About company
Paddy Power was established in 1988 as result of a merger of bookmakers Stewart Kenny, David Power, and John Corcoran. It kept growing and developing, becoming one of the most famous bookmakers in the world, but still, it’s European bookie. They have great number of markets, including sports betting, casino, poker and virtual sports. Paddy Power is regulated and licensed by the Gambling Commission for GB Customers and regulated by the Isle of Man Gambling Supervision Commission for sports betting.
Considering Paddy Power have a lot of betting shoos round Ireland and the Great Britain, we should say you can find it both online and offline. On top of that, Paddy Power is probably one of the most user-friendly bookmaker there. They are reputed for their refund system, they can also pay out money you win even before the end of the event. It’s very nice at times, customers love it.
Website review
Surely, Paddy Power is Irish bookmaker after all and they are proud of it. That’s why you can see mostly green and white colors on their webpage. Website have appealing, simple, but beautiful design. It’s very user-friendly and it easy to use.
On the left customers can see list of sports available, particularly football (it’s common for British football to focus on football). You also see games played right now, so it’s a great opportunity for those
Paddy Power offers quick link feature so that you could easily find sport, or event you are most interested in. Surely, the most popular sports like football or horseracing are very easy to find. They are located in the block on the right. There you can also see a list of markets set up in alphabetical order. In the center, you can various specials, promotions and offerings, so they are hard to overlook.
Money lines and odds
We should say, Paddy Power’s in-play betting is really something they can be proud of. In fact, there are almost no other bookie that will be able to overtake Paddy Power in this field. They offer so many options for live-betting that you can really try challenge them to find what they do not have. It especially applies to football market, number of options is overwhelming. Moreover, if you like live-betting, but have troubles finding suitable bookie as some bookmakers do not pay desired attention to this section, Paddy Power is your operator. Not only in-play betting is impressive here, you can also find many interesting offers and quite high odds in pre-match section.
It doesn’t mean though, Paddy Power focus only on football. Horseracing market is solid here as well. It’s very and very solid. It’s hard to find other bookie that would offer so much information and markets and stats for the horseracing betting. It’s just splendid.
Apart horseracing and football, you can also find a vast number of various sports in their list. Paddy Power offer markets for almost all major sports you can think about. They also have quite rare ones like Crossfit Games, water polo and squash. But it doesn’t really end on sports betting, there also offerings for Eurovision, politics as so on. They also have e-gaming market, which not all leading bookies have at the moment.
Signing up and bonuses
As we already said, Paddy Power is very friendly bookie. So they offer up to 300% bonus for their new clients. Sure, it’s very impressive bonus, one of the biggest, but not the biggest one though. Nevertheless, you can easily earn £30 that you will receive in free bets. In order to receive this welcome bonus customers have to deposit £10 and that’s it. However, they have some additional rules for you to obtain this sign-up bonus.
You should first of all remember you will get the bonus only after you place your first bet. Not earlier. All you need to do is sign-up, log in and deposit abovementioned £10. Keep in mind, Neteller and Skrill deposits are not eligible for the offer. After that you need to place a bet on a game with at least ½ odds and then you will receive welcome bonus on your account. That’s all. Of course, you should use your bonus within 30 days, it’s what many bookies do just to encourage new clients.
We should say Paddy Power has one of the best offers on daily basis and refunds. Just imagine, you will receive a free bet if only your multibet on football (five-fold at least) would be lost by one leg. And it’s not just football, they offer vast variety of specials and promotions for horseracing betting every day as well.
Payment systems
Paddy Power payment systems include Credit and Debit card, Paypal, Neteller, Skrill, Ukash, Paysafecard, cash, bank transfer and cheque. Surely, some other bookies may have more payment methods, but it should be a problem for punters. We should outline that almost all deposit and withdrawal methods are free of charge. On top of that, minimum deposit is £5 and minimum withdrawal is £10. Moreover, there is no maximum limits for deposit and withdrawal, except for cash.
Mobile application
We should admit Paddy Power found a great solution how to manage all these great variety of different markets. They did not try to squeeze them all into one app. There are different apps for sportsbook, casino, poker etc. So if you’re sports fan you just don’t care about anything concerning casino, it doesn’t go in your way. They have apps for iOS and Android. They are user friendly and easy to navigate.
