Friday, March 26, 2010

Casino Bonus Types

Casino Bonuses


What online casinos can offer you? Which is the difference between Online and live casinos? Bonuses!  When you go to a real casino, nobody could give you bonuses for your first deposit, I guess. What do you think? From deposit to signup bonuses, there are a lot of different types available to gamblers. We will cover several popular types of bonuses, casino bonuses obviously! In this way you may become a more educated player and you can understand the world of online casinos.

Match or First Deposit Bonuses

This is the most common bonuses you can find on the net. Match bonuses are available in almost every online casino. These bonuses could vary in amount and few aspects but essentially are the same in every casinos, they are all defined as a percentage of your deposit amount, so more you deposit, normally only the first time, more you can get in bonus. This is the usual promotion. These bonuses are common for a simple reason, they are not risky for the casinos. For an online casinos as for every business, minimize the risk is the main problem, so they can't give away free money in exchange of nothing. There are few things to watch out before accepting a match bonus at an online casino:

You have to review casino terms and conditions for a bonus and obviously the wagering requirements, if you want playing there. Don't let your interest in a quick possibility to play blind you. Watch out what do you need to know before. Many online casinos have giant wagering requirements prior to being able to withdraw any winnings, this is not really good for you, if you are interested in play only sometimes.

Before everything, you have to read the fine print. If it seems fake, sometimes too good to be true, a good tip is asking lots of questions, don't be in a hurry and be an informed player. Be certain that your real cash account funds are not limited prior to accepting any bonus conditions, and you need to know if you are aware of any game restrictions in order to understand if  it might apply to any bonuses.

Phantom bonuses

There are many bonuses but the common type of this particular sticky bonus is the "phantom" bonus. It has many other names, including sticky type I. Phantom sticky bonuses can be found at some Playtech, Micorgaming and Real Time Gaming casinos. The good thing is that the bonus is straight off added to your deposit. You can bet and play the bonus. At the same time if you want to make a withdrawal, the bonus is obviously subtracted from your balance. A simple example to understand it, if you received a sticky bonus $100 on a $100 deposit, then your starting balance will be $200. If your final balance was $250 and you wanted withdrawal, you would get $150 after the $100 bonus was removed.

No Deposit Bonuses

This kind of  bonuses are not as frequently found as match bonuses, but there a lot of these out there if take care and look closely enough. Which is the normal way they work? It's this, the player has to download and install the casino software, after that the gambler has to open a new account on the site, a real money account. The player is not required to put any funds in order to receive the bonus money. Is it strange?

This kind of bonus was originally designed to induce many distrustful players, maybe players that have no confidence in online casinos. There are many players nervous about putting funds into an online casino account, so some genius has built this type of bonus. It was used to lure these players in.

A good ideas that allows beginners to start playing in online casinos, to make them feel more comfortable and slowly induce them to making any deposit. What do you have to know accepting a No Deposit Bonus:
First of all, it is a good tup for every kind of bonuses, you have to read the fine print ( don't forget, always a good idea). You need to be sure that you agree to the wagering requirements.

Weekly/Monthly Bonuses

These kind of bonuses (Weekly and Monthly Bonuses), are very similar in nature to the first bonuses we talk about, the match bonuses. You can claim once a month or once a week a percentage bonus amount. How this percentage is calculated? It is calculated based on your deposit totals up to a set maximum figure. This bonuses are not allow in all the online casinos, but many use this type of bonus, so if you like this kind of bonus, it means that you a player that spend many hours on casinos,  you have to search for these bonuses when you are choosing online casinos.

Banking Bonuses

Many online casinos gave you the possibility to choose a lot of methods of depositing or withdrawing, but every casinos prefer one type or another. So, there are many differences in the fees applied on the methods of depositing. You can find the same method of banking is less expensive in one casino than another.

The main reason on this strange difference is that a particular method it will make the process easier for that site, so in order to give incentive to the gamblers, every online casinos will offer different bonuses to persuade the players to choose one or another method of depositing or withdrawing. Why not? As usual, all the bonuses are typically available on each deposit the person makes. This kind of bonuses (Banking) are normally able to be combined with other bonuses. So, you to find which is the site that push one method do you like and with which you are comfortable.

As with all online casino bonuses, the first thing to do is always to review the fine print, the hurry is never good, you need to pay attention and look carefully what is wrote on the site. Normally, there are limits to the amount of bonus each person can get depending on the casino. The most important thing to do is like with all the other bonuses be an educated player, pay caution and read all terms and conditions, like you have to do with any thing you need to do in your life, before to playing or depositing.

High Roller Bonuses

What is an High roller bonuses? This kind of bonuses are not often available at all online casinos.They are  popular by players who needs to deposit larger amounts of money, (professional players) into their accounts at one time. Few online casinos allow this king of bonuses, so  look out if you are a gambler and you want to invest a large amount of money. This bonus will typically include a higher percentage match when making a consistent deposit of real money into your account.

