Dwarfy's Casino Blog

Since I'm doing the rounds at casino bonuses at the moment, and this forum is very underused, I figured I may as well spark some life into it by keeping a log of my experiences at various casinos as I play their bonuses.
Before I get into anything, please note than I am a UK player so there is a good chance that quite a few of the casinos I play won't be available to US players, and also I use Neteller for pretty much 100% of my deposits/withdrawals.
So, erm, here's what's been going on so far...

Casino-On-Net offer a cashable 100% deposit bonus up to $200 upon signing up. Bonus is credited immediately after deposit so provided you deposit the full $200, you start with $400. It states in their terms and conditions that you need to wager 20x bonus amount to clear it ($4000). So I did this playing $5/hand single BJ and went on a major heater, my roll ending on $633.50. So I cashed out, and the next day I get an email saying my cashout was not approved as I had not completed wagering requirements. WTF! I contacted support and it turned out that because I deposited using Neteller, I had to clear 50x bonus ($10,000) to withdraw. What a shitter. So I did that again $5/hand single BJ and as luck would have it went on a major bad run, ending up cashing out a meagre $377.50, for a total profit of $177.50

OnlineCasino offer an impressive cashable 300% deposit bonus up to $100 on signup. So I threw $100 into this, made a 10 minute free call to some number and within half an hour my $300 bonus was in my account. To clear this I needed to wager 20x bonus + deposit ($8000). So I played $5/hand single BJ all the way through, reaching highs of $510 and lows of $220, but finishing up on an even $390. Requested cashout tonight - casino require I send a few ID documents to process so it could take a while , however, very happy with my total profit of $290.

This brings my profit so far to $467.50. Not bad for 2 day's work!

Plenty more to come...

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My god this is going to be such variance roller coaster. Good on you if you have the temperament to do it and obviously GL.

Whilst waiting for money to be moved around and stuff, which takes an annoyingly long time, Casino-On-Net randomly credited my account with a free $5. So obv I gambled it up on the slots for a bit and ran it up to $80.75, which I then cashed out, bringing my total profit to date to $548.25.

Yay for free money

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try out metro casino, yes thats the Metro magazine you get free on the bus.

try out metro casino, yes thats the Metro magazine you get free on the bus.

The one thats usually covered in vomit, yes?

Metro Casino do a 100% signup bonus up to £150 with 25x deposit wagering requirement... however blackjack does not count towards it so I'll give that one a miss for the time being while I'm clearing the blackjack-friendly casinos. Cheers for the tip though, thats a pretty nice bonus.

Bet365 offer a 100% match bonus up to £100 with a wagering requirement of 12x bonus+deposit, thats £2400 in total.

Software is excellent and very quick, took me about 2 hours playing £3 a hand single BJ to clear. Went on a very good run too, running my £200 all the way up to £338, giving me a clean profit of £238 = $472.36!!

This brings my total profit so far to $1,020.61.

Ladbrokes Casino offer a 100% match bonus up to £100, with a fantastic wagering requirement of just 4x deposit amount (£400!!).

This is of course too good to be true, though. Firstly the bonus is not credited until after you complete the WR, so you have to play through with just the £100 deposit, and secondly, and more importantly, for blackjack, only bets of 10% of your deposit (£10) count towards WR . So basically I needed to play forty £10 BJ hands with only £100 to start.... very risky, as one downswing and I'm wiped.

And fuck me it came close to that, started off indifferently and then went on a crazy bad run (dealer at one point hit four BJs in a row!), and found myself down to just £5 with only £280 wagered. So I bet my last £5 and hit a BJ myself, so carried on playing through with £10 bets and eventually somehow cleared the £400 wagering requirement with £87.50 in my account, a mad comeback.... to leave me with a profit of £87.50 = $173.81.

This brings my total profit so far to $1,194.42

Deposited $100 into CityClub Casino to take advantage of their 400% non-progressive slots bonus. Requirement was 20x b+d ($4,000).

Erm, basically slots bonuses are very very -EV and I learned the hard way ... -$100

This brings my total profit so far to $1,094.62

Victor Chandler offer a 100% deposit bonus up to £200, with a wagering requirement of 25x deposit (£5000). However, the bonus is not credited until after you complete the wagering requirements, so you have to play through with just your £200 deposit. So I deposited £300 so I could comfortably bet £3 per hand to see me through.

This bonus took me 2 days to do, and the first day went unbelieveably badly, I went on some incredible bad runs and finished the day on just £118 of my original £300!!
So going into today I was fearing going bust and dropping £300, but thankfully today was a little bit more even and I finished on £107.50, for a whopping profit of £7.50 = $14.89!!!!!! I'm just glad it wasn't a loss of £300 though after the luck I had.

This brings my total profit so far to $1,109.51

Yukon Gold Casino offer a 'money back guarantee' bonus up to $50. That is, if you make a deposit of $50 and lose it all within 24 hours, you get your money back!

The only requirement is that you make at least 10 bets. So I deposited my $50, and made ten $5 blackjack bets, running a bit crap and finishing on $30 after the ten bets. So I then obv gambled that up to the max at BJ and ran it up to $112 in about a minute flat, deciding to cash out there for a profit of $62.

Would recommend this to anyone as you genuinely can't lose!

This brings my total profit so far to $1,171.51