PinnacleSports.com

• Online Racebook Information.


• Online Sportsbook Information.


• Making a Deposit to your sports betting account.


• Account management and maintenance, reporting features.

One of the few online gaming companies with a name appropriate to its reputation. Pinnacle Sports is an online sportsbook that is highly regarded by both bettors and competitors alike. Operating in Curacao based on a Netherlands Antilles gaming license, Pinnacle is known to offer the best values in odds, a wide array of propositions to wager on, solid financial capability and ability to succeed based on mostly wiseguy action. Most recently, Pinnacle added an online racebook to its offering. An online casino makes Pinnacle a complete one stop shop for all gambling preferences, sports betting, horse betting and casino gambling.

The PinnacleSports website is very straightforward, without fancy graphics or meaningless text thus making up for a fast loading website. All important links are on the main page, login boxes are on the top left portion; when a user goes to PinnacleSports website; the objective is to make a bet quickly.

No speak English? Esta bien! No problemo! Pinnacle se habla su lenguaje. The website supports several languages such as Spanish, Turkish, Italian, Svenska, Russian, Dutch, Thai, Suomi and Chinese.

Customer Service is very competent and professionally handled via e-mail, to which there is a quick response time on e-mail queries. Expect a reply within 10 minutes. E-mail support is available 24/7.

Pinnacle Online Racebook

Pinnacle's online racebook has a unique interface not found in other racebooks. The horse betting system is Java based and runs on any web browser including Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator and Opera. We have successfully tested Pinnacles online racebook horse betting system on a Macintosh using Safari, neat!


Horse wager in process at Pinnacle Online Racebook

The horse betting interface is modeled after a pari-mutuel automated machine, the first screen is a list of tracks available for the day, select a track loads the races for the day (default on the race to start soonest). To place a bet, one has to select bet amount, select bet type, then select entries or selections to bet on. Send bet will prompt user for confirmation of wager, voila, you have a horse bet. Seems like a lot of steps but the horse betting process is quite seamless and quick thanks to the integrated Java interface.

For power users wanting make ten bets at a time, the Queue Bet function will pool all pending bets into a queue. Doing so will avoid the entering of password confirmation for each bet, it only has to be done once when the Send Queue button is clicked, at which point, all pending bets on the queue will be posted to the system. This is a time saving feature indeed. However, keep track of the race post times, don't queue bets on races that are about to start in a couple of minutes or your bet may be posted after the race has started. I had to learn this the hard way and cost me a nice exacta.

Pinnacle Racebook offers a large number of thoroughbred and standardbred racetracks in North America, from the major racetracks with big purses to lesser known harness racing tracks with very small purses and low quality racing.


Horse wager in process at Pinnacle Online Racebook

Full Track Odds and No Bet Limits

Pinnacle Racebook is the only online offshore racebook that offer full track odds payouts not only on Win, Place, Show but also exotic bets such as Exacta, Trifecta, Pick3 and Pick4 wagers. Full track odds on the exotics indicate that Pinnacle is pooling the money into the pari-mutuel pool, otherwise it would be a risk factor since they also do not have maximum bet limits on any racetrack or any race type. It's like betting at the track but the BIG difference is rebate on bet turnover.

Rebates on horse bets is the BIG difference in betting with Pinnacle. Not only do you get track odds, you also get back 7% of your bets. Imagine if you placed $1,000 worth of wagers on $100 bank roll, you get back 7% of that credited to your account everyday. Excluded from rebates are Place and Show bets that paid $2.10 or $2.20, correct! you cannot abuse the rebate system either.

Horse bets are graded or settled 10 to 15 minutes after each race, enough time to bet the next race at the same track if you have limited bank roll. However, you will need a bigger bank roll if you are playing several tracks with post times five minutes from each race.

Online Sportsbook

Pinnacle is more famous for being a sportsbook that caters to and thrives on wise guy action. However, they are open to all bettors big and small, proof of that is the $1 minimum bet. Pinnacle offers the best odds/lines in the industry that bookmakers of other sportsbooks follow Pinnacle's line moves and layoff their action at Pinnacle. To the casual sports bettor, this means that Pinnacle most likely has near balanced action – bottom line is Pinnacle is a BIG SPORTSBOOK – the cream of the offshore crop that even Las Vegas is watching.

Sporting events offered on a daily basis include spread and money line propositions on college and NFL football, soccer, rugby, NBA and college basketball, MLB baseball, NHL hockey, Boxing, NASCAR, Golf, Tennis, Cycling and many other sports including of course horse racing match-ups and propositions.

Funding your betting account

Deposit methods offered include Visa and Mastercard credit cards, cashiers check, wire transfer, Neteller and Moneybookers. When you win and want to receive funds from Pinnacle, your funds can be received via check and wire transfer or as credit to your Neteller and Moneybookers accounts.

Managing your Online Betting Account

All aspects of your online betting activity related to your online betting account is available for your perusal online, you can view all pending wagers, all settled/graded wagers; a running balance or tally of your account, by day, by wager. Different time frames can be specified, you can look up wagers you made last month! Gosh the online accounts system is so easy you can run yourself paranoid of checking the details!


You account details allows access to wager details at Pinnacle website so you can view and investigate each wager you made, whether you want to track your activity and performance or to make sure that your bets are settled and graded properly. This is a very important feature that is not so easy on other websites.

Your personal account details can also be viewed and edited online. Recently moved? Change your address online. Afraid your password is so easy? Change it online. For any changes that you make, an automativ e-mail is dispatched to advice you of the change, so you can be alerted if ever another person got into your account.

Summary

If you read through half of this review on Pinnacle Sports, there should no doubt that they are a very good place to for your online betting activities, be it on sports, horse racing and other events – their wealth of propositions, easy to use website and betting interface, best value odds and vigorish, and professional customer service all make up for a wholly enjoyable experience. We highly recommend and put our stamp of approval on Pinnacle Online Sportsbook, Racebook and Casino.