Bookmakers

In South Africa, bookmaking bets can be placed in a completely legal manner, both via the Internet and at fixed points of bookmakers. However, betting on bookmakers in a legal way is possible only in those companies that have received special permission from the Minister of Finance . Currently, there are already a dozen companies accepting legal betting in South Africa!

Betting – the most important questions and answers

Bookmakers – what should you know about them?

Betting is an interesting form of Entertainment, which, by the way, can become a way to earn extra money. However effective betting betting is not so simple, and for novice players many issues are unclear. That is why we have prepared a mini guide in which we explain how to place sports betting step by step, what legal bookmakers are characterized by, how to choose the best bookmakers and many other issues that a good player should know about.

Bookmakers – what is it?

Probably everyone in life was betting on something with colleagues: who will last longer under the water, who will reach the finish line first, or whether the match will be won by FC Barcelona or Real Madrid. Bookmakers generally rely on the same, but in this case we bet with a bookmaker, i.e. a specialized company which determines which sporting events (and others) are worth taking bets on at all and what odds to offer on them (which is associated with the estimates of the bookmaker determining the probability of a given outcome of the event). Of course, this is not all, the offers of bookmakers are much more complicated – a variety of types of betting, possible to Type sports (not only traditional sports betting, but also virtual betting or e-sports betting), types and subtypes of betting (e.g. on the winner, on the number of goals, the number of cards or the exact outcome of the meeting). Sports betting can be accepted pre-match and live, at fixed points and via the Internet, and the latter is accompanied by a variety of tools to support betting and various types of betting promotions. How to get caught up in all this and where to start playing in betting shops? How to play online, how to use online bookmaker sites and what you need to know before we put the first sports bets? We explain everything step by step in the following article.

Allseasonsweddings – what can we find on the site?

Betting on the Internet has many advantages, at the head of which you need to mention first of all unlimited availability at any time and in almost any place (as long as we have access to the internet there) and The Associated huge game comfort . In addition, online sports betting is the opportunity to use a variety of tools and options that make it easier to place bets and make the game more attractive – and many of them are not available during traditional betting at fixed points of bookmakers. So what exactly can we find in online betting sites?

Much depends on the particular betting organizer, but always on the website there is complete and current offer pre-event and live betting, including often virtual betting (i.e. virtual sports) and electronic sports betting. The necessary section is also e-coupon field in which when you select a particular event (or events) and Type, our selection will appear as a bet to be placed. Here it is necessary to determine the bet we want to bet, and we will see what is the possible win for such a bet. Once the e-coupon is approved, the bet is placed. On the website offering online betting, we can also check results meetings to which bets were accepted and concerning them statistics however, in the case of live bets, i.e. those on which sports bets are placed during the course of a given match, these data are updated on an ongoing basis. When it comes to live betting, a very useful functionality is match-tracker , that is, graphical visualizations of the course of meetings, What is more, some legal bookmakers offer free live match broadcasts .

Online bookmakers often post on their website also various types of advanced betting search engines (e.g. by team, player or meeting date), course search is "fast coupons" - that is, random events selected according to the parameters given by the player, on which you can immediately place a bet. In addition, legal bookmakers allocate separate bookmarks to inform users of any current promotions, payment issues, legal aspects (m.in. rules of the game) and many others (e.g. related to the mobile application, Ground premises or interesting features such as "Cash-out"). To facilitate the use of such extensive sites containing sports betting, there are always also tabs for subpages such as "Help" , where the most important issues related to the game in a given service are explained – Sometimes you can even find entire guides discussing how to play bookmakers. Each bookmaker also provides available methods of contacting customer service. Of course, in the bookmaking service must also be button leading to the registration form and special login window .

