From UFC fans to avid soccer betting players, the hunt is always on to find new sportsbooks, and VietBet is a site that is well known outside of North America, especially in Asia. It is connected to 5dimes, and that is a huge boost for their reputation.

VietBet is a place that players who work with pay head systems can appreciate because it is an old-school type of wagering site. You can’t get much in terms of live betting, but they offer many of the major lines you can find at most websites and they offer similar bonuses to 5dimes. They have low-juice lines that the sharps love, and the limits tend to be higher than most other shops as well. Their customer service is excellent and it is simple to do everything online, but if you have to speak to someone, you’ll have a good experience.

Your money is always secure at VietBet and there are numerous ways to deposit and withdraw your money quickly and efficiently. It’s a simple process and that is another major reason while VietBet has carved out a great reputation in the betting community. Again, the connection to 5dimes as they are one of the most popular books in the industry, and VietBet should follow in its footsteps.

It is almost time to start thinking about the European Championships this summer, and that is one of the many events you’ll find at VietBet, one of the up-and-comers in the North American online betting industry.

If you had to list the most important things with a sportsbook, what would they be? Your list would certainly include trust at or near the top. For the most part that hurdle has been overcome. Next on my list is fast payouts. Waiting 2 weeks for a payout – is two weeks I could laying action somewhere else. So why do we put up with these books that take 2 weeks and even longer to pay out? Creatures of habit I guess.

This is one creature of habit that is gonna try something new – a new book that is. Promising an unheard of 120 minute payouts, Northbet has intrigued me enough to get a modest deposit. While it will take some time before I open the vault – I’m excited to try out my new debit card. Which incidentally should be arriving shortly.

The Northbet.com Debit Card, available via invitation only, has the ability to get my withdrawal into my hands within 120 minutes. That’s no typo folks – 120 minutes.

This along with an experienced account management team, recruited from many top books, a $2500 match-up bonus, and a referral program that offers 30% initially and 5% of every deposit thereafter – is enough for me to open my checkbook.

So you tell me, does it sound to good to be true? I thought it might but really it isn’t costing Northbet anymore to get you your money faster, they’re just bucking the industry trend and providing good customer service.

Another thing I thought out loud – was if it is a scam – why would it be invitation only? Scams aren’t invitation only – usually they want you to invite your Grandmother.

While I’m ready to take the plunge – I’m not willing to dive right in – first I’d like to dip my toe in and see how the water is. After I’m comfortable that the water isn’t too hot, and I’ve gotten a couple 120 minute payouts, I’ll most likely go in up to the waist.

Here’s hoping I’ve found an oasis of sport betting, and Northbet.com is the vision I’ve been searching for during my long hot travels through the desert. Still a wise man once said always test the water before jumping in and that’s what I plan on doing.  I’ll be sure to let you know in a future post what the temperature of the water is.

Want to dive right in? Check out Northbet.com and be sure to let us know if the water is hot, cold or just right.

PayPerHead.com, an online sportsbook service provider for local agents, today unveiled a new campaign featuring Vince Curatola, Johnny Sack of The Sopranos fame.

The campaign leads with Vince asking “Five bucks per head, that’s what I wanna pay…” and the website, featuring video and voice overs by Vince, walks you through the product, the process and the competition.
“Five bucks a head is really an industry first given our level of service,” a spokesman from PayPerHead.com explained. “And we very carefully and in great detail delineate on the website exactly what you get and at what price level at PayPerHead versus the other serious players, such as IDSca.”

And what you get is a lot, including not only the traditional online sports betting management services but an optional casino, live poker, in game live betting, mobile betting, tools for managing players and their funds, layoff and scalp accounts, even a “sharp check.” “We have the sharpest lines out there and one of the most experienced stages anywhere offshore,” the spokesman said, “so if we start seeing sharp action from one of your players, we can give you a heads up. What you want to do with him is up to you.”

The choice of Vince Curatola was an interesting one. “We always liked Vince’s character on The Sopranos, as John “Johnny Sack” Sacramoni,” the PayPerHead spokesman said. “He had a certain style, classy, but not over the top; there’s a calmness and authority about him that we really admire.  He brings that serious business demeanor to PayPerHead.com, the first sportsbook-service to EVER feature any kind of celebrity in its marketing.”
With post-up books like BetUS, Sportsbook.com and SportsInteraction stopping taking US players, Bodog and others struggling with “Ecom” processing problems, the street scene is heating up and players are posting daily in forums looking for a “local out.” Players want the huge selection of markets, including live in-game betting, and the convenience of anytime betting online or via their mobile, but more and more say “they want to bet online but prefer to settle in cash on Monday.”

Is this the future of online sports betting? Quite possibly. And with firms like PayPerHead.com investing in marketing in an unprecedented way (celebs, who’d have thunk it?!) and in product (they also offer live poker, casino and in-game betting), expect to see this sector grow significantly this season.

For more information, see PayPerHead.com.

