Luckster Review

Luckster is one of the latest entrants into the teeming UK betting space.

Launched early in 2022, Luckster is ambitiously targeting the top of the industry with exciting offers for English punters in the sports betting and online casino compartments.

Luckster emerges from the eminent family of bookmakers run by Aspire Global International. For those who have been around other offerings from Aspire Global International, you would agree they share a strong semblance with Luckster with its Irish-themed predecessors.

But what does Luckster bring to the table that can fetch it the severely contested affection of punters in the UK betting market? What banking methods does Luckster offer?

How reliable is Luckster? How attractive is its welcome offer? What sports markets and online casino games does it offer?

To authoritatively answer these questions, we rigorously investigated this betting site. Consequently, we emerged with the most comprehensive Luckster review yet on the internet.

Reliability is one of the core parameters we examine when choosing a bookmaker. And in the department, Luckster doesn’t leave us worried.

The United Kingdom Gambling Commission licenses Luckster. We found this bookmaker’s remote gaming license number to be 000-039483-R-319409-001.

The digital impenetrability of the bookmaker’s website is another safety-leaning consideration we make. Yet again, Luckster scored impressively, prioritizing cybersecurity by equipping its website with military-grade 128-bit Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology.

Customer information on Luckster is girded from external intrusion by top-notch firewall systems.

To further confirm its keenness on transparency, Luckster’s leverages some of the world’s most renowned payment gateways.

Channels like Visa, Mastercard, and Paypal – as used on Luckster – are reputed globally for their security.

Lastly, we commend Luckster’s emphasis on verifying their customers’ legitimacy.

While some bookmakers couldn’t care less about how genuine their customer IDs are provided they load their account with funds, Luckster strictly requires identity verification documents from you before processing your withdrawal.

All of these show how dedicated the bookmaker is to protect your account security.

The betting site is adorned with the famed Irish green we see on many of Aspire Global International websites. On the desktop online sports betting version, the website predominantly displays its casino offerings.

The welcome offer is at the heart of the homepage, with tabs like table games, slots, and Jackpot coming right under.

As is relatively conventional in many casino websites, the tabs are followed by a segmentation of the top games on offer, like the Book of Dead, Starburst, and Big Bass Bonanza.

To the uppermost right of the betting site, you see the log-in and Join buttons.

Directly opposite this (on the left) are sections like Live Casino, Virtual Sports, and Sports.

Clicking on the Sports icon loads up the sports betting compartment of the website. The sports betting welcome offer is prominently displayed in a similar design to the casino section, followed by a collection of live matches.

To your left of the betting site is an expandable collection of major football leagues like Premier League, Serie A, and Bundes Liga, which you can bet on. On the right is your bet slip which populates as you select events.

Overall, we find the navigation to be sleek and unimpeded. We commend how Luckster directly outlines its games and offerings on the desktop website with minimal clicks needed to place a bet.

The mobile version is clean. The website fits nicely on our mobile screen resolution, with the left section contracting into an expandable menu. Clicking on the menu icon reveals drop-down sections like Promotions, Exclusive Club, and Change Language.

On the less positive side, the homepage took a bit to load. We understand that was because of the heavy graphics of the casino section.

But in an era where bettors are less patient and gluttonously savor loading speed, we feel Luckster can do better.

Luckster follows the tradition of most UK bookies in simplifying their registration process. The Join button is stationed at the top right corner when you visit the website.

Clicking on this launches the account registration process. The first page asks for basic details like email address, username, and password.

After filling these fields, click next to proceed to the second page. Here, Luckster demands personal details from you, like name, residential address, and date of birth.

The bonus offer is dangled right in your eyes, and you can choose to accept them. As is the betting norm, Luckster keeps to the prohibition on underage gambling by requiring you to confirm you are at least 18 years old.

Following the registration process, you would have to make a deposit. This is equally straightforward.

In the lobby, there is a clickable Cashier button. After clicking on this, select your preferred deposit method.

While we will talk extensively about the banking methods Luckster offers later on in this review, let us anecdotally state here that deposit is instant on Luckster.

Expectedly, your first deposit is tied to your eligibility for the Luckster sign up offer. Let us talk about this.

New sports betting providers understand the criticality of having a welcome bonus. Luckster offers welcome bonuses both in sports betting and online casino.

