April 27, 2008 -- The sports and gaming magazine TIPS has elected the gaming company Betsafe.com as the world's best bookmaker.

Excellent support and good odds ensured that http://www.Betsafe.com won its first top position in TIPS' large bookmaker test. The established test evaluates the bookmakers in eight different categories such as Usability/Design, how to register, deposit/withdrawal options, gaming options, how to make a bet, payback, support and focus on security and addictive gambling--where gaming options and payback gives double amount of points.

The maximum amount of points is 100, and this time Betsafe won with 81 points, while Nordicbet, Centrebet, Bet356 and Bwin all came in among the top five.

We are very happy to win this test and it shows that we have done some good stuff and taken the correct decisions during our first 2 years.
-Everyday, we strive to improve our work, and we are of course very proud to be rewarded with the top position in such an important test, says André Lavold, the founder of the company.

André is together with his brother Christer Lavold and their friends Rudi Thomassen and Anders Berntssen the team behind the 2 year old gaming company, which is already well established in the Scandinavian market.

-Good odds are most important, without them I don't believe people would have noticed us at all. Scandinavian players know the value of things and usually compare prices and odds before they make a bet, the sportsbook manager Anders Berntssen points out.

- We are extremely proud over what we have accomplished over the last six months with a new website as the highlight, but we will not rest with this. We have a number of markets where we can improve, something we work with on a daily basis. Our most important focus is the close contact we have with our players, says the smiling CEO Henrik Persson.

These are the results of the bookmaker test:

1         Betsafe                           81 points
2         Nordicbet                       80 points        
3         Centrebet                       79 points
4         Bet365                           78 points        
5         Betandwin                    75 points
6         Expekt                            71 points
7         Betsson                        70 points        
8         Unibet                            69 points
9         Pinnacle Sports               68 points        
10        Sportingbet                    67 points
11        Bet24                            65 points
12        Betway                           64 points
13        Gamebookers                58 points        
14        Paddy Power                56 points
15        Stan James                    55 points
16        Ladbrokes                    54 points        
17        Eurobet                        52 points    
18        Scandic                        51 points        
19        Vikingbet                        48 points
20        William Hill                    47 points

To view the winning site visit http://www.betsafe.com.