Guilty until proven innocent is the most common phrase used to describe new online betting sportsbooks. Opening in the middle part of the decade, BetPhoenix has been under the online sports betting sites microscope ever since they started out. For patrons looking for a new shop, BetPhoenix is the place to go as they are one of the few sports shops that employ the low juice high bonus practice that put the industry on the map in the early 1990s. Here are two reasons to go with BetPhoenix.

• Customer Service – In an industry where the new guy takes all the heat for the middle of the pack guys, customer service becomes more important than ever. For the majority of new shops it is common to see little to no effort put towards customer service.

However, at BetPhoenix, they have become synonymous with superb customer care. Whether you are a new bettor or a sharp making a large wager, BetPhoenix customer unit is the one you want helping you. Aside from the fact that the customer service reps are extremely knowledgeable and patient, the biggest appeal is BetPhoenix responsibility.

As we’ve noted all throughout this article, the betting online industry is plagued by difficult to deal with sportsbooks. BetPhoenix contrarily, is one of the best in that, they constantly accept responsibility. No matter if they do something right or wrong, they always acknowledge it. For example, when they experienced a slow period where their server was down, they sent out free plays to all of their customers.

• Placing A Bet – As high tech and up to date BetPhoenix site layout appears, they still provide patrons with a sense of comfort when it comes to placing a bet. BetPhoenix uses the check box system, which is a classic amongst all of the top shops. Simply log in to your account, pick the sport you want to wager and then check off the boxes on the games you want to wager on.

The main entity in TheGreek family is the TheGreek.com sportsbook which provides one of the top three best online betting experiences in the industry.  Although the actual website is nothing special, TheGreek.com consistently provides patrons with the safest support system and highest limits in the industry. As a result, TheGreek.com is constantly ranked so high because of the duo loyalty (loyal to the patrons, patrons loyal to them).

In an industry plagued by slow payouts and lower limits to cover all of the payouts, TheGreek.com stands out. Instead of struggling since its inception in the late 1990s, TheGreek.com has provided the quickest payouts, highest limits and has appeared to be the most stable of any of the top books. This success has allowed them to open up smaller sportsbooks to cover the wide spectrum of patrons who participate in betting online. Aside from TheGreek.com the bread and butter of the company is BetJamaica.com which is acts as a hub for new and recreational gamblers. Once the patrons become more interested in gambling, they move on to TheGreek.com allowing the company to balance out its success.

As the name of the latter subsidy suggests, TheGreek family of online sportsbooks is based out of Jamaica and has been one of the leaders in the North American market for over a decade. The slogan for the group says it all as at TheGreek.com you should “Sweat the Game, Not the Payout”.  Further when we tell you that TheGreek offers the quickest payouts on the internet we don’t lie, as these guys can have your payout delivered to you as early as the same hour and as late as 24 hours later. Whether you are new or experienced in the betting world, long on to TheGreek.com today and you can receive some of the best bonuses to go along with the fastest payouts.

As part of the BetCris Corporation, Bookmaker.com has become a sportsbook synonymous with success and integrity rather then slow payouts and poor customer service. Over the last decade besides brother company DSI, Bookmaker.com has taken the betting world by storm. Every year polls are conducted by review panels such as this and we have all found that Bookmaker.com is BetCris best online sportsbook as no other site provides as large limits.

Why Bookmaker.com?

Since 1999 Bookmaker.com based out of Costa Rica has been providing the largest limits online. By doing so they have become the main book in which the biggest shooters from across the United States tend to play with. This has only grown over the last 11 years, as the betting lines are the first to be released each day and aside from patrons other sites hoping, dreaming, wishing, to become the next Bookmaker.com tend to pay royalties to the site in order to use their lines.

Further, whether it is lines, excellent customer service or just to shop around Bookmaker.com is the site for you. In most top 10 polls, the people at Bookmaker.com sportsbook, has received ratings over nine but fewer than 10 in every category. Aside from 5Dimes, no other site has this occur to them as regularly.

Bonuses and Software:

In order to be considered one of the best sportsbooks on the planet, two of the many factors that need to appeal are bonuses and software. Firstly the software at Bookmaker.com is easy to use as the DGS software is used amongst many gambling enthusiast. For such a high stakes sportsbook, one would believe the software to be difficult to understand. Yet by using DGS, Bookmaker.com provides the foundation for recreational gamblers looking to get more serious by allowing them to use software familiar to them.

As well, bonuses at Bookmaker.com are second to none as similar to DSI Bookmaker.com uses the 20% system in which deposits and reloads are 20% while the race book deposit is eight percent.

BetUs.com has been around since the early days of the internet. Starting in 1994 and two ownership groups later, BetUs.com is one of the top online betting books in the world. However as a common trend in the industry, it has not been a smooth ride for BetUs.com as the site received a lot of criticism on payouts and customer service in its early days. With this being the case, BetUs.com almost went out of business in 2000, however after a company in NASA bought the dwindling sportsbook, they got their act together and became one of the best.

