BetUS Sportsbook Review

Reasons to Play
Over 12 years of experience in the sports betting industry
Recreational betting available for as little as $5
Great tips, information and betting advice to help you make you best choices
50% Sign up bonus to get you started

Refer your friends and get 25% of their first deposit as a reward

Get reward points for every bet you make and redeem them for great prizes

A full casino and poker room also available

Huge poker tournaments with up to $100,000 in cash prize pools

Best Sportsbook 2008 - Best of 2008 Awards

BetUS is one of the original legal sports books available online. It was established in 1994, which means that it has over 12 years` worth of experience to draw on in providing you with a professional, secure and fully accredited online sports betting experience. It has over 100,000 sports betting customers, from all over the world, and the United States in particular. It offers a wide range of sports betting events, as well as wagering on Hollywood antics, the entertainment industry, high profile legal trials, politics and various topics in popular culture that catch the public imagination.

BetUS is fully licensed in Costa Rica, which is where its home base is. It not only operates its wagering operations from there, but also provides a full service contact and support center for clients. It covers all the major sports, including both US and international, horse racing and a wide range of wagers within these sports, from straightforward outcomes, to continuous in-game prop betting. It has some pretty heavyweight endorsers as well, including names like Andrew Dice Clay, Jesse Ventura, and a wide range of regional radio stations in the US.

There are plenty of great benefits to signing up with BetUS. For a start there is the Sign up Bonus, as well as Reload Bonuses and extra free money Referral Bonuses for referring your friends. You are also rewarded for regular betting and loyalty, in the form of bonus points which you can redeem for extra free betting money or apparel prizes. There are guides to your favorite sporting events, and even a Swimsuit Calendar for your enjoyment, featuring the gorgeous BetUS models.

In addition to sports betting, there is also a casino and a poker room on offer. The casino features all the best of the Vegas-style casino games, with weekly promotions that are kept fresh and exciting all the time. Examples of these are prizes for the most roulette spins, video poker cash back specials, slot loss insurance, and random free money bonuses for calling the casino in response to a call out. The poker room has a very generous first deposit match free money bonus. Not only can you play for fun, but you can also play for free and win a share of free cash prizes, or enter the freerolls and guaranteed tournaments worth over $4 million in prize money each month. It is a part of the new Cake Poker network, so you benefit from the traffic that this network generates as well.

Lastly there is the Locker Room, where you`ll find tips, feature articles on prominent sports events and betting in general, opinions, betting trends and expert free picks.

Sports book:

Scaled bonus model:

Casino:

• Up to 50% sign-up bonus
• Weekly casino promotions with cash prizes, like Most Roulette spins, 20% losses back on Video Poker, Touch Down slot fever - get 30% insurance, most 3 Card Poker hands played, top amount of Blackjack hands played, and so on.

Poker:

• 100% free money deposit match on first deposit, up to $500
• A variety of satellite tournaments to win entry into events like the Aussie Millions, WPT and WSOP
• Win entry into the Vegas Pokerface 2007 - become a pro for a year
• Huge guaranteed tournaments - up to $100,000 in prize money per event
• $20,000 Daily guaranteed tournament

Markets covered include:

• Predominant focus on US sports

• MLB baseball with plenty of prop bet options

• NBA and NCAA basketball
• NFL football + lots of props

• NHL hockey and prop betting galore

• UFC fighting

• Boxing
• Men and women`s tennis

• Entertainment betting

Wagering Limits:
Minimum bets start as low as $5 per wager, and you can bet up to $5,000 in a single bet.

Online casino:

• All the standard casino games for your playing enjoyment
• Plenty of exciting and novel weekly promotions - all you have to do is play as many hands or spins as you can
• Table minimums as low as $1
• Live chat support

Multi Player Poker:

• Texas Hold’em, Omaha, 7-Card Stud, Badugi or 1-on-1 Poker

• None offered

Software:
Play a number of different tables at once, at all different bet limits, from micro-limits to the larger limit tables. As part of the Cake Gaming network you get to play against players from a number of other poker rooms, and enjoy interactive features like live chat and player notes.

Tournaments:
Lots of weekly freerolls and guaranteed tournaments with different sized prize pools. Highlighted tournaments are the big guaranteed tournaments, with up to $100,000 in prize money, and the weekly $20,000 guaranteed tournament. Also satellite tournaments to win entry into the biggest land-based tournaments in the world, like the World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour.

Deposit and Withdrawal Options:
Visa, Mastercard, direct bank wire, money transfer, check.

License:
San Jose, Costa Rica

Results Service

Live stats are provided for you 24 hours a day across the board

Software and Special Features:

• Streamlined betting
• Manage your wagering, casino and poker play from one central account
• Quick wagering, processing and payout systems

Help and Advice

There are betting tips, advice on wager types, a glossary, sports rule books and information on the different wager limits.

Awards

None as yet

Customer Service:
Betting support is available 24/7 every day of the year, accessible by telephone and email