Bluesq Sportsbook

Reasons to Play
All the benefits of playing at one of the leading entertainment providers

Excellent choice of international sports - all the majors plus niche sports

Some great promotions always on offer

Live betting and ante-post betting
Great interactive features for complete bet tracking, results and sports news
Bet online using your browser, or use the free mobile betting software

Wide range of funding options

Casino with excellent game variety, and a great poker room

Lots of sports information and a 24-hour support team

Blue Square Sportsbook is part of one of the biggest companies in the UK offering interactive betting services, having been founded in 1999. As is customary with many of these operations, it began by offering traditional bookmaking services, and has since expanded to cover wider markets, including internet sports betting, an online casino and an online poker room. Taking advantage of new technology has also seen the company offer mobile betting. It was recently acquired by the Rank Group, a leading UK entertainment company.

Blue Square Sportsbook offers a very comprehensive selection of US and international sports, which will satisfy fans and punters from all around the world. There are some great special features to increase your betting convenience, like their innovative i-Bar. This is a free downloadable browser add-on tool bar that gives you instant access to the sportsbook services, as well as feeding you a customisable choice of over 4,000 sports RSS newsfeeds. It also comes pre-configured with a wide range of sports website links, online sports radio stations and online sports newspapers. There`s also a TV guide and a comprehensive results service.

The sportsbook offers you live in-running betting as well as ante-post betting on upcoming sports events. There are plenty of different betting options and stakes. Placing a bet is easy, once you`ve gone through the user-friendly process of opening an account and transferring funds into it. There`s a handy interactive betting form that helps you keep track of all your wagering - payouts are just as quick.

There is also a full online casino, offering all the standard casino games, plus a whole lot of unique and interesting speciality games to bet on. There are great promotional offers, and a loyalty program that earns you cash back in your account. The poker room runs the world-leading Playtech software, offering cash games and tournaments in a number of different types of poker, at a range of different betting limits. There are some great promotions always available at the sportsbook, casino and poker room. Please note that US players are not accepted.

Orbis Technology

Casino: 100% deposit match up to £75
Poker room: 100% deposit match up to $500

Sports book:

• Plenty of regular special offers, like 10% cash back on certain bets
• £100 caption competition

Casino:

• First deposit match bonus - 100% up to £75 free
• Free hotel accommodation for a night at a UK hotel
• Great competitions with prizes like motor race VIP tickets
• 2nd Chance Slots - 20% cash back on slots losses on Tuesdays

Poker room:

• $1,000 New Player Freeroll
• European Championship of Online Poker tournament (ECOOP)
• Random Hand of the Month $20 giveaway
• Lots of freerolls and jackpot sit `n` gos

Markets covered include:

• All the US major league sports
• International, UK and world club football
• Cricket, tennis, golf, rugby league and union
• Horse racing, including tote pools
• Virtual racing

• Greyhound racing

• Darts
• Gaelic games

• Snooker and pool

• UK and US politics
• Special prop betting
• Lotteries

Wagering Limits:
The minimum bet is a very cheap £0.50, with a minimum telephone bet of £10 per call. The maximum bet amounts are event-specific, as determined exclusively by Blue Square.

Online casino:

• Great fresh variety of the normal standard casino games and more unusual ones
• Lots of regular prize offers
• Earn loyalty comp points for all your wagering
• No need to download any software - play instantly

Multi Player Poker:

• Blue Square runs a poker room using Playtech software. A full suite of poker types is offered, at a wide range of betting limits, plus plenty of tournaments. As this is a new addition to the Blue Square operation, traffic is still quite low, relative to many of the other online poker rooms, but building.

• A large range of arcade games, pub games, board games and others. Daily prize promotions are offered.

Software:
The Playtech poker software is solid, user-friendly and graphically attractive. There`s a good selection of poker types (Texas Hold `Em, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, 7-Card Stud and 5-Card Stud). All limit types are available - limit, pot limit and no limit. There are plenty of cash games and tournaments.

Tournaments:
Blue Square Poker is part of the iPoker Network, the largest European Poker network, so there are tournaments running round the clock. There`s a huge range of single table, multi-table tournaments and sit `n` go tournaments.
A large number of guaranteed prize tournaments - both freeze-outs and rebuy/add-on types.
Plenty of Freeroll tournaments.
The home of the European Championships of Online Poker (ECOOP) - a 10-day tournament with a guaranteed cash prize total of $2,500,000. There are plenty of satellites to enter.

Deposit and Withdrawal Options:
Mastercard, Visa, Delta, Solo, Maestro, NETeller, 1-Pay, Laser, Switch, Moneybookers, wire transfer and check.

License:
Alderney

Results Service

Live results plus a huge selection of newsfeeds, including RSS, an Internet radio centre and bluesqTV.

Software and Special Features:

• Live interactive betting card for complete bet tracking
• Very sophisticated, but very user-friendly.
• Fast betting and payout processing

Help and Advice

Very comprehensive help section, explaining all betting rules, game rules, bet types and and other information. Constant previews of all sporting events to help guide your betting. All pertinent news is made available instantly from a variety of sources.

Awards

None as yet.

Customer Service:
Customer service is efficient and friendly, and available around the clock. You can use telephone (toll-free if you`re in the UK or Eire) and email.