Overview
Having been launched in 2012 and consistently improved over the years, LSbet is a solid choice for someone looking for a site that has it all. Here, there are excellent sports betting options on thousands of events every day, the chance to bet in-play on popular matches, and a whole host of great online casino games – including live dealer releases from NetEnt and Evolution. Plus, there’s a decent welcome bonus for either sportsbook or casino (whichever you prefer) and plenty of great promotions running throughout the year. At first look, then, we’re already impressed but can this site go the full 90 minutes without a defensive howler? Let’s see in our LSbet review…
Bonuses
There are many LSbet bonuses, free spins, and other promotions available based on players' country of residence. New players at LSbet casino will be able to partake in a welcome bonus, and the offer available for players in your country is listed below.
Game selection
Sportsbook, Casino Games & Live Dealer
As soon as you launch the site, you’re whisked off to the Sports section, which is clearly the main focus of this brand. However, you’re only ever a click or tap away from accessing the live sports betting part of the site or the online casino games that are provided by some of the best in the business. For example, we were very pleased to see big names such as NetEnt, Microgaming, and Evolution alongside smaller companies like Blueprint, iSoftBet, and Genii. So, let’s have a look in detail at what each area of the site offers to LSbet players…
Sportsbook and Betting
There’s a minimal aesthetic to the Sports section that really made things easy to navigate. For example, there are symbols for each of the popular sports featured at the top of the site (just below the latest offers). Admittedly, they can be a little hard to see (aside from the obvious ones like football and we initially thought the tennis ball was a baseball!), but mousing over them reveals what’s what. Therefore, you get quick-access options for Football, Tennis, Horse Racing, Greyhound Racing, Basketball, Ice Hockey, Volleyball, eSports, and Table Tennis.
Below that, you get three sections: Live Now (more on this below), Last Minute Bets, and Popular Bets. This makes it a doddle to get in on the action that is either happening at that very moment or is due to start very soon. On the right, you have your virtual bet slip, which, when unpopulated, shows the biggest matches that are coming up in the coming days and the one-click bets for things like a home win, away win, or draw. And when you do click on one of the odds you like the look of, these are pushed further down the screen and your bet slip is automatically updated. From there, it’s simply a matter of adding more bets (if you want), entering your stake, and hitting the Accept button at the bottom.
On the left-hand side is a list of all available events that help you narrow down your choices. To this end, there’s a search bar at the top, Popular Leagues (such as the Champions League, Bundesliga, or Serie A, etc etc), and a Sports Menu. The latter covers everything from Football, Tennis, and Basketball at the top to Snooker, Cricket, and Politics at the bottom. Great stuff!
Live Odds
Selecting the Live option at the very top of the site brings up the in-play betting section. Down the middle is the current big game with all of the bets that you could ever wish to place on that match listed below. For example, whilst reviewing LSbet, the current match was Roda JC vs FC Eindhoven in the Dutch Eredivisie. Scrolling down through myriad options, we could then easily place a bet on things like Total Goals Over/Under, Halftime Goals Total, Asian Handicap, Correct Score, Odd/Even Total, and so on and so forth. Disappointingly, compared to other sites, there was no display of vital statistics, current attacks, and no live stream of the game. The only stats there were goals scored, yellow cards, and red cards for each of the teams.
The left-hand side gives an overview of all the possible in-play bets that can be placed on various sports. At the time of writing, this included 16 football matches, as well as far fewer events in the categories of Tennis, Horse Racing, Basketball, Table Tennis, and eSports. There’s also a little star icon next to certain sports that you can check to add to a personalized list for easy recall later on – they are all stored in a dropdown at the top.
The bet slip works exactly as described above, but you’ve got to be a little quicker to Accept the odds and your stake before the game progresses and the bet changes. If you don’t manage it faster enough, you get a message in red text reading: ‘The line, odds or availability of your selections has changed’. After this, you’ll have to start over or accept the new odds that are provided in real-time. Overall, then, the system works just fine.
