Hopa Sports Betting Review 2024

Registration Process 5/5

• Simple two-step process
• Basic information required
• Deposit limits set upon confirmation

Registering with Hopa is a nice and easy two-step process. Step one, as depicted below, merely involves entering your email address and creating a username and password.

Step two is just as straightforward. Here, all you need to do is enter your name, gender, birthday, preferred currency, address and mobile phone number. This is also where you can redeem a bonus code, if you’re fortunate enough to have access to one.

Once you’ve clicked both boxes regarding potential bonus offers and the terms and conditions, you’ll then be able to access the big green ‘Open Account’ button to begin your betting journey with Hopa!

Upon confirmation, punters can set Deposit Limits and will have the chance to verify their account – which, admittedly, isn’t very clear, as it isn’t noted what documents the bookmaker require from you.

Welcome Offer 4.5/5

• Deposit £10+ for £10 free bet
• Entry into ‘Hopa Challenge Welcome Tournament’

Hopa does possess a fairly basic but generous welcome offer for new customers, who can place a standard deposit of £10 or more to claim a £10 free bet.

New customers are only eligible for this offer once, and all qualifying bets must be placed on selections with odds greater than evens (1/1). Should punters claim this offer, they’ll also be entered into the ‘Hopa Challenge Welcome Tournament’, in which newcomers can compete against one another to work their way up a leaderboard in a bid to win a cash prize.

We’ll explain Hopa’s tournaments in a little more detail in the next section.

Pre-match Offer 4/5

• 25 sports available
• Competitive odds
• Superb esports and specials offering
• No bet builder

Hopa’s sportsbook is relatively broad, with 25 sports available for customers to bet on. Within each of these sports, a plethora of events are covered, and punters can enjoy a sufficient variety of markets. For example, at the time of writing this review, 173 markets are offered on the most popular football fixture.

All that being said, however, there is no point in having an impressive sportsbook offering if your odds are not competitive and attractive to players, which is what we’re going to look at next.

To measure the quality of Hopa’s margins we used the odds overround. The overround is a calculation that combines the total percentage probability of all selections in a match coming true. Naturally, the result of this should come to 100% – however, this does not factor in the profits made by the bookmaker. For this reason, it is widely accepted that any figure below 110% is considered to indicate fair odds.

Therefore, we picked three games at random from the Premier League, Italian Serie A and La Liga to determine the quality of Hopa’s odds and found the odds at 109.26%, 109.61% and 109.22% respectively, highlighting that Hopa offers not only competitive but consistent odds as well. There’s little to fault the bookie in this regard.

Punters have the choice of displaying the odds as decimals, fractions or American, with the minimum stake set at 5p. There appears to be no maximum stake as such.

Esports

Hopa boasts a huge esports offering. At the time of writing, 59 events were covered by the bookie, with games including Counter-Strike (CS:GO), Dota 2, League of Legends and Valorant Champions Tour available to bet on. For Counter-Strike and League of Legends, in particular, there were several different events on offer.

If you want to exploit the great esports offering that Hopa provides, be sure to check out our top esports tips and strategies.

Other Specials

If you’re partial to a bit of novelty betting, then Hopa may just be the perfect place for you. Those who enjoy dabbling in politics can enjoy an impressive offering with this bookie. At Hopa, you can bet on the next London Mayoral election and Conservative leader. American, EU, French, Australian, German and Irish politics are all covered too.

Specials including the upcoming Oscars, Eurovision and the current Dancing on Ice competition in the UK are also offered.

Cash Out & Bet Builder

While there’s no bet builder for customers to enjoy, you can still customise your bets (singles/accas) via Hopa’s Cash Out and Partial Cash Out functions. Such features are available on the majority of sports and markets – apart from system, forecast/tricast, outright (e.g., X to win the Premier League) and handicap bets.

Security 3/5

• Licensed by the Gambling Commission of Great Britain
• Minimal account limits
• Comprehensive Privacy Policy

Hopa is licensed and regulated by the Gambling Commission of Great Britain for its operations in Britain, and holds a licence from the Malta Gaming Authority for all other international customers. A comprehensive Privacy Policy can also be accessed at the bottom of the homepage.

There’s certainly some emphasis on responsible gambling, although it’s not a particularly standout feature. By accessing the ‘Responsible Gaming’ link at the bottom of the homepage, punters will have the chance to answer 12 questions regarding their gambling activity to decipher their risk level for problem gambling.

Customers can also set Deposit Limits, Play Limits (daily, weekly or monthly) and Loss Limits (daily max loss, weekly max loss) to prevent their gambling from spiralling out of control. However, there doesn’t appear to be an option for customers to Time Out or Self-Exclude themselves. Links for such limits of the responsible gaming page don’t appear to work, either.

Nevertheless, Hopa utilises the latest 128-bit Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology to ensure that sensitive data is completely private, with all data protected by the latest firewall. This ensures that customers’ private information is kept confidential and secure. Hopa also notes that such data isn’t shared with other organisations for commercial purposes.

Design & Usability 2.5/5

• Simple design
• Technical performance sub-par
• BetAssistant

Hopa’s website (which is available in six different languages) follows a fairly minimal design with a black and blue colour scheme. There are certainly some aspects that appear quite gimmicky, however, such as the font showcasing the ‘Hopa Challenge’ title.

There’s also a clear effort to ensure any unique features or promotions stand out.

Featured links can be accessed on the left-hand side of the homepage, with the day’s events listed clearly in the centre. Your bet slip is also always visible on the right-hand side, which aids the betting process for customers.

As we’ve already noted, information links can be accessed at the bottom of the page. It’s worth noting, though, that on occasion, such links didn’t work. The technical performance of the site, overall, was sub-par, with frustrating loading times frequent when attempting to access different components of the site.

Hopa doesn’t provide any statistics for punters, but what they do offer may be even better. Their BetAssistant is an intriguing feature that essentially provides tips (pre-match or in-play) for punters based on historical data. Hopa says the bet recommendation engine provides between 1,500 and 3,000 tips every month on over 400 different football leagues.

However, the reliability of the engine is unknown, and this would certainly contradict any efforts made by the site to emphasise responsible gambling. In fact, any of the tips provided by BetAssistant are on games the average punter would never consider betting on.

Other Products

In addition to its sportsbook, like other new betting sites, Hopa also provides Casino and Live Casino functions for its customers. There are over 500 casino games in total, including slots, jackpots and table games.

Unfortunately, Virtual Sports aren’t offered at Hopa.

Nevertheless, punters can also take advantage of a generous casino welcome offer, with which you can earn up to a 500% bonus and 100 free spins. New customers can earn a 50% bonus up to £50 with their first deposit, 25% up to £200 with their second and 25% up to £250 with their third. Meanwhile, their free spins can be utilised on five different games for five days after their first deposit (20x free spins each day).