Just won.....£430 from a casino

lakitu said:
£430 from a casino, 6 hours blackjack :D Bonus bagging of course. Leads me to this question, what's the most you have won through bonus bagging or otherwise through an online casino and what did you buy from your winnings? I know there are a few on here that are into bonus bagging (oc got introduced me). I just bought tickets to Paris.
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Very good, Spend it on therapy before you get hooked now.
 
{{INX}} said:
I have been to your site quite a lot in the past before meeting you here, which i have found very helpful.
I was asking more along the lines of what do you personally prefer at the casino's for bagging the bonuses? Blackjack or another game?
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If all games are allowed and contribute the same amount towards wagering, I'd choose blackjack or a blackjack variation. I often find blackjack variations, like BJ switch, more interesting than the traditional game.


{{INX}} said:
I do match betting also for the bonuses which i do enjoy.
I am also still looking for other ways to make money on the net but have not yet found anything that suits me.
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lakitu said:
AKA, your website is great. Would you ever add a match betting section to your site? I would be interested in getting into it.
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Matched betting would definitely be a useful addition. I am planning to add related content later this year some time, after completing a lot of other things first.
 
Guys, listen to what aka23 is saying before you play any type of Martingale/progressive betting system, particularly on Roulette. It may seem like you're winning for a while, but the time will come when you lose so many times in a row that the required bet is more than either your bankroll or the table limit. That's where you lose a lot of money very quickly.

There's not really any way to get an advantage over the house at Roulette, Blackjack or any other online casino game. If you're bonus bagging, you generally want your variance to be as low as possible - that's how we can play out the wager requirements and 'win' - which is why progressive betting is often a bad idea.
 
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{{INX}} said:
That is what i still want to know based on this 7 spin system. What is the most amount of times in a row it will lose for, so far on my tests (I know so far it's only 15 plays) it's 8 spins before the win comes in.
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I'd just like to make clear that there is no 'maximum' number of losses after which you'll definitely win. In roulette each bet is completely independent. Even if 1-12 hasn't come up for the last 500 games, the chance of the 501st game coming out as 1-12 is no higher than it always is. Waiting until 1-12 hasn't come up for the last 7 games has no basis in any form of logic - it's a completely random number. You could choose 6 or 8 or 437 and the system would still have the same flaws.

The system claims to beat the casinos, but in reality it's the sort of thing the casinos love, because it combines two of the worst ideas in gambling! The first is the 'gambler's fallacy', which goes something like 'it's been black seven times in a row, so this time it must be red!' Wrong - each round is independent. The second is this progressive betting idea, which will almost certainly lose you money eventually, when you hit a table limit or run out of bankroll.

The other funny thing about this system is the suggestion that you can make £3,000 a day out of it. As far as I can see, even if the system were to work perfectly, you would only make £1 every time you won the bet, once you'd covered your losses. And that's once you'd waited until the same numbers didn't appear seven times in a row before you bet. This is going to give a worse rate of return than plain ordinary blackjack bonus bagging.

You need to ask yourself the same question you should ask of all of these 'get rich quick' schemes. If it works, and it's easy, why isn't everyone doing it? Don't mean to sound patronising, but some of you need to gain a better understanding of how casino games work before you try and make money from it.
 
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Sorry for the thread top! I'm reading through the thread and just want to confirm - you can only really bonus bag from a casino once (sign up bonus)? After that, they have monthly bonuses but they are never as good?
Cheers!
 
There are three types of bonuses basically.

Sign-up bonuses are usually the most generous but can only be claimed once. (Multiple accounts = fraud = bad idea.)

Lots of casinos offer regular monthly bonuses, generally in the region of £25 to £50 - not as nice as the sign-up bonus but still often worthwhile. A notable exception is the Gala monthly bonus which is currently £100 - I've made about £500 from their monthlies in the last few months.

Then there are loyalty bonuses, which lots of casinos send to you via email. Most of these tend to be a bit gimmicky or have wagering requirements too high to be worthwhile, but you get the occasional good one - for example, BWin sent me a EUR 150 loyalty bonus the other day, from which I eventually made about £170.

Once you've played a few bonuses you'll get the feel for which are worthwhile and which aren't.
 
Sorry me topping this again! Firstly, thanks for the last response Mattus. Now I'm looking at http://www.beatingbonuses.com/monthly.htm and in particular, 888.com. It has 10% in the bonus % column. Can someone explain this to me? The way I read it is, if to get the bonus I need to bet £2k, and the bonus % is 10%, I need to infact bet £20k to get the full bonus? Is this correct? If so, betting £10k for £50 isn't very good?!
 
