Casper Bets Casino

Casper Bets Casino Review

Boo! It’s Casper, your favorite… superhero ghost? Well, that’s not how we remember the original cartoon, but hey, Equinox Holding N.V.’s lawyer-friendly interpretation sure seems creative! If we were judging casinos based on how oddly specific their mascots were, Casper Bets would certainly rank high – but we at CasinoAustraliaOnline tend to look at other things.

What things, you may ask? Well, it’s obvious: how good (and how many) the bonuses are, what the games selection is like, what payment methods Australian players will have access to, and most importantly, whether this is a site that you can trust. Once we cover everything, we’ll also share our conclusion so you’d know whether this casino is something you should actually invest time and money into, or if it should just give up the (friendly) ghost!

Bonuses

Welcome Bonus – Choose Your Own Welcome Bonus

The welcome bonus here at Casper Bets is weird – not necessarily bad weird, mind you, but certainly far stranger than what you’d find at most sites. Not only will you have access to three different bonuses as part of a welcome package, but each of those three bonuses contains a choice of 3 unique bonuses within itself. Which means that you’ll get 3 rounds of bonus cash, and at each round you’ll get to pick one of three offers to claim.

Confused? Well, let’s explain it with a practical example: the first deposit bonus. Depending on how much you deposit, you’ll get one of the following offers:

So a minimum deposit of AU$30 will get you a 150% match up to AU$1,500, alongside 75 free spins – which is already a great offer in and of itself! But if you fancy yourself a high roller, you can get a significantly larger bonus percentage, as well as far more free spins. Not a bad deal at all! Many casinos offer a separate bonus just for high rollers, and this setup simplifies things.

The wagering requirements for all of these bonuses will remain the same: the bonus amount will have to be played through x35 times, and the free spins winnings – x40 times. All bonuses are also valid for just 10 days, which will make the larger ones a bit tougher to withdraw, though not exactly impossible.

Additional Welcome Bonuses

Now that you’re familiar with how the welcome bonuses work in principle, the only thing to ask is how do the remaining offers (for the second and third deposit) work in practice?

Well, the core idea of getting 3 separate offers to choose from per bonus remains – the only thing that changes are the numbers. So, to simplify matters, let’s examine them through the same table we already used earlier.

Here are the three offers for the second deposit bonus:

And here are the offers for the third deposit bonus:

The wagering requirements for all three of the welcome bonuses are identical: x40 for the free spins winnings, x35 for the cash bonus, both completed within 10 days. Not easy, but also not any harder than the first deposit bonus was to withdraw, since these offers are a little lower.

Reload Promotions at Casper Bets Casino

Although the Casper Bets welcome package is actually really decent and offers lots of choice and value for players, the same can’t be said for its reload offers, which are… well, practically non-existent. Under normal circumstances, players who have already claimed and used the welcome bonus will be able to receive weekly deposit bonuses which are smaller, but can be used over and over again. Casper Bets has nothing like that, leaving long-time players a bit dry.

The only two things you’d be left to rely on are the cashback bonus (which is tied to the VIP program, so we’ll touch upon it a little later) and the limited-time offers, which are one-time bonuses tied to specific holidays or events. These are going to be pretty rare (once every 1-2 months), so if you’re the kind of player who tends to make frequent deposits, you’ll have to accept the fact that you won’t receive bonus cash for many of them.

Games

Whether you love Casper Bets’ welcome bonuses or hate the fact that the reload offers aren’t particularly present, one thing’s for sure: promotions like this are a far smaller part of the equation. The thing that matters – that REALLY matters – is the games… and we’re afraid to say that they’re just as mixed. For starters, you won’t find a lot of them here, with the number of both providers and titles being much smaller than many other sites operating in Australia. Though at least Casper Bets filters out any titles that aren’t available here, which means even though the selection is relatively scarce, what you see is still what you get.

Sadly, the lack of quantity applies not just to the number of games, but to their diversity as well. Casper Bets has only a small amount of content besides live casino, tables games and, of course, pokies. Chief among them is sports betting, and you’ll also find some minigames (like Plinko), but that’s about it. Many other features which are sometimes found at casino sites, like scratch cards and lotteries, are conspicuously absent here.

