How Online Casinos Are Freerolling You With Sign-up Bonuses:
Freeroll: verb – To guarantee a backbreaking advantage.
More free money! Fantastic! HardRockCasino.com offers a 100% sign-up bonus up to $1000. I should definitely deposit the full amount to receive a free $1000! Not so fast. Whenever an online casino has a deposit bonus, they also have a wagering requirement. This is a mandatory amount of money that you will have to cumulatively wager to be able to convert your bonus into withdrawable cash, and countless online casinos use deceptive wording to freeroll you. Hard Rock’s wagering requirement is 20x the deposit plus the bonus. 20x the deposit plus the bonus is 40x the bonus, but by using a smaller number, someone could misunderstand this and fall into the trap. So 40 x $1000 would be $40,000 total wagering, but they also have weighted percentages on their games. On Hard Rock, slots contribute 100% towards the wagering requirement, but video poker and table games contribute 20%. Video poker and table games are the only games with actual strategy, so assuming you deposited the full $1000, you would have to wager $200,000 within a 14-day period. Don’t you think they know that most people will not be able to complete a $200,000 wagering requirement in 14 days? This is how they are freerolling you.
GoldenNuggetCasino.com also offers a 100% sign-up bonus up to $1000, and as much as I love a lot of aspects of this website such as the Play Plus deposit method that I explained in tip/trick number 7, they also use deceptive wording. Their wagering requirement is 10x the deposit plus the bonus. Again, they can just say 20x, but they use smaller numbers which can confuse people who are unaware. They also have games that contribute differently towards the wagering requirement. Most slots are 100%, some selected slots are 20%, and table games and video poker are 25%, so the wagering requirement for table games and video poker would be 80x for $80,000 total wagering. This is a lower wagering requirement, and you also get 30 days to complete it, but most people will get freerolled, and they are most likely counting on this. It should also be noted that not all bonuses on GoldenNuggetCasino.com have wagering requirements that high. The wagering requirement for the sign-up bonus is 10x the deposit plus the bonus with weighted contributions, but many other bonuses are just 10x the bonus with weighted contributions, not the deposit plus the bonus, so 40x on table games and video poker instead of 80x.
Let’s take a look at a non-US website that accepts US players and players from other countries. I’ve talked about Sportsbetting.ag in tip/trick number 9, but this is another online casino that is freerolling you with sign-up bonuses. They have poker, casino, sports, and cryptocurrency bonuses, but let’s take a look at their “25% For Life” sports bonus that they offer year-round. Many non-US casinos will use the term “rollover requirement” instead of “wagering requirement,” and rollover automatically means deposit plus bonus. The rollover requirement for this bonus is 6x. Many players who don’t know the difference between a wagering requirement and a rollover requirement might get excited and think this is a 6x wagering requirement. This would actually be amazing since one full bet would already be 5x wagering, but we have to consider that rollover means deposit plus bonus. Because you are getting a 25% bonus, the wagering requirement is actually 30x. A $1000 deposit would get a $250 bonus, and because rollover automatically means deposit plus bonus, you add the $1000 deposit plus the $250 bonus to figure out that one rollover is $1250 and then multiply that number by the actual 6x rollover requirement to get $7500 total wagering. $7500 total wagering divided by a $250 bonus is a 30x wagering requirement, not 6x like they deceive you into thinking. They are freerolling you in plain sight.
888casino.com has a 120% bonus up to $500, and right in the “Short Terms & Conditions” section on the bonus page, it says “Bonus must be wagered 30 times within 60 days of granting” for a 30x wagering requirement and a total wagering of $15,000. This would seem like enough information, but it is extremely deceptive because when you read the full terms and conditions, you find out that slot games contribute 100% towards the bonus, poker table games contribute 20%, blackjack, video poker, baccarat, and roulette contribute 10%, and craps contributes 5%, meaning that the true wagering requirements are 30x on slots for a total wagering of $15,000, 150x on poker table games for a total wagering of $75,000, 300x on blackjack, video poker, baccarat, and roulette for a total wagering of $150,000, and 600x on craps for a total wagering of $300,000. Don’t you think they specifically put “30 times” in the “Short Terms & Conditions” for a reason? This is extremely deceptive, and this is how they are freerolling you.
Unibet.com has a 100% sign-up bonus up to $500. When you arrive at the bonus information page, you will see 14 short lines of text and 3 drop-down boxes. Written in the visible text, you will see that there is a 25x wagering requirement for the bonus, but you have to click the terms and conditions drop-down box to learn that table games and video poker only contribute 10% for a true wagering requirement of 250x. To complete the wagering requirement with slots, you would have to wager $12,500 in total, but to complete the wagering requirement on table games and video poker, you would have to wager $125,000 in total.
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