Bet365 – £200
Betclic
BetVictor – £25
Bwin – £25
Ladbrokes – £50
Paddy Power – £50
Pinnacle
Sportingbet – £100
Stan James – £150
Unibet – £20
William Hill – £25
Stan James were the firm that originally lead the pre-internet bet in-play revolution, and I can remember them as the first notable firm that launched a 24/7 call centre. Back in the day I used to love watching their tele-text prices update in-play, if I remember correctly the television price box was on channel four page 634.
Stan James missed the internet boat, when other firms were launching sportsbook’s in the early noughties they instead had only an internet site displaying prices which couldn’t be processed online, instead relying on the call centre to process the bets.
Anyhow, enough of the history lesson, we are racing through the 2010′s and I’m going to be reviewing Stan James’ racing, as well as football, darts and all other site areas!
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- Landing Page
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- Home Page
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- Betting
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- Registration
- In-Play Leaders
- Live Racing feed
- Software: Proprietary
- Minimum Deposit: £15
- Maximum Stake: Trader’s decision
- Minimum Stake: 10p
- Mobile Betting
- 24/7 Support
- Licensed in the UK
- Live Chat Support
I clicked through the special banner on Sportsbook Guardian to qualify for a £150 sign up bonus! The registration was pretty straight forward, and pleasingly when a form box was missed out it didn’t blank all the fields (drives me nuts when this happens!). There’s live-chat on screen to help with any issues I may have encountered.
When I trialled this I found the response time almost instantaneous, though when I dealt with the support operative my particular chap was a little slow on the draw. Perhaps I got the dunce of the shift! Customer service is in the form of live chat, telephone and email. When you’re ready to deposit cash you’ll find the process is simple, though would be good to see more payment provider options.
Their homepage is quite content rich, and provides links along the left hand side to commentary, their blog, the Twitter and Facebook pages, and statistics section. It’s nice to see the effort to increase content and they do well with this, perhaps the next challenge would be to inject a bit more personality into the mix. They have streamed video pictures; this is a really nice feature for active customers.
Stan James’ range of sports is comprehensive, and their diversity of sports is close to Bet365 or Bwin. Their sporting options included hurling, cycling, bowls, handball and Aussie rules. As a Sportsbook that grew in the UK (Oxfordshire originally, but now most staff in the shadow of the Rock of Gibraltar) their racing coverage is solid. They price horse races daily and have a varied Ante Post selection. Racing fans will be pleased to see that they put money back into the sport by high profile sponsorship of races such as the Champion Hurdle.
For all the major markets Stan James offer a wide range of in-play markets, for the bigger football games they have at the time of the review 46 separate in-play markets. For major games 1×2 markets they bet to a competitive 108%.
I found Stan James to be very much moving with the times and offering both strong value and a great range of markets. When you join Stan James don’t forget to take advantage of Sportsbook Guardian’s exclusive sign up bonus to get some free bets!
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Was the first online bookmaker that I set up an account with, having in the past had tele bet bookmaker cards. I have always in the past found them accommodating for my chosen stakes and they offer a good range of sports that are covered by Sky Sports (essentially anything I would fancy a bet on).
Had an issue with withdrawing to a new card, and customer support was pretty good, offering a solution even though was a Saturday. Tend to bet with a variety of online bookmakers now, but still come back to Stan James if the prices are good.