GamblingGuy.com Awards: The Best Online Bookmaker 2024

First and foremost, let’s start with the most general and most prestigious of the GamblingGuy.com Bookmaker Awards – the Best Online Bookmaker. This takes the bookmaker that has the best overall balance of the other categories detailed below. Essentially, the award-winning best sportsbook has to have a little bit of everything, including a top-quality bonus, competitive odds, an easy to use website, and a vast range of sports.

Additionally, the Best Online Bookmaker should work to serve a variety of different gamblers. As mentioned above, our awards are voted for by you, meaning we take the opinions of gamblers of all shapes and sizes. From complete beginners to seasoned punters and high rollers – in this category, we’re looking for a sportsbook that can serve us all! Remember that alongside our bookmaker award, we have awards for all other kinds of online gambling sites.

It doesn’t matter if you’re completely new to online sports betting, are just changing provider or are a seasoned punter with multiple accounts on the go – we all love a bonus. Bonuses come in all shapes and sizes, from free bets to matched deposit bonuses and cashback offers. One thing that unites most online bookmaker bonuses is that it’s usually the welcome bonus that offers the most value. It’s easy for us to test a bonus ourselves and rate it based on its monetary value, terms & conditions and freedom of use. Ultimately, however, perhaps more than in most other categories, awarding the best bonus requires your feedback and experience above all else.

Perhaps not the first thing that you think of, but when you need them most, they arguably become more important than the actual bookmaker themselves. This is why our gambling awards will help you find the sportsbook with outstanding customer support. It doesn’t matter what experience level you’re at, you’re going to need the customer service team at some point during your sports betting journey, and you want an accessible customer service team that can help you quickly and efficiently.

If you’re fairly new to online sports betting, you’ll want a customer service team that’s available before you’ve made your account so they can help you get started. If you’re an experienced high roller, you’ll be looking for a customer service team that offers more dedicated, extra-special help to its VIP members. What we’re looking for when distributing an award in this section is an online bookmaker customer service team that ticks all of the boxes across the board.

As important as the quality of customer service, are the available channels and the availability. For a customer service team to even be considered for a GamblingGuy.com Award, they must be on hand 24/7 via at least one of their channels. On top of that, as gamblers, we’re generally looking for a bookmaker with at least the 3 basic customer service channels; live chat, email & phone line.

An award that carries a lot of importance and prestige among you guys as gamblers these days, the Best Mobile Bookmaker. Without having any exact statistics to hand, it’s fair to assume that the majority of you reading this will place at least some of your sports bets on your mobile phone.

That’s why every online bookmaker worth their salt these days should offer a mobile optimised version of their site as well as a tailor-made sports betting app. What we’re looking for here is a mobile betting app and site that matches the capabilities and ease of use that you’d find on their desktop website. From the casual cricket punters to the seasoned horse racing aficionados, we all love to bet on the move.

A neat follow on from mobile betting comes our award for the Best Live Stream & In-Play Betting service. Placing bets mid-game as your watching have become commonplace, as have cashouts and early payout bonuses. As a result, there’s more customer expectation than ever for online bookmaker to have a quality live streaming service – and these days the bar is set pretty high.

The more seasoned punters among you will know that some of the top online bookmaker now have streaming services that have the rights to show some of the world’s top sporting leagues, including the Indian Premier League in cricket and the Champions League in football.

It’s not just the game rights and the quality of the streaming service we’re looking for here – this award is about live betting, so we need a well-rounded package overall. That means that the in-play betting markets need to be plentiful and the cash-out offers fair. Plus any decent sportsbook award would have to factor in those all-important betting odds too. Let us know your experience so that fellow punters of all levels can enjoy the very best!

We’ll use this example as horse racing is perhaps what many consider to be the archetype betting sport. However, we dish out awards for bookmaker with the best offerings for all top betting sports. Horse racing is perhaps the betting sport that’s popular with more experienced gamblers, but, for example, here in India bettors of all levels are lining up to rate the best of the best when it comes to the best bookmaker for cricket betting. So no matter what your favourite sport is (or how long you’ve been betting on it), let us know what the best bookmaker is for that sports in your experience, so we can consider it for our specialised sports awards and pass the word on to like-minded gamblers!

It doesn’t matter if you’re an old hand who’s been betting at the tracks since the ‘60s or a casual sports fan who’s looking to make things interesting for the first time. The one thing that unites us all is that we want to get our winnings as quickly as possible. At the other end of the transaction, we want to get our money into our accounts as quickly as possible so we can get our bets placed. If there’s one thing gamblers of all ages, interests and experience levels it’s the efficiency of payment processing. There are many such complications when it comes to review and rating sites in order to dish out this award. However, it all boils down to us wanting quick and easy deposits and withdrawals without having to pay any fees.

You could be forgiven for thinking that this award is only for the benefit of the more seasoned pros when it comes to online sports betting – but you’d be wrong. A good VIP programme works in tiers, meaning you receive rewards and extra service based on how much and how often you bet. While more frequent, high-money bettors can rightly expect more rewards, a good VIP programme should provide all of its customers with rewards and treatments that are apt for their level. That’s why we take all of your VIP programme experiences into account in order to give this GamblingGuy.com Award to the online bookmaker that caters for a wide range of gamblers and providers plenty of scope for upward mobility.

As the digital age marches on into its 3rd decade and the majority of gambling is done online, more and more new bookmaker are popping up almost daily. With so much on offer out there, it can be hard to sort them out between the good, the bad and the down-right ugly. That’s why we need your help to find the very best of the new kids on the block so we can bring them to the forefront with our yearly award for the best newcomer. It’s all fair and well betting with the established veteran giants of the gambling world, but plenty of us are seeking the excitement of getting in at ground level with a quality new bookmaker. It’s always nice to have something fresh!