Betvictor Review

BetVictor are one of the biggest online bookmakers and they cater for all varieties of bets, from European football to American specialised sports. Originally founded as Victor Chandler in 1946, the company underwent a rebrand in 2012 and was bought out by racehorse owner Michael Tabor two years later. They now claim to have a turnover in excess of £1bn and more than 500,000 customers across 160 countries.

Deposit & Withdrawals

Depositing and withdrawing from your BetVictor account can be done through a variety of methods. BetVictor accepts debit cards such as Delta, Switch, Solo and Visa Electron, as well as MasterCard and Visa. E-wallets are another option, with Skrill, PayPal and Neteller supported, while BACS and International Bank Transfer can also be used. Withdrawals are quicker via e-wallets, with cash hitting accounts within a minimum of a few hours. All other routes of withdrawals can take between three and 10 working days.

Customer Service

There is a handy help centre where BetVictor list all possible queries and their answers, but if you’d contact customer support, you can in a number of different ways. There is the option of an online form to request a telephone call from the help team at a time that suits you, while the live chat option is also there, but is a little hidden. There is a contact tab on the welcome page and after clicking there, the speech bubble at the bottom right will put you in contact with a live customer support representative. It’s also possible to email help@betvictor.com. On our site you will also find information about BetVictor bonus and BetVictor mobile app.

License Information

For customers in the UK, BetVictor licensed and regulated by the Gambling Commission.

BetVictor cater for a global audience by offering Fractional, Decimal, US, Indo and Chinese odds formats.

Betting limits

The maximum any customer can win across all Sports per day is £500,000. This applies even if the combined maximum pay-outs for the individual sports are in excess of £500,000.

Types of bets

You only have to look at the landing page of BetVictor to see the huge sporting events that you can stake your cash on. These include: American football, Australian rules, baseball, basketball, boxing, cricket, darts, football, Formula 1, golf, greyhounds, Gaelic football, handball, horse racing, hurling, ice hockey, MMA/UFC, motor racing, motorcycling, rugby league and rugby union, snooker, speedway, tennis, virtual sports, volley ball and winter sports. BetVictor don’t only offer sporting bets, but you can also bet on specialised events such as politics and entertainment.   Odds offered will change regularly, so it’s vital you check the latest before staking your cash. Customers will find a huge betting market for football games and an impressive range of in-play options, while daily promotions include enhanced odds that you won’t find at any other sports betting site and a handy cash out option for when your bets are looking a little too risky. The maximum that a customer can win across any sport is £500,000 per day.

Sport coverage

Bet Victor offer a full set of sports betting opportunities (32 sports) with a major focus on Football, Horse racing and Tennis.

In-play experience

Head to the in-play section of the website and you will be shown the current and upcoming events, along with their odds and start times. In-play bets can be placed on five sports – football, tennis, baseball, basketball and snooker, a range far smaller than some of their rivals. For example, Bet365 offer in-play betting on 14 markets. There is live streaming with BetVictor, on horse racing, but you need to stake a minimum £1 bet on the race to see it.

Live streaming

Live streaming on Bet Victor requires you to have Adobe Flash player installed on your device and is available for all horse racing markets covered by Bet Victor. Minimum stake is £1.

The BetVictor site is very nice on the front page with a dark black, grey and blue theme. What we found though was that it looked quite congested once you entered a set of markets.

There is a lot of underlining of markets, and of course it is intended to make the user experience easier but it just adds to the complexity. There is a lot of white space which in normal web design is good, but it leads to sections being blocked together and not intuitive for the user to find what they are looking for.

Of course this is just our view and some people may find this appealing.

In terms of additional content then one superb feature of the site is the “Bet Calculator” which you can find via a link in the footer of the page or below the main menu. We have to say this is the best calculator we have seen online. Don’t know how to work out a place Lucky 15? then BetVictor is your friend. The tool has tons of built in bets. All you have to do is click a button and then add in your stake and results and it spits out a return.

You can work out win, EW and combination bets for multiple selections.

BetVictor have a very competitive odds offer with an overall margin across all sports of 4.5% but where they really shine is on football betting.

They have always been at the forefront of football betting, which is reflected in the average margin being just 2.5%, they are definitely in the top 10 bookmakers when it comes to football betting, especially the Premier League.

