Bethard Review

The Bethard website is a really nice looking website with a modern interface and we like the layout of the menu structure. Like many of today’s websites, it has a top main navigation menu which includes the complete product, but it is the second menu that has both positive and negative aspects.

From a positive perspective, it has just two options to choose from, LIVE BETTING and TODAY’S EVENTS so you do not have to search around the site to be able to get to an in-play or upcoming event, making it easy to find what you want to bet on quickly and easily. On our site you will also find information about Bethard bonus and Bethard mobile app.

The slight negative is the size of the font of these two labels. It is a little small and could be bigger and bolder to stand out. A minor thing, but one we think would add to the navigation around the site.

In terms of colour scheme, it uses a black, dark grey and yellow (old gold colour) for the left side sports menu. Again this is laid out really well with black text on the gold background. The minor issue is the font again is small and could be bolded.

The main page has three sections with the left side main sports section. Middle section has an icon-based menu to find live and in play events quickly and the top of this section features two blocks with clear pricing and markets on the two biggest football matches of the day.

You can find a link to them on the site in the very top left-hand corner of your screen and this is a really great blog with regular content and a great mix of sports. Unlike other sites which focus on football, the Bethard blog really does cover a wide range of sports to suit everybody’s taste.

They also have a special section on the blog which is entitled “Minutes with Zlatan” which is an insight into all sports and his thoughts about different players from different sports.

Very entertaining interviews with the opinionated Swede.

Best betting sites by category

Bethard is very much a bookmaker for the football punter, but do have one of the best offers on the market at present. Their average betting margin across all sports is 3.1% which offers arbitrage punters so great betting opportunities and is also good news for the bettor who likes to focus on one sport.

As an example: In a recent game between Eibar and Barcelona in La Liga, the Spanish Champions were playing away from home, and all of the top tier bookmakers had them priced up at 4.5 (1.8) whilst Bethard were the best price on the market at 5/6 (1.83)

Yes, they are small margins, but every little bit helps the punter in trying to beat the bookie.

If we look at Bethard across a range of sports, then we see they have a very competitive offer all round.

So looking at Football their margin is just 2.3% which is clearly one of the best online. If you are a tennis fan and like playing the fast markets then Bethard could be for you with just a 3.0% margin on tennis betting tips.

And when it comes to American sports fans, they have those well covered as well on Basketball at 3.4%, Baseball at 3.2%, Ice hockey at 3.5% and NFL at just 3.1%

A very strong odds offer across the board.

It is clear that Bethard is heavily into football and tennis betting with horse racing less prominent but still covered.

They currently offer betting on a very large selection of leagues worldwide, and very interesting is strong coverage of women’s league and international matches. Certainly, a niche betting opportunity if you wish to research that part of the sport.

They cover more than 70 countries (73 when we last checked) and more than 120 leagues with a very wide spread of markets to cater to every football punter.

In terms of different markets, we undertook our review near the end of the football season but using our Eibar vs Barcelona example, this event had more than 170 different markets.

We also took a look at the Champions League and Europa League finals and they both had more than 120 markets a week before the finals.

A wide range of bets including some unique betting options. Some of the more unique bets include:

Half Time/Full Time + O/U 2.5 Goals

So here you would select What the half time result would be (1 X 2) What the full-time result would be (1 X 2) plus if the game would finish at under or over two and a half goals.

Handicap Ball Possession

In this example, we are talking about the percentage of possession where one team has a minus handicap and the other a plus handicap

Over/Under Fouls

Of course, we often see the over/under markets on corners and goals, but Bethard has a unique range of over/under markets including fouls, offsides, and shots on target

These are all great betting opportunities for bettors who rely on stats based betting.

The bonus offers on Bethard are quite limited. They have a standard welcome offer where you can get up to £50 in real bookmakers with cashout plus they have cashout functionality and bonus which is called “Bet Boost” where you can get up to 30% bonus on bet winnings.

Bethard is a little limited in terms of payment options, but they do accept all of the major payment methods.

Visa and Mastercard for credit and debit card customers, Skrill and Neteller for e-wallet customers and also Paysafecard for customers who prefer the prepaid option for depositing to their account.

There is very good live chat service and you can contact them quickly by using the yellow chat bubble icon which you can find in the bottom right corner of your screen. When testing this out, our response was answered very quickly.

The chat agent responded to the open chat within 30 seconds and then answered our question about Paypal deposit possibilities with another 30 seconds.

Very impressive customer service.

Unlike a lot of sportsbooks, today that are “white label” sportsbooks, the Sportsbook and Casino platform for Bethard is operated internally by Bethard Group Limited and not by an external gaming platform provider. Bethard Group Limited is licensed and regulated by the Gambling Commission having license number 000-049386-R-327558-003.