The market for legal online bookmakers is gradually expanding: by the beginning of 2019, 16 companies in Russia received the legal right to accept bets via the Internet, and their number is periodically increasing. How to choose a bookmaker and what criteria should be used to evaluate it? We focus on several factors that are of the utmost importance when choosing a bookmaker’s office.
We will not sort the criteria for choosing a bookmaker by importance: someone is primarily interested in the experience of other players, someone is interested in the availability of bonuses, someone will be ready to put up with shortcomings for the sake of high odds. Each criterion mentioned here will be the most important for someone, so their order can be considered random, and you should pay attention solely to the characteristics themselves.
Popularity of the bookmaker
How to understand which bookmaker is more popular? You can read reviews about bookmakers. The disadvantage of this method is that people write bad things more often and more willingly, which can violate (sometimes significantly) the objectivity of the overall picture. However, if the same thing is repeated in many reviews, you can form an idea of the main strengths and weaknesses of the company.
You can also read complaints about bookmakers that betting fans leave on specialized sites. At the same time, it is important to pay attention not so much to the very existence of complaints (players have complaints of various kinds against all companies), as to whether the bookmaker is ready to listen to them and satisfy the players’ claims. At Pari Match it is easy to do this: select a bookmaker from the general list, go to its review page (the “Details” button) and scroll down to the “Complaints” section: here both the total number of complaints and the number of those that the bookmaker ( although with the assistance of our site) satisfied or not satisfied.
The easiest way to understand which Russian bookmakers are in greatest demand is to look at the People’s rating of bookmakers, compiled by the players themselves. The more Legalbet users click “Play” opposite the bookmaker’s name, the more popular it is considered. For the objectivity of this rating, a special system for receiving votes is provided.
Of course, the general indicator of popularity is more likely the “average temperature in the hospital” than an objective criterion. However, there are at least two reasons proving that the criterion is important. First, if the majority chooses a certain bookmaker, there are reasons for this. Secondly, there is nothing more objective than the choice of a real player who not only made this choice, but also continues to play with this or that bookmaker.
The reliability of a bookmaker
The reliability of a bookmaker is traditionally considered one of the main criteria for choosing a bookmaker, but this criterion is subjective: someone has been playing on the same site for several years and does not know grief, while someone with the same bookmaker almost immediately has disagreements for various reasons. First of all, bookmakers are considered reliable, which pay out all honest winnings without any problems, and also strictly follow their own rules for calculating bets.
Note! The rules for calculating bets and paying out winnings are listed on the website of each Russian online bookmaker, and you must familiarize yourself with them before placing a bet – this allows you to avoid various claims against the bookmaker in many cases.
To find out which Russian companies can be considered the most reliable and which do not differ in this characteristic, Legalbet has developed a Bookmaker Reliability Rating. The place of each company in it is calculated using a special formula that takes into account the main indicators necessary to determine reliability.