Tote Review: £20 Welcome Offer, Pool Betting, App and Cashier Tested
The Tote is Britain's pool betting operator, relaunched online in 2019 with a fixed-odds sportsbook under licence 54779, and sits twenty-sixth in our table of 39 UK betting sites. Below: the £20 welcome offer split between Tote credit and a sports free bet, how pool betting differs from fixed odds, a card-only cashier, and apps rated 4.6 and 4.5.
Gambling Commission54779
Bet £5 Get£20in Free Bets and Tote Credit
- Why Tote ranks
- Pool betting on every British race with guaranteed Placepot and Scoop6 pools
- Apps rated 4.6 on iOS and 4.5 on Android
- £10 of the welcome offer usable on racing pools
- Fixed-odds sportsbook alongside the pools
4.8/ 10Overall score
- Welcome offer4.0
- OddsHand-priced
- Markets7.0
- Payments3.0
- App, in-play5.0
Scored against our five criteria. How the scoring works.
Full T&Cs apply New customers online only. Register and bet a min £/€5 at odds of 1/1 (2.0) or greater across sports or racing within 7 days of registration to qualify. Receive £/€10 Tote Credit, £/€10 Free Sports Bet within 48 hours of qualifying bet settlement. Qualifying bet is the first racing pool or sports bet added to bet slip. Voided/non-runner bets will not qualify; subsequent bet will be qualifying bet. 7-day expiry. 18+. One per customer. Selected customers only. Full T&Cs apply. Gambleaware.org.
- UK licence54779
- Pool bettingEvery British race
- Min deposit£10
- Withdrawals3 to 5 days
Tote Welcome Offer: Bet £5, Get £20 in Free Bets and Tote Credit
Register and place a £5 racing pool or sports bet at evens or longer within seven days. Within 48 hours of settlement the Tote credits £10 of Tote credit for the pools and a £10 sports free bet, both expiring after seven days. The qualifying bet is the first pool or sports bet added to the slip; voided bets and non-runners do not count and the next bet becomes the qualifier. The offer is open to selected customers only. It suits someone who will use the pools, since half of it is Tote credit. The offer scores 4 out of 10: 6 for the £20 headline, minus 1 for the 2.0 minimum odds, minus 1 for the seven-day expiry.
- Offer£10 Tote credit and a £10 sports free bet after a £5 qualifying bet
- Qualifying bet£5 racing pool or sports bet at 1/1 (2.0) or longer, within 7 days of registration
- ExcludedVoided bets and non-runners; the next bet qualifies instead
- Expiry7 days
- AvailabilitySelected customers; one per customer
Markets and Betting Types
The Tote's core is pool betting on every British race, with the Placepot, Scoop6 and win and place pools, where the dividend depends on how the pool is shared rather than a fixed price. The fixed-odds sportsbook covers 28 sports with 300 or more markets on a Premier League match, a bet builder, cash out and live streaming of racing for registered customers. It is not in our price feeds and pool dividends cannot be measured as payout in the same way. Markets score 7 out of 10: 4 for breadth, 1 each for cash out, bet builder and streaming; pool betting is a product our checklist does not credit.
Odds and Payout
The Tote is not in either of the price feeds behind our monthly odds test, so it has no measured payout and the odds criterion is left out of its overall score. Pool dividends are set by the pool rather than a margin, so a hand-priced measurement would cover the fixed-odds sportsbook only.
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Overall score calculated on welcome offer, markets, payments and app until an odds measurement exists.
Mobile App
The Tote has native apps on both platforms. The iOS app needs iOS 16 or later and is a 195MB download, rated 4.6 out of 5 on the App Store; the Android app needs Android 7 or later, is a 36MB download and is rated 4.5 on Google Play. The app scores 5 out of 10: 3 for both platforms and 2 for the store ratings. Streaming is credited under markets because our research does not confirm it inside the app.
In-Play Betting and Live Streaming
Pools stay open until the off, in-play betting covers the fixed-odds sportsbook with cash out, and racing is streamed live to registered customers.
- Live racing streams for registered customers
- Placepot, Scoop6 and win and place pools on every British race
- Fixed-odds in-play betting with cash out
- Bet builder on football
Payment Methods
Two deposit methods: Visa and Mastercard debit, with withdrawals to the same cards. The minimum deposit and withdrawal are £10 and withdrawals take three to five days. No PayPal, no Apple or Google Pay, no e-wallets.
Payments score 3 out of 10: debit cards 2, £10 minimum deposit 1. The thinnest cashier on our list.
Safe Betting and Responsible Gambling at Tote
The Tote holds UK Gambling Commission licence 54779 and partners with BeGambleAware, GamCare, GAMSTOP and Gambling Therapy. Its net loss limit runs on a rolling 30-day basis.
Tools in your Tote account
- Deposit limits by day, week or month
- Net loss limits over a rolling 30 days, with the lower of the two limits applying
- Time-outs from 24 hours to six weeks
- Self-exclusion for six months to five years
- Reality checks on request
Help outside the bookmaker
- GAMSTOP: one registration blocks every UK-licensed site, including the Tote
- GamCare: the National Gambling Helpline on 0808 8020 133, 24 hours, and live chat at gamcare.org.uk
- GambleAware: self-assessment, advice and local treatment at begambleaware.org
- Gambling Therapy: online support and the self-help app
Identity is verified before the first withdrawal.
Our Verdict on Tote
The Tote scores 4.8 out of 10 on four criteria. It is the place for pool betting, and the apps are well rated, but the cashier is cards only with three-to-five-day withdrawals and odds are unmeasured while it sits outside our price feeds.
What we like
- Pool betting with guaranteed Placepot and Scoop6 pools
- Apps rated 4.6 and 4.5
- £20 welcome offer for a £5 bet
- Rolling 30-day loss limit
What could be better
- Cards only, withdrawals in 3 to 5 days
- Half the welcome offer is Tote credit
- Thinnest cashier on our list
- Not in our price feeds, odds unmeasured
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