The online casino bonuses are one of the
most popular features of the internet
casinos, but just like everything else
in life, there is no free lunch and
there are some strings attached to
almost all of the online casino bonus
offers. Those requirements are known as
playthrough requirements or
wagering requirements and here we
will help you understand and meet those
bonus wagering requirements.
Let's begin with an explanation of
the play-through bonus requirements you
may encounter when playing at the
internet casinos. Almost every bonus the
online casino offers comes with those
wagering requirements, except those
bonuses that are specifically excluded
from it, such as comp points or a
special bonus given to you by the casino
management without any wagering
requirements attached. The rest of the
bonus offers do have playthrough
requirements.
In its basic, the play-through
requirement is a certain amount of
casino chips that must be wagered before
the winnings and the bonus could be
withdrawn by the player. The
internet casinos attach those wagering
requirements to their bonuses in order
to avoid bonus abuse. If the casino
simply gave you 100% match bonus, for
example, on your first deposit, without
any play-through requirements - why
would you even play? You would simply
withdraw your deposit and the bonus and
hit the next casino. In order for the
online casinos to be able to give you
free casino chips and at the same time
to ensure that you would actually
patronize the casino, they add those
wagering requirements to the bonus.
How do the casino bonus wagering
requirements work? They could be rather
simple or quite complex, depending on
the online casino, the bonus in question
and other factors. But the very basic
idea behind the bonus play-through
requirements at the internet casinos is
that the amount of the bonus+deposit
must be wagered certain amount of times
before the player could withdraw any
winnings and/or the bonus they have
received by the gambling site. Here is
also the best place to note that certain
casino games are either excluded from
counting towards the wagering
requirements or are counted as a smaller
percentage towards meeting those
requirements. Wonder why? For instance,
roulette is generally excluded from
counting towards the wagering
requirements since a player could simply
bet on both black and red and come out
even almost all the time, while the
roulette bets the player have made add
to the wagering amount. To avoid this
trickery, the internet casinos exclude
certain games from satisfying the
playthrough requirements of their
bonuses.
Let's look at an example of how
the playthrough requirements work. The
welcome bonus at the
Vegas Casino Online is
currently 125% of your first deposit.
Let's say a customer deposits $100,
which would make the starting bankroll
go up to $225 ($100 deposit +$125
bonus). The wagering requirements at
this particular internet casino are
30x(deposit+bonus), except blackjack and
video poker. Following the example
above, the player must wager 30x$225 or
$6750, before they can withdraw the
bonus and the winnings, if any. This may
sound like a lot of money, but the fact
is that it's just a wagering
requirement, not a loss-requirement. In
other words, both the winning bets and
the losing bets (and the push-bets)
count towards satisfying the
abovementioned amount. Not to mention
that the longer you play, the more compo
points you will accumulate, but this is
a topic for another discussion.
So how do you meet the casino
bonus wagering requirements? Simply you
need to play longer or win more. We
understand that this is easier said than
done, but there are some games that are
best for meeting the wagering
requirements of the online casino
bonuses The video slots ought to be your
best bet for meeting the wagering terms
and conditions, but we often prefer to
recommend the gamblers to give the
progressive jackpots of the slot
machines a shot. Not only they count
towards the play though requirements of
the bonus, but they also give you the
chance to win really big, while mostly
using the casino's money to do so. We
even know people who have actually won a
progressive jackpot with bonus money.
At closing, we must caution player
one more time about the bonus wagering
requirements of the internet casinos.
Always make sure that you not only read
the bonus offer itself, but the terms
and conditions that come with it. As we
already noted, some games are excluded
from satisfying the bonus play-through,
while others would count by just a
fraction compared to the other games.
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