On other sports they have a strong set of margins on US sports with Baseball and Ice Hockey trading at just 4.1% and American Football at 4.2%.

Although their odds on football are very good, the range of markets is weaker than on other sportsbooks. Where we see 200 markets plus on Premier League games with the bigger bookmakers, on BetVictor this is usually around 75-100 individual markets on each game.

Where in one department they are weaker, in the range of bets they offer they are stronger including: the recently added #PriceItUp where they offer 5 different short price markerts on each football match. It includes a combination of scores, cards, corners and goals.

So you can pick out a different scenario and build out a short price accumulator. This is a great bet for punters who like to look at statistics as many of these markets would have strong historical statistics and data for each element.

In terms of general bets they offer all types of multiples including some other bets you might not heard of, a few of these include:

Six Shooter

Six golfers are grouped together for betting purposes only. They are each priced to return the lowest score over one round. There is at least one six-shooter for each round of play throughout the tournament. Dead-heat rules apply.

Trixie

A Trixie is a multiple bet consisting of 4 bets with 3 selections. The bet breakdown is 3 doubles and 1 treble.

Minute to win it

In order to win, you must correctly select whether there will be Goal, Corner, Throw In or Free Kick within the stated minute. (the stated minute being the minute displayed on the Minute to Win It coupon “from” time til “to” time). Minute one is the period between 0:00 and 0:59 seconds, minute 2 is 1:00 to 1:59, minute 3 is 2:00 and 2:59 and so on up to and including 89:00 to 89:59 at which point the market is then concluded.

A few different bets to increase the enjoyment of your sports betting.

One really nice aspect of the BetVictor In-play interface is that they have split the action up into three distinct sections:

Live now
Coming up in the next 3 hours
Coming up in the next 12 hours

So it is easy to plan your betting for the day

The interface itself is similar to the sportsbook layout in terms of color styling but is much more intuitive to use with less clutter. All markets are easy to find.

The BetVictor sign up offer is a very good one. You can sign up for a new account and place a bet of £10 or more at odds of evens (2.00) or greater.

You must do this within 7 days of opening your account

What you get
£10 Free Bet – Any event
£10 Free Bet – In-Play only
£10 Free Bet – 3 folds or greater
£10 Free Bet – 5 folds or greater
£10 Free Bet – Virtual Sports
£10 Free Casino token.

What is great about this offer is that you have no wagering requirements on the sports betting portion of the bonus. The casino bonus does have a wagering requirement of 40x.

For all you football punters, you will love Golden Goal:

Pick a player.
Pick a minute.
Pick the final Score.

This is a free to enter promotion and gives you the chance to win up to £25,000. Just use your football knowledge and skills to be in with a chance of winning this jackpot every weekend.

Depositing funds is very easy and straightforward with BetVictor but withdrawals take some time. This is becuase BetVictor have an internal team that has to authorise all transactions under an anti money laundering and bank verification process they run internally, so they are not instant. To make a withdrawal can take an extra day compared to other online sportsbooks.

The following timescales below will give you a general idea of how long you can expect to wait before any withdrawals reach your account from your BetVictor account:

Credit/Debit Cards: 3-6 business days*
E-Wallets (Paypal, Neteller, Moneybookers, etc.): 1- 3 business days*
BACS (UK Only): 3 – 5 business days*
Telegraphic Transfer: 1 – 10 business days*

*Does not include bank holidays or weekends. All payment requests must be approved by their Security Department before they are processed by their Payments Team. Withdrawals are therefore not immediate, there will be a period of “holding” before transactions are released.

Having seen some bad reviews of the chat and customer service we can say this was not the case during our tests. The agents we dealt with certainly knew their stuff when it came to questions about football and horse racing, we did not check other sports.

Also the agents were friendly and courteous during the conversations, even when we mentioned the fact that we had seen a number of bad reviews. Agents seemed to answer honestly and professionally.

BetVictor was spawned from the renowned bookmaker Victor Chandler who was one of the longest serving rails bookmakers at racetracks up and down the country in the UK.

They are licensed by the Gibralter Gambling Commission and are also an IBAS registered bookmaker.

Over the last six months we have noticed some negative reviews about BetVictor and it is something we are looking at here at BoomakerAdvisor before we give any final recommendation on the trustworthiness of the sportsbook.