Betbull Review

Betbull disrupted the traditional betting space, reinventing social betting as we knew it.

A brainchild of renowned iGaming businessman, Sadok Kohen, Betbull launched in 2015 with a strong emphasis on mobile-first sports betting.

Betbull has not been shy of announcing itself as a revolutionary sport betting brand. This bookie tapped into contemporary media, leveraging famed sporting personalities like Eric Catanona and Ray Parlour to amplify its adoption among English bettors.

Channeling into the social vibes of betting, Betbull embodied its “never bet alone” theme, transforming betting from a solitary affair to a recreational activity among fellows.

On the Betbull app, fellow punters could monitor their peers’ bets, interact with fellow bettors and share nuggets.

Betbull has dug deep into the industry, securing a whopping $80 million investment from Wynn Resorts. The latter is a mammoth casino based in the United States.

But even amidst all these glowing feats, is Betbull a brand you should trust? How reliable are they? What type of sports markets and odds can you expect from them? Is their welcome bonus exciting?

These are some core aspects we cover in this revealing Betbull review.

You can confidently measure a bookmaker’s credibility from the reputation of its regulators. Betdull scores an “A” here, licensed by the eminent United Kingdom Gambling Commission (UKGC).

2014Betbull has a remote operating reference number (53933) with the UKGC, which became operational on July 31, 2019.

The company’s headquarter is located at Luxe Pavilion, 2nd level, Diamonds International Building Portomaso, St. Julian’s, STJ 4010, Malta.

Betbull’s UK office is located at former Holborn Town Hall, 193-197 High Holborn, WC1. This means this is a tangible and accountable bookie – not some up-in-the-air bookie holed in some arbitrary offshore jurisdiction and, therefore, not liable to prosecution in malpractice cases.

Betbull eagerly protects the integrity of your personal data. The Betbull app is fortified with GlobalSign’s coveted 256-bit encryption technology.

eCogra, one of the world’s foremost independent testing agencies, regularly audits the Betbull website to ensure it is fair and genuine.

Furthermore, this bookie prevents unscrupulous elements from invading your Betbull account. This is achieved by thoroughly verifying your identity and integrating KYC protocols to eliminate money laundering via your account.

Lastly, Betbull is an avid advocate of responsible gambling. We see such dedication to you gambling healthily in Bebtull’s provision of a myriad of facilities to prevent addictive gambling.

These measures include a Self-Exclusion facility and a Gaming Reality Check. In the Gaming Reality Check, you can configure a reminder from anywhere from 20 minutes to three hours to closely monitor your betting activities.

This repository of betting activities can be later investigated to identify any traces of compulsive gambling.

The Self Exclusion feature lets you shut off access to Betdull for a predetermined duration.

This ranges from 6 months to even 5 years. For this interval, you are completely banned from betting on Betdull, and this move can’t be revoked before the expiry of the Exclusion timeline.

If you want a shorter reprieve from betting, Betbull offers you the Time Out feature. This is more lenient, allowing you to block your access to Betbull for up to 6 weeks.

As we said, Betbull’s selling point is its mobile-first sports betting approach. This means the wealth of this bookie’s betting experience is best experienced from a mobile betting interface.

This doesn’t imply that Betbull completely alienated desktop users. The bookmaker has a website that loads excellently on a desktop.

The website reveals a simple blue-and-white theme with some background sections interspersed with black.

The homepage has a top banner with the Betbull logo left and the SignUp and Login buttons right.

Below are the sports market on offer, while the extreme right is decked with the bet slip. On the far left are cataloged tabs like My Bets, In-play, Casino, Live Casino, and Featured.

The experience on a mobile phone is even sleeker. On our mobile browser, the website loaded sleekly, with the design even aesthetically richer.

You can easily register on Betbull from the website or mobile app. The registration process starts by clicking on the SignUp button brightly colored in green.

The registration process is divided into three phases. In the first phase of the registration process, you must provide a username and password unique to you.

This is followed by providing your email address. Moving on to the next phase implies you consent to Betbull’s account policies. This includes their privacy policy, terms of use, and age (to prevent underage gambling).

The second phase involves providing your full name, phone number, date of birth, identifying your title, and preferred currency for transacting on Betbull.

To proceed to the final registration phase, you must set an upper limit on your daily deposit. The maximum you can deposit at a go on Betbull is £10,000.

In the final phase, you must provide more personal details like your address (accompanied by your postcode) and your country of residence.

If all goes well, you can opt-in to Betbull’s newsletters on promotions, free bets, bet insurance, and odds boosts. This can be received via SMS, email, or on both platforms.

Before you gain the capacity to deposit funds in your Betbull account, you must verify your identity. This is achieved by providing KYC documents like your driving license or passport.

Betbull will request a copy of your council tax bill, bank statement, or utility bill to verify the address you provided.

Upon verification of these pieces of information, Betbull lifts the prohibition on placing deposits, allowing you to move funds into your account and set your maximum daily deposit.

For interaction with fellow bettors, you may need to enhance your profile. Click on the Account button at the screen’s top left to get your preferred picture attached to your account.

