Are You Making A Good Bet?
First established in December 2013, DirectBet seeks to provide a market mostly targeted to Bitcoin players seeking an all around sportsbook. Players used to playing at other sportsbooks and casinos will find DirectBet a little different in how the transactions take place, but will find it a lot more secure in how it is set up. If a player is seeking a sportsbook-only, secure place to wager, then DirectBet might be a preferred choice.
Company Statement
“DirectBet revolutionized the way sports betting is done with crypto currencies. We came out with a unique approach where you don’t need to create an account and deposit to place a bet. Instead, winnings are sent back directly to your wallet, instantly and within minutes of the result. At DirectBet, your coins are kept safe in your wallet under your control while they are not in a wager.
DirectBet specializes in LIVE In-Play betting and brought in a lot of LIVE action to the Bitcoin world. We also offer many unique bets that are not available in other Bitcoin sportbooks, including horse racing and political bets, and we had offered bets on the World Series of Poker, Chess World Championship and The Oscars. We also support multiple alt coins and accept bets with Bitcoins, Litecoins, Dogecoins & Darkcoins.
At DirectBet, we continually innovate and introduce revolutionized features that are new to the entire sports betting industry. Excellent customer service is our top priority and we invest a lot in our customer service to make sure that all our clients are completely satisfied.”
Sportsbook
DirectBet offers a very comprehensive list of items a player can wager on. As mentioned in the company statement, they do a very good job in providing wagers in categories that a player might not find elsewhere. The unique feature of this particular sportsbook though is the fact that it is a blockchain style of wagering, both with placing the wager and receiving the winnings, if bets are to win. A player makes a selection then sends the amount of Bitcoin they would like to wager, to a unique address. Players only send the desired amount they want to wager, to a particular address, and if the bet wins then the winnings are returned to an address, specified by the player, when they placed the bet. This keeps players from having to keep a balance at a certain location, and makes it available for players to keep the funds in their own wallet, until they desire to place a wager on a particular event. DirectBet does a great job providing the added security, in that feature alone, but also has some of the most competitive prices for events, in the Bitcoin gaming industry. As one of the more popular sports books among Bitcoin holders, DirectBet always has the players in mind, when maintaining their book. They also provide players a “provably fair” all in poker game where players can wager on winning the hand based on the the two cards they are dealt, Texas Hold’em style. While this game and a dice game are the only non-sportsbook features they have within the site, DirectBet was created mostly to be a sportsbook with a tremendous amount of selections, coupled with a great way to place wagers off of the blockchain. Within their time online, DirectBet has also added an in-game live betting feature for the players who enjoy placing a wager after a particular event has already started. This feature is extraordinary for a site who accepts bets only off of the blockchain, and has proven to be quite the success, in a relatively short run, of being able to accept these types of wages. If players hate to deposit and keep a balance on a site and love having the accessibility to practically any line available, DirectBet is a top option.
Banking
As mentioned in the previous paragraph, the banking at DirectBet is quite unique to any other Bitcoin gaming site. Each wager that is wanting to be placed is sent to a unique address. When placing the wager, the player will specify a return address that the Bitcoin will be sent to, if the wager is won. Funds that are not wanting to being wagered are not tied up within a balance section on the site, unlike most other Bitcoin sites that just have a player’s balance sitting there. While most sites in today’s Bitcoin world do have the security that is required, DirectBet believes that players shouldn’t have to take even the slightest risk of their funds not being with them when they are not wagering on an event. With a few other cryptocurrencies that they also accept, banking at DirectBet is the simplest, yet most secure of any site in the gaming industry.
Bonuses Offered
While there is no direct bonus offered at the beginning, there is a VIP loyalty program that encompasses rewarding the most active players at the site. It is a very simplified program as players earn a loyalty point for each .001BTC they wager, or equivalent in another cryptocurrency, and the bonuses for reaching certain plateaus, can be found in the VIP reward section, on DirectBet’s website.
