Casino Bonus Bagging

[Rossco]

Well after about an hour, I'm £4 up and I've wagered £268 so far.

Coming along nicely.

If this works for me first time I could get used to it, can see me starting going round all the online casinos doing this now!

[Rossco]

Triple post!

I've now wagered £730 and I'm up £75! This is getting exciting, I could make an more money from playing that the bonus at this stage. Not getting carried away though. Just takin it easy.

[Rossco]

Finished all £2500 in one day!

Easiest £100 ever, think I finished £25 up as had a long period of bad cards and had to buyin again but got it back. Plus the £100 bonus so £125. Quite good aye!? Oh and how long did it take for your bonus to be put into your account?

Whats the next best site to do for this?

Ohhh quadruple post, nice! Does no-one else care or do this anymore?

[dreamylittledream]

Its not anywhere near as lucrative as it was I'm afraid as BJ is banned most places these days and the wagering requirements frequently approach the silly levels. Also you have yet to experience the 'fun' of variance biting you on the arse...

I'd recommend having another read of the matched betting material for a quicker and more reliable supply of cash. You can do the VC signup since you've just joined perhaps (although being stake not returned you'll need a decent balance in Betfair to match out the freebie).

As for best bonuses and where to hit next this is the best site on the net for bonus hunting

www.beatingbonuses.com

Bet365 is probably the next best offer £2400 wagering for 100 squid...

[Rossco]

Well a few years back I was on roulette making money, usually I would wait for 7 or 8 occurrances (how the hell do you spell that word, I cant get it right! ) of the same colour then bet on the opposite.

But once I had 14 blacks in a row and I almost lost my whole bankroll betting on reds constantly which never came!

What about doing roulette for this anyway? Can't you put £1 on every number and make your money back? And you'll meet the wagering requirement in no time?

[pompey88]

Should appear in your VC account in 2 days, then a further 5 to your actual bank account. Mine came today so treated myself to a couple of Ted Baker shirts.

[dreamylittledream]

Its not anywhere near as lucrative as it was I'm afraid as BJ is banned most places these days and the wagering requirements frequently approach the silly levels. Also you have yet to experience the 'fun' of variance biting you on the arse...

I'd recommend having another read of the matched betting material for a quicker and more reliable supply of cash. You can do the VC signup since you've just joined perhaps (although being stake not returned you'll need a decent balance in Betfair to match out the freebie).

As for best bonuses and where to hit next this is the best site on the net for bonus hunting

www.beatingbonuses.com

Bet365 is probably the next best offer £2400 wagering for 100 squid...

Roulette is almost always banned from bonus wagering.

Also this kind of betting is generally described as 'bonus abuse' and would be likely to get you banned and kicked out of most casino's sans bonus.

So not worth it....

[Rossco]

Just got my VC money and put it in my bank so that's safe. And gonna put £100 into Bet 365 now and play Blackjack, had a look at the rules and Roulette is out along with other variations of Blackjack but the standard Blackjack game is fine.

Only bad thing is that you need to put £100 deposit in unlike VC where you could deposit as little as you want and still get the £100!

I'm hoping Bet 365 has similar statistics pages as VC to track how many hands you've played, wagered etc!

Woops, just set the desposit limit to £25 by mistake, need to wait 24 hours now to change it and then deposit my £100!

[dreamylittledream]

Argh....down £33 on the Coral monthly - convieniently within the last 150 wagering the casino saw fit to take my balance from £76 to £17.

I swear Chartwell software cheats I really do...

Must learn to give this up - it does my blood pressure no good at all

[pompey88]

Argh....down £33 on the Coral monthly - convieniently within the last 150 wagering the casino saw fit to take my balance from £76 to £17.

I swear Chartwell software cheats I really do...

Must learn to give this up - it does my blood pressure no good at all

I was doing the Gala sign up bonus yesterday £50 for 1250 wagered. I think it uses the same software as Coral. Anyway!

put £50 in, won the first 3 or so hands from then on I've never seen so much shit! got to around the 1000 wagered and my £50 was all gone. Had to finish ofcourse, so put another £20 in, another £50 wagered and that £20 was gone aswell. Put another £10 in and finished with £14.

So overall ended up £16 odd down. There was some dodgy goings on though I swear.

[Rossco]

I've just started the Gala one but can't find out where the stats are to tell you how much you've wagered?

