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A new offer is running for July allowing you to choose from a bonus of £75 at £7.50 a hand, £50 at £5 a hand or £25 at £2.50 a hand. Whichever you choose, you basically need to play 40 hands with your deposit, claim the bonus and play 40 more hands. Full details here: http://casino.ladbrokes.com/playersclub/promotions/
This offer is for existing customers only and ends 30th June.
It's been a while since Ladbrokes was posted here. I remember the good old days when you only had to bet £1 or £2 a hand. Then they upped it to £10 and I guess most of us stopped.
I just noticed their latest offer requires you to bet £5 hands though which is just about low enough for me... I finished £20 up awaiting bonus anyway :)
Full T&C's and the claim form are here:
http://casino.ladbrokes.com/playersclub/promotions/promodetail.php?Id=12
But the important ones are as follows:
Purchase £50 worth of casino chips from your bank card.
Play casino games and stake at least 200 chips. (Please note stakes on Roulette, Craps and SicBo will not contribute towards the qualifying stake. When playing Blackjack, Baccarat, 3 Card Poker, Video Poker and Red Dog only individual bet stakes of 5 chips or greater will contribute to the minimum stake required to qualify for this offer).
bambi2002
23-06-2005, 18:56
There's also a £25 version where you only have to stake £2.50 per hand
is 200 chips... 200 quid?
edit : you load 50 from your card and get 50 free.... so you pay 50 and get 100 quid in your account, as long as you risk 200 quid, the rest is yours for the taking?
is 200 chips... 200 quid?
edit : you load 50 from your card and get 50 free.... so you pay 50 and get 100 quid in your account, as long as you risk 200 quid, the rest is yours for the taking?
Doesn't quite work like that.
You deposit £50 of your own money. Play that until you have wagered £200 (or 200 chips). You then cash what you have left (hopefully more than your £50 initial stake) and send in the promo code to Ladbrokes.
Ladbrokes will then deposit 50 free chips (equivalent of £50) into your account within 48 hours.
You then have to wager these 50 chips until you have played them through 200 chips worth, before you can cash them out.
The odds are that you should come out with some money if you stick to standard BJ (that's what I play) strategy.
I have already played through my initial £50 deposit, and have cashed out £150, so even if I lose all the bonus I'm still quids in.
Kevin
So do you have to play out 400 quids worth of games (200 on yours, 200 on bonus?)
Basically yes, but you really treat it as 2 lots of 200 rather than 1 lot of 400.
I used to play these Ladbrokes bonus things quite a lot, but they became a bit tedious as they were getting quite time consuming for the small(ish) return on your money.
Nearly always came out in profit, but it averaged about £20-£30, and to be frank, I got bored with them. I only tried this one because I was sitting here with a spare 30 minutes with nout to do.
Good luck if you go for it.
Kevin.
Deposit £50 - wager £200. Then withdraw winnings. Then 24 hours later you get £50 bonus, wager this £200 and it's yours. Subject to the terms of wagering.
Cheers!
Played Atlantic City BJ and turned my £50 into £100. I'll use the free £50 as poker funds:thumbs:
Oddfella
24-06-2005, 09:04
Don't withdraw your money until you have the bonus and have wagered that....they won't like it if you do and will probably ban you from the similar monthly bonus....
boogieben2
24-06-2005, 09:24
what is standard blackjack strategy then? tempted to do the £25 one, so so poor its silly
Don't withdraw your money until you have the bonus and have wagered that....they won't like it if you do and will probably ban you from the similar monthly bonus....
You can withdraw your original £50 and any winnings from that, after you have wagered it through 200 chips, without any problem at all.
At that point you have fulfilled any conditions to get the bonus, so it is yours to do with what you will. I (and countless others) have done it this way many, many times in the past with Ladbrokes, without problem.
What you cannot do is withdraw the bonus before you have wagered that through 200 chips. That will result in your being banned from future promotions.
Kevin.
Still not a great promo as it used to be play stake twice bonus four. Significantly more risk now !!!!
Still not a great promo as it used to be play stake twice bonus four. Significantly more risk now !!!!
Absolutey, that's one of the reasons I stopped playing the Ladbrokes promos.
what is standard blackjack strategy then? tempted to do the £25 one, so so poor its silly
I would be very careful. The way I see it is that (like any gambling) if you cannot afford to lose the initial £25 then you shouldn't play. There is absolutely no guarantee that you will win. Especially with the minimum hand being £5 per time to get the bonus. You only have to lose 5 hands and you're out.
