ToteSport Review

WELCOME TO TOTESPORT

The Tote has been synonymous with racing since it was established and founded by Winston Churchill way back in 1927 as a horse racing pool betting provider. Pool betting is still as strong today as it was then and offered race-goers the chance to bet legally (rather than going to illegal black market bookmakers) on horse racing whilst contributing profits that would be reinvested into the sport of kings.

The Tote became most famous for its racecourse operations but expanded to offer betting in shops, on the telephone, on the internet and via mobile.

If you sign up for a sports book account with Totesport, they will match your first bet (at evens or above) with a free bet up to £25.

The website brings together the best of tote and sports betting in one place and you can see a lot of investment has gone into making the site as user freindly as possible for punters.

The totesport website is still very much racing centric and offers punters some fabulous incentives. As an example they pay out 5 x the price for a single winner on Heinz or Lucky 63 bets and even pay out 3 x the price on Lucky 15’a when the industry standard is double.

We like teh colour scheme of the site with lime green navigation over a black or iron grey background colour. It seems a non important thing but it makes navigating around the site very intuitive.

For soccer punters their “Double Delight” promotion is a real winner. Read more about it in our full Totesport bonus review.

Deposit & Withdrawals

The deposit options at Totesport include VISA, Mastercard and paysafecard. They also provide deposit options with the three main e wallets which are Paypal, Neteller and Skrill.

These options are also available for withdrawal of funds.

Customer Service

Live Chat: Available

Email: [email protected]

Phone: Inside the UK: 0800 032 8188 and Outside the UK: +44(0) 1925 907520

Post: Customer Service Department, The Spectrum, 56-58 Benson Road, Birchwood, WA3 7PQ, UK

License Information

You can check out the Totesport gambling license here/a>

Totesport offer both fractional and decimal odds on their site, as well as the American version. To learn more about odds formats you can check out our online betting guide.

Betting limits

The maximum winnings payable to any Player for a single days betting on any single or combination of bets is a maximum of £1,000,000 depending on which sport you are betting on.

Horse Racing – £1,000,000 – where all selections are for horse racing in the U.K. or Ireland, and covered by a full service (betting shows, offs, and results broadcast by S.I.S. and displayed on the totesport website).

Football – £1,000,000 – For all main European Leagues (English Premiership, Championship, League 1 and League 2, Scottish Premier League, Champions League, La Liga Primera, Serie A, Bundesliga 1 and Le Championnat Premiere), FA Cup, English League Cup and International Matches and Competitions.

Greyhound Racing – £250,000 for any BAGS/BEGS meeting covered in full (betting shows, offs and results broadcast by S.I.S. and displayed on the Totesport website) or by Sky Sports.

For all other betting limits on specific sports you can check the Totesport terms and conditions on their website.

Types of bets

Totesport provide all the standard types of bets such as combination and system bets, as well as live in-play betting, and of course a full range of tote bets and pool bets.

Sport coverage

Totesport currently have 31 different sports that you can place bets and wagers on

In-play experience

The Totesport live offer includes in-play, fast markets and various types of handicap bets but whereas their sports betting interface is really well laid out, the same cannot be said for the live betting interface with lime green on a white background and very small text making it very tricky to read.

Live streaming

Totesport does not currently supply live streaming of events.

When reaching the main page of the Totesport site you will first of all be presented with a splash page that has all of the current offers including their £20 welcome offer.

It is very easy to navigate to any part of the site from here with a main menu at the top of the page and sports is the very first item in the menu.

The colour scheme of the site works very well with a black and dark grey interface that contains lime green sections for headings. All odds and other information is outlined in white or lime green text and this works very well.

There are three main sections to the sports page. The left menu holds three main sections: racing highlights, sports highlights and a full list of other sports to bet on. With Totsport being mainly racing focused, you will find lots of the content placement is about horse racing first.

The middle section of the page contains the live In-play interface and here you will find a set of tabs which allows you to easily reach the sport of your choice.

Totesport has a wide range of content on the site but far and away the best piece of content they have is a 64 page betting guide and you can get this by going to the sub menu under the main top menu. This menu is a lime green band across the page and just click on “Betting Guide” to download a full 64 page PDF with great information about betting on all sports.

