Lootbet sports betting experience – test & review

Bonus & VIP Offer

A double bonus awaits at Loot.bet
While a first deposit bonus is absolutely standard, many providers shy away from a bonus for existing customers. The Loot.bet bonus can do both. There is a welcome bonus for your first deposit as well as a second bonus that can be activated at any time and requires the code “LOOT”. Both bonuses will double your deposit amount up to 200 Euros. Unfortunately, the bonus terms are slightly contradictory.

Skins for frequent players
Another additional offer in our betting bonus overview is the reward with skins for the most active customers per week. You collect “MMR points.” Here, the expected winnings are divided by the number of bets. So Loot.bet rewards the players who generate the most revenue. The leaders are published in a table, and according to the current status, the fourteen best sports betting players receive skins for Dota2 or CS:GO. Under certain conditions, you can then convert them into betting money.

Here are the bonus conditions in detail
How much is the bonus? You will receive 100% on deposits up to 200 euros. For the welcome bonus you have to transfer money for the first time, the additional bonus works (once) at any time.

What do you have to transfer? Here the bonuses differ slightly. Both times you have to invest the bonus amount twenty times in bets, which means wagering a total of 4,000 euros with a maximum of 200 euros. For the welcome bonus, the odds must be at least 1.69, for the other Loot.bet bonus even 1.89.

How long do you have to do this? The first deposit bonus must be started no later than 30 days after the deposit and then runs for 30 days. The additional bonus gives you a comfortable 180 days to wager.

What else is important to know? If you read the bonus conditions carefully, you will see that both bonuses require you to wager your real money proportionally. This does not mean that you can play risk-free with bonus money, but that you always have to expect losses.

Betting offer

eSports and classic sports betting on offer
Previously a pure eSports betting provider, Loot.bet now also offers sports betting. The bookie, which originates from Cyprus, has taken up the cause of eSports and has designed its website in the style of a computer game. Recently, classic sports betting has also been added to the program. In its early days, Loot.bet also offered soccer and other sports in 2016, but at that time only on major events. For a long time, this was no longer the case, but now sports lovers can find classic bets on the site again. However, this Loot.bet review only evaluates from an eSports point of view.

Over a dozen games on offer
Loot.bet provides you with everything that is popular in the gaming world right now: Counter-Strike bets, Dota 2, League of Legends bets, from Rocket League to Overwatch or even World of Warcraft bets and NBA2K bets. There is nothing to complain about this selection from an eSports point of view and in fact Loot.bet is popular in the community as one of the most comprehensive partners. The number of single bets on the various tournaments or match-ups varies, but is always just right according to our Loot.bet experience. Sometimes there is only one bet, sometimes you can predict match events in detail or target individual maps. That’s all it takes and it could quickly become confusing otherwise.

Live bets

All bets are live bets
A big advantage of eSports is the great availability and therefore topicality of events. You won’t find a third Finnish league without a camera set up or World Cup matches animated by text ticker and arrows. At Loot.bet you can bet before the match-ups or you can make your predictions during the match. Small green or red arrows inform you about odds developments at any time. Especially nice: Loot.bet automatically integrates the matching stream, usually via Twitch. This way, you have the live picture in view and the respective betting options below it at your fingertips. It doesn’t get any better than that.

Conclusion: Loot.bet makes eSports interactive
Although Loot.bet has recently added an additional classic sports offer, it can still devote all its love to eSports. So there’s time for all the major gaming events of the day, which are greeted with plenty of additional betting options. If a pairing then goes live, you don’t need a second screen, but can follow the livestream directly from Loot.bet. This way, you can basically see the chronologically listed events as an interactive TV guide with chances to win.

Quotes & Betting Features

Quotes

With its focus, Loot.bet serves a sports betting area that, at least to this extent, not many other sports betting providers deliver. Accordingly, the odds pressure is not as strong as it would be with soccer betting, where every provider fights for the betting fans.

To determine the odds key, we looked at ten games of CS:GO and determined the individual odds keys. This resulted in an odds key of slightly below 94%. With this odds key, Loot.bet would not get a place in the sun in other sports. We place this odds key rather in the lower midfield.

Deposits & Withdrawals

Limits and terms remain unclear
We like the selection of payment options that Loot.bet offers its players. When asked, we were confirmed that Loot.bet does not charge any additional fee except for possible exchange fees. Like almost everywhere else, you will have to do without PayPal.

PayPal is missing – alternatives are available
In order to fight money laundering, Loot.bet also follows the motto that you may only pay out via channels through which you have also deposited.

The following financial partners are offered:
VISA
Mastercard
Diners Club
Bitcoin
Ethereum
Skrill
NETELLER
Moneta.ru
Qiwi
In the live chat, we were told that customers from Germany should ideally pay with one of the two cryptocurrencies. Credit cards would sometimes be rejected by the system. This is of course annoying, especially since apparently no direct bank transfer is available and most do not own Bitcoins.

Penalty for actionless account
Unfortunately, Loot.bet joins the trend of penalizing inactive accounts. If you haven’t logged in for twelve months, you’ll be charged a monthly 5 euro “processing fee”. Supposedly, managing inactive accounts costs a lot of money accordingly. Fortunately, you will be informed in time and can never slip into the red.

Reputation & Security

Industry standard license from Curacao
We have found no evidence that Loot.bet is not completely reputable. Large parts of the site are translated into flawless German, there are no lurid offers and all our questions were answered conscientiously. The safe gaming experience is promised by the full Curacao license. So even before you place your first bet, you have the assurance that Loot.bet operates under government supervision.

Amazing data security and responsibility towards players
What immediately struck us as positive is the extensive text on the use of your private data. This is unfortunately only available in English, as are the T&Cs, but here you can find out in great detail which data Loot.bet uses for what and what reasons there are for each. This is exemplary. The topic of “responsible gaming” is addressed in accordance with the requirements and is visually well prepared (in English). Here, as so often, it could be a little more, perhaps with interactive elements, but that is generally not common in the industry. An additional certificate from usd guarantees payment security via credit card.

Service & Support

Unfortunately no German support
Unfortunately, we have to deduct points here in the Loot.bet test. Our first point of criticism is the lack of German customer support. While Loot.bet is not explicitly geared towards the German market, it does exclude players from both the US and the UK. Thus, English is more of a general compromise than a real help for inquiring customers. Regardless, we were very satisfied with the support and are happy to find availability around the clock.

The call goes to Cyprus
Further minus points go from our Loot.bet experiences to the telephone support via a number from Cyprus. For Germans and Austrians, this should meanwhile be no problem within the EU, but from Switzerland, for example, this can go into the money. Those who shy away from calling can also contact us by e-mail, but then they have to wait longer for an answer. However, we were completely convinced by the live chat, where you can immediately see which employee is online.

Functions & Design

Designed like a computer game
We can give a good score here as well. The entire site feels like the menu of a computer game. Every gamer will find their way around here right away and everything is in its place. The dark design is easy on the eyes, each game and team directly recognizable by its logo. The match-ups are listed one below the other and you can quickly expand the various individual bets via a pop-up arrow. As always, clicking on the odds moves the bet to the betting slip on the right, where a second click makes the bet official. At the top you can easily change the language, time and odds format. After just a few minutes, you will have internalized the entire page.

Which elements are still relevant when choosing the right betting provider, you can read in the betting provider guide.

Other Offers

eSports en masse and classic sports betting
All our Loot.bet experiences in this review are based on the eSports section of Loot.bet. Classic sports betting has only recently returned to the site.