BassBet Casino

BassBet Casino Review

Those among you who are better versed in the world of pokies might be familiar with the game “Big Bass Bonanza”, an iconic title that, despite its unusual theme, has become iconic among players. It may be easy to assume that BassBet is themed after it, but the truth is far more interesting: its name dervies from its “Go Fishing” feature, which rewards players with daily rewards if they manage to, as fishermen say, hook a big one.

But we at CasinoAustraliaOnline aren’t just interested in these bonus features! No, we’re looking at online casino sites as a whole: their games, bonuses, payment options, and naturally, whether they’re safe to play at in the first place! As such, we closely examined BassBet and all of its aspects, and then wrote a comprehensive review answering all your questions! Wanna read it? Lucky for you, it’s just below!

Bonuses

Welcome Bonus – 100% Match up to AU$750 + 200 Free Spins + 1 Bonus Crab

The first thing you’d do after signing up for an online casino site is place a deposit – and the best casinos will reward that commitment with an equally good welcome bonus! Does BassBet manage to succeed? Well… this will depend entirely on what you’re looking for, and what type of player you are.

If you’re a high roller who likes to place huge deposits (and, consequently, receive giant bonuses), then you might be pretty disappointed to learn that the cap on the welcome bonus is only AU$750 – a far cry from the four or five digits most other sites will give you. However, if you’re someone who only intended to make a smaller deposit, this will be a great bonus for you, netting you 200 free spins and a spin on the exclusive “Bonus Crab” game.

But no deposit is just “free money”, and you’ll need to complete some wagering requirements before you can withdraw BassBet’s offering. More specifically, you’ll have 10 days to play through your cash bonus x35 times, and your free spins winnings – x40 times. Harsh requirements, to be sure, but (for better or worse) not too different from what other casinos have.

Reload Promotions at BassBet Casino

Although some casinos have multiple different bonuses that you can receive alongside the first one (a welcome package), BassBet isn’t among them. This means that you’ll be reliant on reload offers in order to get some extra cash following your first deposit – and luckily, BassBet manages to deliver on that front.

As of the time of writing, it has two different reload promos, each of which can be claimed once a week. From Monday to Thursday, putting down AU$30 will reward you with 50 free spins. If it’s a cash bonus you want instead of spins, then you might need to wait until the weekend, when the same deposit of AU$30 will get you a 50% match up to AU$1,050. There’s a trick here, however: if you increase your deposit to at least AU$75, you’ll receive the match bonus AND 50 free spins. That means a total amount of AU$105’s worth of bonuses will give you 100 free spins and a little over AU$50 of bonus cash.

Besides those two offers, BassBet also has two cashback promos, one for slots and one for live casino. The slots one can give you 15% of your losses back, up to AU$4,500 – but you need to be a high level in the site’s VIP program in order to take advantage of it. On the other hand, the live dealer bonus is open to everyone and will give you 25% of your live casino losses back, but only up to AU$300.

Games

Whether you enjoy the bonus offerings of BassBet Casino will ultimately have a lot to do with your personal tastes – whether you prefer free spins or cash bonuses, whether you enjoy reload offers or cashbacks more, etc. But there’s nothing divisive about its selection of games, which is fantastic! It doesn’t matter whether you’re interested in pokies, live casino games, or in something completely different (such as instant win games or sports betting), because you’ll always find some of the best diversity of games and experiences on the market. It’s rare to find so many great games in one casino – doubly so in Australia!

Pokies

Most people go to online casinos to spin pokies, and even if you aren’t one of them, chances are you hold at least some interest in that hobby. And whether you’re a devout spinner or occasional dipper, we can practically guarantee that you’ll find the right game for you here at BassBet! Ruby Play, BGaming, Revolver, Spinmatic, Pragmatic Play, ELA Games, Play’N GO, Playson, Yggdrasil, and many, MANY more top-tier providers are all here, and all available for Aussies. You won’t get teased with games that give you a geolock error when you actually try to play them!

If you’re a relative newbie to the world of online gambling, then none of these names will mean anything to you, and that’s okay. You can still use BassBet’s various different categories to find precisely the game you’re looking for. Although these categories aren’t so in-depth as to let you search games by theme (which would have been quite useful given BassBet’s focus on tournaments), you can still search by feature or provider, or even just sort by popularity. This makes finding the right game for you relatively easy, even if you don’t know its name.

Live casino

BassBet’s live dealer section may not live up to the pokies, but it’s still a great time for anyone who enjoys being dealt blackjack hands more than seeing flashy images on the screen. The live providers are a lot more limited in number here than in the pokie section, but BassBet Casino still manages to include some of the best on the market, such as Pragmatic Live and Evolution Gaming. Just between those two you’ll already find dozens of rooms for your favorite games, and that’s without mentioning the extra providers like Atmosfera.

Looking to spin on blackjack or roulette? They’ve got you. Baccarat, sic bo, dragon tiger, craps, andar bahar? Yep! Hell, you can even bet on a wide variety of live game shows, such as Candy Land or Mega Wheel, which will make you feel just like a contestant on a TV show! Once again, the categorization is pretty decent, and we don’t feel like most players would have much trouble finding the games that they wish to play.

Deposits & Withdrawals

Here at CasinoAustraliaOnline, we’ve reviewed plenty of casinos that operate in Australia – and sadly, many of them find themselves pretty limited when it comes to payment methods. BassBet is not among them, as although its available payment methods are nothing to write home about, they should still prove to be quite sufficient for most players.

In terms of banking solutions, you’ll only be able to use MasterCard – Visa and bank transfer are reserved exclusively for withdrawals. Beyond that, you’ll have a few e-wallets to choose from, like Jeton or Neteller. Most surprising was the amount of prepaid solutions that you can use to deposit at BassBet: Neosurf, Paysafecard, and Cash2Code are all available.

