The register, graded
13 bookmakers, one model, nothing left out
Ghana licenses a small market and this is all of it. MSport finishes first on 8.6 and Premier Bet finishes last on 3.5, and both are on the same public register, which is the fact the table is built to make visible.
Who is in this table
Everything on the register, including what we criticise. A desk that only lists what it likes is an advertisement.
Some rows carry a link that pays this desk if an account is opened through it. No row is here because of that and none is ordered by it. Every figure below is computed on the build.
| # | Bookmaker | Verdict | Withdrawal, as published | What its terms reserve | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MSport Offer figures read off the operator's own surfaces. | 8.6 of 10 82% of the model | 45 minutes, reported | Ordinary retail discretion only | Open |
| 2 | Soccabet The offer figures are affiliate agreement, not an operator page. | 7.6 of 10 82% of the model | 8 minutes, reported | Ordinary retail discretion only | Open |
| 3 | betPawa Offer figures read off the operator's own surfaces. | 7.5 of 10 82% of the model | 10 minutes, reported | Ordinary discretion, with a stated sanction | Open |
| 4 | Wiwi Casino Offer figures read off the operator's own surfaces. | 7.4 of 10 82% of the model | 5 minutes, reported | Ordinary retail discretion only | Open |
| 5 | Betwinner Its own terms reserve a named power over an account that wins. | 7.2 of 10 82% of the model | 20 minutes, estimated | Reserves a power aimed at winners | Open |
| 6 | 1xBet The cashier does not open to a visitor outside Ghana. | 7.0 of 10 82% of the model | 3 hours, reported | Terms not read | Open |
| 7 | SportyBet The offer figures are affiliate agreement, not an operator page. | 6.7 of 10 82% of the model | 2 minutes, reported | Ordinary discretion, with a stated sanction | Open |
| 8 | 22Bet The cashier does not open to a visitor outside Ghana. | 6.7 of 10 82% of the model | 1 hour, estimated | Ordinary discretion, with a stated sanction | Open |
| 9 | Betway Its own terms reserve a named power over an account that wins. | 6.4 of 10 82% of the model | 5 minutes, reported | Reserves a power aimed at winners | Open |
| 10 | Bangbet Offer figures read off the operator's own surfaces. | 6.0 of 10 82% of the model | 1.5 hours, estimated | Ordinary retail discretion only | Open |
| 11 | BetFox Its own terms reserve a named power over an account that wins. | 5.5 of 10 whole model | 15 minutes, reported | Reserves a power aimed at winners | Open |
| 12 | Melbet Sport only. The register carries no casino licence for it and none was found. | 4.7 of 10 whole model | 1.5 hours, estimated | Reserves a power aimed at winners | Open |
| 13 | Premier Bet Books bets online, settles through an agent. No wallet and no casino. | 3.5 of 10 whole model | 2 hours, reported | Ordinary retail discretion only | Open |
What the five axes read
The model is the same for every row and it is arithmetic rather than judgement. Each axis is computed from fields on the record; where a record cannot answer an axis it is not scored on it, and the verdict is worked out over the weight that remained. A missing answer never becomes a zero, because a silence and a bad result are different things about a real company.
Standing on the register, weighted 28
Registration with the Gaming Commission of Ghana, worth four points of six and a half on its own, plus a quarter point for each licence entry to a ceiling of two and a half. A public review score would carry the remaining third of the axis where a genuinely Ghanaian one exists.
How fast money leaves, weighted 20
The fastest cash out anybody has published for the book, set against a window that runs from two minutes at the top to one day at the bottom. Not scored at all where nobody publishes a figure, because a silence is not a slow answer.
The lobby, weighted 18
Slots plus four times the live dealer tables, on a curve from a hundred and fifty games to six thousand. Zero where a book verifiably runs no casino, and unscored where a lobby exists but cannot be counted from outside the country.
Reaching a person, weighted 18
Chat staffed around the clock is six points of ten, a published phone line two and a half, an address one and a half. Not scored where the operator publishes no contact channel we could read.
What the offer is worth, weighted 16
The welcome offer after the playthrough is taken out of it, which is what separates a headline from money that can be withdrawn. Zero where the promotions page was read and carried nothing.
Where this table is weakest
Two things about it should bother a reader more than the order does. The first is coverage: ten of the 13 rows are graded on less than the whole model, almost always because a casino lobby renders only for a visitor inside Ghana and could not be counted. The second is the withdrawal column.
four of the withdrawal times behind these verdicts are not published figures at all. They are numbers this network chose, set to the middle of the market so that a thin record would not score like a blank, and the shared model grades them exactly as if a bookmaker had stated them. Those rows are marked in the table and named again on each report: Bangbet, Melbet, 22Bet, Betwinner.
The third weakness is one nobody can fix from here. Not a single record on this register carries a public review score that belongs to Ghana. Every rating in circulation is a global page with a different country's customers behind it, or rests on one or two reviews, and the log lists each one it refuses on those grounds. The part of the model that would have read a review score is therefore unused across the whole table.
Questions about the table
- Why does a bookmaker this desk criticises still appear in the table?
- Because the rule above the table is the register, not our opinion of a brand. Leaving a licensed bookmaker out because its terms are hostile would turn a table of the market into a table of recommendations, and a reader would have no way of telling the two apart. What the criticism does instead is sit in the row, in the column headed by what its terms reserve.
- Why is MSport first?
- Because of the weights, which are published in full and are the same for every row: standing on the register 28, how fast money leaves 20, the lobby 18, reaching a person 18, what the offer is worth 16. MSport answered 82 per cent of that model. Change the weights and the order changes, which is the whole reason they are on the page rather than behind a link.
- What does the share of the model next to each verdict mean?
- It is the proportion of the weighting a record could actually answer. ten of the 13 lobbies in this market cannot be counted from outside the country, so the axis about games is empty for most of the table and every verdict on it is computed over what remained. A figure from four-fifths of a model and a figure from all of it are different quantities and this table refuses to print them as though they were the same one.
- Has anyone here withdrawn money from these bookmakers?
- No. Not one cedi has been deposited, staked or withdrawn by anybody working on this publication. Every withdrawal time in the table is a figure an operator or an affiliate published about itself, and the log names which is which. A desk that had timed these things would say so and would be able to show the dates.