Slots and Table Games
The main Casino section contains hundreds of different games in many different categories. These are organized into tabs running from left to right as follows: Favorites, All Games, Pragmatic, Megaways, Video Slots, Live Casino, Classic Slots, Feature Slots, Other Games, and First Person. Then, over on the far right-hand side is a search bar to find a particular slot or table by its title. However, that’s where the filtering options come to an end. So, there’s no way to search for video slots by theme or bonus features, and no way to narrow down the Table Games to only roulette, for example.
We wouldn’t mind too much about ways to narrow down the choices if only it weren’t for the hundreds of titles to scroll through in certain categories – though, it’s in no way a bad thing to have so much choice on offer here! One good thing is that the stars feature on Sports carries over to being able to save your favorites to a separate list. To give you an idea of the most played video slots on the site, let’s take the top seven hits in the category of the same name. These are Street Fighter II: The World Warrior Slot, Age of Conquest. Playboy Fortunes, Willy’s Hot Chillies, Fu Fortunes: Megaways, Immortal Glory, and Diamond Inferno. Not bad!
As for Table Games, you get every from multiple versions of the classics of roulette, blackjack, and baccarat to numerous video poker titles. All in all, then, it’s a well-rounded selection.
Jackpots at LSbet
Something that really bugged us when playing at LSbet was the lack of a dedicated Jackpot category. And we know they exist because we specifically searched for things like the ultra-popular Mega Moolah series, as well as Major Millions and King Cashalot – these are some of the biggest prize games available in the online casino world, so we were glad to see them present on the site. The problem is how to find them if you don’t already know what to look for? Well, you’re fresh out of luck here, because there are no jackpot sashes indicating that a particular release contains a local, network, or progressive jackpot and there’s no live counter of the current prize pool total. We feel this part of the site could be improved dramatically!
Live Casino Games
The Live Casino area, on the other hand, is much better organized. First of all, there’s a dedicated tab for these types of releases, and the options are limited to 11 different games or lobbies. What we mean by that is that there are single tiles for accessing the NetEnt Live, Evolution Gaming, and Vivo lobbies, while a few others such as Caribbean Stud Poker and Casino Hold’em are shown directly on the main grid. It’s an odd choice to structure things in this way, but it certainly helps to have fewer choices of where to click to get started. Plus, having Evolution Gaming on board is a massive boon for the site. Not only do you get some of the best live roulette, blackjack, baccarat titles ever made, but also oddities like Monopoly LIve, Football Studio Pro, and Dream Catcher – we recommend checking out these game-show-style titles!
Usability
We really loved using the LSbet sportsbook site and online casino, because it’s genuinely well-thought-out and presented in such an intuitive way so you never feel lost. Sports betting is dead simple (as explained above) and once you’ve found a casino title to play, it’s simply a matter of choosing to either play in Demo Mode or for Real Money. Getting to the various parts of the site or customizing it to your needs is a doddle too. Up top, you get the main categories as explained above, as well as a Promotions tab. This is followed by buttons for Login, Logout, Join, Deposit, and so on, plus the current time in GMT, upon which the site is based.
For those who don’t speak English, the entire site can be switched into one of seven other languages via a dropdown menu in the top right-hand corner of the screen. The options other than English are as follows: German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. So, once again, LSbet has done its utmost to provide for many different players.
The rest of the options (aside from the Live Chat functionality that we’ll cover below in our LSbet review) are located at the bottom of the site. In the footer area, you have numerous links for accessing pages that might come in handy on more than one occasion. For example, you get some subsections of the Menu, Sports, Casino, and Top Leagues, followed by things related to About Us and Help. The latter two contain About LSbet, Bonus T&Cs, Privacy Policy, Responsible Gaming, Contact Us, and FAQs. Overall, then, we have to admit that the vast majority of things are covered.