Casinos like people that likes High Roller Bonuses. There are two kinds of High Roller, sometimes based on percentage match and sometimes based on set dollar amount, depending on the casino. Many times there will be a limit, a set maximum that a player can claim. As usual with all casino bonuses, all the players should read carefully the terms and conditions.  Every players need to know the wagering requirements or rules, in order to be an informed player, before accepting any kind of offer.

Loyalty Bonuses

All the online casinos did not want to loose players, they want to keep a player once one has made a visit to their establishment. Loyalty rewards is one of the most used method to keep players on one particular casino. The points system is the common method for loyalty reward bonuses. This system is based on the amount of real money that a player wagers over a certain amount of time.

When you get a good amount of points, usually you can exchanged the points for real cash. This is a good way to keep players on one online casino. This is also a method used by live casinos. In this special case, customer longevity bonuses os a method that online casinos share with the normal casinos as these loyalty bonuses are very similar to the reward card systems used in Las Vegas for example.

A simple example of this bonuses is:

There is a player, he spends 10 dollars in Slots, 1 reward point is added to the player’s points account balance. For every 20 dollars another player spends playing Keno, 1 reward point will be added to the player’s balance. The player need to get 1000 points in order to get back $10 in bonus cash. The players can use it to play or get it, depending on the casino.

The bonuses could be increased depending on the number of points the player can get in a given amount of time, so higher levels and higher bonuses, obviously. There are a variety of bonus available at many online casinos. Every informed player should always read carefully the rules of a specific casino prior to accepting some offer, so the player could be certain that he is receiving exactly what he is expecting to receive. Surprise in this special cases are not welcome.

As a player you have a right to educate yourself. Advertising and fashion bonuses can catch your eye, make sure to read all of the fine print, before push every button. It's difficult to be an educated player, but it means being a happy player. Nobody likes unexpected surprise, especially when we are talking about real money.  Being surprised when you want to withdraw your earnings can be a really bad experience. We hope to bring you the basic informations that everybody needs in order to have good time playing online games. Last tip, be aware of what you are doing, if you are not 100% sure of what you are doing, don't do it!

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Choosing an Online Casino

In this article I tried to collect all useful tips and advises about how to chose the "right" online casino. Post comments with correction and suggestions - and we could discuss it :)


The online gaming industry is very active on the Internet. There are dozens of casinos online to choose from. It can be difficult to tell which casinos are trustworthy and which are not, and you can be certain that there are online casinos out there that are not trustworthy or safe to play in with your hard-earned cash. Casinos that are not trustworthy are known as rogue casinos, and players might find themselves in a number of different bad situations when playing at a rogue casino.

For example, they might be unable to withdraw their winnings, unable to get a response out of customer service, or they might find that the games within the casino are not paying at a rate that the casino advertised. There are things to look for though when you are shopping for an online casino that will help you to avoid rogues and pick only the best online casinos in which to play.

Trustworthy and responsible casinos have their software certified by trusted third party testing facilities. This testing is to ensure randomness and fairness on all of the games within the casino, for example the online slots available at a casino. This testing should be ongoing on a regular basis (every few months for instance) and the certification should be posted prominently on the casino’s web site. The company that performs the testing should be a trusted company as well (easily found out by doing an Internet search).

Rogue casinos will often post on their site that they are certified as having fair and random software but will not be forthcoming about the third party that performs the testing or the third party will be an unknown entity that one would not be able to find any information about.

Customer Service is an important function of any online casino and should be investigated for timeliness of service and general helpfulness. If you cannot reach an online casino’s customer service department, this is a bad sign. The best online casinos will include a live chat feature on their web site where you can reach a live person 24 hours a day. Rogue casinos will often have no live chat, and very slow response times, or no response at all, when contacting their customer service department.

Hold percentage and payout percentage refers to the overall percentage amount that the casino pays out on the money they take in during wagering. For example, in online casino slots the payout percentage might be recorded on a casino’s web site as 97.4%. This means that 97.4% of all money wagered is paid back out to the customers. All online casinos generally publish this payout and hold information, but the most trustworthy casinos also post certification of these percentages by a third party. Rogue casinos sometimes do not post the information at all, or their information is inaccurate and not tested.

When a customer wins at an online casino, they will of course want to cash out eventually and retrieve those winnings. At a trustworthy online casino, this would be no problem, but at a rogue casino it might not ever happen. Often at a rogue casino, the player will be met with information stating that they have not met wagering requirements even though they have, and when they attempt to file a complaint or investigate, they receive no response from the casino with the net result being that they are never able to retrieve those winnings.

Be an educated player and read the fine print before you play. Make sure you are 100% familiar with all wagering requirements prior to accepting deposit bonuses and prior to making any wagers at all, so that you will know when and how you will be able to withdraw your money.

By educating yourself as a player and doing your research on the online casino of your choice, you will help yourself to avoid those rogue casinos and choose only the best. This will help to ensure that you have a great time, every time. Good luck!

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