Goksly said:
Sorry me topping this again! Firstly, thanks for the last response Mattus. Now I'm looking at http://www.beatingbonuses.com/monthly.htm and in particular, 888.com. It has 10% in the bonus % column. Can someone explain this to me? The way I read it is, if to get the bonus I need to bet £2k, and the bonus % is 10%, I need to infact bet £20k to get the full bonus? Is this correct? If so, betting £10k for £50 isn't very good?!
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Not quite. It means that they're offering a bonus equal to 10% of your deposit, up to a maximum of $100. So if you wanted to claim the maximum bonus you'd need to deposit $1,000.

The playthrough requirement is 20 times the bonus, so you'd need to wager $2,000 to extract the bonus. Ordinarily a 20xB wagering requirement is pretty good for a bonus, particularly a monthly one - but in this case, the need to deposit $1,000 rules it out unless you have quite a large bankroll and feel comfortable throwing in that much money.

The bonus is worth about £45, and 888 is a reputable casino so will pay out. Overall, though, there are much nicer bonuses out there, particularly if your bankroll isn't particularly high. 888 does a nice sign-up bonus which made me about £100.
 
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i won £330 for £10 on betfair on there roulette,but i prob lost most of that in the bookies using there machines,need to stop playing them but i get bored easily and find myself playing them.I work in a bookies so you would have thought i would know better.
 
Got bored after a few places, been at it again this week and, well. I don't know why i'm winning but i am. 888.com i did $200 deposit, $200 bonus and cashed out with $600 playing blackjack. Then just did ladbrokes who are doing a 100% bonus up to £200 for this month, but blackjack is only worth 10% of the wagering so £2000 needed on other games and £20k for blackjack. So £200 deposit, £200 bonus, I should have cashed out with between £250-300 if i was lucky due to the 20k wagering, but at one point I had £1050 but had another £2k wagering to go. Had a very bad run after that and ended up cashing out at £750, so made a total of £550.

Great weekend :)

Though the decent bonus's seem few and far between, and a lot of effort when only going for £25 or £50 bonus.

Gonna chuck some cash into some online poker at some point, only so much to learn from freeplay poker, other people just don't play the same as they would with money.
 
Barely made anything from bonus hustling this month - seems a lot of the casinos have caught on. In particular the Gala monthly has excluded blackjack, which was giving me £100+ a month for the last six months. :( Can still play video poker but it's riskier. And yeah, Ladbrokes have changed terms as well. As you say, you're left with the £25 bonuses, and it's always hit and miss with those 'cause your deposit is often swallowed up by the variance.

drunkenmaster, you did £20k of BJ wagering for a £200 bonus? Ouch... expected value of that is only about £100, sounds like you did well. And aren't Ladbrokes bonuses awarded after wagering? What was your bet size? Assuming it is a post-wager bonus, you had a 63% chance of losing your deposit at £5/hand, rising to 72% at £10. Guessing you did at least £5 hands as £20k at anything less would take forever. Seems you were lucky!
 
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I tend to play with a little instinct aswell as using the strategy guides. WHich seems to work well. For instance, if i've won 2-3 doubles from a 10, i'll probably not double on the next one as odds are you won't keep winning them, and so on. While i'll hit a 12-16 against a dealer 10, if I win a couple, i'll play it safe and stand on a few.

Then also I tend to start at £1-2 bets, after a hefty losing streak, something along the lines of 10-12 losses in the last 15 hands maybe, i'll up the bet and hope to make a lot more in the upturn. then go from £2-5, the next time, then £5-10. I'm really irritated, I should have dropped back down to £2 bets right after I got £1k in the bank even if it took ages.

But Ladrokes, just this month are doing %100 sign up all the way to £200, normally much lower. Its only 2k wagering on a few games, but I've not played any of those enough to know them well. The software is incredibly fast aswell, just watched some Star trek while betting, probably took 4-5 hours, for £550 profit, not bad at all :)


EDIT:- bonus was awarded after playing the chips through once, so £200 wagering, apply for bonus(took best part of 2 days to be added to account :( ), then £2k wagering with blackjack only counting 10% towards it so really £20k needed for that. You also get 20 free spins on a one armed bandit type game, won about £50 off those aswell, only if you do the full £200 deposit.
 
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Tried some of this at the weekend. Signed up through quidco for victorchandler and got £40 from that, but I'm also working towards the £100 offered by VC aswell.

Managed to stake £1200 or so before I went busto, is it worth redepositing to get to the £2500 wagered mark for £100?
 
Woot! Started this morning with a $50 deposit.... :D
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