The Betfair group of companies ('Betfair') offers a global portfolio of gambling products and services. This includes the world's leading betting exchange (a concept pioneered by Betfair), which is provided in the UK. Betfair's other betting platforms include a bookmaking operation provided from Malta and a second betting exchange in Australia. Separately Betfair's established gaming products include Betfair Poker, Betfair Casino and a number of exchange-enabled games. All of these are offered from Malta. Betfair is a licensed gambling operator in the UK, Australia, Malta, Italy, Austria and Germany.

 

 

 

Why Betfair?

Betfair offers you unprecedented choice, value and control.

• You can bet that an outcome will happen (back) or that it won't happen (lay).
• You can choose the odds at which you want to play.
• You can bet whilst the game is in play.
• You can play on a range of products and innovative games.

 

 

 

What is different about betting on Betfair?

Back or lay

When you "back" a selection (be it an individual, a team, horse, dog or other), you are betting that it will win. This is just like betting with a conventional bookmaker.

When you "lay" it, you are betting against it winning. For example, if you're betting in a market on which team is going to win the Premiership and you lay Man Utd, then if they win you pay out. This is what bookmakers traditionally do.

If you are a UK registered customer you are betting through the UK exchange, which means that your bets are being matched by other Betfair customers. In this case, although Betfair knows who is on each side of every bet matched, you never know who you are betting against, as it may be a number of people matching your one bet. If you are registered with Betfair from outside the UK you are betting directly against Betfair rather than other Betfair customers , but in all cases your privacy and the confidentiality of your bets is maintained by Betfair's secure site.

Choose your odds

If you want better odds than are currently available, you can place an order for a better price, but bear in mind that if your price is unrealistic your bet is unlikely to be accepted. Note that the odds available often improve nearer to the 'off' (or when the event starts) as interest and betting activity in the markets increases.

 

 

 

Betfair was founded in August 1999 by Andrew Black and Edward Wray in order to commercialise betting technology that had been under development for the preceding year. The technology used by Betfair is proprietary and, as well as being protected by copyright, is the subject of patent protection in various jurisdictions.

 

Sports offered:

American football, athletics, australian rules football, bandy, baseball, basketball, boxing, combat sports, cricket, cycling, darts, gaelic games, golf, greyhound racing, handball, horse racing, hurling, ice hockey, motor sport, pelota, rowing, rugby, snooker and pool, soccer, surfing, swimming, tennis, trotting, volleyball, winter sports, yachting.

Other events:

Bridge, financials, politics, reality shows, weather, white christmas, magazines awards.

 

 

Betfair Bonus

 

Choose your offer: £/€25 Free Bet or £/€1.000 Cashback!

 

£/€25 Free Bet

To be eligible, you must enter one of the following promotional codes LSY345, LSY123, EME302, BET025,LSY025, LSY124, CRE025, BNL025, BWA025, BWE025, BWI025, BWM025, BWP025, BWP026, BNL026, GWA025, GWE025, GWI025, GWM025, GWP025, EME001, EME003 or GWP026 when registering with Betfair. Only your first placed bet qualifies for the promotion, and it must be matched for £/€25 or more. If the qualifying bet loses, £/€25 will be credited to your Betfair account. Qualifying bets must be placed within 21 days of registering your new Betfair account and qualifying bets must settle within 21 days of being placed.

 

£/€1.000 Cashback

Each £1 you pay Betfair in commission earns you 10 points. So, 50,000 pts would earn you the £1,000 cashback. This is valid across all sports and multiples bets only. Offer applies to your first 30 days of activity only. Your Betfair Points will be cumulative and will NOT take into account the weekly decay, for example if you earn 80 Points in your first week and then 1,000 Points in week 2 the 15% weekly decay will not be applied, you will have 1,080 Points after two weeks of betting = £40 bonus.

If you use Moneybookers to fund your account you will not be eligible for any free bet or matched bet promotion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

DEPOSIT / WITHDRAWAL

Visa, MasterCard, Maestro, Visa Electron, Solo, Switch, Delta, Laser, Bank Wire, Check, Moneybookers, Neteller, Western Union, PayPal, WebMoney, Click&Buy.

 

LANGUAGES:

English, Spanish, Italian, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish, Turkish, Greek, Russian, Polish, Czech, Bulgerian, Simplified Chinese, Chinese and Portuguese.

Countries Excluded; USA

 

Beside Sportsbook they have Casino, Poker, Exchange Games, Arcade and Financial Betting.