Dafabet Casino Live Review

Dafabet is a well known sports betting company based in the Philippines, who have expanded their market into UK in recent years. They have partnered with a lot of famous sporting faces and teams to promote their successful brand, including snooker player Jimmy White, footballer Alan Shearer and football clubs such as Sunderland, Celtic and Burnley. Their UK online casino actually closed in March 2018, but their Live Casino continues to operate in English a heavy international focus. For Asian live casino fans - Dafabet live casino might just be the perfect place, with over 150 live casino tables to choose from and a heavy emphasis on catering customers from these regions.

Live Casino Games

Dafabet’s Live Casino site is completely separate from its usual online casino, which is not normally the way casino sites operate. However, we guess this means they can focus on live dealer games - and that appears to be what they have done, with a live casino range that puts many other online casinos to shame. Or at least in quantity, anyway. What Dafabet have decided to provide with their live casino, is a collection spread across 8 different developers in themed lobbies. These are: Diamond (Asia Gaming), Sapphire (Evolution Gaming), Ruby (Playtech), Topaz (Deluxe Gold), Turquoise (EBet), Jade (SunBet) Black Pearl (AllBet) and Amethyst (Opus Gaming). What this means is, live casino players get a truly huge selection of live casino games spanning nearly a hundred titles - many of which are rare or even exclusive to Dafabet. However, some of these lobbies do vary in quality. For example, we found Asia Gaming’s lobby to be quite complex to navigate and their live streams were not as good quality as Evolution’s. There was also a lot of K-Pop singing going on too, which we couldn’t exactly see the relevance of when it comes to gambling - but it certainly added a unique ambience! The All Bet lobby also had some incredibly loud twinkly piano music, which we quickly found the mute button for. We advise turning your speakers down before you access! The 150+ tables cover all the casino classics (blackjack, baccarat, roulette, poker) and some more Asian orientated games including Keno and Mah-jong, both of which are quite rare at English language live casino sites. So Dafabet may be worth checking out just to experience the games alone!

Localisation/Native Tables

Dafabet’s site is available in few easily accessible languages. These are: English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Thai, Korean, Hindi and Vietnamese. Continuing with the theme, these are mostly focused towards Asian players - as you can probably tell. This runs into their native table options as well. Unsurprisingly, they don’t offer any of Evolution’s European tailored language roulette tables. But they do offer baccarat, with a live Italian dealer in the Punto Banco variety. Most of their games are tailored towards Asian audiences, with live dealers in Chinese, Vietnamese and a few other languages as well as regional specific games such as Mah-jong, Sic Bo and Keno. Playtech also hosts their live tables for Dafabet from a studio in Manila, which is pretty cool!

Private Tables

We couldn’t find any custom DafaBet tables - they were all the standard tables provided by each developer, although many of them were aimed at the Asian market.

Mobile

Dafabet's mobile live casino site is probably its weakest point. A few of the developers lobbies were already fairly difficult to navigate on desktop, and this isn't helped if you're accessing them from an older or smaller device. We encountered some lag issues, glitches and freezes during our review - and a few times the live lobby from Deluxe Gold refused to work at all until we rebooted the site. The bright side is, as usual, Evolution Gaming whose lobby worked absolutely perfectly in all aspects. But what did you expect from them, really? All in all, the less than top tier quality of Dafabet's mobile site shouldn't be a problem if you have a newer device or big tablet screen but otherwise may cause some hassle.

Payment Methods

Dafabet has quite a wide range of banking options, including: PaysafeCards, Skrill, Netteller, Visa and Mastercard, plus a truly huge list of methods for Asian players - which you can see here. Almost all of them have no fees, and are processed instantly for both withdrawals and deposits -which is great! Truly one of the better banking systems we’ve seen at an online casino.

In fact our only fault we could find is that they don’t do direct bank transfers, but since these are usually the slowest method anyway - who needs ‘em? Dafabet also accepts the following currencies: CNY (Chinese Yuan), USD (United States Dollar), RM (Malaysian Ringgit), THB (Thai Baht), KRW (Korean Won), VND (Vietnamese Dong), IDR (Indonesian Rupiah), INR (Indian Rupees), EUR (Euro), GBP (Great Britain Pound), PLN (Polish Zloty) and RUB (Russian Ruble). Although not all residents of countries associated with these currencies may be allowed to gamble at Dafabet’s live casino so it’s best to check their list of excluded countries first.

How Does Dafabet Compare to Other Top Live Casinos?

Dafabet is a great choice for players from Asian countries, but not so much for many European gamblers. They have a truly huge selection of live dealer games, covering some rarer titles that you won’t find at many other online casinos and their localisation efforts are top tier. Their banking system is also great, and clearly set out on their easy to use help page. The only negatives are the lack of a European licence and a long list of restricted countries. But since they're a reputable brand, if you can play here there are plenty of reasons to give them a try! Also, for what it is worth, K pop singing live hosts are certainly something you won’t often find at most gambling sites available to European players!