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T RAF F I C the company is offering 12 team vs. team tournament progression match bets and 33 player goal total over/unders. Unibet also has seven squad selection markets and a range of Messi vs. Ronaldo tournament match bets. This is all on top of a strong range of traditional tournament bets and popular match markets. In third place we have Bet365. While Bet365’s offering for tournament outrights is limited to mostly traditional markets, its menu of markets available for World Cup match betting is far superior to those offered by most of its rivals. Bet365 also offers arguably the best range of match betting markets for the World Cup, and in terms of odds, decent margins on most popular World Cup betting markets. BEST FOR RANGE OF MARKETS Based purely on the range of markets available, we determined Titanbet to be the best bookmaker for World Cup betting. Titanbet ranked highly across scoring betting, handicaps and traditional match markets, as well as team performance markets, half betting and timing of goal markets. The firm also offers a number of England team specials as well as a reasonable quantity of outrights and player specials. In second place comes Bet365, which consistently ranked among the top bookmakers in each category, particularly outrights, player performance markets, scoring markets, handicaps, timing of goals and traditional match markets. Ultimately there wasn’t much separating Bet365 from Titanbet when it came to their range of betting markets for the World Cup. In third place we ranked Winner Sports, which scored well on half betting, scoring markets and traditional match markets. It also offers a decent range of handicaps, timing of goal and team performance markets. BEST FOR TOURNAMENT OUTRIGHTS Our number one ranked bookmaker for tournament outrights is Sky Bet, which is offering traditional outright markets such as tournament winner, group winners and knockout stage qualification, but goes further with a range of exacta markets for tournament and group betting. It also offers markets focusing on total points won at group stage and tournament winner double chance betting. In second place for outrights we ranked 888sport. BetVictor came in third. BEST FOR TOURNAMENT PLAYER PERFORMANCE For player performance betting, we again ranked 888sport at number one. The bookmaker came out 20 iGB Affiliate Issue 69 JUN/JUL 2018 well ahead of the competition in tournament player performance betting, with 44 individual player goal scoring over/under markets available as well as five top goalscorer player vs. player tournament match bets and top assist deliverer player vs. player tournament match bets. We ranked Unibet in second place for player performance betting, with Betsafe in third. BEST FOR TEAM MATCH PERFORMANCE William Hill triumphed when it came to the range of