PaySafeCard;
• Euteller;
• Skrill;
• Zimpler;
• Siru Mobile;
• Trustly;
• AstroPay;
• MuchBetter;
• Bank Transfers.

The range of options may vary for each customer depending on their region. One of the significant inconveniences is that Bethard does not indicate their minimum and maximum deposit terms and only mentions that it depends on the payment method and will be stated at the moment of the transaction on the cashier’s page. All deposits are processed instantly; withdrawals may take up to 24 hours to three-five working days. Among the payout methods are Neteller, Skrill, Bank Transfers, MuchBetter, AstroPay, and Visa/Mastercard credit and debit cards.

Before you claim any withdrawals, you will have to verify your account. You can do it right after you register your account, but it becomes a necessary procedure after a total withdrawal amount of €2,000. If you do not confirm your identity within thirty days after Bethard makes a confirmation request, your account might be blocked and zeroed.

Special Betting Options

Extra services and special options are not Bethard’s forte. In fact, they offer things you can find in almost any sportsbook. Among them are a BetBuilder service for pre-match betting and Cash Out for all types of bets. Before we speak about them in more detail, we must mention that you can place single, combo, and system bets to your bet slip, so there is still a sort of diversity, although we can’t regard it as anything extraordinary. To make your wagers more profitable, you can use the following functions:

• BetBuilder: available for Soccer, Tennis, and Basketball pre-match betting offer. You can enable the BetBuilder option by selecting a tumbler on the event’s page and add up to six selections to your Bet Slip using the available markets. You will be offered special odds depending on your picks;
• Cash Out feature is available for single and multiple bets, but you can not apply cash out to your system bets. Bethard does not indicate the markets available for full and partial cash out, but the option is applicable to pre-game and live bets. Bethard does not guarantee you the cash out will be available for any of the chosen markets, so you must be aware of the full terms and conditions before you opt for this service.

Besides, we can accent a convenient live center with timely updated statistics and scores during a game.

Mobile Apps

Bethard’s mobile version is well-adapted for various screen types and is convenient to use for betting or casino gaming purposes. Besides, there is a mobile app available exclusively for the Android platform. If you can not find it in the Google Play store directly, you must first allow the installation of apps from unknown sources in your smartphone’s settings, visit the mobile website, and download the app using a direct link at Bethard.

The app provides you with access to all Bethard betting markets, deposits, withdrawals, customer support, and casino activities. There are no special bonuses for mobile bettors. Still, the app is easy-to-use and can replace the desktop version and provide the customers with the whole on-the-go gambling experience.

Our Verdict

First of all, Bethard is a reputable sportsbook with a solid reputation. We have researched various reviews and found several complaints about withdrawal processing time. Still, there was no evidence of any fraudulent actions, so we can regard Bethard as a trusted and safe bookmaker. Bethard’s policies might attract professional bettors: firstly, their odds and payout percentage are lucrative enough to make sports betting profitable, and secondly, they do not indicate any winning limits. We did not find any customer feedback about winners’ restrictions, so we can suppose Bethard is a winners-welcome sportsbook.

Bethard casino is simple but still diverse enough to mix up your sports betting experience, and the Fantasy Sports section has a decent selection of various ready and customized leagues.

Among the main cons is the lack of an iOS mobile app version, pretty high odds for less popular sports and markets, and poor choice of bonuses, including a quite mediocre welcome offer. A beginning bettor might find it hard to sort out all betting services and rules as there is no detailed betting glossary or FAQ section.

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