Pokies

Whether you’ll enjoy the pokies section here largely depends on your tastes, and on what you’re looking for. Granted, you can say that about most casinos, but it’s especially true here given that the selection mostly seems to revolve around more obscure titles rather than the big hitters that have become household names in the casino industry. Sure, you’ll find a few bigger names like BGaming, IGTech and Merkur, but most titles will be rather obscure.

To put things into perspective, the provider with by far the most games (about 700, a good chunk of all the titles available here) is Kaga, which is relatively unknown by most players. If you’re one of the players who loves Kaga games and can’t get enough of them, Casper Bets will be the casino of your dreams. On the other hand, if you’d rather play bigger titles (like from Nolimit City or Pragmatic Play), you’ll find yourself out of luck.

Live casino

The live dealer section here shares many of the issues we also found with the pokies one: insufficient selection of games that seems to focus more on obscure providers than on household names. Ordinarily, the “big two” of live casino gaming are Pragmatic Live and Evolution Gaming, and neither of them is present here – which also means that you won’t have access to any “live game shows,” as they’re typically exclusive to these two providers.

Instead, the companies whose rooms you’ll be able to access include HoGaming, AsiaGaming, LiveGames and LuckyStreak – providers that you either didn’t know the existence of (we really haven’t seen too many Australian casino sites with HoGaming) or you simply never considered playing. By extension, this also means that although there will be plenty of variations for the big games, like roulette, blackjack and baccarat, the same can’t be said about smaller ones like teen pattie and dragon tiger.

Deposits & Withdrawals

Casper Bets’ bonuses and games have both been, shall we say, lacking – but conversely, their payment methods are actually pretty diverse, featuring a lot of payment options that Aussies would use. Starting off with Visa and MasterCard (bank transfer appears to be available only for withdrawals), there’s also not one, but three pre-paid options: Neosurf, Paysafecard, and CashtoCode. Both methods will give you a quick and easy way to deposit without too much hassle.

And if you were looking to make your deposit electronically, there’s also e-wallets: you’ll be able to access AstroPay, eZeeWallet, Jeton, Mifinity, Skrill and Neteller, which, again, is a really great line-up of different payment options. Last, but not least, you have the crypto coins, and this is where the casino’s selection is a tiny bit lacking – but not to a considerable extent. You still get access to most of the hits (Bitcoin, Tether, Litecoin), as well as a few more obscure additions (like Tron and Binance), even though there are a few strange omissions (like Ethereum).

Withdrawal time

Making a deposit at a casino site is easy: link your payment option, choose “Deposit,” boom, the money’s in your account, right as rain! But withdrawals are an entirely different ballgame, partially because casinos need to comply with certain regulations which slow down the process (like verification – we’ll discuss that in a moment), and partially because casinos love to take and hate to pay!

All joking aside, all casinos (including Casper Bets) will take about three days to process and then dispatch your winnings – this waiting is natural and related entirely to the way payments are sent out. If you withdrew using crypto or an e-wallet, you should get your winnings minutes after they’ve been dispatched, but if you used your bank account you might need to wait an extra 3-5 business days. So keep that in mind when withdrawing.

VIP Program

Casper Bets’ VIP program is so basic that, quite frankly, you’ve probably seen it a million times by now at many other casino sites (we know we have). Stop us if you’ve heard this one: for every dollar you wager (with real money, bonus cash doesn’t count), you’ll get one step closer to increasing your level, and once you level up, you earn certain perks. A good 90% of all VIP programs across sites work exactly the same way.

With that said, there are still a few interesting things worth discussing here – “interesting” in both a good and a bad way. The good news is that it seems like you receive all 3 VIP perks (cashback, VIP manager and exclusive offers) at level 1 of the program, meaning that as soon as you get in on the ground level you’re already getting the VIP treatment. The only thing that increases as you level up is the size of your cashback, which starts at 10% and ends at 25%.