Kevin.
It says 5 chip minimum per hand however I could only bet in multiples of 2 so I had £6 on every hand, dwindled down to £20 then came back, I ended up having a few extra hands and finished on around £80. NOT as straightforward as the old offers in terms of smash and grab by any means!
Oddfella
24-06-2005, 12:45
Kevin - you may be right with this one but I don't really see the point - and its not a good habbit to get into if you play anywhere else as they don't like it/won't give you the bonus.
You can play £5 or £3 on Vegas Strip BJ as that allows £1 chip sizes.
Or play Casino War at £1 a hand - not as good house edge (2%) but alot less variance due to the chip size. Just chuck them both on autoplay - the strategy is good enough for these small wagering requirements.
My £50 bonus just arrived. After playing it through 4 times I finished on £70 and cashed that out.
Very nice. £100 up on my initial £50 last night, and £70 free today from the bonus. £170 profit. Not bad for a days work :thumbs:
Thanks to target for posting details.
Kevin.
what is standard blackjack strategy then? tempted to do the £25 one, so so poor its silly
Use the tables from this site....they've never failed me and they are all basically the same: http://www.beatthehouse.co.uk/tables.htm
used expert autoplay, ended up on £55 awaiting bonus, 40 hands took about 90 seconds!!!
Unclegrump
25-06-2005, 13:09
only £120 profit for me this time playing 10 hand Joker Poker. Thanks to the OP though cos this pays for the wifes shopping bill this morning :)
almost took my profit up to £150 inc bonus, but then said to myself I either finish on £200 or £100, needless to say it dropped back to £100 fairly quickly! still a free £50 is still £50
Loaded in £50, played through £200 using £5 chips, my balance is now £117.50!
So this is a profit of £67.50 before I've even received the bonus - huzzah!
Are there any other good (e.g. statisically a good bet) casino promotional deals around at the moment which people have tried?
I did loads last year, before they stopped being so generous (made about £1500) - was wondering whether there were any specific good ones to look for right now though.
only £1500.......i made £18,000
Scottola
25-06-2005, 22:53
£50 in, down to £30 awaiting bonus.
I'm the flip side :(
Bad luck mate. It bites. However, there is still a very good hope that you will not end up out of pocket - claim the bonus, and run that through, and your chance of coming out with a net profit is about 91%... not bad odds.
Superstar P.J.
26-06-2005, 00:00
Made £50 before the bonus. Cheer to the OP!
EDIT - And now withdrawn £70 from playing through the bonus :D
£50 in, down to £30 awaiting bonus.
I'm the flip side :(
gutted, on the flip side though, I think you are one of the first people ever to write that you have taken a hit - from the sounds of it people only ever make money through there promos!
I'm often down prior to the bonus but I've always been up after the bonus. To be fair, the odds are that this should happen. If you were up all the time without a bonus then you could just play all day making yourself a millionaire without needing a bonus ;)
Tyler Durden
26-06-2005, 09:42
Well I got taken to the cleaners here :suspect: I was playing perfect Basic Strategy (for Microgaming) and lost the lot before hitting £100 of the initial £200 wagering. I could always deposit again in the hope of clawing it back on the bonus, but I think that'd be throwing good money after back.
I'm not too bothered as Ladbrokes have been very good to me in the past :thumbs:
£50 in, down to £30 awaiting bonus.
I'm the flip side :(
Well, such a result is only to be expected - it's normal.
What's unlikely (though by no means impossible) is that players are down after playing the bonus as well.
It's the bonus that makes this deal good - otherwise people would just play blackjack for a living! the odds are against you, no matter how you play.
Don't forget you can play the bonus with small hands, rather than a fiver a go - it makes it less likely you'll lose the lot (and equally, less likely you'll win big!).
Don't forget you can play the bonus with small hands, rather than a fiver a go - it makes it less likely you'll lose the lot (and equally, less likely you'll win big!).I hadn't realised that. I thought you'd have to play 5-chip hands while running through the bonus too; on re-reading the T&Cs it seems you are technically correct, but do you think Ladbrokes intended to leave that loophole open, or do you think they were intending to limit the bonus to be played with 5-chip hands and will get annoyed with people who play with 1-chip hands?
