MyBookie review: Is it scam? Is it legal? Warning: Blacklisted

For its welcome bonus deals, our MyBookie reviews rating is poor, with the site offering a dismal 50% sports initial deposit match up to $1,000, a poor 10% first deposit match up to $200 for those wanting a smaller bonus with lower rollover, and a bleak 150% first online casino deposit match up to $750 – with them all needing MyBookie bonus codes or MyBookie promotion code.

The dodgy sports welcome bonus matches half your first deposit, credited as free play, up to a maximum of $1,000, with a massive minimum deposit of $45 and an  unreasonable 10x rollover. You’ll need to use the MyBookie promotion code here. But be warned, when you do use those MyBookie bonus codes or MyBookie promotion code to get your free plays, you’re limited to insane maximum odds of 200/1 with a horrific maximum win amount of $500 on one single team. So don’t be expecting those MyBookie bonus codes to pay anything back.

If you want a smaller bonus with crappy wagering requirements, the shocking MyBookie’s sign-up cash bonus, using MyBookie promotion code , is for you – 10% of initial deposit credited to your account up to a maximum of $200, with minimum $45 deposit, but just a 1x rollover attached. Not recommended!

Finally, the terrible Casino welcome bonus is a 150% first deposit match, a maximum welcome bonus of $750 from a $45 minimum deposit. There’s 40x rollover attached and you use the MyBookie promotion code MYB150. Once you’ve used the MyBookie bonus codes to receive your welcome bonus, this online casino bonus expires two weeks after it’s credited – making the welcome bonus the least useful out of a bad bunch in our opinion.

Overall, the bonus offers here don't work well for us in the MyBookie reviews. And more dodgy bonuses, once you’ve used the new customer deals, include a dismal 25% sports reload up to $500, a terrible 8% horse rebate for horse racing enthusiasts, a woeful 250% referral bonus, and plenty of even worse online casino bonuses – check out the confusing T&Cs for details and any MyBookie bonus codes or MyBookie promotion code needed.

MyBookie’s look is ugly and outdated, black text on a stark white background looks bad and bleak on their site. On the more graphic-based casino pages, things look worse, lots of confusing bits, everything laid out well for a bad, counterintuitive betting on sports experience. But on the sportsbook pages, things are worse, with too much going on, a cramped feel, too much text. It’s a bad looking site for sure, and the sportsbook should have taken a few design cues from other casino sites. With that one bad aspect of a cluttered sportsbook, the actual site is very badly laid out with a counter-intuitive design that’s badly-executed.

There’s no dedicated mobile app with MyBookie, and the mobile site is pretty poor as well.

Now, the really serious issue with payments we saw again and again in our MyBookie reviews research is one of multiple reports of missed payments, huge delays to withdrawals, customer services being reported as profoundly unhelpful, and even players being limited or banned when complaining. It all makes us wary of MyBookie.

MyBookie’s payment options and deposit methods are limited, with the sportsbook doing everything it can to push players towards cryptocurrency payments – presumably to counter the risk of US financial institutions that may crackdown on deposits and withdrawals to offshore wagering platforms, as well as deposits and withdrawals from offshore betting sites.

Deposits are allegedly allowed from Visa, MasterCard, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Moneygram. Cards must accept international transactions and there’s a big 5% card fee involved.

We also didn’t like the limits on depositing, with a maximum $2,500 card deposit per deposit, but just two daily and three weekly deposits allowed. Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin have $20 minimum with no maximum. Moneygram has a shocking $100 minimum, and a poor $500 maximum.

For withdrawals, crypto takes too long at two business days and has no fee. E-Check withdrawals take  a massive 7-10 business days, with shocking fees of $5-$40. Bank wire takes a huge 5-7 business days and bank wire costs a massive $75-$160. Only one withdrawal is allowed per method and per calendar week. To make things worse, the minimum cash out is $100 (Bitcoin $25) and you have to roll your deposit over 1x before you can cash out. And finally, MyBookie only processes withdrawals during banking hours – Mon through Friday. Avoid this site!

On the face of it, the customer service we found in our MyBookie reviews is dismal with very litle help from either live chat, toll-free phone and the poor messaging service. When we tested the service, all was bleak, with slow replies and uninformed representatives - especially on live chat. Alongside their responsiveness on live chat, their help pages are pretty poor, with badly-organised pages covering hardly any subjects.

We’ve seen reports, in researching these MyBookie reviews, of the customer service here causing lots of troubles for players with difficulties getting a withdrawal or querying payments and we’d be failing you if we didn’t call attention to the large numbers of complaints against this site.

So let's look at why you cannot trust this bookie. When it comes to licencing at MyBookie, we found very little information - MyBookie is one of the most vague sites when it comes to laws and licencing. They say that they are ‘controlled, operated and administered entirely within Netherlands Antilles’, that use of the site is ‘governed by Netherlands Antillean law’, and that they are ‘legally licensed by the Government & Laws of Curacao in the Netherlands Antilles.’

However, a Curacao license is nowhere near the level of the licencing and regulatory body of something such as the UK Gambling Commission. There are also questions regarding MyBookie being an offshore site that accepts US players. It’s not subject to US laws covering sports betting sites so unlike US-based casinos there’s no state licence required. Hence the MyBookie.ag domain name, as US authorities have been actively pursuing wagering sites used by US players with the .com domain – it’s why you see other US-focused bookmakers, some of them blacklisted by us, who use the .ag or the .eu domain rather than the .com domain.

All of that throws up issues of just how you hold this operator to task when things go wrong – something plenty of people have reported in various complaints against MyBookie.

We feel this just adds to our decision to blacklist MyBookie, along with the likes of Bodog and Bovada – the difficulties of licensing can bring players trouble. For example, look at another previously blacklisted bookie, Bethard – they’re exiting the UK market because regulations are too tight – and there’s no certainty of what will happen to UK players looking to withdraw their funds after the company’s exit. It all goes to show that licensing matters and that you should avoid this bookie.

MyBookie runs a rubbish My Free Bet Rewards Program that’s very poor; place a $5+ sports wager, collect a star, get 10 stars for a free wager. The free wager you get will be 10% of the average value of the 10 wagers placed. It’s very bad, and one of the worst rewards scheme we’ve ever seen.

There’s also the pitiful Bookie Points Rewards Program to opt into, where you earn points for sportsbook bets of $10+. You get 1 point for a straight wager, with $10 free play redeemable for 110 points, $50 free play for 550 points. All of which are complete rip-off.