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This page focuses on what our expert team and users have found when using the BetMGM betting site and app; for more information on the welcome offer, check out the BetMGM sports bonus code.
We recommend that when signing up for any online bookmaker you don’t base your decision purely on that site’s current free bets or welcome offers, so read on for a full BetMGM sports user review.
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Banking Options
BetMGM UK's deposit process is simple, accepting PayPal, Apple Pay, and bank transfers with a £5 minimum. Withdrawals via Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal require a £10 minimum, with no maximum or fees, and are processed swiftly.
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£5 | £0 | 1-5 Days | 0.00 | |
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BetMGM Key Features
- Best Odds Guaranteed
- Live Stream
- Asian handicap
- Bet Builder
- Acca Insurance
- Early pay out
- Welcome / sign-up offer
- Odds Boosts
- In-play
- Cash Out
- Partial Cash Out
- Free Bet Club (or similar)
- Exchange betting
- Spread betting
- In-game statisitcs
- Pre-match form/statisitcs
- Request a bet (or similar)
- Virtual sports
Full BetMGM Bookmaker Review
Overall, BetMGM’s UK sportsbook feels like a steady dipping of the toe into British sportsbook waters. The product is good, the site is excellent, there are very competitive odds, and the functionality is right up there with anything else in the industry.
However, some decisions have been made that need ironing out – overcompensating for UK fans of American sports, for example. Also, the welcome offer is excellent, and football has bonuses covered, but there needs to be more (odds boosts and similar) across other sports.
BetMGM Review Summary
BetMGM's UK sportsbook offers a great product with competitive odds and excellent site functionality. Improvements needed for non-US sports promos, but expect rapid enhancements soon! 🚀
Advantages and Disadvantages
All explained in greater detail in this review, these pros and cons allow users to scan and understand where BetMGM’s strengths lie quickly.
Pros
Excellent Customer Service
Ranks in our Top 10 for Politics, Basketball, Cash Out and Aussie Rules
Great Welcome offer and Promotions
Weekly Free Bets
Cons
Some sports could have better market depth
Maybe too much US Sports coverage?
Adequate but limited banking options
Who Are BetMGM Sports?
BetMGM Sports, part of MGM Resorts International, a major S&P 500 company, has entered UK sports betting with LeoVegas technology, distinct from its US joint venture with Entain.
Established in 2023 (UK), 2018 (US)
LeoVegas Gaming PLC is licensed and regulated in Great Britain by the Gambling Commission
UKGC licence number - 39198
First Impression of BetMGM Sports
Live Betting
On a Wednesday morning, BetMGM Sports offered in-play betting options for football, tennis, table tennis, and esports, though fewer than other bookies. Events featured clean betting options, a stat ticker, and competitive odds.
Live Streaming
BetMGM Sports offers live streaming on horse racing.
There is a “stream only” on/off toggle at the top of the sports search, which while faded out and unavailable when I visited, does suggest that live streaming is imminent on other sports.
Betting Odds
BetMGM Sports offers reliable and competitive odds. They often have longer odds for one side of a match result and shorter for the opposite in football, tennis, and American football, depending on betting preferences.
Also, remember that it is always worth checking alternative betting options, including best spread betting sites and betting exchange sites, depending on who you are as a bettor.
Betting App or Mobile Site?
This BetMGM Sports review covers both the mobile and desktop versions. There is no app, but the mobile site mirrors desktop functionality and feels intuitive, with smooth carousels and an easy-to-use hamburger menu.
⚽ Football Betting
BetMGM Football betting covers all expected leagues, from the Champions League to domestic leagues in Costa Rica, Slovakia, and Ecuador and UK non-league coverage. Leagues are listed alphabetically after international ones, with no option to favourite or follow leagues a slight downside.
Bet Builder
With a maximum of 10 selections per bet builder, there is plenty that can keep football bettors interested. There perhaps aren’t the same number of markets in some other bet builder sites – we counted 10 different markets for a Premier League match within the build function. It’s not possible to combine separate bet builders into one acca, however.