I hadn't realised that. I thought you'd have to play 5-chip hands while running through the bonus too; on re-reading the T&Cs it seems you are technically correct, but do you think Ladbrokes intended to leave that loophole open, or do you think they were intending to limit the bonus to be played with 5-chip hands and will get annoyed with people who play with 1-chip hands?
No, I'm sure you'll be fine.
Tyler - I'd add up exactly how much you'd gambled (including splits and doubles) and then decide whether or not to reinvest.
If you've 'written off' the original £50, then gambling £100 worth of chips to get another £50 stacks the odds very heavily in your favour - you should be able to cut your losses by redepositing.
It's by no means a no-brainer (it depends on how much cash you have sitting 'spare' in your bank account), but it's well worth considering in my opinion.
OliverScott
26-06-2005, 12:56
Just a word of warning, this is by no means a guaranteed proffit (though the odds are in your favour) so don't gamble anything you can't afford to loose!!!
Running through the required £200 has cost me £95 (being bloody minded I deposited more when the first £50 ran out as I was assuming my 'bad luck' couldn't continue for ever). Hopefully the £50 bonus will work out better (will play blackjack at £2 a hand not £5 to minimise potential losses) and hopefully reduce the amount this has cost me...
PS. Am not a newcommer to this sort of thing - made a couple of hundred out of ladbrokes last year through bonuses, and know how to play the odds to get the best payback from them.
What Oliver said is absolutely right - the odds are stacked in your favour but the probability of you making a loss is about 9%, and the probability of losing ALL your money is about 0.1%.
Someone *has* to be the unlucky statistic, and even though you might have made nice profits on a few casinos, it is still a sickening feeling when you make a loss on the occasional one!!!
P.S. I cashed out with a profit of £125.50 after completing all of the wagering requirements - thanks to the original poster!
While we are on the subject - does anybody regularly play the William Hill iGlobalmedia Casino using the monthly £25 bonus?
William Hill run things a little differently - you pay in £25, and get a £25 bonus. You are free to cash out your initial £25 at any time, but can only cash out the £25 bonus when you have met the wagering requirement.
Therefore, it is 100% safe because any wagers you make come out of the bonus first, and so if your bonus reduces to £0 then you can withdraw your £25 deposit and walk away with no loss.
HOWEVER, the following month, the wagering requirement from the previous month may still be in place, stating that before you can withdraw your bonus you must wager X amount more, and as this would increase cumulatively month-on-month it would get harder and harder to ever complete the wagering requirement to the extent that you would be able to withdraw any notional profit made from the bonus.
So my question is, how do repeat players arrange this - is there a way to get the wagering requirement cleared at the start of each month?
Tyler Durden
26-06-2005, 17:36
Tyler - I'd add up exactly how much you'd gambled (including splits and doubles) and then decide whether or not to reinvest.
I didn't have any splits or doubles and was down to £0 after only £85 worth of wagering :(
I didn't have any splits or doubles and was down to £0 after only £85 worth of wagering :(How awful. Bad luck (in both senses).
Tyler Durden
26-06-2005, 18:06
How awful. Bad luck (in both senses).
Tell me about it, I've just checked the stats and I played 17 hands, won 3, split 1 (I did have one after all), and lost the other 13 :(
I guess thats just Microgaming casinos for you, when they hit you they hit you damm hard :eek:
I wonder if its worth while emailing support and kicking up a fuss ?
I wonder if its worth while emailing support and kicking up a fuss ?Not a chance - the chance of what happened to you actually happening is quite slim, but just because it happened to you doesn't mean there is something unfair going on.
It's just difficult to accept that this time, you might have been the person who was 1 in 100 or 1 in 500 who gets the bad luck.
Microgaming probably would laugh at your email then delete it - they are so big, and they supply so many casinos with software, that I'm quite sure their software and payouts are legitimately audited.
Oddfella
26-06-2005, 20:42
While we are on the subject - does anybody regularly play the William Hill iGlobalmedia Casino using the monthly £25 bonus?
William Hill run things a little differently - you pay in £25, and get a £25 bonus. You are free to cash out your initial £25 at any time, but can only cash out the £25 bonus when you have met the wagering requirement.
Therefore, it is 100% safe because any wagers you make come out of the bonus first, and so if your bonus reduces to £0 then you can withdraw your £25 deposit and walk away with no loss.
