Online casinos offer all manner of bonuses to encourage new players and retain existing ones, but no two casinos offer the same deal. The bonus structure offered by your chosen casino can greatly affect how long it takes before you can withdraw your winnings and even which games you can play, so to make things easier for you, we’ve compiled a list of our top 10 casino bonus schemes:
Mr Green’s
The ever-reliable Mr Green’s Casino offers a welcome bonus in typical no-nonsense style, matching your initial deposit 100% up to £250 and giving you 10 free spins on the peerless Gonzo’s Quest. There’s a playthrough requirement of 35 times, redeemable on slot games – and they have arguably the best selection of slots to play on, so you’ll meet the requirements in no time. Unlike some other casinos, the bonus requirements can be met by playing on progressive jackpot games…
32 Red
32 Red have a brilliantly-unique bonus system, paying you £32 up front before you’ve even deposited. Subsequent deposits of £20 are matched by £32 up to 5 times, making a total of £192 for total deposits of £100. Playthrough requirements are very reasonable at 30 times, however it’s the free £32 given within 15 minutes of registering that lifts this one above the crowd.
Guru Play
Guru Play are offering a 100% match on your first deposit up to £300 – on live casino games. Play Roulette, Blackjack or Baccarat in their hosted table room as a new player and you’ll receive the bonus – which you’d invariably have to spend on slot games at other casinos. It’s great to finally see a bonus that helps table gamers.
Titan Casino
Not all bonus schemes centre around the welcome bonus: A reputable casino will generally offer substantial ongoing bonuses as well, and one such operator is Titan Casino. They will match your initial deposit 100% up to £200, followed by 26 weekly 100% matches up to £100 and monthly matches of 100% up to £200: that’s a total of £2,600 + £1,200 + £200, or £4,000 in total. As a comprehensive bonus scheme you’ll be hard put to beat it.
Virgin Games
Virgin Games have a bonus especially for mobile users: deposit £5 or more in their mobile casino and receive a 100% match up to £25 with a generous 25 times playthrough requirement. It’s about time mobile users were given some more individual attention and it’s good to see Virgin taking the lead here, and there’s a great selection of games to meet your wagering requirements with: Choose from Tomb Raider, Thunderstruck, Mermaids Millions, Mega Moolah, Major Millions, Dragon’s Fortune, and Bingo Bonanza and you’ll be ready to access your winnings in no time at all.
Blue Square
Where most bonuses offer free cash without mentioning playthrough requirements up front, Blue Square have taken a very unusual but highly ethical approach of only paying you your bonus once you’ve met the requirements: Deposit up to £100 and play it through just 20 times and they’ll then award you a 100% bonus matched up to £100.
Mansion
It can get a little dull when every casino offers bonuses that are solely about cash, so it’s nice to see some more imaginative schemes around. One such concoction comes from Mansion, who offer an optional $150,000 racing game. Simply play at Mansion to accrue loyalty points every week for your shot at a $10,000 prize pool, and after 10 weeks your accumulated points will be totted up on a leaderboard with a total of $150,000 shared out. The overall winner will receive a $15,000 holiday.
Betvictor
For the chance to receive £15 absolutely free with no deposit, take a trip to BetVictor Casino and you’ll be given a great range of state-of-the-art Net Entertainment slots on which to spend it. That would be a single headline promo for any other casino, but Victor Chandler also makes discretionary awards to loyal players, rumoured to be the highest on the web along with countless other schemes, updated constantly.
Ladbrokes
Ladbrokes offer a seemingly-endless list of promotions, with up to £500 as a welcome bonus. However, we like them because all their offers come with terms and conditions that are impeccably clear – in terms of bonuses their site really is a lesson to all others in how to be straight with players, and has earned them a lot of respect for doing so.
1-2-1
Finally, mention has to be made of 1-2-1. This rather interesting casino offers one of the best high-deposit deals on the web: Deposit up to 200 Euros and receive a 100% match up to 4 times, so make 5 deposits totalling 1,000 Euros and it’ll be doubled. Yes, there are a few other casinos offering more, but not with a 20 times playthrough requirement. Beautifully simple and extraordinarily generous – exactly what we want to see….
With hundreds of casinos on the web using software from the same 3 or 4 manufacturers, your choice of casino will often come down to bonuses. The above have all been singled out for offering something exceptional, but don’t forget: If you don’t want to meet the bonus conditions you can always ask the casino if you can opt out.
Any reputable operator should have a round-the-clock chat service, allowing you to ask questions prior to joining which is the easiest way to find out where you stand. They typically get more queries about bonuses than anything else and therefore ought to tell you straight away whether you can simply bypass the bonus and avoid the conditions that go with it. However, should you find yourself opting out we strongly recommend that you keep copies of all evidence to prove that you’ve done so. No matter how good your casino is, you don’t want to be denied the proceeds of that much-sought-after huge win on a technicality. As always, do your homework and check out some player forums to see what real players are saying about the casino you intend to use and you’ll have a much better idea of what they’re really like.
