AK Bets is owned by Anthony Kaminskas and Star Racing Limited operates the site under a white-label solution. The bookmaker was launched in 2021 and as such, it is still considered to be one of the new betting sites in the UK. It has been particularly active in horse racing though we feel there are much better options out there for the sport of kings.
Star Racing Limited utilises Playbook Gaming Limited's sportsbook technology and AK Bets will thus be very familiar to most punters who sign up. This also means that there are quite a few AK Bets sister sites for punters to take a look at. Having said that, we have never been big fans of the Playbook Gaming technology.
Below, we review each of AK Bets sister sites and as they are fundamentally the same product, we focus on the differences between them.
NRG BET is one of the newest betting sites in the UK, launching the site in 2024, and it uses the Playbook Gaming platform. It's technically operated by Sharedbet Limited, so you could think that it has a similar arrangement to AK Bets, but Sharedbet and Playbook Gaming come from the same people. In any case, NRG BET is indeed a sister site of AK Bets.
The sportsbook is exactly the same as the others (what a shocker!), but the best welcome offer of the bunch can be found here, at least in our opinion. Punters can claim a £10 free bet by depositing and staking at least £20 with minimum odds of evens. In other words, this is slightly better than Rhino Bet which gives the same free bet for staking £25.
BresBet was launched in 2021 and is owned by the horse racing enthusiast Nic Brereton. Having said that, the site is operated by Playbook Gaming and thus sports the same design as AK Bets. The colour scheme is a bit more colourful but that is the only difference as far as the sportsbook goes.
The bookmaker lacks customer support, does not have a welcome offer and is actually on our blacklist for UK bookies. Like all of the Playbook Gaming sites there is also a lack of payment methods. In short, and we have said it before, it is simply not worth signing up on the betting site.
Dragonbet is owned by Lovell Brothers Limited and during its infancy, it was actually not operated by Playbook Gaming. After the previous provider was taken over by another company in 2023, though, Dragonbet opted to switch sportsbook providers and it has been under the Playbook umbrella site.
The bookmaker focuses heavily on the Welsh market and while this has attracted some punters, the site is not that impressive. The sportsbook lacks several key features and, above all, there is no betting offer for new customers to claim. We thus recommended other options instead in our review of the site.
Planet Sport Bet hit the market in 2021 and is owned by the Football 365 group, which is responsible for popular news sites such as Team Talk and Planet F1. The site is operated by Playbook Gaming and while famous people such as Robbie Savage have been brand ambassadors, the brand has never taken off.
The bookmaker used to have a pretty good bet £10 get £10 welcome offer for punters to claim, but it has since been scrapped. This lack of a betting sign-up deal, as well as the subpar sportsbook and poor customer support, means Planet Sport Bet has no chance of competing with the big sites in the UK.
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