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Updated: 29.07.2025
Totesport is a contemporary online bookmaker, offering fixed odds betting as part of the Tote's services. For a great deal of its history, the Tote was a UK government pool betting operator, until 2011, when it got purchased by Betfred. And now, both Totesport and Betfred operate out of Gibraltar as parts of a company called Petfre. Though many other companies use a variety of Caribbean laws to regulate themselves, Totesport must follow the same rules as any UK company, thanks to a UK license.
Totesport is a UK online bookmaker that takes bets at fixed odds and is based in the UK. It is an online betting firm that offers a fixed-odds welcome bonus to new customers. The bonus is a promotion that complies with the UK Gambling Commission's requirements for online betting firms to be transparent with new customers and existing customers, too, for that matter. The Totesport promotional experience is comparable to what one might find across the rest of the industry.
The Terms and Conditions given below govern the Totesport sign up offer. They set out in clear, step-by-step detail how to go about claiming the bonus that is associated with this offer.
Offers with two components are not common. Yet, that is exactly what Totesport has. New customers can select one of the two components without having to activate the other. The signup offer itself is quite reasonable, with a total package value that was very close to the online betting average when we reviewed it. Ever since Totesport was a defendant in the "don't ask, don't tell" case, its offers have been nice to look at but a bit inscrutable compared to the straightforward propositions of most of its rivals.
Totesport has one of the most extensive packages in the industry, but this is a bare-bones description of ongoing promotions for existing customers. Spread across these several layers are offers that are specific to certain sports. As of this writing, there were sport-specific offers for the following three sports: horse racing, football, and rugby league. Here is a summary of those by sport.
However, Totesport is not done with concessions. They continue to announce event-specific promotions from time to time, which mostly relate to the same sports and events cited above. Totesport also continues to cover a wide range of sports and events when it comes to offering player promotions, which is a nice feature.
The betting service at Totesport is mostly concentrated on the UK market. It bets on the major leagues and on the numerous various sports that have betting opportunities. At the latest count, there were around 30 such sports, and they are offered in an A-Z list that runs from American football to the generally winter sports. As far as I can tell, there is no real A-Z list for all these side events. So, by the way, if you want to know what side events these various sports have going at any time, either by league or event, or to know what's coming up, you're mostly on your own, because the A-Z list doesn't appear to have the A-Z for events going on under the radar in each of the bets being placed.
In addition to standard sports, Totesport clients can gamble on many other types of events. They can even bet on occurrences that fall into these categories: 1. Electronic Sports 2. Lottery Specials 3. Political Events 4. Television Programs 5. Honors and Awards 6. Monarchy
Certainly, football receives the most bets placed upon it at Totesport. What gets wagered on most frequently are singles and accumulators dealing with picking match winners, although there is no shortage of punters who like to go a couple of steps further down the betting line to try to pick first scorers or get the correct score for the match. Betting on this sort of thing provides a perfectly good excuse to watch some of the many matches played in the different leagues and cups. The leagues most wagered upon are England's Premier League and the Champions League, but Europe's other leagues get a lot of action as well.
The match outcome market is placed alongside a link to further markets for each fixture. These further markets are, in total, well over 100. The market on who will win the match is compiled with a 5 percent profit margin. There are some companies that offer much better odds, but they're also not the kinds of places you'd want to bet with. In fact, you'd be hard-pressed to call any of those companies reputable. Recreational gamblers are usually in little real danger, but the gambling industry is a predatory one. A business model is what Totesport uses to function. The one they have could be summarized as: low stakes, many bets—specifically on football. This is in contrast to some other forms of betting, which try to attract fewer, bigger bettors, and which, in our estimation at Totesport, offer less value and margin to the punter.
Before pool betting operator the Tote was sold to Betfred, it had this element called Totesport. Totesport offered fixed-odds betting, which is what most people are used to when they go to a betting shop. If you don't understand the difference between pool betting and fixed-odds betting, all you really need to know for now is that pool betting is the kind of betting that the Tote used to do (and still does, but only for horse racing), and fixed-odds betting is the kind of betting that happens in most betting shops and online these days.