Online betting – registration

Registration of an individual player account in a given betting service is necessary in order to be able to place legal betting. The registration procedure itself is not difficult, you need to open the registration panel – as a rule, you just need to click on the "Create Account", "registration", etc. and fill in the required fields of the form. Full account registration requires specific personal, address and contact data , as well as determine the login data and select certain consents or statements (for example, at age 18. or the legal source of the funds that will be spent on the game). It is also worth remembering to select the option that confirms the desire to receive a start bonus from the bookmaker and if we have code promotional , which entitles to increase the Welcome Offer – by entering it in a special field. However, issues related to bonuses are voluntary, while for full account registration it is mandatory to provide bank account number and the message scan or photo of an identity document . Thanks to this, the bookmaker will be able to verify the age of majority of the player, and in the event of a payout of winnings, he will know to which account to transfer it. After completing all the necessary data, a message is sent to the player's e-mail box, which contains a verification link.

However, it is worth knowing that currently legal bookmakers in addition to standard registration, most often they also provide for the option of simplified registration – this is the so-called. quick registration . These are betting without proof scan so, in this variant, the player provides only his basic data, and sending a photocopy of the identity document and supplementing the remaining data can be postponed for later. Thanks to this, the creation of an account takes an extremely short time, and the typer can quickly start betting on the first sports bets with a given operator. A temporary account allows you to use most of the options available on the site, but it is never possible to withdraw funds accumulated on the account. First, the player must complete the registration process, primarily because the bookmaker must verify the user's age before making a withdrawal. Thus, "betting without proof" is an option that allows the player to see what online betting offered by a particular bookmaker looks like – without having to register for a long time, however, this is only an ad hoc solution. In addition, the bookmakers themselves often determine what the expiration date of the temporary account is, and after a certain time it is suspended until the player completes the registration process.

Let's also remember that a personal player account has its advantages . Each typer has an insight into the history of their Bets, all the bonus funds received are available here, and if the bookmaker offers a loyalty program, it is on the account that loyalty points accumulate. The online account also allows quick deposits and easy disposal of withdrawals and supports the Responsible Gaming Policy (e.g. in the user panel, individual game time limits and stakes are defined).

List of legal bookmakers in South Africa

Legal online betting – deposits and withdrawals

Online betting can be placed for your own deposit funds that need to be deposited into your account or for bonus funds received from the bookmaker. The latter situation is of course much rarer and most often, in order to place sports bets, you first need to fund your player account. How do you do that? First you need to log in, then find in the Accounts menu payment section . Allseasonsweddings usually prepare a special tab in which they explain how to deposit and withdraw money on their online platform, what are the available methods and the time of execution of the order. If we place legal online betting, the payment methods offered by operators are always only safe and fast ways , such as instant transfers, payment cards, BLIK or electronic wallets. After the deposit has been dispensed, the money should appear on the player's account immediately and you can immediately bet on it. Legal sports betting companies also sometimes specify a minimum or maximum deposit amount, which may also depend on the payment method you choose.

However, in the case of withdrawals, the basic method is still traditional bank transfers however, they only work on weekdays and can take up to 2 days, which makes some players impotent. Therefore, more and more companies offering legal betting in South Africa also provide quick withdrawal methods funds from the player's account. In this case, if we have a bank account for which this withdrawal method is available, the money can be in our bank account even in a few minutes.

Online betting – how to bet a coupon?

Also, the procedure for placing a coupon is very simple. Of course, you can only bet on online sports betting if you have already registered an account and have a certain amount of money on it. If these conditions are met, we can search events (e.g. the team we support) and type (e.g. winning), which we agree with. Be sure to check what the betting odds are for this event. If everything suits us, we should click on the event in question, and then it will appear in the e-coupon field – it is displayed, as a rule, on the right side of the site. The next step is specifying the rate please note, however, that due to tax issues, only 88% of our deposit amount will be involved in the game (tax issues are explained in detail below in the section "betting – tax"). After the final approval of selection the coupon is placed. In this way, we will Bet Online Single betting, i.e. SOLO betting. On the other hand, if we want to place multi-offer bets, i.e. as (accumulated) or system bets, we need to add more such choices and only then approve the created e-coupon. This basically ends the role of the player, now it remains to wait for the outcome of the event – after its settlement, information on this topic will certainly appear in the typer panel, and a possible win will also affect his account.