Luckster Sports welcome bonus

Luckster sports betting offers sports enthusiasts a welcome bonus of £20 if they bet £30 on their first bet. Of course, this is not the most attractive we have seen in the online sports betting market, but it is not that bad, either.

Here, Luckster sports betting requires you to deposit at least £30 and bet with it on an event with minimum odds of 2.00.

Upon match settlement, you get a Luckster free bet of £20. Note that for your opening bet to qualify for the Luckster free bet offer, the bet must be settled within 14 days of placing it.

Does every deposit method qualify for the welcome offer? No.

This online sports betting provider stipulates that opening deposits made by PayPal, Paysafecard, Skrill, and Neteller don’t qualify for this Luckster free bet offer.

You must use your free bets within 14 days of being credited to your account. This is significantly longer than the 7-day expiry window we see from most sports betting providers on their free bet offers.

Furthermore, your free bets can only be used on events with minimum odds of 1.80. This has an odd fractional equivalent of 4/5.

Free bets tokens can only be used on straight accumulators and singles. This online sports betting site will not allow you to use your free bets on systems bets like Yankee and Trixie.

Here is something we find even more exciting about the sports free bet: there are no wagering requirements for winnings accrued from your free bet.

You can withdraw your free bet winnings as soon as they are credited into your account.

Casino welcome offer

We found the online casino welcome offer even more exciting. On Luckster, casino punters can get a head-spinning, 3-tiered welcome bonus of €200 further garnished with 100 free spins on top offerings like Fire Joker, Book of Dead, and Starburst.

Let us dive deeper into the welcome casino bonus.

When you register your account, deposit at least €10 at the cashier, and there you are with your €200 welcome bonus!

As earlier stated, this is accompanied by 100 free spins slashed across your first three deposits. Here is how it works.

When you make your first deposit (which can be anywhere from €10 to €200), Luckster welcomes you with a bonus that directly mirrors your deposit (100% matched), followed by 20 free spins.

These free spins are exclusive to Play’n GO’s Book of Dead.

Luckster follows your second deposit with another 100% match bonus, but this time stepping the free spins offer to 40 free spins. These free spins can be used on Fire Joker.

Your third deposit also comes with a 100% match bonus enhanced with 40 free spins exclusive to Starburst.

As delicious as this welcome offer sounds, there are caveats to it inevitably. Luckster requires you to use your free spins within 24 hours. Also, €100 is the maximum you can win from your free spins.

As typical of casino bonuses, wagering requirements must be fulfilled. We find the play-through requirements at Luckster to be modest.

Whereas many bookies require you to wager your bonus 50x before withdrawal, Luckster asks that you wager it 35x.

Aside from the welcome offer, the range of betting markets a bookmaker is another vital decider of the attractiveness of a sports betting provider.

Luckster sportsbook scores averagely here, presenting over 34 sports markets. Major sports like football, tennis, basketball, and baseball are covered.

Aside from those avidly followed sports, Luckster offers betting markets on less known options (in the United Kingdom) like futsal, beach volley, and water polo.

As we have seen from a larger fraction of new betting sites, Luckster sports online focuses predominantly on football, with more than 710 submarkets.

Major leagues like the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, and Champions League are extensively covered. A match between two EPL heavyweights can attract over 500 betting markets on Luckster.

Such expansiveness in betting markets doesn’t extend to sports like horse racing and greyhounds. While major horse racing competitions like Cheltenham Festival are judiciously covered, we must point out that Luckster doesn’t cover many racing markets outside the United Kingdom and Ireland. We only saw offerings on Australian and American meetings.

At the time of offering, we found Luckster relatively limited in its esports offerings. Aside from League of Legends and Counter-Strike, we didn’t see much from Luckster in the esports department.

This may be disappointing for the surging fraternity of esports bettors in the United Kingdom.

However, we would end this section on a good note by commending Luckster’s covering of untraditional markets like entertainment and global politics.

Covered in the Specials section, we saw betting markets on faraway political events in Brazil. Luckster offered betting markets on who would win the 2022 Brazil Presidential elections between Lula Da Silva and Jair Bolsonaro.

Here again, Luckster hits a modest score. The football markets have an average payout of 93.34%. This was slightly above the average we saw in the market.

The payout jumps slightly upwards for major English Premier League and Champions League events.

