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BCGame Sister Sites 2024

Fun88

Before we even get into the BCGame sister sites, we’ll warn you that there’s very little point in looking through them if you’re hoping to find something different to what you’ve already experienced at BCGame. All of the betting sites on the TGP Europe Limited platform were made for international audiences, and the UK versions of them are very watered-down and basic compared to what the operator’s target audience in the Far East sees when they arrive on the sites. As such, Fun88 is more or less a clone of BCGame, but it’s arguably the best-known of all the BCGame sister sites. That’s mostly down to a well-timed sponsorship deal – Fun88 just so happened to be the primary shirt sponsor of Newcastle United at the time that the Magpies received huge investment from Saudi Arabia and returned to prominence. That brought Fun88 to the attention of the betting public, and the brand has benefitted significantly from that exposure.

Stake

When we said a moment ago that Fun88 is the most famous of the BCGame sister sites, Stake was the only other TGP Europe Limited brand that gave us pause for thought. We still think Fun88 is more famous, but there’s not a lot in it. Stake has been active in the UK for a lot longer than most of this operator’s brands have, and its logo has appeared in the front of a number of football shirts during its years of activity. The biggest and most obvious of those names is Everton. The Merseyside club’s logo is plastered prominently all over the homepage of the Stake website as the brand seeks to take maximum advantage from the connection. In every other way, though, Stake is exactly like all the other BCGame sister sites. There’s no difference in the betting categories or the games – they’re all the same.

SBOTOP

Other than their identical layouts and formats, the other thing that all of the biggest BCGame sister sites have in common is their football connections. The football fans among you might recall that SBOTOP was the brand that sponsored Leeds United during the Yorkshire club’s most recent spell in the Premier League. Having been relegated, Leeds no longer gets the exposure that TGP Europe Limited needs from its sponsorship deals, so the brand now sponsors Fulham. Again, this partnership is reflected on the SBOTOP homepage, where both the Fulham logo and a backdrop of Craven Cottage is visible. At this point, we’re running out of things to say about the BCGame sister sites. They’ll all offer you the same experience, and if you want to know more about that experience, you can scroll down this page and read our full review of BCGame. It could just as easily be a review of any of its sister sites.

Sportpesa Uk

We’re surprised that SportPesa is still up and running. The BCGame sister sites often have short shelf lives. They’re set up, they do a couple of years trading, and then they close down again – or, at least, they close down from the point of view of players in the UK, who aren’t the operator’s target audience. Often, the only reason these brands launch in the UK at all is to take advantage of the attention garnered by their Premier League football sponsorships. SportPesa used to be one such brand, as it was the shirt sponsor of Everton Football Club long before Stake took its place. With the Everton deal over, SportPesa hasn’t moved on to sponsoring any other teams and, as such, has an even more generic-looking homepage than the other BCGame sister sites we’ve looked at thus far. Sports betting websites don’t come much blander than this, but at least it loads quickly.

BOB Sports

BOB Sports, also known as Bob88, is one of the more unusual BCGame sister sites. It’s not so unusual that it has a different layout or concept behind it than any of the other sites on the network – that would be too much to ask for – but it stands out because of its salmon pink colour scheme. We’re not sure what the inspiration behind the theme is, but it catches the eye. BOB Sports is like a lot of the other BCGame sister sites in that it’s opted to pay for a football sponsorship in the hope of attracting players, but it’s gone down a different route than Stake, SBOTOP or the others. Instead, BOB Sports is the sponsor of the Wales football team. That strikes us as a wasted sponsorship, given that sponsor logos aren’t allowed to appear on the shirts of football teams at international level. As for who Bob is, we have no idea.

Can BCGame Be Trusted?

★★★★★

BCGame is a 3-star trusted casino.

1. UKGC License	BCGame is covered by TGP Europe Limited’s UK Gambling Commission licence – number 38898.
2. UKGC Fines	The UKGC fined TGP Europe £316,250 in February 2023 after finding that the operator had broken conditions of its licence pertaining to customer interaction and anti-money laundering measures. The regulator also handed down an official warning and imposed extra conditions on the company’s licence.
3. Customer Service	The only way to contact customer support is through a contact form or via email. There’s no live support.
4. Trustpilot Score	N/A – The UK version of BCGame is yet to be reviewed at Trustpilot.
5. Company Location	TGP Europe Limited is based in Douglas on the Isle of Man.
6. Visible Promo T&C’s	BCGame doesn’t offer promotions, but all of its general terms and conditions are easy to find.
7. Social Media Presence	The brand is very active on social media, with busy accounts on both X.com and Facebook.
8. Number of Sister Sites	TGP Europe Limited operates more than twenty-five BCGame sister sites.
9. Games portfolio	This is a sports betting site, but it also has a small portfolio of slots and live casino games to keep players entertained.
10. Gamstop links	GamStop’s logo is easy to spot towards the bottom of the BCGame homepage, and can be clicked on to go to the GamStop site.
Overall SCORE >	★★★★★ – 3/5 Stars

BCGame Review 2024

TGP Europe Limited spent months promoting the impending arrival of BCGame to the UK before the website finally arrived in December 2023. It’s one of the operator’s biggest brands internationally, so the company is presumably hoping that it will make waves here, too. Given the level of hype, we were hoping to see something other than the standard TGP Europe offering when the casino went live. Sadly, the standard TGP Europe offering is exactly what we got. Read on to find out more.

