Free Money - Not so Great Odds (ladbrokes.com)

Member Name: darrenloud

Product:	ladbrokes.com
Date:	21/08/01 (27 review reads)
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Advantages: Free Bets Available, respectable company.

Disadvantages: Slow website, poor odds.

I am one of those people that like a flutter, especially as the internet offers ways to bet without paying tax.

I joined Ladbrokes as it is a respectable bookmaker on the high street and therefore presumed it would be online. I wanted to try online casinos, and with so many American online one's and other 'unheard of' casinos, I thought that Ladbrokes would be my 'best bet', excuse the pun.

I have spent a few pounds within the casino to say the least and very rarely won much :( although I think I'm about even overall. The casino software is available to download, the basic version being around 4megs and the full casino around 14megs.

You now can also order the CDrom too, and have it delivered to your home. I was surprised to find that I had been given £25 for free, to play with. Naturally you had to gamble it all before you could draw it out, so I did. I won £20 back from it and haven't been back since!

The reason I haven't been back is I now know that casinos are dangerous, its too easy to spend lots of money very quickly. However, I do still flutter on football and tennis, etc. But not at Ladbrokes.

Ladbrokes do not offer very good odds, other respectable online bookmakers, e.g. offer much better odds than Ladbrokes, so natuarally I would go there.

Ladbroke's website has a tendancy to be very slow, and the choice of bets can be limited (for a large corporation). The big brother event was advertised as being available to flutter on, but unfortunately was only available on the spanish alternative game show, as an example of how limited the betting can be.

I would recommend that everyone takes advantage of the free £25 bet, and the matching bet of £20 on the horses, etc (ie you bet £20 and they match it). But once you've spent that, cash it out and go else where!

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