[dreamylittledream]

I was doing the Gala sign up bonus yesterday £50 for 1250 wagered. I think it uses the same software as Coral. Anyway!

put £50 in, won the first 3 or so hands from then on I've never seen so much shit! got to around the 1000 wagered and my £50 was all gone. Had to finish ofcourse, so put another £20 in, another £50 wagered and that £20 was gone aswell. Put another £10 in and finished with £14.

So overall ended up £16 odd down. There was some dodgy goings on though I swear.

Bit late to tell you this but there is a £100 signup at Gala available through affiliates - 2.5k wagering for the £100

Still the good news is their monthly is the same £100 / 2500 wagered deal.

The Gala casino confusingly uses the same software as the Coral games site but not the Coral casino site. The Gala/Coral games SD Black Jack is far faster and I find less suspect - but then again I would say that as I just finished the monthly £172 up including bonus.

In all seriousness its all just variance - I don't really think the casino's cheat, just your blood can boil more than a little when variance rapes you.

[dreamylittledream]

I've just started the Gala one but can't find out where the stats are to tell you how much you've wagered?

In the cashier click on the bonus link (0.00) next to the casino balance.

It tells you how much you have wagered for the bonus.

If there is no bonus listed in there then the code hasn't worked and you need to transfer in and out again as your wagering will not be counting.

[Rossco]

Yeah I found it eventually. Only managed to withdraw £60 including bonus after putting £25 in to begin with but can't complain at making £35 for a few hours while watching golf/f1 on TV!

So whats this about a monthly £100 bonus though? You can basically do the whole £2500 wager to earn £100 bonus EVERY month? Easy money! Do alot of them do that? I might quite my part time job if I can find a handful of sites that do it, see me through the next few years in uni!

[dreamylittledream]

Yeah I found it eventually. Only managed to withdraw £60 including bonus after putting £25 in to begin with but can't complain at making £35 for a few hours while watching golf/f1 on TV!

So whats this about a monthly £100 bonus though? You can basically do the whole £2500 wager to earn £100 bonus EVERY month? Easy money! Do alot of them do that? I might quite my part time job if I can find a handful of sites that do it, see me through the next few years in uni!

Yeah the Gala monthly is crazy generous compared to most of the offerings these days - full list here:

http://www.beatingbonuses.com/monthly.htm

I only do Coral, Gala, Eurobet, Littlewoods and the Ladbrokes recent promos mind. I only ever play Black Jack, Barcarett, Roulette or Casino War, can't take the variance of Video Poker or Casino Hold em.

There is plenty of cash to be made still in this advantage gambling lark however. I got made redundant at the end of May and so have been playing this game full time for the past two months.

Between sports book bonuses, arbitage and casino's I've cleared significantly more than my old monthly salary for June and July. Admitedly this has been largely due to some very generous offers over Euro 2008 but I've not been rushing back to any old job yet...

[MDK]

I only do Coral, Gala, Eurobet, Littlewoods and the Ladbrokes recent promos mind. I only ever play Black Jack, Barcarett, Roulette or Casino War, can't take the variance of Video Poker or Casino Hold em.

Bad habits carrying over from FMD?

[Rossco]

Nice one dream, I'll check those same ones out and see if I can make an extra few hundred every month. If I can pull out £200 a month I'll be happy as it's 50% of what I currently get for my part time work every work. Nice wee side earner.

Gonna hammer the bet365 one tonight I think for £100 sign up.

[Rossco]

Ladbrokes requires you to play through to £10,000 just for £100. That's ridiculous. 4 times as much as other sites!

Bet365 still haven't updated my deposit limit so need to wait til tomorrow again for that but just came out £40 up from Littlewoods. And now the Coral site isn't working.

Also, can you do the Sign Up and monthly bonuses in the same month?

[pompey88]

In all seriousness its all just variance - I don't really think the casino's cheat, just your blood can boil more than a little when variance rapes you.

Yeah I know, it just seemed so dodgy that was all.

I went for the Littlewoods one tonight. Another £50 for 1250.

Finished it and ended up £81 in profit. . That's more like it!

[Rossco]

Okay I'm confused.

Betfair!

Doing the £50 bonus on there but it's really strange system, why can't they just let you have one account for money for the whole site instead of transferring it all around between acounts.

I put in £50, they matched it, and I now have £150. Want to take out £50 or the full £100 and play with only the £50 bonus now but it won't let me withdraw the money, I can't seem to find out how to do it! I think you're supposed to transfer it out of the Casino account into the main one, then withdraw, but it says I have nothing available to transfer from casino, even though there is £150 sitting there!

