Highflybet Casino

Highflybet Casino Review

Whether you want to call it High Fly Bet, HighFly Bet or Highflybet (we’ve seen all three used on the site – points for consistency, guys), there’s no doubt that this casino is standing out from the crowd enough to deserve being called anything at all. It promises bombastic bonuses, tons of VIP programs and features, even has a full-fledged sports betting section! What does it matter how its name is spelled, it’s what beyond it that counts, right?

Well, we at CasinoAustraliaOnline are also rather interested in that “beyond”. To find out whether Highflybet soars or crashes harder than Flappy Bird (both the bird and the game), we spent many hours researching… well, pretty much everything! We examined the site’s promotions and bonus features, pored over its terms and conditions, and most importantly, played to our heart’s content. Was it enough? Let’s find out!

Bonuses

Welcome Bonus – 100% Match up to AU$500 + 100 Free Spins

To Highflybet’s credit, it won’t just give you a single welcome bonus once you’re ready to join it – instead, it’ll reward you with a whopping four of them! We’ll discuss the remainder a little later in our review, but for now, let’s focus on what you’ll receive the very first time you buy some chips.

The first deposit bonus will net you a 100% match up to AU$500, which is perfectly reasonable given that this offer is intended for players who weren’t planning to deposit much. That’s why the main attraction here isn’t the match offer, but the 100 free spins you’ll receive even against a minimum deposit (which is AU$30). An average bonus, but a decent one nonetheless.

In terms of wagering requirements, they’ll be a little tougher than average: x40 for the bonus amount (including the match bonus and free spins winnings together). Furthermore, you’ll only have 7 days to complete those requirements, which makes it fairly unlikely you’ll manage it. Still, in trying you’ll get to discover more games and test out Highflybet’s functions, which is the point of any welcome bonus.

Additional Welcome Bonuses

Once you’ve used up your first deposit bonus, you’ll get access to three more of them, each one tied to one of your subsequent three deposits. So, the second time you put money down you’ll receive the second bonus, the third time the third bonus, and so on. Generally they work the same way as the first deposit bonus, with the exception of the numbers – some offers will give you free spins, others, a higher maximum bonus.

To illustrate them better, we compiled those numbers in a table:

As far as we can tell, there isn’t a difference when it comes to the bonus requirements: you’ll still need to deposit at least AU$30 in order to claim each bonus, and then you’ll need to play through it alongside the winnings from your free spins (if any) x40 times within 7 days. Again, a pretty tough bonus, but not too bad for what it’s trying to achieve.

Reload Promotions at Highflybet Casino

The good news here is that Highflybet has a lot of promotions for existing players – and we do mean A LOT! They’re not just for casinos, either: if you fancy yourself a punter, you’ll get access to a bunch of sports offers as well which will net you free bets or rebates. However, as our name is CASINO Australia Online, we’ll focus on those here and let you discover the sports on your own.

This is where you might be asking us about the bad news, which is that many of the offers are pretty… let’s just say, situational. For example, the only reload promotion you can claim (as far as we can tell) requires a deposit of a whopping AU$500 as a pre-requisite to even qualify for it, which isn’t ideal! The rest of the offers involve stuff like referrals, pokie tournaments, lotteries, and a cashback promo that’s part of the VIP program (that we’ll discuss a little bit later). Don’t get us wrong, that’s all fine, but couldn’t you throw in at least one normal reload?

Highflybet Casino Games

Admittedly, the bonuses here have some strong sides, but they were nothing special – if anything, the reload offers were so poor we don’t expect them to be enough to hold the attention of regular players. That honor would fall to the games, which are the main reason why most people would sign up for an online casino, right? Alas, if that includes you, you’re going to be severely disappointed, since the games available here at Highflybet are really subpar.

Don’t get us wrong: we’re not saying that this is some awful, irredeemable selection, nor that all of the titles are bad. But the number of both pokies and live casino titles is extremely small compared to other Australian casinos, and as far as we can tell, Highflybet doesn’t offer anything else besides them and sports betting (no crash games, no scratch cards, etc). Why should you sign up here when you can instead join a casino that will have several times more content?