Their combinations, especially in the football specials, were alluring. For example, in a France Vs Croatia (UEFA Nations League match), a combination of Luka Modric and Karim Benzema to score had odds as high as 22.00.

That said, we were not very impressed with the basketball odds on Luckster. The payout was around 95.50%. We found many sports betting providers offering better.

Luckster seemed to compensate for this handicap by generously lowering their wagering limits. The average minimum bet we see from most bookmakers ranges from £0.50 to £1.

Luckster sportsbook dropped their minimum wager to as low as £0.10. This is one of the lowest you can find in the market.

As a safety parameter, there are upper limits on possible winnings on Luckster. The highest you can win from a single bet on Luckster is £90,000.

If your winnings exceed this, you will forfeit the difference between your winning and the maximum £90,000 cap. We admit this may be a bit challenging for high-stake punters.

Yes, Luckster has an extensive collection of in-play betting markets in its sports book category. We were impressed to find Luckster offering in-play betting markets even in e-soccer.

This is an exciting deviation from the tradition (among UK bookies) to limit their in-play betting events to major real-life sporting events.

That said, we feel Luckster can still do more to improve its in-play betting interface. Specifically, the hierarchy in in-play offerings is missing as most top bookies tend to present in-play betting markets on major events first before the less prominent ones.

Moving forward, Luckster lacks live streaming for now. We can’t classify this as a monumental disappointment since Luckster launched very recently in 2022.

Nonetheless, we can’t deny those horse racing enthusiasts who enjoy watching live events (and betting accordingly) may feel a bit left out when they bet on Luckster.

While the live streaming is not available, Luckster placates its customers by energetically updating scores and happenings on live events.

This way, sports bettors can yet keep in touch (albeit not visually) with emerging developments in events of interest.

For contemporary sports bettors, the opportunity to bail out from a flailing bet is too important to turn down. This explains why punters savor the cashout feature for the enhanced control it gives them over their bets.

We were excited to find Luckster offers full cash-out option on many of their events. Both in-play and pre-match events come with cashout.

Events in sports like volleyball, tennis, and football can attract cashout features on single and combo bets.

We feel let down by the unavailability of a dedicated betting app.

While we understand that Luckster is a relatively new bookie, we find it hard to forgive bookies that miss out on a mobile offering.

This is especially given the profusion of mobile betting in today’s gambling culture, as most young bettors (who prefer the seamlessness of betting on apps) are left out.

While Luckster is bare on the app side, they invested significantly in optimizing their website for a seamless mobile experience.

The website loads well on a mobile browser. The sports markets available drop down readily and are easily clickable.

We had no issues selecting our preferred betting market on a mobile browser and placing bets accordingly. We were pleased with how fast the icons loaded too when clicked.

The heavy graphics of the casino section didn’t impede the mobile user experience. The interface retained its slickness, with each game loading quickly.

We could access more than 500 mobile casino games, so we couldn’t complain.

Nevertheless, the live markets didn’t load up quickly enough on our mobile browsers. This is something we recommend Luckster improves rapidly.

Luckster has a broad range of banking options, rivaling some of the best UK bookies in this category. Debit cards and online payment gateways are welcome to the party.

As you know, most UK bookies have disallowed deposits with credit cards. Luckster features among this clan, restricting deposit (and withdrawal) to Mastercard, Visa, Maestro, and other online channels like PayPal, Skrill, Neteller, ecoPayz, and Paysafecard.

Relatively less popular payment channels like MuchBetter, Interac, GiroPay, and EPS are also allowed.

Yet, Luckster is behind when it comes to cryptocurrency adoption. While bookmakers like 888sport accept Bitcoin (via SKrill), Luckster doesn’t yet offer this facility.

You also can’t deposit through mobile phone bills on Luckster as you could on online betting sites like Ladbrokes, WilliamHill, and Bet365.

While deposits are instant on almost all these platforms, each comes with varying processing intervals for withdrawals.

Specifically, Mastercard and Visa withdrawals take 0-6 working days to be executed. Platforms like EcoPayz and Trustly can take 0-4 working days. MuchBetter takes 0-2 days.

It is way quicker for Paypal and PaysafeCard, which can be completed within 24 hours.

The minimum deposit on Luckster is set at £10. This £10 margin also extends to the least you can withdraw at a time. The maximum monthly cashout is pegged at £7000.