There are more bets placed during tennis matches in the live betting environment than in the pre-match environment. Tennis is a sport that is suitable for in-play betting because of the continuous play, continuous scoring, and continuously changing odds. Tennis contestants, unlike contestants in some other sports, are never really 'in control' of the match. The most popular markets for betting on tennis continue to be: 1. Winner of the match 2. Handicaps and totals 3. Exotic: correct score in set betting. Totesport provides an opportunity for wagering on the women's and men's tennis professional tours, including the WTA and ATP, along with a few others that you won't hear about in this discussion. If you're a fan of betting and would like to place some wagers on tennis, you can do so by selecting either the outright men's or women's winner of any Grand Slam tournament.
The Totesport App can be downloaded to a smartphone by following this procedure:
The variants for iOS and Android mirror the functions found in the desktop version of the Totesport sportsbook. They are polished and quite visually appealing. Navigation is excellent; you can find your way to specific markets with just a couple of taps.
Totesport clients also do a roaring trade in the sportsbook, online casino, and games of chance. The betting enthusiasts who frequent these sites are kept coming back by the following features that keep betting fun and exciting:
Totesport offers odds that are better than the price you get when you place a bet early in the day on a horse race. You can place that bet any time after 7:00 A.M. on the day of the race. If the horse wins and starting price (SP) is higher than the early price (EP) you got when you placed the bet, then at Totesport, you are guaranteed the better price between the two. And Totesport's price guarantees come sans limits, meaning you can win just about any amount when your bet hits.
In-Play is the third selection on the main menu shown on the Totesport Homepage. The first selection is Sports, followed by Totepool, which directs users to math-based betting options available with the Tote. Totesport provides a full daily service of live betting opportunities for numerous sports, including football, tennis, and cricket. However, there is no live screen for visual displays of the play, and the amount of data available is limited.
Even with the shortfalls revealed in live betting at Totesport, customers are given the option to cash out certain bets while the event is actually occurring. Cashing out a bet, as this service is somewhat clumsily termed, means closing a bet on which one now knows the outcome—that is, the outcome of the event which one has not yet seen concluded. The main use to which one can put this service, if one is so inclined, is to ensure a known profit (and possibly also to ensure that one's profit is realized without taxing one's nerves). This facility is made available primarily for Totesport's most popular markets.
Immediate availability and no fees characterize the deposits, and the processing of withdrawals happens at a standard speed and is also free for the user. The financial instruments most frequently used for these transactions are debit cards, e-Wallets like PayPal, and bank transfers. Limits on transactions, whether in the direction of depositing or withdrawing, typically range from a floor of £10 to a ceiling of £20,000, depending on the banking method employed.
Potential customers can go directly to the Totesport website and view the Homepage. After a click of the 'Register' button, successive screens demand that the visitor sign up. Part of this process requires the entry of account and personal data, and part of it is optional: the visitor may—or may not—choose to enter a bonus code. Also required is the creation of a Username and a Password. After the account has been confirmed and 'activated' by the new customer, it is time to make a banking deposit. Totesport sets the minimum amount, and the prospective bettor must pay it. Now, Totesport is not without its 'welcome' offers. Indeed, on its webpage, the entity has several. One of these offers requires the new customer to place a 'qualifying bet.' Indeed, I could go on at almost as great a length about these 'religious offerings' as I could about any economy that one could come up with. But, back to matters betting-related. Once the bet has been placed and its amount has been determined, ongoing updates to the 'relevant account balance' will materialize in prose and be recorded on the ledger that is kept on the customer's side of the betting transaction.
Totesport offers various methods for customers to contact its care team: by phone, email, or live chat. The hours of operation and response times are not indicated anywhere. Bookmakers based in the UK are far more likely to have support service that runs for just 16 of the 24 hours in a day—8am to midnight—than to have it available all the time. Totesport happens to suggest that their customers follow a complaints procedure. They do, however, have some measures in place that one could describe as responsible gambling.
Totesport will have a link to the Tote, which has not always been the option most favored among punters when it comes to placing bets. It is a state-run pool operation that many people seem to think of as sorts of a dinosaur compared to some of the alternatives in betting that exist across the pond. The Tote might not be with us in five or ten years' time, but if it is still around in any sort of useful capacity, it will offer a link alongside to Betfair, which at the very least is a place to.
Totesport is a reliable and trustworthy operator, largely due to its connections to state-run betting. The website has all the features you would expect and works quite well. Some other UK betting companies provide a more appealing visual presentation and a greater number of in-play betting options, but Totesport serves its existing customers well enough with an entirely reasonable number of site promotions. This is not a service that stands out in any way, really, but rather a service that seems, at best, adequately good and, at worst, not appreciably different from other state-run operators.
