Year established: 2011 Mobile compatible: Yes Jurisdiction: Curacao Overall rating: C+ Recommended: For recreational players EGB eSports Review. Egaming Bets or more commonly abbreviated as EGB, is an esports-dedicated online sportsbook with several years of experience under its belt; launching back in 2011, EGB has established themselves as a specialist bookmaker for those.
EGB.com offer betting on more than ten esports titles, but the site’s poor navigation makes it hard to know it. You’ll have to click on ‘table’ to see a list of bets, and then use the filters half-way down the page in order to select the games that you’re interested in.
This lack of polish is endemic to the site; you’ll find plenty of pages that don’t lead anywhere, plenty of spelling mistakes and a dated design that can quickly become overwhelming. There is a new site design which solves some (if not all) of these problems, but it hasn’t yet gone live.
Let’s discuss the betting options available. You can place bets on the match winner directly from the tables page, and further betting options are revealed by clicking on a specific match.
For example, on an upcoming Counter-Strike match we saw options to select winners of individual maps or individual pistol rounds, as well as choose the total number of rounds or kills in the series. Similar proposition bets are available for most other titles, particularly the bigger games like League of Legends and Dota 2. Live betting is available, and Twitch.tv streams are embedded wherever possible.
EGB possesses an e-gaming license from Curacao, and have been operating for the past five years. The site has generally attracted strong reviews online, although some users have reported difficulties speaking to customer service agents and arbitrary limits imposed on high-rollers.
EGB promise withdrawals are handled in anywhere from three minutes to 24 hours, although withdrawals to credit or debit cards can take up to seven days. On weekends, it can take up to three days to cash out using e-wallet providers. After the first withdrawal of the month, an additional charge of 4% of the withdrawal amount is levied.
You can contact EGB.com through the site’s live support chat system, available during most of the day. There’s also a 24/7 public chat for answers to common questions, although this is obviously unsuitable for specific account enquiries. The site also offers email and telephone support, at [email protected] and +506 40 003944, respectively. There have been some reports of customer service agents not speaking good English, but the situation seems to have improved in the past year. Show less.