Virtual Sports Betting Explained

Virtual sports betting sections are now available on many of the online betting sites and cover several sports including horse racing, football, tennis, and more. Football fans who want to be on the real deal, though, can check out the ten betting sites we have named the best for football. The same goes for horse racing punters, advised to take a look at our top ten bookies for the sport of kings.

In this guide, we cover how virtual sports betting works and which betting sites offer virtual sports with random number generators that have been independently tested and certified.

How does Virtual Sports Betting Work?

Bookmakers use random number generators (RNG) to decide the outcome of the events, with punters seeing the same schedules and the same outcomes. The outcomes cannot be influenced by any bookmakers, and are completely down to the RNG just like the casino games. You can watch live streams of all of the virtual sports and see the results for the past 3 months on some bookies.

The live-streaming services for virtual sports are now quite advanced and offer respectable computer-generated graphics with HD streams, crowd sound effects, and live commentary.

Virtual Sports Available:

• Football
• Horse racing
• Greyhounds
• Tennis
• Speedway
• Motor Racing
• Cycling
• Darts
• American Football
• Trotting
• Cricket

Punters can bet on several different betting markets for each virtual sport.

For example, virtual football offers the following betting markets:

• Match winner
• Over/under 2.5 goals (read our guide on it here)
• Total number of goals
• Double Chance
• Correct score
• Both teams to score (read our guide on BTTS here)
• Asian Handicaps (explained by us here)
• Home goals/away goals
• Asian goal lines (explained by us here)

For virtual racing, you can bet on Win markets, Forecast, Tricast, and place Each Way bets.

Which Betting Sites Offer Virtual Sports Betting?

There are many betting sites offering virtual sports betting in the UK now, but some offer more sports and betting markets than most. Also, all of the betting sites in this list have great reputations and have had the Random Number Generators independently tested and certified.