Pokies

Although some casinos like to hide the exact number of games they offer, leaving us to guesstimate, Highflybet is out and proud, displaying the exact amount of titles right there at the top of its slots page. Of course, that makes us wonder why they’d bother, given the fact that said number is a mere 2,300. For reference, the average online casino operating in Australia offers between 3,000 and 5,000 different games, so this site is basically admitting to being subpar.

As we mentioned above, we aren’t saying that the games are awful. You’ll still find some very highly valued providers here like BGaming and Betsoft, as well as some rarer ones like Shady Lady. But that doesn’t change the fact that you’ll also find those at many other casinos, and ones that will offer a lot more features in terms of categorization or free spin promotions. As it stands, there’s just no reason for slot fans to play here.

Live casino

Some casino sites will offer their live dealer games as part of their pokie selection, just another category alongside Megaways or Jackpots. Highflybet doesn’t do that, and instead gives live casino the proper place as a main attraction next to pokies (as opposed to among them) that it deserves. This gave us hope that perhaps the selection of games will be treated with the same respect, but alas, those hopes were dashed as soon as we opened it up and were greeted by this site’s whopping… four rooms.

Okay, okay, that’s unfair – as we observed the casino, we noticed that the number of rooms did increase, as some of them were (apparently) dependent on time zone instead of being available 24/7. The bad news is that even at its peak, we only saw 19 rooms – 17 for roulette, 2 for blackjack. None for other games, like craps or live game shows. Certainly none from big, respected providers like Evolution or Pragmatic. We have no idea how it was possible for Highflybet’s live section to be worse than its pokies, but they sure managed it!

Deposits & Withdrawals

If you, just like us, weren’t particularly impressed by Highflybet’s games selection, then we have some bad news: the diversity of payment methods won’t widen your pupils either. Okay, that’s not quite true: if you’re a crypto fan, then you’d likely find the payments here acceptable. While the selection isn’t the greatest in the world, it’s also much better than average, including not only the classic coins that everyone and their mother knows (like Bitcoin and Ethereum), but also slightly more niche ones like Solana, Tron, and Ripple. Great stuff!

Far less great are the traditional payment methods, which are what most players would ultimately use – and they barely have a presence here. You can deposit with Visa, MasterCard, or bank transfer (no surprise there), but also with Neteller, Skrill, and… nothing else. No alternative e-wallets (like Revolut, Jeton, or Mifinity), no pre-paid vouchers (like Neosurf or Paysafecard), nothing except banking options and Neteller and Skrill. They gave us so many cryptos but couldn’t even accept Neosurf?!

Withdrawal time

At this point, you might be wondering why it’s bad that Highflybet primarily relies on banking options for its non-crypto transactions, but the truth is that most experienced gamblers tend to avoid them. That’s because once it’s time to withdraw your winnings, you’ll find that said withdrawal can be really, really slow – up to a week for credit cards, and up to 2 weeks for bank transfer. Not remotely as fast as your deposit was, huh?

If you want to avoid waiting, you need to rely on either e-wallets (which, as we established, there aren’t a lot of) or crypto. Granted, you’ll need to wait a while there as well, since Highflybet will take about 3 days to verify your withdrawal and actually dispatch it – but once that’s done, it should arrive in your chosen payment option instantly. From there, you can use the money online or withdraw it into your bank account anyway.

VIP Program

Just like nearly any other casino site, Highflybet has a VIP program intended to reward players who have chosen to stick with the site for the long haul (God knows it won’t do that through reload promotions). The theory of it is simple: the more you bet, the higher your level will be, and the higher your level, the more perks you’ll receive, and the better those perks will be. And indeed, the benefits are really decent: cashback, rakeback, VIP manager, improved withdrawal limits, one-time no deposit bonuses… Great stuff!

The issue, as it often turns out in the world of online casinos, is not in the theory, but the practice. You’ll need AU$5 worth of wagers to receive 1 point, and just getting from Bronze (the default level everyone joins the casino at) and Silver takes 1,500 points – which is AU$7,500 in wagers just to advance one single level!

To go from Silver to Gold, you’ll need not only 11,000 points (we’ll leave the math to you), but also 500 “deposit” points (1 DP = AU$10 deposited), so that’s at least AU$5,000 deposited into the casino regardless of how much you’ve won and wagered. Oh, and once you reach Gold you need to be active (meaning, making a deposit) at least once a month, or else you’ll love 25% of your rank progreess per week until you drop back down to Silver. Just peachy, isn’t it?