If you are keen on privacy and don’t want your face tied to your account, you can use a Betbull avatar. You can always change the Betbull avatar at any time.

Betbull means business when it comes to attracting new customers. This bookmaker has one of the most attractive welcome free bet packages we have seen.

Specifically, this sportsbook offers you Betbull free bets running into £50 when you open your account and deposit at least £10.

This is how the welcome free bet offer works.

When you open your account, deposit at least £10 and stake (£10 or more) on an event with minimum odds of 1/1.

This first bet (satisfying the stake amount and odds threshold) becomes your qualifying bet. The free bets come in four batches of £10 each.

To maximize this free bet offer, your qualifying bet must be settled within seven days of opening your account with Betbull. Note that cashing out your qualifying bet disqualifies you from the free bet offer.

The Betbull free bets accrued from this welcome bonus can only be staked on events (specifically accumulators with at least three selections) with minimum odds of 1/1.

These free bet tokens will be withdrawn seven days after being credited into your account – if you don’t use them.

Compared to other sportsbooks, Betbull’s sports markets are a bit limited. From what we saw, Betbull offers around 19 sports for you to bet on.

This includes English favorites like football, horse racing, rugby, and ice hockey. Betbull also has markets on futsal, MMA, and Aussie Rules.

Football betting has the largest market on Betbull. The biggest matches on some of the most followed football competitions gather hundreds of markets on Betbull.

Football accumulators are the most popular types on Betbull. Being a social betting platform, bettors are ranked on the best-performing accumulators.

Other massively leveraged football bet types on Betbull sportsbook include Both Teams to Score, Math Results Double Chance, and Handicaps.

The markets for horse racing, cricket, and American football were modest. We found these way lesser than the emphasis Betbull heaps on soccer.

Aside from these sports, Betbull impresses with its esports offering. This bookmaker provides betting markets on beloved esports titles like League of Legends, CS:GO, Dota2, and Starcraft II.

We investigated further to see if Betbull covers Specials aside from these conventional markets. There were extremely few markets in Specials categories like politics and entertainment, even in the United Kingdom.

We also felt Betbull could do with a Bet Builder facility. Today’s punters are massively enchanted with the Bet Builder feature. This is because it allows you to extensively customize your accumulator to your specifics.

Aside from the wealth of sports markets a bookmaker offer, the profitability of your betting engagements with such bookmakers depends on how fair their odds and margins are.

Any margin way excess of 100% is a no-no and should be keenly avoided. Our investigation shows Betbull’s margins sit around 103%, depending on the event.

This was modest and acceptable compared to other betting sites in the UK market.

Overall, the odds were average. And although we would have loved them higher, we couldn’t say they were terrible, either.

We were fascinated with the “Accept Higher Odds” option Betbull offers. This was massively beneficial given how well we know odds fluctuate as your bet gets processed.

Thanks to this “Accept Higher Odds” feature, should odds fluctuate during your bet processing, you get a prompt asking if you want to improve your odds, especially if they were lower than when you staked.

The least you can bet on a sports event on Betbull is £0.10. There is no universal maximum stake on Betbull, as the upper threshold varies with each event.

Typically, when you add an event you want to bet on to your bet slip, the maximum stake you can place on that event is automatically displayed. You are expected to stake within those limits.

The in-play betting feature richly embodies the social edge of betting as Betbull sportsbook promises. Here you can see your peers also staking on the same live event, making it far more collaborative.

On Betbull, you can access the in-play feature on the navigation bar seated at the screen’s lowest section.

After selecting your preferred live event, a live scorecard immediately pops up on your screen, revealing the available markets Betbull offers for that event and the community of bettors who have already staked on it.

From what we see, this bookmaker was a bit selective with the competitions they offered in-play markets for.

For very popular football games like Premier League and Champions League matches, there were satisfactory live markets to enjoy. The possibilities for accumulators in such events were fascinating.

But we didn’t see many in-play markets for less popular events, especially horse racing markets outside the UK.

Similarly, we were disappointed that Betbull doesn’t offer live streaming for their in-play bets.

This means we were visually starved of information on events to make decisions with in our live bets. Nonetheless, we had a considerable amount of real-time data on such live events.

Yes, Betbull offers cash-out. This is beneficial as it gives you more control over proceedings on your bets. When things are going south, you can promptly pull out before your whole stake gets lost.

The partial cash-out feature on Betbull allows you to withdraw a portion of the amount you stake in the event. The retrievable percentage of your original stake amount via cash out on Betbull varies.

This often depends on when (relative to the event duration) you initiated the cash-out. For example, let us assume you staked on a football event that typically has 90 minutes duration.

Now, if the outcome at 78 minutes is contrary to your anticipated bet direction, you can expect the retrievable cash out on Betbull to be way smaller than what you can retrieve at 35 minutes of that match.

Betbull has a spectacular mobile app. An adjective as glowing as “spectacular” coming from us – typically conservative with adjectives – should assure that this is one of the best apps in the UK sports betting industry.

This is not unnatural, as from the beginning, Betbull has blared about being a mobile-first sports betting provider. Overall, the design is inviting, combining a dark blue theme accentuated with red.

