Sportsbook Guardian

Bwin are the sports betting dominant partner (with Party the poker experts) so it’s logical that unless the company sees merit in two independent platforms the Bwin sports betting platform will become the leading one of the two partners.

The Bwin site is probably my favourite out of all the bookmakers I use. When you go on their site you’ll find it’s very distinctive in a black and gold colour scheme, and visually looks clean with live betting updates and scores flashing up in front of you. It is seamlessly integrated within their platform that also has a games section, poker and casino.

Registration looked a little bit of an admin ordeal compared to some other sportsbooks out there, but wasn’t ultimately that bad, especially with auto-fill which will save you a bit of time so you can get straight into the punting action.

After registration the next logical step is to make a deposit so you’ll get your free bet bonus sooner than later. The choice of payment options s incredible, including methods I don’t often see elsewhere such as Kalixa and Freebet card making it as easy as ever for you to deposit and start betting.

The sports are laid out very intuitively, cleverly based on your address in the UK, you’ll be given a reduced option list of ten sports favoured by the British market such as rugby, golf, snooker, tennis and of course football (or soccer as the rest of the World calls it!). In all 35 sports are available to punt on, and the update on the menu proudly displayed that there are 13373 (total amount at the time of this review) betting options for you to choose from!

Bwin’s range of markets clearly puts it in an elite top three alongside Sportingbet and Bet365. If you’re a fan of bowls, lacrosse, rink hockey and handball Bwin’s the choice for you as they offer betting markets in all these and then some. They also have a small range of entertainment betting markets, but as readers of our blog know we love a bet on politics and were upset not to see markets for more of the specials.

The over-round percentages for football 1X2 totalled 108% for major matches, and 11% for lower league games. When you sign up to Bwin you can be sure they offer value that is comparable to other leading sportsbooks so they’ll definitely need to be on your list of operators to take advantage of a variety of the best value bets.

The betting slip is well designed and fixed into the top right of the screen (nothing worse than a pop-up bet slip), with help options prominently on display. The help glossary is useful, and is written in an American vernacular with “parlays” referred to instead of the UK’s “doubles”/”trebles” so even if you’re only starting out as a punter you’ll find Bwin will offer you plenty of support.

The only slight suggestion I have is for them to consider lowering their minimum stake from £0.50, as this can be expensive if you like to play large accumulators with many selections covered in doubles and trebles, unless you like to stake big in which case you probably wouldn’t even have noticed.

Bwin’s mobile products massively impressed me, including their poker app. If you’ve got an iPhone and like betting on the go make sure to download their app. Another positive was that you could easily download them on the app store, instead of having to browse the page on the phone browser. This can get pretty annoying pretty quickly but you won’t need to worry about that.

Bwin is in my opinion a tools site that has an impressive range of instruments; this focus has seen a lack of a community “web 2.0″ vibe that a lot of businesses are going after. Yet this doesn’t mean the site is bereft of content, and there is a whole video and live-streaming section to the site. But that shouldn’t put you off of signing up today because their betting product is top notch.

For you serious punters Bwin is indispensible within your betting arsenal, and if not on your list of operators already don’t forget to sign today to make the most out of your betting experience. To put a juicy cherry on top of the cake the Sportsbook Guardian team have a great free £20 offer for you to enjoy when you sign up with Bwin!

• Bwin increase profits in sportsbook and casino not poker

  September 7, 2012Pilar Gisbert Tweet Bwin.party Digital Entertainment, one of the betting giants who was created in 2011 after a merger between Bwin Interactive Entertainment and PartyGaming, increased its half-years profits because of the popularity of its sports betting and casino products. As the company announced the net profit growth to 92m euros, which means a 13% increase, it was a surprise for the market expectations. Also the revenue rose a 3% to 410m euros. However, the bookmarker can’t say the same about its poker product, it has an increased gaming tax and it continues being very weak. All of it was also accompanied by a reduction of its shares (4.6% to £94.46). The group also verified that the firm was really affected because of the weak economy of some countries in the South of Europe, for example in Spain, as the chief financial officer Martin Weigold announced: “It has been difficult for us, the two markets that have been most challenging have been Italy and Spain.” “Last year we saw a significant dip in Greece but actually Greece now seems to be levelling out a bit.” Bwin also declared that its daily revenues decayed during July and August according to the end of the Eurocup 2012 and the delay of the German Bundesliga start, because of the London Olympic Games. The firm said they were not worried because of that because it was a punctual fact. Focusing on the poker decrease in the whole of Europe, the bookmaker announced that they were going to focus their efforts in renewing the poker products and trying to retain their clients and acquire more. Co-CEO Jim Ryan confirmed: “We believe we have to differentiate ourselves in this market and to make sure we pick up our share and remain competitive especially against a backdrop of an ever strengthening PokerStars.” “There is a lot of work going on under the bonnet at bwin.party but much of this is being overshadowed by regulatory developments and structural challenges in the poker market,” said analysts at Peel Hunt. “There doesn’t appear to be a need to rush in,” the broker said, maintaining its ‘hold’ on the stock.” TweetAverage Rating: Write your own review. Click HEREwpcr_req.push('fname');wpcr_req.push('ftitle'); Submit your review Name: *Review Title: * ...