Mobile Casino
Accessing the site from a mobile device such as an iPhone, iPad, or equivalent Android mobile device is simply a matter of pointing your mobile browser at the main URL. You are then presented with a slightly rearranged version of the site that is tailor-made for smaller touchscreen devices – in fact, we preferred betting on sports and playing slots on a handheld mobile than using a laptop or desktop computer. There really is no need for a dedicated iOS or Android app here, because everything just works so well. The only thing you might want to look out for is that some of the older games that were developed in Flash won’t work here. But we hardly found any missing titles, seeing as the majority of releases are made in HTML5 today.
LSbet Help & Support
We can't provide a full LSbet review without seeing how the operator treats its customers. Unfortunately, the FAQ page (accessed via a small link the footer) is nothing to write home about. In fact, there are only eight super basic questions and answers to be found there – but at least the answers are fairly well written and they do give new players a stronger foothold for understanding the fundamentals of placing bets, cashing out, and so on. Nevertheless, we think the site would benefit from having a better, more comprehensive FAQ section in all honesty.
These are the main categories in the LSbet FAQ:
- Single Bets
- Multibets
- System Bets
- Payments
- Registration
- Accounts
- Odds Filters
- Site Security
Recently, the company decided to increase its customer support to cover every hour of the day, and this is provided in all eight languages into which the site is translated – this massively helps cover the shortfall of the FAQ page. Launching the Live Chat window is simply a matter of clicking the 24/7 Live Chat button that hovers in the bottom right-hand corner at all times. We found this the best method for getting in touch simply because it’s the fastest and most efficient. Failing that, you can always send over an email to [email protected], however, there is no phone number for contacting the team that way – this extra would’ve earned the site top marks.
Payment Methods
One thing we'd like to improve a bit and we noticed when doing our LSbet review was the banking seciton. There is no dedicated Payments page available for everyone to see, which is a real shame, seeing as this is a very important consideration for players thinking of signing up. Instead, you have to be registered and logged in to get to the Deposit or Withdrawal sections listed under My Account. We feel this information should be made public, but GoodLuckMate has your back there. Therefore, the full list of payment methods available at LSbet is as follows: Visa, Mastercard, Neteller, Skrill, ecoPayz, Paysafecard, Sofort, Przelewy24, GiroPay, EPS, Boleto, Multibanco, eZeeWallet, and Bancaria. Also, the operator recently started accepting Bitcoin, as well. So, at least there are plenty of options covering many different countries.
As for the currencies that are accepted, you can deposit and withdraw in either Euros (EUR), Brazilian Real (BRR), Polish Zloty (PLN), Russian Rubles (RUB), Turkish Lira (TRY), or US Dollars (USD). All deposit methods are instant, but the site does not give clear indications of how long withdrawals will take, so it’s best to allow up to 24-48 hours for approval before the money is sent out into the financial system and eventually into your account of choice.
Verifying Your Lsbet Account
Next stop in our LSbet review is account verification at the operator. As soon as you sign up at the site, you will be sent an email to verify your account – just be sure to check your spam folder in case it gets flagged. Once that’s done, you can use the site freely, but you will be asked to complete some industry-standard security checks around the time of making your first withdrawal. Therefore, we recommend that you comply with this request as soon as you can, so as not to cause any hold-ups. The process is simple and usually involves you sending copies of the government-approved ID (passport, driver’s license, etc) and something showing your full name and home address (bank statement, utility bill, etc). Easy!
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Security
LSbet operates in various territories around the world. This brand is part of the Media Entertainment N.V. casino family, which operates several other gambling sites and holds a Curacao Interactive License. That means it is not allowed to operate in countries such as the United Kingdom, Italy, and Spain, which have stricter rules under national licensing authorities. Nevertheless, if you are able to access the site, you should be in safe hands, especially as SSL encryption is used throughout to keep your details secure.
Conclusion
We had a great time while doing this LSbet review, as is evidenced by everything we’ve praised above. There are a few things that could be improved, such as the organization of the casino games, transparency over payment methods (and withdrawal times), and the FAQ page, that would really make this site near perfect. But, you can’t get it all! Nevertheless, the positives far outweigh the negatives here and we fully recommend that anyone wanting to mix it up between sports betting and playing the latest casino releases should give LSbet a shot. Great stuff!
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