About OnlineBettingSites.com: Experienced Industry Experts

OnlineBettingSites.com is an independent guide to online betting in three markets: sports betting, horse racing and prediction markets. We do not cover casino, poker, bingo or lottery — not because they do not exist, but because covering them well is a different job, and spreading ourselves across all of it is how this site lost its way the first time.

What we publish is the legal position of online betting in each market, who regulates it, and which licensed sites serve it. If you are new to betting, start with your country's guide; if you already bet, the reviews and the payment methods are probably what you want.

How We Work

Three rules decide what appears on this site.

• Regulators first. Legal status, licences and tax come from regulators and official gazettes, and from operators' own terms second. Never from other review sites.

• Every change is cited. Each updated fact carries its source and the exact supporting quote. Where we cannot verify a claim, we remove it rather than guess.

• Someone else checks it. A second reviewer re-checks each edit against its source before it goes live.

We classify each market on a four-status scale — regulated, tolerated, grey market, prohibited — and apply the same key on every page. Where the law is unsettled, or we cannot establish it, we say so instead of picking the answer that reads better.

How We Make Money

We earn commission when a reader opens an account through some of the links on this site. That is how the research is paid for, and we say so on the pages where it applies.

It does not buy a listing. A site appears here because it holds a licence we can verify and serves the market in question; where we have rated a site, the rating is written by a person and is not for sale. We never link operators in a market where betting is prohibited.

Who We Are

The people who research and write this site:

• Mike Murphy — Founder / Gambling Industry Expert. Mike Murphy is the founder of OnlineBettingSites.com and has over 10 years of experience in the legal online betting industry.

• Wes Burns — Co-Founder / Gambling Industry Expert. Wes Burns has more than a decade's worth of experience as a writer, researcher, and analyst in the legal online betting industry and is co-founder of OnlineBettingSites.com.

• Sadonna Price.

• Alicia Ruhland.

• Renee.

You can read more about each of them on our team page, and every guide and review names the person who wrote it.

Responsible Gambling

We strongly encourage responsible betting, for entertainment. If you ever feel that you are betting too much, or that you are no longer enjoying it, take a break, talk to someone, or stop. Licensed betting sites will always let you set a deposit limit or self-exclude for a period; use those tools if you think you need them.

Free, confidential help is available. In the United States the National Problem Gambling Helpline is 1-800-MY-RESET; in Great Britain the National Gambling Helpline is 0808 8020 133, free and open 24 hours; in Australia the National Gambling Helpline is 1800 858 858.

Betting should be fun. If it stops being fun, it has stopped doing the only thing it is for.

Contact

Corrections are welcome and we would rather hear about a mistake than leave it up — get in touch. We do not accept paid placements, link exchanges or guest posts.