Pokerstars bookmaker review

We calculated the margin for Pokerstars by analysing the odds they offer and placed them into one of the following three categories:

From 1% to 5%: Good value

Over 5% to 7%: Average value

Over 7% to 10%: Poor value

Football

We’re getting our results by taking into account the odds for final result outcomes measured in line with the total goals scored for different football leagues. By getting the average results using this method, we were able to obtain the margins for each league and also the overall betting margin for the bookmaker.

Pokerstars has an overall margin of 7.77% for football and falls in the poor value category. In the first section using odds from the Premier League, the margin is at 6.30%. The second section with Spanish La Liga and Italian Serie A, the margin is at 7.08%. Finally, by counting the English Football League One, Austrian Bundesliga and Polish Ekstraklasa into account, the margin is at 9.94%.

See how the margin was calculated

PokerStars’ betting section is very comprehensive despite being relatively new on the market. It comes as a surprise for us that they already have over 37 regular sports in the portfolio and are aiming to expand even further. The A-Z sports list includes popular ones such as football, tennis, horse racing, basketball, cricket, as well as niche sports like speedway, volleyball, water polo, etc.

Football betting

The PokerStars Sports football betting page is very well structured with the main events being displayed in the middle, while the upcoming fixtures by days being located on the left-hand side of the page. Furthermore, you can navigate between important sub-menus such as Competitions, Calendar, In-Play, Outrights, RequestABet, Odds Boost and Highlights. This is very helpful for every bettor as everyone loves to access the important features of a betting website within just a couple of clicks.

In terms of football betting coverage, you can expect more than 90 pre-match markets for leagues across over 50 countries. The amount of markets will increase for the European elite leagues such as the English Premier League, Spanish La Liga, Italian Serie A, French Ligue 1 or the German Bundesliga. Markets include the casual win-draw-win, Asian Handicap, total goals, as well as some complex ones like Half with most goals, Missed Penalty for either team, First Team to score, etc.

Horse Racing

Horse racing gets the second most traction only to football on the PokerStars Sports Ireland website given the fact that customers love to place a daily cheeky bet on their favourite horse. The horse racing page looks clean and sharp with four tabs at the top where bettors can navigate between the highlights of the day, current and future meetings and results. The next 6 races can be found on a different tab while all the daily meetings are visible displayed in the middle of the page. 

PokersStars Sports are providing competitive odds for horse racing for both daily meetings and major racing events such as Grand National, Cheltenham, Royal Ascot, Epsom, etc. In addition, Irish customers can wager on both domestic and international races and here we can mention events from South Africa, Australia or the US. Another excellent feature is the presence of the Timeform tool which provides some insight info about the favourite of each race. Furthermore, each horse comes with the runner comments, which contains a short paragraph with the recent performance.

Betting Limits: Limits are quite large but expect them to be reduced if your betting habits spread across minor leagues or less popular events.

The live betting area can be accessed by clicking on the In-play menu at the top of the page and it displays football as the main sport, but you can easily switch to other popular sports like basketball, tennis, or even select all in order to view all the live events.

The amount of live betting markets it’s more than impressive as it can reach around 350, while at the moment of writing this review we’ve seen 200 markets for an Italian Serie B match. This only means that the bettors have a variety of options to wager on and we would like to mention the popular both teams to score, over/under total goals, draw no bet, clean sheet, winning margin and many more betting markets. Each live fixture is accompanied by an animated 3D pitch which displays the live action of the match, key stats and even info about H2H history and the league table.

As we all know, live streaming is a must-have feature nowadays as it gives bettors the chance to closely follow their bets they have placed on an event. Unfortunately, the live streaming service is only available for horse racing meetings at the moment, but we are sure that PokerStars Sports will implement this feature across all the popular sports as soon as possible.

Mobile Betting

The PokerStars Sports mobile application is available for both Android and iOS devices and it can be downloaded with ease. For the Apple devices users, the app can be found on the Apple Store, while the customers with Android phones or tablets can download the app straight from the PokerStars website.

There is also a mobile version of the PokeStars Sports website which has exactly the same features that the desktop version has. All the features and menus can be accessed with ease using your fingers as long as the users has access to an Internet connection. Both the designed mobile app and the mobile version of the site are well designed and the whole experience is very smooth.