[Rossco]

What a fucking ridiculous site. I had £170 in my account and got the message saying my bonus is now withdrawable so went to do that but only let me take out £72. So I done that and tried to check how much I had wagered but the stats were all wrong and nowhere told me, so I just kept betting which I shouldn't have done and lost it all. If I waited it would have maybe worked later as if there was a problem now or something but it's still a farce of a site, so confusing. So only left with £22 profit for 2 hours work.

[Darragh]

So only left with £22 profit for 2 hours work.

Well, lah dee dah, Mr. "Double the minimum wage for sitting at my computer playing blackjack? Pah!".

[dreamylittledream]

Ladbrokes requires you to play through to £10,000 just for £100. That's ridiculous. 4 times as much as other sites!

Bet365 still haven't updated my deposit limit so need to wait til tomorrow again for that but just came out £40 up from Littlewoods. And now the Coral site isn't working.

Also, can you do the Sign Up and monthly bonuses in the same month?

Play Casino War at Ladbrokes - its only 20 x bonus wagering (2k) - HA is about 2% so mathmatically you should make a reasonable profit. Plus the variance of War doesn't tend to be too bad. Worth doing as they've had some very generous weekly promos in the last two months.

You can't usually do monthlies and signups in the same month, although according to my spreadsheet I did in my first month at Coral (some two years ago). Certainly worth a try I'd say!!

[Rossco]

Just done a wee spreadsheet to keep track of this bonus bagging!

Up £195 after doing 4 casinos so far since the 15th July. Not too shabby eh!

I might give the Casino War a go then, as I didn't fancy playing through to £10,000 on Blackjack. Thats like 5 hours work for £100, how shocking.

Emailed Littlewoods and they can't do the signup and monthly bonus at once. No big deal though, the next month is only a week away so I'll be kept busy with sign ups until then.

Also, how do you check your stats/bet history in Bet365. Can't find it anywhere!

[Rossco]

Well I just got extremely fucked by Bet365. £100 in, up to £267 at one point then lost it all.

£100 down. I am raging. Dealer got ridiculous amounts of Blackjack and 20's all the time. Has really pissed me off now as I was playing basic strategy and never deviating from it so to drop over £250 so quickly just sucks.

Plus their website is shit, can't even view your own wagered amount, have to ask someone on the Live help to check for you and how it took like 5 days for them to reset my deposit limits and eventually kick the shit outta me after waiting so long is just wrong.

As you can tell I'm in a bad mood so will be staying away from Blackjack for a while now.

[dreamylittledream]

Well I just got extremely fucked by Bet365. £100 in, up to £267 at one point then lost it all.

£100 down. I am raging. Dealer got ridiculous amounts of Blackjack and 20's all the time. Has really pissed me off now as I was playing basic strategy and never deviating from it so to drop over £250 so quickly just sucks.

Plus their website is shit, can't even view your own wagered amount, have to ask someone on the Live help to check for you and how it took like 5 days for them to reset my deposit limits and eventually kick the shit outta me after waiting so long is just wrong.

As you can tell I'm in a bad mood so will be staying away from Blackjack for a while now.

Also you have yet to experience the 'fun' of variance biting you on the arse...

I did warn you...tis the nature of this game - you either learn to suck the losses up and keep playing or give up now whilst you are still ahead.

You will lose on occasion *roughly 1 in every 5 offers I find) - you need to trust in the maths however that overall you will come out comfortably ahead...

[Rossco]

Yeah mate I was expecting it one time and that was the fifth offer I done too so you were right on the money!

But I'm over it now anyway, I was pure raging for about an hour after it today then realised I was still £100 up for the week so can't complain.

[Coltrane]

Just started doing this recently and I think VC are trying to pull a fast one on me. I'm pretty sure I've met the wagering requirements of £2500 (see screenshot below) but I got this email from them when I enquired about the bonus:

Dear ,

Thank you for your email regarding yuor Casino Welcome Bonus.

Having looked at your account, I can see that you have wagered £100. As per the terms of the bonus, you must wager £2500 within the first 30 days after your first deposit. Therefore, you will need to wager an additional £2400 within the next 28 days in order to qualify.

If I can be of any further assistance, please do not hesitate to come back to me.

Kind regards

Lea Crisp

Games Division

Er..what are they on about?! I wrote back challenging it.

[Coltrane]

Well, I got a quick email back saying they were 'incorrect' and I should have the bonus by next Wednesday. Phew!

Ended up only £30 up after depositing £100 (and assuming the bonus comes through ok). My fault for carrying on betting when I hit the target with an £85 profit.

[Rossco]

Yeh I done the same a few times and lost some, should just leave when you hit the bonus straight away!