Sportsbooks Stipulations to Be Aware Of

Each sportsbook does things a little different. Sometimes these idiosyncrasies make sense while other times they seem a little deceptive or hide a house advantage. For example, the only sportsbook which uses a points system in their rollover requirement is GTbets. The individual points are worth less than a single dollar, so your actual rollover is quite higher than at first glance.

Still, other sportsbooks advertise certain options but when you go to use them you will find they are not there. In this article we want to highlight a few of these matters and hopefully you stumble across this article before you deposit so there is no confusion, disappointment or anger.

We gather information for our site from our own team trying the services of these sportsbooks or from reader’s feedback. If the feedback is received from a reader, we perform due diligence to make sure it is verified. Everything in this article is verified as fact.

Heritage Sportsbook

Rating: B

This sportsbook has a peculiar situation with payouts. First, let me state that you will in all likelihood get your payout after you request it. There isn’t a single outstanding complaint on file for this sportsbook. With that said, let’s dive into the situation with payouts at Heritage (betheritage.eu)

You must request your payout information in the morning, before 10 am PST. Any payout requested will not be started until the following day. Once the payout process is started, you will wait between 24-48 hours for it to hit your account. This is a little long in today’s market where sportsbooks are routinely getting payouts out the door in under an hour (BetOnline/Hard Rock/Sportsbetting.ag).

Second, they advertise altcoins as an option to be paid out but when a player tried to be paid out in tether, the payment never came. The next day the player contacted the sportsbook through live chat and discovered a message which asked them to choose BTC instead. This process added another 24 hours to their wait time. The player was paid though. Total time elapsed was 72 hours from initial request to payout received.

Bookmaker Sportsbook

Rating: C-

This sportsbook advertised a very generous bonus offer for first time depositors. They included a 100% free play (up to $400) which only required a 1X rollover. This offer is available in for credit card deposits only. The problem is that buried in the fine print it says that betting the free play balance does not count toward your rollover. So, if you deposit 400 and get the $400 free play, you have to rollover the $400 cash twice, not once. So, in reality it is a 2X rollover. At most sportsbooks the rollover formula is deposit + rollover x(times) rollover requirement. In this case, at most sportsbooks, the free play balance being wagered would count toward the rollover. Slightly deceptive, but a 100% free play with a 2X rollover is still generous. The offer is just misleading.

The devil is in the details, as they say and Bookmaker does have it laid out pretty clearly in their bonus T&C. But as with most situations in life, a large amount of people don’t actually read the fine print. I think many companies count on that fact.

Client has not informed us if they were paid out yet or if they are still waiting to work off their rollover.

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