Totesport which at the time of writing is operated by the parent company of Betfred have a really solid offer when it comes to odds margin.

Their overall margin comes out at under the five percent mark, 4.7% to be exact which is very competitive in todays market.

For football punters they offer exceptional value with margins trading at 3% which is excellent for a sportsbook. US sports all trade at margins under 5% and the only market where they fall behind the competition is on Tennis where the margin is 6.6%.

Totesport is primarily a horse racing focused site as we mentioned before, but they do cover a whole range of sports with football being the other main focus of their offer.

Unlike other sites, they do not outline clearly the countries or leagues from which they accept bets so it makes the navigation on football a little bit difficult to find exactly what you are looking for.

We undertook this review on a Sunday to check the depth of markets, and we did find betting options on over 40 countries with some big European games having between 60 – 100 markets.

The one very interesting market on Totesport’s is the #PICKYOURPUNT section which is prices based on other customers requesting a price on a certain betting scenario. At the time of writing one premier league game between Manchester City and Swansea had 49 various betting options with odds ranging from 30/100 to 80/1

Lots of opportunities to bet on something just a little different.

The In-play interface takes the same colour scheme as the main site and the layout is very simple. Football is the main In-play sport and the way this is laid out makes a lot of sense.

You will always find the major UK games listed at the very top with Premier League followed by any English cup games followed by the major Scottish football. After this it is the major European leagues from Spain, Italy, Germany and France.

After these main leagues you will find all other leagues from world-wide.

The interface is clean and simple, the only slight negative is the size of the text in each section. A couple of nice small touches are that any games that are on live TV are shown with the relevant channel icon next to the match title, this makes it easy to see which games you can enjoy on TV.

Also to the right of the live interface you have links to live commentaries which adds another nice piece of quality content for the user.

Totesport have a very wide range of bonuses and promotions, and as you would expect they are heavily focused on horse racing which has always been their core sport. As well as racing they offer a some great promos on football and rugby.

HORSE RACING

Neck or Less – Back a horse in any race from a selected meeting and should it lose by a neck or less, they will refund your stake as a free bet up to £10.

Extra Places – Each day, customers will be able to take advantage of enhanced place terms ond odds offers. Many races are enhanced from 3 places to 4 and from 4 places to 5.

5 x Odds – Applies to Horse, Greyhound, Virtual Horse and Virtual Greyhound bets only. If you have just a single winner in your combo bet then you will get an odds boost.

3 x the Odds for One Winner on all Lucky 15s
4 x the Odds for One Winner on all Lucky 31s
5 x the Odds for One Winner on all Lucky 63s

Totesport also offer Best Odds Guaranteed on all UK and Irish horse racing.

FOOTBALL

Double Delight Hat-trick Heaven – If your player scores the first goal of the match, then goes on to score another, they’ll DOUBLE your first goalscorer price! If your player scores the first goal of the match, then goes on to score a hat-trick within 90 minutes, they’ll TREBLE your first goalscorer price!

RUGBY

Rugby Union Double Delight – If your player scores the first try of the match and then goes on to score another, we will double your first try scorer price.

The various types of deposit method available on Totesport include the main debit and credit cards such as VISA, Mastercard, Maestro and VISA Electron as well as the top 3 e-wallets (Paypal, Netteller and Skrill) as well as the paysafecard pre paid card.

The live chat operator was friendly enough and we were directed to another part of te site to get our question answered as we were asking about a “Requestabet” type offer.

Petfre (Gibraltar) Limited trading as Betfred & Totesport, registered in Gibraltar, registered in Gibraltar. Petfre (Gibraltar) Limited is licensed and regulated by the UK Gambling Commission – Licence number 000-039544-R-319290-002 for customers in Great Britain, and licensed by the Gibraltar Government and regulated by the Gibraltar Gambling Commissioner (RGL no. 036 & 038) for all other customers.

The registered office of Petfre (Gibraltar) Ltd is at 5/2 Waterport Place, Gibraltar, with registered company number 99314.