NAME: SunBet
STARS: 4.8 out of 5
WEBSITE: https://www.sunbet.co.za
ESTABLISHED: 2006
LOCATION: Gardens, Cape Town
PROPRIETORS: SunBet (Pty) Ltd
LICENCE: Western Cape Gambling & Racing Board
MINIMUM DEPOSIT: R50
MINIMUM BET: R5
DEPOSIT/WITHDRAWAL OPTIONS: You can make and receive instant payments using MasterCard, Visa and EFT Instant
SOFTWARE: Powered by KAMBI and BEDI
PROS:
- World class range of betting options
- Elegant, easy to use interface
- Exciting new ‘Action Bet’ concept
- Optimized for Mobile users
- Attractive welcome bonus
CONS:
- Support is not 24/7 and there is no FAQ
- Limited payment optionsFULL REVIEW:
Sunbet.co.za’s exciting, new, updated online sportsbook which Casino giant, Sun International, through its subsidiary, SunBet (Pty) Ltd, launched in mid-2018 is truly world-class in many respects.Built for them by the world-renowned Cape Town gambling website developers Vegas Kings on a gambling software platform supplied by Britain’s highly respected Bede Limited and on sports betting technology from the renowned Kambi Group, it immediately ticks so many boxes, it is a no-brainer that it will quickly become one of South Africa’s premier online betting facilities.
Right now it serves only South African customers in Rands, but it certainly has the potential to go global in the future.
Its mobile interface is as good and as easy to use as the desktop version and has clearly been developed with Africa in mind where the proportion of mobiles to desktop and laptop users is much greater than it is in first-world countries like the UK and the USA.
Wide Range of sporting bets:
One of the reasons for SunBet’s new and enhanced status is clearly the impressively long list of sports that almost jumps out of the screen when you tap the ‘Sports’ button above the ever-busy marketing and promotions banner on its clean-cut and elegant home page.
The list of sports to bet on is a long one indeed – longer than most I have seen on South African online sportsbooks – and the multitude of markets within each sport give SunBet punters betting access to more than 100,000 events annually.
Apart from online horse racing bets which you can now make from your home or office instead of having to make your way to a race course or one of Sun International’s retail betting shops at the GrandWest Casino in Goodwood, Carnival City in Brakpan, Golden Valley in Worcester and Time Square in Pretoria, you can also make thousands of online bets on well over 30 other sports.
They include Rugby in both the union and league codes, football, cricket, tennis, golf, athletics, boxing, American sports including NFL football, baseball, basketball and ice hockey, motor racing, beach volleyball and a whole lot more.
You can even find darts, snooker and lesser known sports like footsal and pesapella to wager money on.
And, yes, to make them easier to find, the sports are all listed in alphabetical order – something you don’t always see in the world of online sports betting.
You can also make political bets, play a numbers game or a have a stab at one of several world-wide Lottos, including SA Lotto, UK 49s, UK Lotto, SA Power Ball and more.
Action Bets:
But perhaps the one single thing that does most to make SunBet stand out from the crowd is it’s ‘Action Bet’ – possibly one of the most exciting features ever to hit the sportsbook market.It’s a form of live betting which SunBet call their ‘instant bet product’ and has also been described as ‘live, in-play betting on steroids’.
In Action Betting you are able to make live-in-play wagers on more popular sports like rugby, cricket and football and you’ll really need to know your oats because more often than not you’ll only have seconds to make the bet.
Blogs:
Another impressive feature on the SunBet sportsbook is their extensive and attractive blog section.It gives you the history of almost everything connected with online sportsbooks and together with updated sports news and projections, it should help to make you a better and wiser betting person.
Bonuses and promotions:
SunBet is right up there competing strongly with the best when it boldly reminds us on its home page banner that if you “sign up we’ll double your first deposit up to R1 000”.
It’s not the very best, but it is certainly one of the best.Its ‘Promotions’ program which often tends to focus on the big thing of the moment in international sport such as the Olympics and the Football, Rugby and Cricket World Cups, is also competitive, one of the best of them being an enhanced ‘Cash Out’ promotion.
With a fresh set of rewards designed to raise the sports betting experience and to make it more rounded and rewarding, ‘Cash Out ‘gives the player further control over their betting experience and allows them to ‘Cash Out’ on selected bets by taking an early payout before an event has been completed.
Some of SunBet’s other constantly changing promotions at the time this review was written included one that enabled you to ‘earn MVG Points on every bet’ and another to ‘Play our daily prediction game and earn great prizes’.
Transactions:
You can make and receive payments using MasterCard, Visa and EFT Instant. All transactions are in South African Rands, are safe and secure and will be instant.
Customer support:
Support is available from 6.30 a.m. to 11 p.m. seven days a week via live-chat or email. Yes, they do lack a 24/7 service and have no FAQ facility, but my first email query was satisfactorily answered within the hour.Summed up:
The exciting, newly-upgraded South African SunBet sportsbook now has enough world-class features to suggest that it has the potential to expand out of its current South Africa market and become a global player.In the meantime, local punters shouldn’t think twice about signing up. It has much to offer.
The betting product it offers its customers is as extensive as it is impressive and its new ‘Action Bets’ feature is a winner that makes it a standout from the crowd.
Its elegant and clean-cut look and feel and its tried-and-tested gambling software give it a user interface that is easy to understand and entertaining to operate regardless of whether you are sitting at a PC at home or on the go with your mobile at a sports stadium.
And it has technology that makes your transactions with it safe and secure.
Its sign-up bonus is not too shabby, either, and nor are its promotions, but without FAQ and 24/7 customer support, it does fall a little short of some of its South African competitors in this area.
Not everyone likes to use their credit cards on the internet so it might also be worthwhile for SunBet to look into bringing on board internet transaction specialists like PayPal.