Cash Out
BetMGM rank well among our analysis of the best cash out betting sites on equal pegging with cash out giants bet365
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Unsurprisingly, and reassuringly, cash out is available at BetMGM Sports and it's excellent here. It’s a feature that has become an absolute staple of football betting sites, and definitely sets alarm bells going if not listed. It’s also good to see that cash out is offered on a bet that I placed that incorporated one of their welcome offers, something that is often restricted at sportsbooks.
Golden Goals
BetMGM Sports runs a free-to-play competition across their football betting, similar to those of their competitors. The Golden Goals game involves guessing six correct scores to win up to £2 million. All winners share the jackpot, so it may be split should that be the case. The really good part is that if no one guesses correctly, a guaranteed prize pool is paid out to those with the most correct predictions.
🏇 Horse Racing
The horse racing section at BetMGM Sports works well. Divvied up into three clear parts thanks to the menu at the top you can choose between “Next Off”, “Meetings” and “Specials and Ante Post”. The Meetings section in particular is laid out clearly, making it easy to find each race, with those where “Each Way Plus” is offered (BetMGM UK’s extra places) brightly signposted by their pink icons. The addition of Best Odds Guaranteed is another plus for the offering.
🏇 Good Racing Options 🏇
Divided menus include Next Off, Meetings, and Specials & Ante Post. 🏆 Each Way Plus races marked with pink icons. Best Odds Guaranteed and live streaming/video analysis make it a top choice! 📲
Race events feature the expected markets, a toggle bar to get to other races at the same meeting, plus live streaming during the event, or video analysis of the runners if the event is pre-race overall a pretty good horse racing betting site.
🇺🇸 US Sports Betting
BetMGM offers a comprehensive range of American sports for betting across all major leagues.
🏈 American Football Betting
At BetMGM Sports, only the moneyline is initially listed for NFL games, catering to UK betting habits by labeling the spread as "handicap." This may not appeal to American football punters preferring traditional US presentation. Despite this, BetMGM offers extensive markets, bet builders, cash out, and "Pre-Packs." As an American company, they may improve and become one of the best NFL betting sites in the UK.
🏀 Basketball Betting
In our research of 80+ bookmakers and final basketball betting sites guide, BetMGM were only bettered by Unibet, making them a solid choice for hoops betting fans.
BetMGM Sports' basketball and American football betting are Anglicised, showing only moneyline odds initially, which can be jarring for those seeking spread lines and totals for value and quick betslip additions but options were very good, seeing them score highly against the competition.
You can see how BetMGM compares in more detail on the chart below.
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⚾ Baseball Betting
BetMGM UK offers around 18 MLB betting markets, including stats, form, and current standings. They also cover Asian leagues and futures markets for MLB and the World Series, making it a solid baseball betting site.
🏒 Ice Hockey Betting
BetMGM is a top choice among ice hockey betting sites, offering comprehensive coverage and competitive odds.
🎯 Darts Betting
Our Darts expert Matt Edgar summed up how BetMGM rank as a darts betting site.
Snooker Betting
As a fan of the sport our Editor-in-Chief is always on the lookout to determine which are the best snooker betting sites.
🏉 Rugby Betting (Union & League)
by Luke Bradshaw-Lee -
I dislike when sportsbooks don't offer rugby specific promotions. Fortunately, BetMGM UK does. During the Rugby World Cup, they had a generous 100% profit boost on a World Cup winner selection. More markets per match are needed, but their odds are competitive.
There needs to be more markets per match, but the odds that they do have are good when compared to our best Rugby betting sites.
🏏 Cricket Betting
Betway currently tops our Best Cricket betting site right now, with huge market depth, great odds and lots of promotions, so perhaps BetMGM UK can follow their lead and up their offering.
🎾 Tennis Betting
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The tennis betting at BetMGM UK initially seems comprehensive, but other sites offer more events. However, their odds are excellent, making it worth checking for tennis bettors.
If they could add in more markets, and some tennis-specific promotions, they’d definitely be closer to getting into the top 10 tennis betting sites on OLBG.