Unfortunately, there are also situations when betting on the Internet for some reason is not accepted by the bookmaker system. First of all, they can appear rate issues what we want to bet. The simplest explanation is that we do not have enough funds in the account to be able to deposit certain bookmakers – then we must either lower the rate or replenish the account with a sufficient deposit. Unless the problem lies elsewhere – often legal bookmakers determine quota limits what you can bet on a given event, therefore, if our bet exceeds this limit, the bet will not be accepted. In this case, we can only reduce the rate. On the other hand, the rate that we planned to put may also be too low, and then it is necessary, of course, to raise it. Sometimes you may also need to put more number of events on the coupon.

Legal betting-odds

Let's assume that the online betting sites we have selected have been selected correctly. How much will we gain in the end, that is, what depends on the amount of winnings? Well, the key is the amount of betting odds that he put on this event bookmaker . It depends primarily on the probability of an outcome , so if it is very likely, then the odds are low, and the more the probability of its occurrence is less, the higher the odds put the bookmaker. In turn, this probability is estimated by the analysts of the bookmaker based on the analysis of statistical data about a particular team or player and their own knowledge about them (important are m.in. current events, e.g. the fact that the best player of the team will not play in a given match due to injury).

The amount of the odds on these bookmakers also affects margin a specific bookmaker, which is between a few and a dozen percent of the value of the bet. Of course, high odds have those legitimate bookmakers who set the amount of margin at a low level (the amount of Odds and margins of different companies you can compare in course comparator ). In addition, there are other factors that can affect the amount of odds, such as how popular a particular online bookmaker is or how many bets have already been accepted for a particular meeting. Let us remember that courses are dynamic , so each bookmaker follows the development of events and changes its offer on an ongoing basis. For example, if we have a bet on whether Team X will win a $ota medal at the World Championship, then each subsequent match won in this tournament will most likely result in a decrease in the odds for this event (to win $ota), and each loss may result in an increase in the odds. But note-the changes only apply to bets that have just been placed, while the odds in the already placed coupons are fixed and are not subject to change.

Let's add that the courses are most often presented in decimal form thus, the closer the odds are to 1.00, the greater the probability of a given result, and the smaller the possible win. Note, however, that betting with odds below 1.50 is no longer very profitable, and a win at 1.20 with only a minimum surplus returns the bet. So it is not entirely profitable, because betting on sports even a large amount (that is, risking its loss), we can win really little.

Legal online betting – win

We already know that the amount of winnings depends on the amount of odds for a particular event, while the second key value is contributed by the player rate . In South Africa, there is a 12% tax on betting, which means that if we deposit $ 10 on a given bet, for example, then $8.80 will be involved in the game. So, if we want to know how much we will win in the case of hit types by placing these sports bets online, we need to multiply the remaining after-tax bet by the odds offered by the bookmaker. A simple formula for calculating the winnings looks like this: rate x rate x 0.88 . So when it comes to Africane betting, the rules are simple – the higher the odds and the higher the stake, the bigger the potential win . At the same time, it should be borne in mind that the higher the odds, the lower the probability of hitting the type according to the bookmaker, and the higher the bet, the more we can lose in case the type is wrong.

Betting – tax

The tax on betting is mandatory and it must be paid from each concluded mutual bet. It is 12% of the rate so, for example, betting $ 10, in favor of the tax paid must be $ 1.20, and betting $ 100, the tax will be already $12. It should be emphasized that although the law does not specify which side of the bet (the player or the bookmaker) should pay the tax, in practice, legal bookmakers shift this obligation to the players. Therefore, immediately after the typer makes a bet, the bookmaker deducts 12% from this amount, in order to later transfer this amount to the Tax Office. An exception to this rule is the so-called. game without tax that is, a special kind of promotion for bookmakers. The tax in this case is covered by the betting operator, and therefore 100% of the amount wagered by the player is involved in the game.

However, you need to know that this is not all the tax burden that is associated with betting. Additional costs are generated "tax to win" which must be paid in a situation where the winning coupon is more than $ 2280 – this tax is 10% of the winning amount . Also in this case, the bookmaker will immediately deduct the appropriate amount from the winning amount and transfer the tax on the winnings to the Treasury account.

