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Disclaimer: Fanatics Sportsbook acquired PointsBet Sportsbook U.S. in October of 2023. Because of this, we can no longer recommend PointsBet Sportsbook. Please feel free to read along our review of PointsBet Sportsbook when they were an active sportsbook in PA.
The Pennsylvania legal sports betting market is bringing on yet another heavyweight provider – one that has been busy creating a reputation for itself since the US Supreme Court overturned existing betting restrictions in 2018. Australian-based sportsbook PointsBet is officially joining what has been a top-3 legal sports betting jurisdiction, hoping that their unique spin on the industry results in a decent market share in the competitive Pennsylvania market. We like their chances.
Let’s take a deeper look into what PointsBet PA has to offer to the market. We will cover how their revolutionary PointsBetting system works, how to sign up for their legal sports betting experience, their software, the PointsBet Sportsbook menu of wagering opportunities, the sports available to bet on, banking options, and more.
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| PA Launch Date | February 7, 2022 |
PointsBet PA no longer offers a welcome bonus for new players. The brand is now converted in the state as Fanatics Sportsbook PA.
PointsBetting isn’t meant to scare anyone off. On the contrary, it is designed to bring more people in on their legal sports betting action for a more “risk/reward” type of wager. While you can win more by PointsBetting, you can also lose more.
Users bet on a bookmaker’s set line and watch to see how their bet performs against that number. The better the team you bet on does against that line, the bigger the reward and vice versa.
Let’s look at a simple example:
The Eagles are favored to beat the Steelers by 1 point, and you place your faith in the Eagles. Rather than simply betting fixed odds, let’s say you make a PointsBetting bet and choose to wager $10 per point. If the Eagles win 20-17 (a 3 point margin) you win your chosen stake, $10, for each point over the spread. In this case it would be 2 points, or a $20 win. If the Eagles won 21-10, you would get 10X your bet (the 1 point spread plus the extra 10 points they won by).
On the flip side, if the Eagles lost by 3 points, and you bet the same $10/point margin on them, you would lose 4X your chosen stake. The one point they were favored by, plus the 3 points they lost by totals a 4 point margin, multiplied by your $10 bet for a $40 loss.
So, while exciting and engaging throughout the entirety of the match you bet on, PointsBetting is potentially risky and could end up costing you in the end. Perhaps the most appealing element of PointsBetting is that it keeps you engaged until the final whistle. Every garbage time pass, field goal, fumble recovery, etc. can impact the payout of a PointsBetting wager even if the result of the game is already inevetible.
PointsBet Sportsbook has taken great strides to make signing up for their legal sports betting experience as easy as they can. After all, no site wants their customers bogged down in the minutia of registration! They want you to be able to get in there as quickly as possible.
Assuming that you are 21 years or older, PointsBet Sportsbook sign up is a 5–10-minute process and can take place from anywhere. In order to physically place a wager with PointsBet Pennsylvania, you are required to be within PA state lines.
PointsBet has long fancied itself as one of, if not the best legal sports betting option currently available in the US market. The company has been able to back up their assertion with one of the slickest and most impressive software offerings in the business. Whether it’s desktop or from your mobile device, the PointsBet software suite is sleek and modern and is one of the most intuitive that we have seen come along in the Pennsylvania market. The interface is clean, straightforward, and as user-friendly as they come.
Users can access PointsBet PA via the app on iOS or Android, or via the desktop site and won’t be disappointed by either. Once there, we found PointsBet to be easy to navigate. Most of the hottest action will appear on the home page with no need to seek out action on the most popular games for that day. Finding action on more obscure matches is simple too. Simply click on the side menu icon where all betting markets are displayed and follow the easy-to-understand prompts.
Appearance and navigation ability with the PointsBet software are elite but it means relatively little without the performance to back it all up. We found the PointsBet software to be seamless in its delivery and from our experience, flawless in its responsiveness.
Some minor gripes include the fact that in-play betting options aren’t prominent on the home page (although they are easily found). The sheer volume of bet-types for a particular game can make it a tad arduous to find your desired market. While positive that there is a seemingly endless menu of options for bettors, that aspect could be cleaned up. Generally, though, we had to search hard for some downside with the PointsBet software.
PointsBet PA has smartly and effectively been able to mirror its mobile app with its overall desktop experience. You won’t miss out on any of the perks by choosing either option for your PointsBet wagering experience. Let’s start with a look into the mobile wing of PointsBet.
The PointsBet PA app is available both for iOS and Android users. As previously mentioned, the app has taken huge steps in providing one of the most modern and easy-on-the-eyes wagering platforms in the business. It is also one of the easiest to use with an attractive red, white, black, and blue color scheme.
From the time you sign in to the PointsBet app to the time you log out, there is little to complain about. The buttons are extremely responsive, and the site is as solid and among the least-glitchy that we have found.
Current promotions, in-play betting options, upcoming lines, and all active markets are prominently displayed on the bottom left of the home screen as are the “Featured” games of the day. A “Next Up” button allows users an expedited menu of the impending games for which they can wager on.