HOWEVER, the following month, the wagering requirement from the previous month may still be in place, stating that before you can withdraw your bonus you must wager X amount more, and as this would increase cumulatively month-on-month it would get harder and harder to ever complete the wagering requirement to the extent that you would be able to withdraw any notional profit made from the bonus.
So my question is, how do repeat players arrange this - is there a way to get the wagering requirement cleared at the start of each month?
You have to wager £500 a month....even if you wipe out all the casino money and your own you still need to complete £500 wager per month - I don't think you even get the next bonus until you have cleared the previous months wagering. And if you keep withdrawing before meeting the wager requirement you can get banned eventually as its bonus abuse.
Scottola
27-06-2005, 18:45
Well, such a result is only to be expected - it's normal.
What's unlikely (though by no means impossible) is that players are down after playing the bonus as well.
It's the bonus that makes this deal good - otherwise people would just play blackjack for a living! the odds are against you, no matter how you play.
Don't forget you can play the bonus with small hands, rather than a fiver a go - it makes it less likely you'll lose the lot (and equally, less likely you'll win big!).
Well cashed out £107 in the end, so I'm happy enough now, cheers :)
OddlyShapedCactus
28-06-2005, 19:03
also had a crap time here. Lost it all with about half the wagering complete so deposited another 50 and completed wagering reqs with just 27.50 left, so 73.50 down at this point. Claimed the bonus but was refused it for whatever reason. Went back to play with the 27.50 I had left, and have just got it up to 200 on the BJ, so has turned out nice in the end. Am off to try and claim again just in case I wasn't past the req's the first time.
Cheers OP, I'd forgotten all about this offer.
So far, I'm £32.50 up after my initial deposit, now awaiting bonus (used expert autoplay).
BTW the offer finishes 23.59 tomorrow if anybody else is interested in playing...
FuzzBuzz
30-06-2005, 00:01
what recommendation would you give yo someone who aint played any of these.
robotboy
30-06-2005, 07:25
yeah im a newbie too, i was looking at the up to 100gbp offer when you register but not sure as you have to wager it 4x and minimum bet is 10 chips. Is this still a good deal?
also what is expert autoplay?
tips greatly appreciated
expert autoplay is an option u select in the casino itself. once selected, u can make the casino software play any number of hands for u, on auto pilot as it were. all u do is set up the software so that all the possible cominations are taken care of, so in each possible combination of cards, the software will know what to do, as instructed by u. its very convenient when u have to get through £100s of wager requirement.
the best games i find are baccarat and black jack. u set the software to play 400 hands (or whatever number u want). u press start and then u get on with other things u have to do. come back in 30 mins and its all done.
autoplay is the best.
robotboy
30-06-2005, 11:57
wow! that sounds good, makes it really clinical.
looks like im spending the afternoon at ladbrokes
Northumbrian
30-06-2005, 12:07
Thanks to the OP :) I have used the £100 new user deal and the £50 bonus deal and ended up over £350 better off :)
After playing through the bonus, I've made a grand total of £150. :) Cheers again to the OP :thumbs:
First one I've done in ages. Made £120. I forgot how fun A&F is :)
£105 made here, a welcome return :)
Might try and remember my gf's account although they only allow one go per IP which I think it mean :(
Just to let anybody who is interested know, there are now new offers at Ladbrokes (same t&c's as before) for 30th June - 28th July:
Deposit £25, £50 or £75, wager through FOUR times, minimum stake is £2.50, £5 or £7.50 respectively. Then receive bonus, which must be wagered four times before withdrawing. So basically the same as June, but with up to a £75 bonus!
Enjoy :thumbs:
P.S. I deposited and played £50 yesterday (29th), and received and played through my bonus today, so I should be eligible for the new offer shouldn't I? What do you guys think?
Sweet. Thanks for the HU.
P.S. I deposited and played £50 yesterday (29th), and received and played through my bonus today, so I should be eligible for the new offer shouldn't I? What do you guys think?
Probably. I did the same and I'll give it a day or two.
boppa which games did u use to work your way through the wager requirement?
Probably. I did the same and I'll give it a day or two.
Thanks Yetiboy.
@sunama - I played Vegas Strip blackjack, and used expert autoplay.