The features the betting app is furnished with are even more exciting. Coming at the home screen’s left side is your account management portal.

Here, you can set the identity you want other Betbull users to associate with your account by uploading a profile picture. This portal can also manage your transactions (including deposits and withdrawals).

If you have secured Power Up cards on Betbull, you can also view them from this section, supervise how your loyalty level is growing, and also manage your active bets.

Knowing that a successful bettor is a well-informed bettor, Betbull decked the betting app with a dedicated News Center.

The News Center is readily accessible on the home screen, also serving you notifications of emerging developments. Still at the top of the home screen, there is a slider presenting the most recent happenings.

This is Betbull keeping you updated with the trending bulls and re-bets that you can subscribe to and the sports market you could have a flair for.

The Leaderboard is one of the features we love best on the Bet bull app. This gives bragging rights to the most successful punters and tipsters, parading their heroics for possibly interested punters to see.

We also liked the community chat feature that comes with in-play events and pre-match events. Thanks to this functionality, a group of punters can brainstorm on betting decisions, allowing you to crowdsource tips on your bets.

This is exciting as the group effect makes betting more entertaining and collaborative.

Moving down on the Bet bull app presents the famous accumulators and the bulls that played such bets. You can similarly place that bet or join that bull’s fraternity by following him.

After this come the standard terms and conditions, game rules, and responsible gambling sections. This bottom section also includes FAQs to assuage your queries and an option to contact Betbull’s customer support department.

The banking options on Betbull are a bit limited. Aside from debit cards (MasterCard and Visa), Betbull strictly offers only three digital options. These are Skrill, paysafeCard, and Neteller.

That said, withdrawing and depositing funds on Betbull is easy and intuitive. The deposit facility is accessible from the Account button.

The least you can deposit here is £5 (across all accepted channels). Deposits are rapidly processed after Betbull has validated your identity.

If you don’t see your deposit reflected in your Betbull account minutes after initiating the transaction, you should promptly contact Betbull’s customer support team.

Deposits via Visa and Mastercard are typically free (unless your bank charges you). But you can expect your e-wallet provider to charge you some nominal transaction fees.

Depending on your channel, withdrawals take between two to five working days to be completed. The least you can withdraw on Betbull is £20.

While there is no absolute maximum withdrawal limit, single withdrawal north of £25,000 may need a written agreement to be completed.

While prominent for social sports betting, Betbull has a robust casino market – largely powered by Evolution and NetEnt. Although the casino lacks a dedicated welcome bonus, there are yet lots of bonus spins on your favorite slots.

Compared to the top online casino, the slot machines on Betbull still need some upgrading. Nonetheless, favorites like Starburst, Gonzo’s Quest, Bonanza, Mermaid Millions, and Guns n’ Roses are available.

If you fancy progressive jackpot slots, Betbull has got an enticing array for you. We came across the likes of Arabian Fortune (from NetEnt). That said, we felt let down that Betbull doesn’t have the famed MegaMoolah on its jackpot menu.

Betbull yet impressed us with its blackjack and roulette offerings. Notably, Atlantic City Blackjack and Lightning Roulette are there to enjoy.

Very few online casinos have a live dealer facility on their mobile app. And here is one critical aspect where Betbull distinguished itself.

This real dealer experience on the Betbull is amazingly realistic. It brings that rich vibe of a real-life casino dealer gaming typical of the most luxurious biggest casinos in Vegas.

Nevertheless, we can’t discuss this bookmaker’s casino offerings in this Betbull review without mentioning its epic Spin Wheel program. This is one section Betbull spoils you with rewards, especially if you are subscribed to the Diamond and VIP scheme.

Betbull smashed our expectations with the availability and responsiveness of their customer support. First, customer support is available 24/7 via email, live chat, telephone, and post.

Aside from these interactive customer support channels, Betbull maintains extensive documentation in its FAQ center.

This educates you on how things run on Betbull, providing considerable insights on the basics and mildly advanced technicalities.

The Betbull FAQ section is readily accessible at the screen’s bottom – both on the website and the mobile app.

The live chat feature is accessible on the Betbull website or the app. You can also reach customer support over the phone at +44 7449 551721.

If you prefer email correspondence, you can shoot Betbull’s customer representations an email with your query via support@betbull.com.

For the old-school bettors who want to reach Betbull via post, here is their postal address: BetBull Games Limited, Elite Business Centre, Trejqa ta’ Box Box, Msida MSD1840, Malta.

From what we saw, email queries got responded to within a day. But the live chat and telephone support channels were the quickest to resolve your queries.

We were impressed with the speediness at which the support rep joined us on the live chat. The responsiveness was also crisp.

One thing we admired about Betbull’s customer support was their technical proficiency. While we have been unfortunate to meet some bookmakers whose reps were cheerful but knew so little about their product, the reps at Betbull were thoroughly drilled into Betbull’s offerings.

When we were done with the conversation, we received a transcript of the session via email. This was helpful should we need to recourse to some pieces of information the rep dished us in the chat.