As far as placing a wager, PointsBet’s mobile app is able to streamline that process as well. Users are easily able to access and view betting opportunities on all of the sports covered on the app and create a bet with one tap or click. It’s simple a matter of finding the game you want to be on, clicking on the side you are placing your faith in and selecting the bet amount for that game.
PointsBet checks all of the boxes with regard to its software. To be considered elite, you have to prove it and PointsBet is able to do just that with every aspect of both their mobile and desktop software suites.
As one of the top-dogs in the US legal sports betting industry, PointsBet is bringing one of the largest menus of sports anywhere to their users. You would be hard-pressed to find a sportsbook in the US market that covers more sports, both domestically and globally.
Below is just a sample-size of the sports offered with the PointsBet Sportsbook:
With competition heating up in the Pennsylvania betting streets, sportsbooks are hoping to separate themselves from the pack. One way to do so is to offer new, exciting, and unique betting opportunities to their customers. We have already discussed the proprietary and game changing PointsBetting. Beyond that we found PointsBet’s menu of wagering options to be top tier. They include:
There isn’t a bet-type that you won’t find with PointsBet. Their company has been able to deliver one of the most impressive menus of wagering opportunities you will find in the Pennsylvania market.
PointsBet has done great job populating one of the biggest and best list of banking options for its Pennsylvania clientele. Deposit and withdrawal options we found to be simple, quick, and as painless as any we have seen in the market thus far. We did find however that each option comes with different timeframes to complete. The comprehensive list includes:
PointsBet is one of the few elite sportsbooks to offer a loyalty program for the customers in Pennsylvania. More sportsbooks are catching on, but PointsBet brings an established program with it to The Keystone State. The more you bet, the more you earn. You will need 250 points before you can redeem.
Collect PointsBet Rewards and redeem them for Bonus Bets and merchandise from the PointsBet Sportsbook. $5 in Fixed Odds bets = 1 reward point, $1 Parlay bet is = 1 reward point and Every dollar won/ lost via PointsBetting also equates to 1 reward point. There’s a pretty simple exchange rate of 100 PointsBet Rewards points to $1 in PointsBet Bonus Bets.
Site security has become an integral part of an online sportsbook’s business. One misstep or one bad review can spell doom for a competing company. We scoured PointsBet’s record, dating back to their first riverboat casino in 1993 up to their passing of stringent regulatory hurdles in eight American markets as well as Canada.
We found PointsBet to have elite encryption software from preeminent internet safety providers. We are happy to report no nefarious activity with the company and their clientele so far. Simply put, your money and personal information are safe thanks to PointsBet’s airtight security software.
Customer Service is thankfully becoming a bigger focus in the competitive US and Pennsylvania legal sports betting market.
PointsBet, as one of the dominant brands in the entire US scene has done a good job of lining up all of the necessary Customer Support options. A well-stocked and comprehensive FAQ option, or what PointsBet calls their “Help” section should be the first area users visit to have their queries addressed. We found this section covers most of the possible issues bettors will have with regard to the PointsBet experience including baking options, promotions, general account enquiries and an explanation of various bet-types.
If needing to get in touch with PointsBet, there are a number of solid avenues, all of which proved satisfactory from out experience. A 24/7 Live Chat option boasts a knowledgeable team of agents that can promptly answer questions, and their email support, although not as instant, is certainly satisfactory.
Australian-based PointsBet arrived on American shores in 2019 with a move into the top performing jurisdiction in the nation, New Jersey. Since then, PointsBet has accessed plenty more states and has forged partnerships with some key entities within the North American sporting scene. Some examples include the NHL, NBA, WNBA, National Football League, Major League Baseball, and the PGA Tour, among others.
One partnership that sets PointsBet apart is their relationship with NBC Sports. PointsBet was lucky enough to sign on as the media empire’s official sports betting partner. NBC Sports provides an enormous reach (as the largest sports audience of any US media company, accessing over 184 million viewers and 60 million digital active users) as well as year-round, multi-platform media and marketing opportunities for PointsBet on all NBC Sports’ highly successful and highly viewed media platforms. NBC is home to NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL, and it delivers more than 2,200 live sporting events every year. Plus, you’ll see NBC’s Drew Brees plastered all over their platform.
With the backing and trust of some of the biggest names in US legal sports betting industry and with a major presence in many of the busiest betting states in the country, PointsBet has developed and maintained a rightful place as one of, if not the top sports betting provider operating in the US today. Their fiscal 2021 report that ended June 30 saw the company generate $518 million in revenue, which landed the company in the elite class of US providers.
PointsBet has already been a major player in New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, and Virginia among others. Their foray into the Pennsylvania market comes thanks to a “skin agreement” partnership with Penn National Gaming. PointsBet certainly hasn’t been shy about getting their name out there. The company has signed more than their share of sports betting partnerships with prominent leagues, teams, and even individual pop-culture icons with designs on infiltration, exposure, and growing their status within the competitive US legal sports betting scene.
There are few holes in the platform that PointsBet brings to the Pennsylvania market. While it is not our job to promote any singular sportsbook, our goal is to provide the facts and those facts support the notion of PointsBet being one of the more impressive providers that we have had the privilege of reporting on.