🏌️ Golf Betting
Current events are a big tick, with weekly events through out the season available. The downside is that there is no future markets for upcoming events further away – so no Ryder Cup or Solheim Cup outrights later in the year, or markets on next year’s majors listed.
🏎️ Motorsports Betting
F1 is particularly deep, with plenty of markets and driver specials for the upcoming Grand Prix.
🥊 Boxing Betting
Other Sports Betting
Whilst these sports might sound very niche, there is a massive market for fans, and millions of them in the UK, so good coverage of niche sports and events is key to be reviewed on OLBG.
Other Sports at BetMGM 🌍🏀🏐🚴🎮
BetMGM Sports offers diverse betting options: handball 🏆, volleyball 🏐, cycling 🚴, Aussie rules 🏉, and esports 🎮. Explore global matches, detailed stats, and infinite markets.
BetMGM Sports offers extensive betting options for Handball, volleyball, cycling, AFL betting, and esports. Handball includes global competitions; volleyball,covers European Championships and various tournaments; cycling features future tours and current races; AFL betting has comprehensive stats and esports offers all major games like League of Legends and CS:GO.
🗳️ Political Betting
There are a decent array of political betting options for punters interested in political betting either side of the pond.
🎭 Entertainment and Specials
Not one of the best entertainment betting sites but some options on the bigger events.
Casino
BetMGM made its name as a casino site, [see the BetMGM casino review] pivoting into the sports betting world. Even when you’re using their sportsbook, there is still a large “Casino” tab at the top of their menu.
Account Opening Process
This was very easy. A couple of clicks, enter the most basic of personal information (name, DOB, email and phone number etc.) and you’re pretty much done. When you want to make your first deposit you’re given a code by SMS/text to verify that it is in fact you, but once that’s done you’re good to go.
BetMGM Sports does stipulate by email that they may ask for proof of ID at some point, this is standard and better to upload sooner rather than later to avoid delayed withdrawals.
Navigation and user experience [desktop v mobile]
The overall design is clean, uncluttered and incredibly easy to navigate. The drop down menu in the top-left of the screen is the fastest way to different parts of the site – your profile, details, wallet etc. – plus more general pages such as the BetMGM blog, safer gambling tools and customer support.
Placing a bet
Within ten minutes of signing up to BetMGM Sports I placed a couple of bets on different sports, one of which took advantage of the welcome offer, while the other was a rugby odds boost. Both were incredibly easy, and both have cash out options under the My Bets tab, meaning even if I had made an error, I could easily get my full stake back should I choose.
Managing your account
The hamburger drop down is your go-to in terms of site navigation and account management. My offers, wallet, profile, history and log out are all here, as well as other parts of the site. When not in the menu, and just using the site normally, this hamburger will have a red notification symbol (with the number of notifications that you have inside).
Mine were offers that I hadn’t yet claimed but were entitled to, but going forward I’m sure things like changes to my terms and conditions would also be highlighted here.
Responsible Gambling Features
You can set your deposit limit while you’re signing up to BetMGM Sports; long before you’ve got close to actually making a bet.
There is also a Settings tab at the bottom of the page, no matter what page you’re on, that allows you to make changes to limits, as well as odds formats, or odds change preferences/notifications.
BetMGM Sports has the following measures within its functionality:
Deposit Limit
Loss Limit
Session Limit
Wagering Limits
Reality Check
Time-Out
Self-Exclusion
Support Groups & Organisations
Advice on Keeping in Control
Parental Controls
Self-Assessment
All are explained in further detail on their safer gambling page. As well as this, on the same page they list links to the likes of the National Gambling Helpline, Be Gamble Aware and the National Gambling Treatment Service.
Responsible Gambling
BetMGM UK has a full suite of responsible gambling tools for your protection and may request further identification after certain depositing levels are exceeded or stakes are increased quickly.