In 2001 when the current owners of BetUs.com took over the site, a parting of the clouds occurred as the new people realized that bonuses and improving both the marketing and customer service go along way in getting back into the good graces of their clientele. Nine years later, the bonuses at BetUs.com are incomparable as they are the best a betting enthusiast can ask for.

Another perk that has really assisted in the revitalization of BetUs.com is the new site layout. As part of the marketing scheme to bring in both new and old customers, the BetUs.com home page underwent a makeover. This allowed patrons to understand what the site was about without having to open an account. Further it set the framework for the other pages on the website in which the clientele could now access over 1000 different betting options and over 100 different types of bonuses.

Unlike many sportsbooks however is the fact that at BetUs.com the specialty is in the other gambling games, such as horse racing, poker, casino and a wide array of contests. Further the site offers one of the best glossaries for new and experienced bettors to freshen up on their betting terminology.

As part of TheGreek family of sportsbooks, BetJamaica has been a proud provider for betting enthusiast both new and experienced. Its site layout is nothing to write home about, yet the rest of the site is absolutely fantastic. Lately it has ranked within the top five of every sportsbook poll, which considering TheGreek itself is in the top three annually, speaks volumes as to how much BetJamaica has grown in the last few years. As an entity of TheGreek family one can be certain that BetJamaica will provide the best bang for your buck in customer service and sports betting lines.

Who Bet’s Here?

Although a member of TheGreek family and ranked in the top 10, BetJamaica is part of the group of sportsbooks who work as subsidiaries of big shooter sportsbooks but focus their clientele base on the beginner and recreational bettor. In saying this, BetJamaica focuses on the type of bettor who is more likely to wager between $2 and $200 as opposed to in the thousands. However this is not to say they do not still provide services for more experienced bettors, as the site is known for larger wagers. Without a doubt, BetJamaica provides the most positive gambling experience one can hope for when trying it for the first time.

Reputation and Stability:

As a part of one of the biggest gambling site monopolies in the world, BetJamaica has one of the best reputations in the industry. We previously noted that the site layout is simple at best. This approach works for the recreational user as something simple and easy is the way to go when not making large bets. Nevertheless, the security at BetJamaica provides users with a sense of stability when wagering on their favorite sports and casino games.

Who Do We Recommend Use The Site?

If you’re new to online betting and looking to have a little fun while being informed at the same time BetJamaica is for you. For the more experienced bettors, we recommend BetJamaica once in a while, but to go to TheGreek if you want higher limits.

Perhaps the smartest online betting site on the internet is Sportsbook.com as every time someone types Sportsbook.com into their Google search engine, this is the first site to come up. One would think with such witty marketing, the site would be in the tops of the betting online world, yet in the beginning like any first timer, Sportsbook.com went down the struggling path. Initially the biggest flaw with the site was customer service. As one can imagine when there is a slow payout customer service is essential to maintaining great relations. In the beginning this was not the case but 10 years later Sportsbook.com is considered one of the leaders of the industry and new sportsbooks looking for an example of what to do should reference this book.

Some of the pros for Sportsbook.com include a wide variety of odds and wagering options attached with an interesting site layout. Conversely the only con to the site we could find was that their public image and customer service have been greatly tarnished as a result of the kinks during the early days.

Nevertheless we believe that by providing a wide array of odds and options they are on the right track to returning to the good graces of the betting industry.

Sportsbook.com was founded like many other sports betting sites in Costa Rica in 1996 1997. Yet since the beginning they have always had an advantage over their competition thanks to owning the rights to the Sportsbook.com domain name. After years of internal fighting, the makers of Sportsbook.com finally got their act together in the early part of this decade and have been essential to the growth of the online wagering community since. Also since the beginning the marketing has been unbelievable as no site can out do the creators of Sportsbook.com when it comes to promotion.

Frequently ranked as an eight out 10, SBG Global has recently had a makeover from a site synonymous with slow payouts to one that has provided more loyalty than any other sportsbook. Although not the best online sportsbook, an eight out of 10 ranking is still quite good. SBG Global has been around since the early part of the decade and has provided its clientele with exceptional bonuses and classic customer service support.

Firstly, the biggest appeal to SBG Global is the bonuses. For the sportsbook section of the site, patrons can expect to receive up to 295 % bonus when making deposits into their accounts. For the patrons using the site for casino games, the bonus is lower but still remains high at an astounding 260%. Secondly, SBG Global takes the ever classic approach to online betting customer support, as they provide service 24 hours a day seven days a week 365 days a year. Further they provide a live chat similar to MSN as an option for communicating with them.

SBG Global has one of the simpler site layouts, as everything is quite simple to understand without having to consult the sites customer service section. As noted earlier the site was formerly synonymous with slow payouts, SBG Global has made it one of their highest priorities to improve payout options. As a result fans betting with the site are provided easy to use software which assists in an easy deposit and withdrawal method.

The overall experience of SBG Global is a positive one as consumers both new and experienced have little difficulty accessing the site. SBG Global provides all of your classic sportsbook features, such as sports betting section, horse betting, casino, and bingo options. As mentioned previously, the customer support offers a live chat which also does not require an account to be created.