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BWIN REVIEW
Bwin International Ltd was founded in 1999 under the name of Simon Bold Ltd and was taken over in its entirety in 2001 by the Vienna based, publicly listed company bwin Interactive Entertainment AG. Bwin International Ltd runs the operational activities of the Bwin Group from Gibraltar under the terms of its Gibraltarian sports betting and casino license; we feel this license is a good indicator of Bwins security and trustworthiness. With a team of over a hundred staff, the company takes care of the Group's bookmaking business, its risk management and customer support. We feel Bwin are an emerging bookmaker, a few of the TakesAllSports backroom staff recommended we review them as their experience has been very positive. Upon closer inspection, we find them to have a progressive profile, they are expanding and catering for more and more nationalities, certainly their sponsorship deals with AC Milan, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich reflect this, as does their continued sponsorship of Moto GP.
The more you play at bwin, the more Market and Status Points you can collect. Once you have collected a sufficient number of points, you can then use them to get your hands on loads of exclusive products. Your points will also allow you to profit from a number of top privileges. Here’s how it works:
Status Points: are credited to your account whenever you play for real money stakes and determine your status at b'inside. There’s only one golden rule: More points – more status – more advantages. The Status Points you collect are valid for three months. Your status is then recalculated every three months as well.
Market Points: are credited to your account whenever you play for real money stakes and can also be collected through promotions. You can then exchange these points for exclusive products at the Market which money just can’t buy. Market Points are valid for 12 months.
The number of points per stake can be calculated easily using our points calculator. Once you have logged in, the calculator will also include any promotional bonuses that you are eligible for.
Bwin have limited debit card support as they only allow Maestro, but they more than make up for it in e-wallets like Cactus, Click&Buy, Neteller, Moneybookers and PayPal aswell as supporting prepaid cards such as PaySafeCard, FreeBet Card and UKash Card. They also accept Mastercard and Visa credit cards and good old fashioned bank transfer.
Bwin have a useful help section on their website, it contains an FAQ, a glossary of betting terminology, also dedicated sections covering registration, security, legal matters, payments and mobile betting tutorials. They are available via telephone from Monday to Sunday between 09:00 and 21:00 GMT, they also have a lightning fast email service, we got our reply within a few hours and were very impressed with their helpfulness.
Stay up to date with Bwins Live Score service, they cover Soccer, Basketball, Baseball, Tennis and Motor sports; you can also use it to check results for the past week and fixtures for the next 5 days, so whether you're looking for an upcoming match to bet on, checking how your current wager is doing or simply seeing how your bet from the other day did, Bwin have got you covered.
Their pièce de résistance is definitely the statistics section, which has detailed information about 25 different sports, many of them rarely covered by other major websites, let alone rival bookmakers. We feel that this gives Bwin customers a punting edge when betting on less gambled upon sports such as Ski Jumping, Volleyball, Biathlon events, Luge, Aussie Rules and Winter sports, to name but a few of the markets they have stats for that you can also place bets on via their Sportsbook.
Bwin have a mobile betting service which is made very easy to use thanks to the wonderful tutorials we found on their website, there are 6 easy steps to placing a bet using their service and each step is explained using photos and arrows, no technical jargon and simple to follow. Then it's just a case of waiting for Bwin to send you a message via email or SMS telling you whether you won and if so, how much you won. Easy peasy.
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