Arena Bet Casino Review

If the sound of a full football stadium with a roaring crowd and a referee’s whistle struggling to be heard over the din is music to your ears, Arena Bet will be your kind of site. Bettors who love sports, TV sports especially, are well catered for at this site which seeks to target European players who are interested in gambling on games galore. Arena Bet is primarily designed for Greek gamblers but is available in a wide range of languages including Polish, Danish and Swedish.

In addition to its sportsbook and live betting facility, there is a casino at Arena Bet that is stocked with slots and table games from major developers including EGT and Microgaming. There is also a small selection of virtual sports to check out and a TVBets section where you can wager on poker, baccarat, roulette and other games, all hosted live with photogenic dealers on hand to brighten up your day with their seductive smiles.

About Arena Bet

Arena Bet was founded in 2013. The operators of the site hold a gaming licence that was issued in Curacao and in their About page speak of the up-to-date software that they use and the competitive odds they offer. Here you will also learn of the wide range of sports covered and of the many types of bets offered. Every hour of the night and day, 365 days a year, you can have a flutter on football and many other sports. Arena Bet offers all kinds of betting types including goal/no goal, total goals and handicap betting.

You're not just limited to football either, with a whole host of sports covered from boxing to rugby and from motorsports to tennis. American sports are covered too including basketball and football. In terms of security, the site uses 128-bit SSL to encrypt customer data and maintain maximum security and secrecy. You can contact the customer support team by email, by telephone or by submitting a message on the site’s message board.

Arena of Banking

Judging by the payment logos that are visible in the footer of the site, you can deposit funds into your account by Visa, MasterCard, Paysafecard, Neteller, Skrill, MoneySafe and a few regional payment options. Funds can also be deposited by bank transfer. When it comes to making a withdrawal, the site may request that you submit proof of identification such as a copy of your driver's licence or passport plus a copy of a utility bill. If you're requesting funds by bank transfer, the minimum withdrawal amount is €30 or for countries outside of the EU it is €100. You can also withdraw funds via your eMoneySafe wallet which incurs a 2% commission.

A Familiar Sportsbook

If you have played at any other sports betting site, the sportsbook at Arena Bet should look familiar. As usual, you will find all the forthcoming games displayed in the central column with your bet slip to the right and the range of games, leagues and sport to the left. Place single bets or multiple bets as you see fit with odds displayed in decimal by default. A calendar allows you to go through the forthcoming games for the week and month ahead and as you scroll down the page you'll see the full list of sports that Arena Bet covers. Suffice to say that most major sports are available here. Be it baseball or cricket, there should be some sort of odds here and some sort of game that will take your fancy.

There is also a live betting section of the site although to access this you will need to have Flash enabled in your browser. If you don't, you will be greeted by an error message and will not be able to proceed any further. As a consequence, Arena Bet isn't particularly suited to mobile play and is best visited using a browser such as Firefox, or at least one where you have Flash enabled by default. If you can get the live betting section to work however you'll be able to take your pick from a good selection of games and will have the ability to place bets in play on the next goalscorer, the next corner kick and a host of other variables.

Mainly About Slots

When it comes to the casino, Arena Bet is mostly but not entirely about slots. There’s a selection of table games here but it is slot players who will be the happiest with the sort of games that they’ll find here. The selection of games doesn’t look great on first glance, with around 20 slots to choose from and an extremely small selection of table games. How small are we talking? Take your pick from European Roulette 3D Deluxe and, well, that's it. So yes, pretty small. Thankfully the slots go some way towards remedying this deficit. Games include Eternal Desire, Guardian of the Sand, Candy Land, Legend of the Sea and Super Hot. On this basis you could be forgiven for concluding that Arena Bet has an extremely poor selection of slots. However, it becomes apparent on closer inspection that by default you’re simply viewing the games offered by one developer.

There are another four games developers to sift through including the likes of Microgaming who offer such games as Hellboy, Jekyll and Hyde, Tomb Raider 2, Battlestar Galactica and Irish Eyes. This is much better, and it begs the question of why Arena Bet haven't seen fit to display their games with the best titles on the page by default. The current layout as it stands is confusing, not least because once you click through to view games by specific developers, you discover that there are also loads of table games to choose from. There is actually a sprawling casino available at Arena Bet it transpires but is one that is badly laid out, causing many casual visitors to wrongly assume that there is little by way of selection.

Arena Bet Conclusion

Arena Bet is a capable site at which to play casino games, virtual sports and to bet on live sporting events. The site isn't ideal for mobile users and there doesn't appear to be any sort of bonuses or promotions which is disappointing. However, Arena Bet deserves credit for the quality of its slots and other games, even if the layout of the casino is poor and confusing. The provision of some awesome virtual sports plus a TVBet section where you can bet on poker, baccarat and other games ensure there's a lot going on here, certainly more than enough to keep European gamblers entertained. Arena Bet speak your language and covers the games you care about the most.