Betting-bonuses

Sites that offer betting, promotions treat as an integral part of their offer. This is a great way to attract new players and retain those who have already signed up, which is why legitimate bookmakers are racing to see who will offer better no deposit betting and other attractive bonuses for typers. By far the biggest competition concerns the Welcome Offer For players who open an account on a betting site. A start Bonus or a welcome bonus – as this form of gratification is most often called – can look very different, so we will discuss it in more detail below, and then we will look at bonuses for all registered players.

Betting odds-start bonus

Betting bonuses at the start it is a standard offer of almost all bookmakers and can receive them each player who creates an account on the bookmaker's website and during registration expresses a desire to take advantage of the Welcome Offer . Basically, Africane betting offers 3 forms of welcome bonus: no deposit betting (freebets), no deposit betting and no risk betting (cashback). The first, which is free betting they are the most desired by typers – they do not require any funds to be deposited into the account, simply the bookmaker grants the player a certain amount of bonus funds, for which he can bet online bookmakers. Legal betting companies also often reach for deposit bonuses , which consist in the fact that after making a deposit in the required amount, and sometimes also making a trade, the typer receives bonus funds from the bookmaker in the amount of, for example, the deposit paid (the so-called 100% bonus). The third type of start bonus is cashback . It works like this: the player deposits funds into his account and bets online sports bets on them, and if his types are wrong, he will not lose the money placed – the bookmaker will return it to him as part of the bet without risk.

For each bonus, it is not only its type and value that counts, but also the rules of the regulations. Both free bookmakers and any other bonuses are subject to trading conditions , which means that we can not immediately withdraw the received funds to the bank account. First, we must play for them in the way the bookmaker requires – for example, keeping the minimum course of events, their minimum number on the coupon or a certain type. Very often, legal bookmakers require a bonus to be wagered several times, and the more coupons we have to bet, the less chance we have of a final payout. Remember that bonuses are usually expiry date .

Speaking of start bonuses, you should also mention the special ones promotional codes which are usually offered by bookmakers. Promotional code this is a special code that can be entered in the registration form when creating a player account . The meaning of promotional codes offered by bookmakers is very different, sometimes providing a promotional code during registration provides a higher than standard bonus, so you can get additional funds for betting on bookmakers, other times providing such a code may be necessary in order to receive a welcome bonus at all, and in other companies the meaning of promotional codes may be even different. Therefore, it is worth reading the information about the promotional codes provided by individual bookmakers before deciding to register a player account and make betting bets with a particular company. Below we provide links to subpages of our service, where you can find such information:
Bookmakers in Betfan - code information: Betfan promo code
Bookmakers in STS - code information: STS promotional code
Bookmakers in Fortunie - code information: Fortuna promo code
Bookmakers in ETOTO - code information: ETOTO bonus code
Bookmakers in Superbet - code information: Superbet promo code
Bookmakers in Fuksiarz - code information: Fuxier promotional code
Bookmakers in eWinner - code information: eWinner promotional code
Bookmakers in Noblebet - code information: Noblebet promo code
Bookmakers in PZBuk - code information: PZBuk bonus code
Bookmakers in Total bet - code information: Totalbet promo code
Bookmakers in Betclic - code information: Betclic promo code
Bookmakers in LVBet - code information: LVBet promo code
Bookmakers in forBET - code information: forBET promo code
Bookmakers in Totolotku - code information: Totolotek bonus code
Bookmakers in BetX - code information: BetX referral code

Betting-bonuses for registered players

By betting on online bookmakers even for a long time with one bookmaker, you can still take advantage of their promotion offer. Each LEGAL bookmaker prepares for its users various types of promotions, some of which have permanent character , and part temporary (these are usually bonuses associated with some kind of sporting event.) Thanks to this, regular players can also receive free bookmaker bets, deposit bonuses or cashback bonuses, but this offer often also includes completely other types of promotion . Allseasonsweddings organize, for example, competitions of players who compete with each other for the title of the best typist, offer the already mentioned "tax-free game", promotions for cumulative bets, where in the case of a hit coupon winning is further increased or promotions significantly increasing the betting odds on a given sporting event. Players also like to collect points as part of special loyalty programs that are prepared for loyal users betting on bookmakers – a no deposit bonus or other bonus can then be received in exchange for Points Earned.