• Bwin, the new sponsor of Manchester United

  August 2, 2012Pilar Gisbert Tweet In the past week betting giant Bwin have signed a contract to be an official sponsor of the Manchester United football team for the 2012/2013 English Premier League. Over the past three years Bwin have been the official online gaming and betting partner of Real Madrid. Bwin has an important opportunity to gain good coverage into the English market as it did in the Spanish one from it’s high profile association with the Madrid Galacticos. The English club and the betting company agreed to replace the name of the last sponsor Betfair in their red equipment. Manchester United have also in the past been associated with Betfred with Fred Done’s firm providing the onsite betting outlets. It is a good opportunity for Bwin to advertise their products, as its co CEO Norbert Teufelberger announced: “As the official online gaming and betting partner, bwin.com has numerous online sponsoring rights, which fit perfectly with bwin.com products. Manchester United is famous for its international fan community. The club has more than 25 million friends on Facebook and over 200 official fan communities in 24 countries.” Manchester United has an important and lucrative portfolio of sponsors including AON (£20m a year for a shirt deal), Nike (£23.5m a year for a kit supply deal) and DHL (£10.5m a year to sponsor a training kit). A message from Old Trafford summarised the deal: “Two giants in the world of sports coming together to start an enthralling partnership. From now on, bwin is Official Online Gaming and Betting Partner of English record-holders Manchester United!” TweetAverage Rating: Write your own review. Click HEREwpcr_req.push('fname');wpcr_req.push('ftitle'); Submit your review Name: *Review Title: * Rating: 12345 Review: ...

• Bwin launch Playbook with Basketball Euroleague

  May 17, 2012Pilar Gisbert TweetBwin, one of the most important companies within online gaming is now the official global partner of the Basketball Euroleague. This week Bwin launched his “Bwin Euroleague Playbook”. The innovative app for iPad is very attractive to all fans of competitive basketball as well players and coaches. This new app gives the opportunity for fans to be in touch with everything concerning Europe’s most important basketball competition. Users can enjoy different video content, review statistics for specific matches and analyse or the tactics as well as follow their favourite team or what’s succeeding with the whole basketball league. Playbook users can also create a community and customize tactics, generate their own plays, strategies as well as compare with the pro coaches and share with other players. The Chief Business Development Officer at Euroleague Basketball Roser Queraltó commented: “The development of this cutting edge app is a great example of the innovation and commitment that bwin brings to Euroleague.” The initiative gives a new sponsorship boost for Euroleague Basketball and also provides an innovative information source which should further promote the sports burgeoning online presence. Bwin are a sports betting giant, that were founded in 1997 in Austria, and is now one of the leading Sportsbooks in the World, currently it’s headquarters are based in the UK tax haven of Gibraltar, but staff are spread across the globe. TweetAverage Rating: Write your own review. Click HEREwpcr_req.push('fname');wpcr_req.push('ftitle'); Submit your review Name: *Review Title: * Rating: 12345 Review: ...

• Bwin Begin Share Buy-Back

  May 10, 2012Chris Denny TweetWith shares at 144p Bwin.Party have announced a share back process that is being actioned on the groups behalf by Numis Securities: The market announcement follows: RNS Number : 0220D bwin.party digital entertainment 09 May 2012 9 May 2012 bwin.party digital entertainment plc (‘bwin.party’ or the ‘Company’) Transaction in own shares bwin.party announces that on 9 May 2012 it purchased, through Numis Securities, 271,192 of its ordinary shares for cancellation at an average price of 147.42 pence per share. The highest price paid was 153.60 pence per share and the lowest price paid was 142.40 pence per share. Following the above purchase, the Company has now bought back 32,249,516 shares for cancellation, since 6 September 2011 when the buy-back programme commenced. The total number of bwin.party shares in issue is 821,766,694 and the total number of voting rights in issue is 817,623,930 (total number of shares in issue minus 4,142,764 shares held by the Trust in respect of which the voting rights have been waived) TweetAverage Rating: Write your own review. Click HEREwpcr_req.push('fname');wpcr_req.push('ftitle'); Submit your review Name: *Review Title: * Rating: 12345 Review: * Required Field ...

• Bwin sign technology deal with Teradata

  May 10, 2012Chris Denny TweetThe battle in the betting industry used to be for retail shops, now increasingly it’s for online and mobile punters. Bwin.Party have always been at the forefront of technology and the latest technology news concerns Bwin’s deal with Teradata who are a specialist provider of data warehousing. This punter hopes that eventually they will invest in their horse racing product so that more options than only Tote betting will be offered! Teradata UK Head Chris Armitage said that host company’s technology was ” well-placed to help drive business performance and consolidate key performance indicators across the organisation. “Data analytics are essential to our organisation,” said the Group Technology Director Tod Martin. “We believe that the new Teradata solution will be extremely effective in consolidating data generated by our joint organisation, whilst providing the platform for better reporting analytics and insight.” TweetAverage Rating: Write your own review. Click HEREwpcr_req.push('fname');wpcr_req.push('ftitle'); Submit your review Name: *Review Title: * Rating: 12345 Review: * Required Field ...