Alright, this section will extensively dwell on Luckster’s casino offerings. As we mentioned earlier, Luckster has an extensive catalogue of online casino goodies you would be excited to learn about.

Let us state that Luckster casino boasts an operating license from the Malta Gaming Authority. This is one of the most respected online casino regulators globally.

Luckster’s casino market is, however, limited to punters from the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Finland, Norway, Germany, and Sweden.

Our investigative voyage into Luckster casino reveals this bookie offers over 900 casino games. These games were primarily classified into the Live Casino and Casino tabs.

As you would expect, the Casino tab reveals an overwhelming spectrum of beloved games like BlackJack, roulette, slots, and baccarat.

We loved how Luckster presented these games in free demo mode. Such a risk-free environment allowed us to sample the casino games – spanning playing environment and payouts – without financially committing.

The Live-Casino section features the bulk of live dealer tables from Luckster. Let us look closely into the casino slots, table games, and live dealer games on offer.

Casino slots

Luckster marvels with hundreds of your favorite casino slot titles. These are safe and reliable titles from some of the most reputed gaming providers in the online casino space.

Famed slot titles like Book of Dead, Reactoonz, Sisters of Oz Jackpots, and Majestic Gold Megaways are available.

If you are new to the world of casino slots, you can test these Luckster slots out in free demo modes to master the ropes before playing with real money.

Table games

If you love casino table games, you would feel at home at Luckster Casino. There are over ten roulette games on offer.

This includes globally savored table games like 1x2Gaming’s 3D European Roulette and Gamevy’s 10p Roulette.

We also enjoyed over 15 Blackjack games. Some notable mentions include Microgaming’s Vegas Single Deck Blackjack and Red Rake Gaming’s beloved Blackjack Vegas Strip.

If we move over to casino scratchcard games, we have honorable mentions like Hacksaw Gaming’s Happy Scratch.

Live Casino

Live Casino is a department where Luckster Casino scored an A+. There were over 130 live dealer table games for us to feast on.

This spreads through baccarat, blackjack, and roulette. Some memorable offerings include Super Sic Bo and Lightning Roulette.

Evolution Gaming predominantly powers the offerings in Luckster’s live casino section.

Software and Platform – Top Game Developers

It goes without saying that the quality of gaming providers determines the gaming experience at any online casino. On Luckster, we came across some of the finest software providers in the UK online casino space.

These software providers have extremely secure iGaming platforms with well-tested RTPs. Aside from the providers we have mentioned, Luckster has the likes of Play’n Go, iSoftBet, and Light & Wonder (previously known as NYX).

On Luckster, iSoftBet is behind slot games like Majestic Gold Megaways, Microgaming is behind Sisters of Oz Jackpots, and Play’n Go offers Reactoonz and Book of Dead.

We also like the instant-play platform from Luckster Casino. Thanks to this feature, you don’t need to burden yourself with downloading software before enjoying the games on offer.

It is as straightforward as entering the Luckster casino site, clicking your preferred title, and playing the game immediately.

Our evaluation of Luckster’s customer support department is a bit mixed. We would have loved their support personnel to be available round the clock (24/7), given how frustrating it can be to be stuck at odd hours (in your gambling endeavors) without a customer agent to resort to quickly.

Luckster’s customer support team is available from 8 am to 00.00 am CET daily. You can reach customer support via the live chat button and email.

Currently, there is no over-the-phone support. On many betting sites we have seen, the live chat feature is conspicuously plastered on the right side so you can readily access customer support.

But it is a bit trickier on Luckster. You will have to click on the Contact Us link at the bottom of the page. This reveals a pop-up page with two options: Email Us and Livechat.

By integrating the email into the website, Luckster’s customer care department has no standalone email via which you can reach them for queries.

The Email Us option on the browser allows you to upload documents via the Document Uploader feature.

Aside from the Livechat and Email Us, Luckster curates a comprehensive FAQ section on their website.

This spans detailed documentation on your Privacy, issues relating to bonuses, deposits and withdrawals, cashouts, responsible gaming, and account verification.

If your queries are so peculiar that they have not been answered in the FAQ section, you can write Luckster’s customer support an email or chat with them live on the website within the stated time bandwidths (8 am to 00.00 am CET).