About Us

Our aim

There are hundreds of betting sites out there these days on the internet.

Our goal is to help you separate the wheat from the chaff in terms of telling you which ones are honest, fair, reliable, trustworthy and safe. And which aren’t.

Every one of those online betting sites will talk a good game about their overall product, their welcome bonus and all of the other features they believe makes them stand out from the crowd.

But then again, they would, wouldn’t they?

We’re in a very different position in that we’re completely impartial and have far more to gain from being honest and transparent as regards what we make of them all.

Our team of betting experts trawls through dozens of betting sites with a fine-tooth comb, examining all aspects of the online bookmaker. So we can give you unbiased and straight-talking reviews of which best sports betting sites uk we recommend to you.

We aim to point you in the right direction so you get the best-possible experience out of your chosen online bookmaker(s).

Keep reading and you’ll soon see all the different factors we take into account when evaluating how good we think a bookmaker is.

Who are we

We here at Punters Pub are a team of experts with dozens of years of collective experience of online betting under our belts.

When it comes to high-class and trustworthy bookies at one end and cowboy betting sites you can’t trust at the other end, we’ve seen it all before.

But who are we really? Well, the clue is in the name. We’re all punters, just like you, who love betting ourselves and are on your side, not the bookmaker’s side.

The best sports betting sites UK can look after themselves, meaning you and us are in this together. To give them a good run for their money in a fair fight between punter and bookie, which is well over a century old.

As for the Pub bit, let’s explain.

Rather than talking to you like we’re University professors lecturing to students, we talk to you like we’re down the pub over a pint. Simple, honest, laid-back language that tells you what you want to know without unnecessarily complicating anything. After all, we want to win your trust, not the Nobel Prize for Literature!

The process of evaluating sites

Choosing a betting site is a bit more of a commitment than it may at first seem.

For example, you’ll need to register, make a deposit, find your way around the site, get accustomed to the different betting markets and how the different bonuses work.

In some cases, punters stay loyal to one of the best online betting sites UK for more than a decade.

So, in this regard, it’s a bit like choosing your next car.

What’s key to you in that regard? Speed, space, price, appearance, reliability, safety, in-built gadgets? Everyone will have their own priorities and preferences and taking all those factors into consideration will be needed before choosing the ride that will be a central part of your life for the next few years.

It’s the same with choosing one of the top UK betting sites. We’ve listed most of the main considerations below that we take into account when evaluating just how good a betting site is. And we’ll explain why each of those is an important factor.

So, a good starting point is to read the section below where we evaluate some of the best-known betting sites UK, and also some of the newer ones that aren’t yet household names.

But there’s another way of going about things.

Say you’re just interested in one particular aspect of a betting site. Like payment methods, welcome bonuses or the ongoing promise of Best Odds Guaranteed.

If that’s your main focus, you can visit the Punters Pub page that’s solely dedicated to that aspect of betting sites and where all the emphasis is on that. Rather than the slightly more general assessment below.

We’ll give you general information about that betting site as well, in addition to impartial pros and cons of each site. But each of our dedicated pages looks at a particular feature in greater depth.

How do we make money?

That’s a very legitimate question. In the name of transparency, we’ll explain.

We’re what’s called an affiliate site. Going back to the car example, imagine that there’s a company (let’s call them ConnectingCars) in the form of a website, who connects would-be buyers of cars with would-be sellers of cars.

ConnectingCars lists all the cars currently available, assesses them, evaluates their price and tells the prospective buyer all they need to know before deciding whether to buy the car.

Once the two parties are connected and the sale goes through, ConnectingCars receives a fee from the seller as a ‘thank-you’ for making the introduction.

We work in a similar way. We endorse certain betting sites who pass our rigorous tests of being safe, having a good reputation, being a high-class product and holding the most-respected betting licenses.

The best betting sites we choose to endorse are our partners. And if you as a punter decide to open an account with them, the site pays us a fee for the introduction.

These fees allow us to build and maintain a top-class site and to pay our team of writers at Punters Pub to carry on their good work.

Now, we could endorse dozens and dozens of betting sites. Believe us when we say that there are no shortage of poor-quality sites who would jump at the chance of being our partners.

But we don’t.

To use the car example one last time (we promise), ConnectingCars wouldn’t stay in business for very long if within weeks of purchasing their cars, customers found them to be faulty, unreliable, problem-ridden or worse still, downright dangerous to be on the road.

Cars4U would quickly gain the reputation for being a mercenary company more concerned with making a quick buck than providing a valuable long-term service.

And if Punters Pub gained a reputation as that sort of business, we’d quickly be out…of business.

So, we’d rather take the approach of recommending less of the best sports betting sites UK, receiving fewer referral fees, but only having satisfied customers.