BCGame Welcome Promotions

None of the BCGame sister sites offer welcome promotions, so it shouldn’t come as a great surprise to find out that BCGame itself doesn’t have any welcome promotions to offer either. For whatever reason, bonuses just don’t appear to be part of the TGP Europe Limited blueprint.

Other Promotions

The only things at BCGame that could loosely be called promotions are the “features” that it offers to sports bettors. Those features are acca boosts, bet builders, and the option to cash out on a bet while a game or fixture is in progress. These are all nice features to have, but they’ve become part and parcel of the fabric of any good betting site, so it wouldn’t be accurate to call them promotions. If you’re looking for anything that resembles a free bet or perhaps a few free spins to use in the BCGame casino, we’re afraid you’re not going to find anything.

Pros and Cons of BCGame

Pros: We suppose we could say that by providing virtually nothing in terms of features, BCGame keeps things simple. Its website loads very quickly, and everything on it is easy to find. The sportsbook that it offers is comprehensive, and includes esports and egaming as well as standard sporting matters.

Cons: Just about everything else, if we’re honest. The lack of proper customer support is a big worry, the lack of promotions and bonuses makes the site boring, and withdrawals take up to five days no matter which withdrawal method is chosen. The site doesn’t do anything beyond covering the basics.

Top Games at BCGame

BCGame, despite the site’s name, isn’t really about casino games. It has a few to offer – mostly from Pragmatic Play, by the looks of things – but they’re relegated to side menus and aren’t extensively promoted on the BCGame website (in as much as the BCGame website extensively promotes anything). This, like all the BCGame sister sites, is a sports betting website. The true “top games” here are the sporting matters that the site offers odds on.

You can get an idea of the site’s order of priority by looking at the default layout of its sportsbook. English football is placed front and centre, which is precisely what we’d expect from an operator that’s paid for so many high-profile Premier League football sponsorships. American Football takes second place behind English football, which is a big reminder that even though BCGame is available in the UK, it’s not really designed for a UK audience. The placement of basketball in third places further solidifies that view. Further down the list of sports betting options, you’ll find E-Football, E-Sports, and a “Specials” section which, at the time of our visit, included pool. Why pool wouldn’t be considered a regular betting option rather than a “special” is unknown.

Withdrawal Processing & Support

BCGame has a “Deposits and Withdrawals” page, upon which it provides further information about its withdrawal policies. Sadly, they don’t make for fun reading. The range of options isn’t too bad – the site can process withdrawals to Neteller or Skrill e-wallets as well as your standard Visa or Mastercard debit card, but speed is an issue. The quoted turnaround time for processing is five business days, regardless of whether you ask for your money to be sent to a card or an e-wallet. Why it should take this long to process a withdrawal to an e-wallet – a method that ought to be instant by design – is another mystery.

Customer Services & Licensing

Customer support is yet another of BCGame’s weaknesses. Great iGaming sites provide a triumvirate of customer support options: email, live chat, and telephone. Good ones offer live chat and email. BCGame can’t even manage that. Clicking on the “Support” bubble takes you to a contact form and a message that someone will get back to you within twenty-four hours. Alternatively, you could send an email to [email protected], with the same expected turnaround time. Basically, if you need urgent assistance, you’re not going to get it.

As a TGP Europe Limited brand, BCGame is covered by the licence that the operator holds with the UK Gambling Commission under registration number 38898. It’s not a clean licence; the operator found itself fined for licence breaches in January 2023. Further information about this is laid out in the Trust Score table further up this page. The same licence covers all of the BCGame sister sites.

BCGame – The Verdict

Do we really need to tell you what our verdict on BCGame is? It should be obvious to anyone who’s read this full review that we don’t rate the site very highly. A casino or betting site launched in December 2023 ought to be a lot better than this from both a technical and feature perspective. Customer support isn’t good enough, withdrawal turnaround times aren’t good enough, and the presentation of the website isn’t good enough. We’re all for a good minimalist iGaming site, but minimalism can go too far, and BCGame is a good example of that. We can’t see a good reason to place bets here when so many good sports betting options exist elsewhere.