Bookie Review Expert Contributing Team
Opinion, research and data collection for this BetMGM Sports review by
James Banting (Horse Racing, Golf and Tennis)
Nigel Skinner (Football and Politics),
Matt Edgar (Darts)
Frank Monkhouse (Boxing)
Andrew Powell (Horse Racing, Ice Hockey and Motor Sports)
Jake Ashton (Entertainment and Specials)
🛂 Fact Checked - Sam Darkens - Commercial Manager
✍️ Written by - Luke Bradshaw Lee - Commercial Content Manager
✏️📚 - Steve Madgwick - Editor-In-Chief
BetMGM Info & Bookmakers Reviews
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- Ratings: 51
- Reviews: 40
“Big Jackpots”
BetMGM has very good Casino games , Slots etc and some of those have very big Jackpots which makes BetMGM interesting and worth checking out. They also , currently, have a good offer for New customers to get a bonus when signing up and making a small deposit and that sign up bonus is very interesting and one of the best available.
“Breath of fresh air”
great to see a brand trying to do something different with the big boys starting to get a bit stale. Easy to sign up and some great promotions for the big sports
“Very good up and coming bookie and good offers”
I think this bookie is a great new online bookie is amazing one of the better ones, lots of great features and new things, really good to be honest
“Daily awards are the best in field.”
This bookmaker is new to the market and will only get better. There daily rewards and bonuses are some of the best and the joining offer with £40 in free bets is a great introduction for betting just £10. Try them out
“brill but sometimes ya know..”
you get stake restriction . bet sent to the gods to decide if you are worthy haha . sent for manual bet acceptance i mean. Great odds boosts every day and good odds and bog and extra place races a lot. i like them
“Great new customer offers”
I signed up to BetMGM to redeem £60 bonus during the Cheltenham festival. They continue to have good sign up promotions even after the Cheltenham week. Their odds were competitive to the likes of Bet365 & Sky Bet.
“Prefer Desktop Site”
I really enjoy the desktop version of the BetMGM site but I reckon there are better, more responsive apps out there. Overall I give this bookie a high rating, though, because of the free bet welcome offer.
“Good account opening offers”
used them during the world cup to take advantage of their new customer offer - system crashed a few times and was out of action - customer service was slow (a couple of hours) but helped in the end
“AVERAGE BETTING”
I do not use them very often, but they are o.k, I will use them in the future as I want to give them a chance as I think they will get better
“Withheld deposit for over 2 weeks”
I was really unimpressed with this bunch, I have had my account put on hold for investigation with nearly every bookie I've used and that's all fine and well, the communication from BetMGM however was nearly non-existent, I supplied what they asked for on day 1 it took forever for them to get back to me, all the while they held my deposit for over 2 weeks and I had no access to my own hard earned money, I wasn't happy, they didn't care, I closed my account and eventually got my money back, nuff said.
“Bookmaker review”
All the right markets but the app was super laggy on android device. I feel like the odds aren't as competitive as other UK bookies and with the poor app, its an avoid!!
“No thanks , no b.o.g.”
With the ' glossy advertising ' everywhere I thought I'd have a look , but with 95% of my betting done on horse racing the offer on NO best odds guaranteed completely put me off , as punters week in week out we are being squeezed out of value I'm now hoping that more established online bookies don't follow MGM's suit & by withdrawing b.o.g.
“Unable to sign up”
Liked the look of their sign up offer so tried to open an account. Got to a page to confirm details but then got stuck in a loop and couldn't get past this. Looks like a bunch of amateurs. Don't bother.
“poor poor poor”
issues withdrawing
BetMGM User Guide
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Who owns BetMGM UK?
The BetMGM brand is fully owned by MGM Resorts International. BetMGM UK launched in 2023, operated by LeoVegas Gaming Plc under the UKGC licence.
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Can you use BetMGM in the UK?
The BetMGM UK sportsbook brings you all the action from the most entertaining sports across the world.
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When did BetMGM launch in the UK?
BetMGM launched in the UK in August 2023.
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How long do BetMGM withdrawals take?
From the time when your withdrawal has been sent, depending on the payment method, it can take up to 5 working days until you receive your funds.