Can I Use My Credit Card to Bet the Pacquiao-Bradley fight online?

Many of you will be able to use your credit card placing a bet on the highly anticipated Pacquiao-Bradley fight over the Internet.  It all depends on the card and your location.

BetOnline, for example, does offer Mastercard as an option for placing a wager in addition to Visa. That said, most books only accept Visa, at least where the North American bettor is concerned.

This fight will generate interest worldwide including Manny Pacquiao’s home country of the Philippines where gamblers have other alternatives at online sportsbooks like BetOnline.  These include Neteller, which acts as a third party processor for various credit cards.

Visas and Mastercards issued by European banks will have a much higher acceptance rate.  As such, if you are located in a European nation where online gambling is permitted, the credit card option is vastly more seamless, or at least it should be. 

BetOnline is interesting in that they offer other credit card options via chat, but again they may not work in certain jurisdictions.

No matter where you are in the world it is important to note that payments cannot be made back on credit cards.  You can request checks, bank wires or use a host of other methods to request a payout.

Online gambling sites will always request some form of id for obvious reasons.  This is to protect against fraud. Usually a driver’s license will suffice.  Gambling911.com does not recommend providing any online gambling firm with your social security number.

- Don Shapiro, Gambling911.com