ESPN Bet Reviews & Ratings for September 2024 - Is it legit and safe to play?

We’ve got our guide to the ESPN Bet sign up offer, but we'll give you the lowdown on the basics of the brand's welcome offers right now. There are two sign up promos available and they work in the following ways:

$1,000 matched deposit bonus

Here you just have to sign up to ESPN Bet for the first time and find that your deposit will be matched by 100% to give you potentially up to $1,000 extra wagering credit. Plus you'll get 5% cashback on sports betting and 2% cashback on casino gaming. Just note that your opening deposit has to be at least $10 and you get 21 days to use this deal

$200 bonus bets

This is an even simpler deal has you just have to sign up to ESPN Bet and then make any kind of opening bet. This will trigger four $50 bonus bet tokens that will land in your account within 72 hours and then you get seven days to use these on your sports bets.

We’ve spent a fair amount of time looking around the ESPN Bet site, and it looks to be a great platform. Everything has a professional and well-designed feel and we were impressed with page loading times. What's best is that this carries onto the actual sports betting interface itself to give you a great way to make your bets.

We downloaded the ESPN Bet app as soon as it came out and it looks like it’s the real deal. This meant that we could sign up to the sportsbook with the bare minimum of fuss, and it looks like other tasks such as making deposits and betting on sports will be equally intuitive. Just so you know, you can download the ESPN Bet app to your iOS or Android device from all of the relevant app stores.

ESPN Bet mobile sportsbook

ESPN Bet quick mobile bets

ESPN Bet was quick to disclose the full range of payment methods that are available on its platform. This means that you get a choice of payment providers that are similar to what you get at other top-level online sportsbooks. As a result, you should be able to make deposits with the likes of Visa, Mastercard, Discover, PayPal or even try an ACH bank transfer. Just note that there might be fewer withdrawal options available, depending on where you are playing from.

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Seeing as ESPN Bet is a major brand, we got high levels of customer care. This means that you are able to get 24/7 help via live chat and email, and even request a callback. Plus it looks like the brand has already set up its FAQ and that there is full social media coverage too.

We found that ESPN is currently licensed in 17 states across the US. These are Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Such licensing means that ESPN Bet is legally operating and that you should be able to gain access to a variety of player protection tools so that you can apply your own limits and so on.

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We can’t wait to see if ESPN Bet puts on more deals for its existing customers. Ideally, there should be some kind of reward program that’ll give you a range of benefits for each bet that you put down.

Transitioning from Barstool Sportsbook to ESPN Bet

It's important to note that ESPN Bet is the new sports betting platform set up by Penn Entertainment. The brand had previously operated Barstool Sportsbook, but has switched its attention to ESPN Bet, and we can expect the new brand to feature plenty more deals like the reward programs featured at Barstool in the future. We’ll update these ESPN Bet reviews with the relevant information when we get it.