Tournaments

Okay, we’ve been quite hard on Highflybet so far, but we at CasinoAustraliaOnline pride ourselves on our objectivity – and objectively speaking, the site’s tournaments are actually really great. Although they’re not immediately visible (as in, there isn’t a Tournaments page in the main menu that you can access), you can still find them by going to the Promotions page and then filtering by Tournaments.

Doing so will reveal between 5 and 10 tournaments, depending on when exactly you’re viewing the site, and they’re all generally pretty great! For example, you’ve got your standard Weekly and Daily Pokie Tournaments which are common enough (but still great to see, don’t get us wrong), but there’s also a monthly tournament with a big prizepool. You’ll also have access to a few Drops & Wins tourneys, as well as, most surprisingly of all, tournaments for live casino and sports betting. Those last two aren’t always present (unlike the pokie tourneys which are regular fixtures), but the fact that they’re here at all is well worth praising!

Verification

If you’re a veteran of the online casino space, then you’ve almost certainly had to deal with the verification procedure – and if you’re a complete newbie, you might have heard horror stories about it. But what exactly it is? Well, in an attempt to prevent money laundering, many online casinos – in cluding Highflybet – need to verify the identity of their players. This process, known as KYC, comes right as you’re about to make your first withdrawal, which can make things very annoying. Imagine the most exciting moment grinding to a screeching halt for silly legal reasons!

Although many players understandably aren’t fans of the verification procedure, it’s not quite as invasive as some may have you believe. The way it works is very simple: you’ll just need to provide a few documents that can prove your identity, like your ID card and a proof of address (such as a utility bill). Those documents are photographed and sent to a specialized safety officer working for the casino, and then, upon being confirmed as legitimate, your account is approved. The whole process shouldn’t take more than a few days.

Is Highflybet Casino Legit & safe?

We Aussies undeniably have it tough. On one hand, you’ve got so many predatory online casinos that are looking to screw us over, and on the other hand you’ve got our government that is more determined to brand gambling as some moral failing than to actually put in basic protections that can ensure players’ safety. This means that, when considering sites like Highflybet, we need to do our own research to determine whether doing so is safe.

We at CasinoAustraliaOnline always take care to be thorough, and sadly, this time the news isn’t great: Highflybet is unlicensed and has an unknown owner, which means you’re likely to get scammed should you manage to win a decent sum. No license means no oversight, and no one to penalize the casino if it’s caught in a scam. On top of that, an unknown owner means no legal accountability either, because imagine you’re wealthy enough to actually sue them for fraud (which most players aren’t) – who would you sue? Considering those points, it’s best to avoid the site and search for one from an established company with a clear, verifiable license.

Customer support

Customer support is essential even in fully legitimate casinos, let alone at ones with more questionable safety like Highflybet – because if something goes wrong and your winnings are withheld, or confiscated entirely, these are the people you’ll be speaking with. Regulators won’t help you here, you either deal with the support team or you forfeit your cash. Which makes it even more infuriating to admit that this support team isn’t very good.

Admittedly, it’s not quite as bad as what we’ve encountered in some other places – at least when you use the live chat here, a support specialist will actually connect and give you answers. The issue is that (at least for us) those answers weren’t very satisfactory – and to get them, we first needed to get through an annoying chatbot that was a huge waste of time. Speaking of time, email support is another option, but the responses there were so delayed that we ultimately didn’t feel that it was an appropriate one for more urgent inquiries.

Mobile casino

We’ve gone over the lack of license and unknown owner as reasons why we believe Highflybet isn’t a legal casino… but, in a very strange case, the mobile app might be the biggest evidence for it. Because when you press on the mobile app button, it’ll take you to a page on the Google Play store allowing you to download its official app. Wow, how cool! Look, it has a glowing 4.9 rating and over 1m reviews! Awesome!

Except, if you look closer, you’ll find out that this actually isn’t the Google Play store at all. It’s a fake page designed to resemble it in every way, all to trick you into believing that you’re downloading a legitimate, Google-approved app when you’re actually installing who knows what. The page is fake, the ratings are fake, the reviews (all 10 of them, despite them being supposedly 29k) ae fake, and probably the app is fake. We didn’t dare download it. It’s one of the most obvious, and yet most predatory and disgusting scams we’ve ever seen any online casino try out.