And if none of those appeal, no worries, you can still use eight different crypto coins, including Bitcoin, Etherum, and Ripple. Between all those, you’re bound to find at the very least a type of payment (if not a particular method) that you normally use.

Withdrawal time

Nearly all of the payment options available at BassBet can also be used for withdrawals, including a few that can’t be used for deposits. But that begs the question of which one will deliver your hard-earned winnings the fastest. Well, it might surprise you to learn that most of them will be pretty fast: both e-wallets (like Jeton) and crypto currencies (such as Ripple) will transfer your money as soon as the casino is finished with processing them, which should take a few days. If speed is your sole priority (over convenience for instance), we would advise against using banking methods or slower cryptos (like Bitcoin or Dogecoin) for your transaction.

VIP Program

BassBet doesn’t have all that much in the way of bonuses – it only has four offerings, and one of them is directly tied to the VIP program. But how does that program work, and will it provide players with even more perks besides the weekly cashback? Alas, the answers to these questions are “very poorly” and “barely”.

On paper, the VIP program is nothing too unique: every time you make a wager you’ll receive points proportional to the size of the bet, and once you have enough points, you’ll level up. There are a total of five levels you can reach here, with each of them granting you some perks. The issue is that it takes forever to ascend from one level to the next, to the point where even more hardcore players are unlikely to pass level 2. Which is a problem when the aforementioned cashback starts at 3! And even if you do pass it, none of the rewards seem particularly worth it, not even the cashback.

Tournaments

As we mentioned early on in our review, BassBet’s tournaments are one of its biggest ‘hooks’ – and we weren’t just being hyperbolic! The site has one of the richest and most interesting selections of tournaments we’ve ever seen, with nearly a dozen different tourneys available at any given time. Sure, you’ll find a few “Drops & Wins” promotions here, just as you would at any other casino site, but they’re actually the least intriguing part of the selection.

Beyond them, you’ll also find some tournaments for live casino and even sports, which can be found very rarely – but even they aren’t the most interesting thing here. No, instead it’s the regular tournaments that are part of BassBet’s “Go Fishing” promotion. Every day, every week, and every month you’ll get a new tourney, three of them running side by side, games and leaderboards cycling automatically to make sure you’ll always have something new to compete in. The unfortunate part here is that you can only earn points to exchange for bonuses rather than real money, but that shouldn’t be a huge issue for more casual fans of pokie tournaments.

Verification

Have you heard the word “KYC”? Even if you haven’t, you likely know this procedure by its more colloquial name, ‘verification’. This process, intended to combat money laundering, will require you to prove your identity before you can withdraw any of your winnings. The process is mandatory, and if you don’t complete it in time, you risk your entire account getting shut down… which is obviously not ideal.

The good news is that at least BassBet makes verification a pretty simple and painless ordeal. Once you’re ready to do it (whether because you’re ready to withdraw or at any other, earlier point), all you’ll need to do is visit your profile and initiate the process from there by uploading all of the necessary documents. It’s a very convenient way of completing the KYC process that doesn’t require you to wait or to exchange dozens of emails with the site’s support team, and both of these are big pluses as far as we’re concerned!

Is BassBet Casino Legit & safe?

Let’s nip thi right in the bud: No, BassBet Casino isn’t a safe one – or at least, we don’t think so. The main culprit here is the fact that the site’s owner is completely unknown, and not listed anywhere. You won’t find it in the footer (where the owner and license information is typically found), nor in the About Us section, even the support team won’t talk about them! This is a huge red flag that should tell you whoever is behind BassBet doesn’t wish to be known – and there’s probably a good reason for this.

But there’s another side to this: a lack of regulation. You see, every online casino needs to be licensed by a regulator who can wave their metaphorical finger and say “hey, no scamming players, bozo!” If a site isn’t licensed, then there’s no one to scold it for committing scams – which, as you can imagine, spells bad news for players. Is BassBet licensed, though? Sadly, there’s no way to tell, since licenses are issued to the parent companies, and we don’t know who owns this site. In turn, we don’t know whether anyone can help you if you get scammed.

Customer support

Considering the fact that BassBet’s owner is unknown (and thus its safety and security are in question), it was absolutely imperative for it to have very reliable customer support. And we’re sad to say that it absolutely doesn’t, at least if you contact them over live chat. As an alternative, you could send them a message over email, but personally, we wanted to test out the live chat feature because we knew that’s what most players would be using when they make a request.

For starters, it took an extremely long time for the agent to even connect to us – we had to wait for nearly fifteen minutes to even get a message like “Hey, how can I help you?” Even then, there were long stretches of silence as we waited for a response. Although far from ideal, we could have forgiven this if at least the level of support was high enough, but alas, it wasn’t. Several of the things the agent told us were plain incorrect (or at least, contradictory to what was written on the site itself). If they can’t answer even simple questions, how can we expect them to resolve payment disputes or help with withdrawals?

Mobile casino

Although BassBet has been mostly hit or miss so far, we’re happy to report that its mobile section has been more of a hit than a miss. It’s obvious even from just looking at the desktop interface that the site’s mobile version was the priority during development, but this fact becomes even more obvious as you view it through a mobile device. The convenient folding menu on the left and the large icons representing the pokies just fit like a glove there.

If you’re worried about downloading and installing potentially malicious apps on your phone, don’t be. BassBet Casino actuall doesn’t require any downloads at all, and is fully playable in your browser. Whether you use Chrome, Safari, Mozilla, or (eugh) Edge, you can just open the site’s domain on your phone and access all the pokies and bonuses you can handle – all through a comfortable and easy to navigate interface.