Hollywoodbets UK Review

Hollywoodbets is a growing brand boasting customers from all over the world. Having started out as a retail bookmaker in 1999, it now owns and operates more than 80 bet shops in South Africa. In 2006, it launched its first online betting platform in that country and added a customised mobile site only a few years later.

Over the past few years, its global expansion project has kicked into gear. 2015 saw Hollywoodbets granted an online gambling licence in the Isle of Man. This was followed by Ireland in 2018, and in 2019 Hollywoodbets received its first UK Gambling Commission licence. This site is as legit as they come, and on this page we'll take a closer look to see what it offers UK punters.

Why punters bet at Hollywoodbets UK:

HollywoodBets specialises in horse racing. In 2022, it was announced that this brand would be the main sponsors of South African's biggest horse race, the Durban July. HollywoodBets also sponsors plenty of cards in the UK and regularly sponsors meetings at Dundalk and Fairyhouse in Ireland.

With racing from the UK, Ireland, South Africa, Germany, Spain, and Argentina, to name a few, there’s no shortage of racing on this sportsbook. Each race card provides details of the horse, jockey, and trainer. It also highlights if the horse has won over the course and distance previously. Personally, we would like to see more detailed form guides, so hopefully, Hollywoodbets UK will provide these soon.

In terms of betting options; you can take the current price or place a bet on the SP. At the bottom of the list of runners, there’s also a market for backing the 2nd favourite. Of course, all of the common bet types are available, including singles, multiples (accumulators), and system bets like lucky 15s, trixies, and yankees. 

HollywoodBets are the shirt sponsors of Brentford Football Club and football betting is prominent on their sportsbook. If you like to have a flutter of the greyhounds, Hollywoodbets has all UK and Ireland races for you. Tennis bettors are also well-catered to with action from the WTA, ATP, ITF (Men & Women), and a host of smaller, challenger series events. Moreover, you’ve got plenty of American sports to feast on. There are thousands of betting opportunities spread across the NBA, MLB, NHL, NFL, and even NASCAR racing.

Esports is another area in which Hollywoodbets excells. It offers a plethora of markets on League of Legends match-ups, as well as Dota 2, Counter-Strike Global Offensive, StarCraft, and StarCraft 2.

We are suitably impressed with the variety of sports and the total number of betting markets available. Overall, we consider Hollywoodbets UK to be competitive across most sports and markets, but certainly not market leading.

Hollywoodbets offers thousands of live in-play betting events every month. This live betting feature covers many different sports, including football, tennis, ice hockey, volleyball, table tennis, and handball. There is also a good choice of live betting markets for all the big matches.

The live betting platform offers an overview, where you can see all the current in-play games, an event view for one specific match, multiview, calendar, and results section. Furthermore, it offers a match animation console for nearly all live games, and you have several in-game stats, which can help you make wiser bet selections.

User experience is vital in this business, and the Hollywoodbets’ website lets themselves down slightly. It feels far too cluttered. Most sportsbooks use a classic three-column layout, but this platform has four. 

There are up and down sliders for each column, which takes some getting used to when you first try it out. With that said, once you’ve tested it for a while, it becomes more natural. Overall, navigation is easy as the left-side menu uses simple dropdown menus for punters to find the match/race they want. In the header menu is the ‘sign in’ button. This is where you enter your Hollywoodbets login details each time.

Punters will benefit from a variety of betting products at Hollywoodbets UK. Here are just a few of the best features it has to offer.

Cash out is one of the most popular betting tools around, and Hollywoodbets offers it on hundreds of markets every day. Furthermore, for football bettors, you can also use the bet builder tool to create your own same game accumulator bets.

The virtual casino is powered by Microgaming. It offers an abundance of video slots, table games, such as roulette, blackjack, baccarat, and craps, and video poker games. Over in the live dealer casino, you can choose from live keno, poker, baccarat, blackjack, and roulette. In all honesty, it’s not the best online casino in the UK, but for casual players, there are more than enough options.

These are also live games, which are very popular in South Africa. Betgames TV offers fixed-odds lottos like Lucky 5, Lucky 6, and Lucky 7, in addition to dice duel, money wheel and war on bets.

The choice of payment options is fairly limited at the moment, but HollywoodBets have assured us that more options will be made available.

Current options include:

All available deposit methods (listed above) can also be used for making withdrawals, so you won’t have any hassle getting your hands on your winnings.

* Top up vouchers can be purchased to top-up your account balance using cash. Vouchers are available at Poundland stores in the UK under eVouchers, and can also be purchased in selected shops across London, the Midlands and the South-West of England.

Customer support is an integral part of a successful online betting site. Hollywoodbets understands this from its years of experience. While it’s not round the clock, the operational hours (07:00 - 22:00 every day) are adequate. Here's how you can contact their customer services team...

Live Chat: Log in to access via the icon on the platform

Email: support@hollywoodbets.co.uk