However, we weren’t able to find any concrete rules on how precisely you enter the VIP program, or when you level up. Most sites running this type of program have clearly outlined that if you wager X amount of dollars you get Y amount of points, and Z amount of points level you up. Casper Bets only says that “the more you play games, the greater the chance to increase your level” – which makes it sound like level-ups are completely arbitrary.

Tournaments

Let us give you the bad news right away: there aren’t any tournaments here. And trust us, it’s not because we couldn’t find them, even though the site’s interface does hide them pretty well. There’s no dedicated “Tournaments” tab, and instead you’ll have to access the page (which is, indeed, labeled “Tournaments” in its url) through the button that says “Casino Battles”. But even if you do that, you’ll find out that there have never been any such “battles” – none are currently ongoing, and none are archived, which means that this feature has never been used. Granted, Casper Bets is still very new, so there’s a chance it might receive a tournament soon enough, but we have to review casinos as they are, not as they might be at some point in the future.

Verification

The world of online payments (be it at casino sites, e-wallets, exchange sites, etc) is getting more exciting by the day – but also more dangerous. Before, it was banks that held back criminals from easily laundering their cash, and to an extent they still are, but now crypto and e-wallets have given them new avenues that either bypass banks entirely or make it much easier for dirty money to be funneled into bank accounts.

Online casinos are prime targets for such use (for example, depositing with crypto and withdrawing into a bank account), which only serves to the detriment of regular players. As a result, they need to comply with money laundering regulations which basicaly state “you can’t send people to anonymous individuals, you have to know and keep records of everyone who receives even a cent from you.” This means that, when it’s time to withdraw, you’ll need to undergo a verification procedure and present some ID so that Casper Bets Casino knows who you are. Although this process can be a touch annoying, it’s not very difficult – and your involvement in it should take no more than 15 minutes.

Is Casper Bets Casino Legit & safe?

If you’ve been reading our reviews for a while, then you already know what you should look for when determining whether a casino (even a brand new one) is legit or not: you scroll down to the footer and you check the owner and license! Sadly, too many Australian casino sites lately have started omitting this incredibly important information (some to conceal the lack of license, others just because it’s fashionable, we suppose), so it came as a very pleasant surprise to see that Casper Bets was actually very transparent.

Indeed, the footer clearly states both the owner (Equinox Holding N.V.) and license (Curacao). All the information, like company address, is presented in detail, and you can even access the certificate on the Curacao Gaming Authority’s website to confirm its authenticity. According to our research, all the information presented is accurate, so there’s no need to be concerned: in all likelihood, this is a legitimate site that will pay out your winnings.

Customer support

In case you need to reach out to a representative from Casper Bets, there are two ways to go about it: email and live chat. Calling over the phone or submitting a ticket directly through the site are not available as option, but that’s not exactly uncommon for newer casinos. Instead, we imagine that most players will gravitate towards the live chat option, which is available from the yellow speech bubble icon in the bottom right corner of each page.

With that said, if you have a more serious issue, especially anything related to finances, we strongly recommend that you send an email. This is especially true considering the fact that there’s a separate email address (presumably staffed by different people) that’s specifically intended to address concerns with finances (like deposits/withdrawals gone wrong) and the verification procedure, which is not only extremely useful, but also quite rare!

Mobile casino

Are you someone who finds it much more comfortable to play games from your phone (or tablet) as opposed to from your PC? Don’t worry, you’re not alone: according to studies, a minimum of 70% of all players (on some sites, as many as 80%) spin pokies from their mobile devices. Casper Bets recognizes this, so they’ve created a version of the site suitable for phones: when the casino detects it’s being accessed from a mobile browser, it’ll automatically reorientate itself to fit a vertical screen, with bigger buttons that are easier to select on a touch screen display. Beyond that, you won’t encounter any differences in comparison to its desktop counterpart (which already has several mobile-isms, like sliding menus). All the functionality is is exactly the same in both mediums, including all the games (pokies, live betting and sports betting alike). You can, naturally, also switch between them seamlessly without issue.