TonyBet Casino Review (NZ)

TonyBet Bonuses and Promotions

TonyBet Casino offers a fairly decent range of bonuses and promotions for Kiwi players, ensuring they can get a bit more out of their deposits from the day they sign up and well into their relationship on the site. Although they are actually a bit generic when you view it from an observer's perspective, TonyBet does add a notable gimmick by opening their bonuses to people who play the archery game upstairs.

Welcome Bonus

The welcome bonus is a deposit package that gets players up to NZ$1500 with 120 free spins for the Cowboys Gold pokie over their first two deposits. Players who don't like the casino games and would rather bet on sports, however, could take advantage of the sportsbook welcome bonus, which gives as much as NZ$150 of bonus wagering money. The details of this bonus are listed in the table below.

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Other Promotions

Once the casino's welcome bonus has been used up or otherwise expired, Kiwi players can choose to immediately claim any of the many other bonuses TonyBet has in store. These bonuses include:

• Friday Reload: Top up your casino account on Friday to get 50% up to NZ$150 and 50 free spins for Big Bass Bonanza.

• Battle for Treasures: Bet and win on participating pokie games to win prizes from a pool with NZ$500 and 500 free spins.

VIP Program

Like most other large casino brands, the VIP program offered by TonyBet isn't super generous. It is a simple comp points system that players can accumulate from real money deposits, which can later be claimed for more bonus cash. The total comp points collected accumulate towards gaining higher VIP levels, which add further features like higher deposit limits, better comp point conversion rates and bigger rewards upon reaching level milestones.

Leaderboards

TonyBet also runs daily and weekly game tournaments, which is tracked through the casino's "Leaderboards" page. Players climb onto the leaderboards by placing real money wagers on their games, and are rewarded at the end of the tournament period with bonus cash based on their place on the ladder and how much they spent.

TonyBet Games

As an gambling site that has been in operation for over a decade at this point, it shouldn't be too much to expect TonyBet to deliver in terms of their game selection, which they do. Their catalogue of over 7,000 pokie titles are neatly organised into major categories that can be selected right from the main navigation menu.

Players can narrow their game search further on TonyBet's casino game screen through more category buttons, a developer select menu and a toolbar to find specific titles. From our testing, these filtering options work pretty effectively; however, we did notice that TonyBet did actually have some games that didn't have their own categories and therefore couldn't be found without a direct search. These games were mostly just video table games like blackjack and video poker, but having their own category would have at least made these games a bit more visible.

Sportsbook

Sports betting has always been the core service offering at TonyBet Casino, and never is this more clear than in the way their sports betting section is designed. For one, it is the section of the site that players are greeted with upon opening the website. The uncommon three-column layout of the site also makes a lot more sense when you consider the fact that online sportsbooks use this layout quite often. 

The sports betting experience here at TonyBet is some of the best you can find in New Zealand. The layout is compact but detailed, showing real-time odds and stats data on the central column, event search on the left column, and bet tracking and controls on the right column.

Pokies

Despite its primary focus on sports betting, TonyBet offers a pretty solid selection for playing online pokies. Their catalogue includes titles from a variety of big-name developers including NetEnt, Microgaming and Pragmatic Play, alongside some 50 other casino game developers to give a practically endless range of pokies to pick up and play.

Other Games

Besides that selection, TonyBet also offers other game genres for Kiwi players to try out in between major sporting events. A selection of live casino games are given their own category on TonyBet's casino page, and single-player video table games are also available (although you will have to search for these games directly on the casino game search bar).

TonyBet App and Mobile

The experience of playing on TonyBet manages to translate very well to mobile devices, so much so that we feel there really is no need for a dedicated mobile app to be made. The compact layout of the desktop site does give way to a rather swipe-heavy screen when you start it up for the first time.

Customer Support

Customer support at Tonybet is mostly handled by their live chat service, which can be opened through a persistent button that is accessible from anywhere on the site. Their chat program immediately connected us to a customer support representative within a couple minutes of us opening it, and we were very quickly responded to with answers to our test queries.

TonyBet Deposits & Withdrawals

TonyBet Casino accepts a wide range of popular payment methods to ensure maximum convenience for Kiwi players, ranging from classic bank transfers to prepaid vouchers and most things in between. 

For the most part, the payment systems they have available are fairly unremarkable; deposit and withdrawal pages are easily accessible through the casino account, and the processing time is claimed to be within 48 hours. The only major detail that we have noticed is that the casino does not store cryptocurrency balances; this means that any crypto deposits will be converted into NZD when they enter your account.

TonyBet Casino and Responsible Gaming

Verifying your account at TonyBet Casino is pretty straightforward; as soon as it is required, players easily upload the needed verification documents to the TonyBet website through the tab of the same name under their casino account dashboard.

TonyBet Casino also gives its players some control over their gambling habits through the casino's provided responsible gaming tools. This can be found as one of the options in the site's footer. Although these controls are not as extensive as other online casino sites, they do at least allow players to set deposit and loss limits on their accounts. Self-exclusion on one's account can be requested through customer support.

Final thoughts on TonyBet

TonyBet has long been one of the most trusted sports betting and online casino brands in the UK, and its move to New Zealand has managed to carry over everything players loved about it. With their class-leading site interface and overall reliable service, Kiwi gamblers of all stripes will find a lot to enjoy here. 

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