Legal betting in South Africa-legal issues

Although many people are not interested in the legal and formal issues that regulate the functioning of the bookmaking market in South Africa, many important rules of sports betting result from them. So what in practice results from the legislation, specifically the Gambling Act, which regulates betting and gambling in general in our country? Well, first of all, African betting can only be organized by legal bookmakers , that is, such companies that have received a special permit for the establishment of mutual bets (via the Internet and/or at ground points), which is issued by the Ministry of Finance. In addition, legal betting is allowed only on the condition that the player is now 18 years old. . therefore, bookmakers must verify the age of majority of people who want to bet bookmakers. While in the case of the sale of bets in fixed points it is simple – the seller always has the right to request the presentation of the customer's identity card – online betting involves the need to create an individual player account. As we have already described, full registration requires sending a photocopy of the identity document, on the basis of which the bookmaker verifies the age of the player. On the other hand, even if it is possible to register quickly, that is, there are bookmakers without a scan of the proof, the player still can not withdraw the winning funds until he has received the required document and does not confirm his age. The third issue concerns taxes - we have already described the issue of the tax on bets made and the tax on winnings. Besides, you need to know that African countries have a monopoly on online casinos (sports Totalizator deals with this), which is why legal bookmakers certainly do not offer on their sites casinos is gambling , type slot machines , blackjack , roulette , poker etc. Using the services of illegal betting or gambling operators is a crime and, if proven, can result in a fine of up to 120 daily bets.

Bookmakers - how to bet?

The question "How to bet on bookmakers to win?"it probably annoys all players – both beginners and so-called Old eaters. It is true that the latter have much more experience and knowledge about betting and have probably drawn many conclusions about the strategy of the game or an effective betting system. However, it must be remembered that sports betting is always a dose of unpredictability and it will not always cope with mathematical calculations or fabrication and intuition. Nevertheless, if we are going to bet on bookmakers, it is worth knowing the basic rules that will increase your chances to be successful in this field.

First of all, we should have extensive sports knowledge and keep up to date with events from the sport, whose matches we bet. What is very important, it makes no sense to bet on those sports that we have no idea about, because they will be overwhelmingly losing bookmakers. Football, tennis or slagging are your passions? It is best to concentrate your forces and resources for the game on this beloved and well-known discipline, and give up exotic disciplines, the rules of which you do not know at all. However, here there is another problem – to bookmakers were won, they should be cold type and sports emotions are best put aside. It is useful to be calm analysis of Statistics about the BET team or player, but also awareness of how big a budget we have for the game and absolute sticking to fixed amounts . Otherwise, the threat of losing money not only for the game, but also for other purposes can become very real. Then the question about betting "how to earn?", can turn into "how to make up for losses?"and unfortunately, it can quickly drag us into a spiral of debt and gambling addiction.

The best betting sites

Finally, let's consider what are the best betting sites and how to look for them. It is certainly worth putting a lot of weight on choosing the right bookmaker which will provide us with the comfort of the game and a wide range of bets and promotions. How do I find him? First, let's choose only legal bookmakers in South Africa – list of licensed online bookmakers for example, it is located on this site . Secondly, it is worth reviewing the offers of legal bookmakers and decide which seems the most attractive. Of course, this is not an easy task – there are quite a lot of legal betting organizers in our country. Therefore, when it comes to betting, opinions of other players they can be really helpful. Besides while searching Where are the best betting sites, ranking of legal bookmakers it should also be a very useful tool.

It is also worth considering what our individual needs and expectations as for the bookmaker's offer. For example: do we need virtual bookmakers or a wide range of bets on various sports, or do we want an offer specialized in a particular sport (e.g. basketball or e-sports). Whether we are going to use ground points, or rather we will need an efficient mobile application. Legitimate bookmakers differ on many points and you need to think about what we specifically expect and what the term "best bookmakers"means to us. Once we have made a preliminary assessment, it is enough to create an account with the selected bookmaker and test jago services yourself. It is definitely worth to register with several bookmakers over time and thus make your own opinion, which of them offers the best bookmakers.

View the current list of legal bookmakers in South Africa