Deposit £25, £50 or £75, wager through FOUR times, minimum stake is £2.50, £5 or £7.50 respectively. Then receive bonus, which must be wagered four times before withdrawing. So basically the same as June, but with up to a £75 bonus!
Thanks, just played 38 x £8 hands of european blackjack and finished £20 up awaiting the bonus. I like it when I'm ahead after the first round. Still I don't think I could be a real gambler, I was really distressed whenever i lost 2 or more £8 hands in a row!
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Still I don't think I could be a real gambler, I was really distressed whenever i lost 2 or more £8 hands in a row!
imagine if u lost about 8 hands in a row (has happened to me, but only when betting £1/hand. At £8/hand, that would be £64 all gone, just like that!)
Tyler Durden
30-06-2005, 20:48
Still I don't think I could be a real gambler, I was really distressed whenever i lost 2 or more £8 hands in a row!
I'm glad you didn't have the cards I was dealt, I lost 13 out of 17 hands :(
Not so good this time, down £56 waiting for bonus (ran out of cash so had to reload a bit).
Just to prove I post when I lose as well as win, still up overall - see what happens after the bonus...
tyler durden.
just out of interest, u r not the same guy on ebay who sells hard disks are u? just curious.
Just thought I'd point out that you need to wager at least £7.50 a hand for the £75 promo, something I failed to realise until I'd wagered £300 :p
Worked out well in the end, +£360. Ladbrokes are being very nice to me lately.
awallace
01-07-2005, 16:02
Might give this a go tonight, how exactly do you set up the expert autoplay?
After getting an email refusing the bonus followed by an email saying I'd received the bonus I finihsed on £119 profit which is a personal best :)
After getting an email refusing the bonus followed by an email saying I'd received the bonus I finihsed on £119 profit which is a personal best :)
I've also got a bonus declined mail, rubbish automated affair which lists all the possible reasons why but doesn't state which one it is!
No further email saying ok yet :( How far were your's apart? And did you resubmit the claim in between?
Might give this a go tonight, how exactly do you set up the expert autoplay?
Once into the game, make sure 'expert' mode is selected - one of the buttons on the left hand side should say Expert.
Next click on Options --> Settings --> Autoplay, and change the options as you wish.
Then click Start, and away you go!
HTH :thumbs:
I did the bonuses not very far apart at all. Probably cashed out at dinnertime on the first one, began the next one at 12:30am that night.
Anyway, obviously I made the mistakes of wagering £320 in £5, when I should have been doing £7.50.
I got the declined mail, realised my mistake, wagered in £7.50, applied again, very quickly got a mail back saying, 'you may or may not have received a declined mail earlier, sorry about that, we've now credited the bonus to your account.'
So, to cut a long story short, maybe they made a mistake :p
Tyler Durden
01-07-2005, 19:34
tyler durden.
just out of interest, u r not the same guy on ebay who sells hard disks are u? just curious.
No, not me I'm afraid
No further email saying ok yet :( How far were your's apart? And did you resubmit the claim in between?
Around 2 hours. I didn't contact them inbetween, they just sent it off their own backs. I'm guessing they accidentally refused quite a few claims because the wording 'you may have received' suggests they were sending the 2nd email to a lot of people who they weren't sure had got the rejection or not.
Yeah got the same email and also a personally written apology (at 03:44) as I'd sent an email complaining.
Played it all through, peaked about £45 up but ended up £17 up. Ok comeback after I was £56 down before bonus. I'll probably have better luck next time. I played a few extra hands to try and get it up a bit but thats always the most dangerous time when you are desperate, ended up going about £20 down before getting back in profit.
djblamire
02-07-2005, 10:55
Anyone know if the Citicard credit card would count this as a standard purchase or cash advance ??
Or Morgan Stanley ?
Thanks
Daniel
any 'american' backed credit card, such as Citi group, or MBNA will treat these as cash advances.
djblamire
02-07-2005, 11:07
any 'american' backed credit card, such as Citi group, or MBNA will treat these as cash advances.
Anyone know of any cards that definitely don't ?
Thanks
Daniel
Bah! Tried again this month on the deposit £75, get £75 offer.
Lost my deposit, added in an extra £30, now down to £17 after completing the wagering requirement.
Therefore I'll start with £92 after getting the deposit, and have to wager through another £300 while hoping I can get this up to £105 in order to break even.
Not a winner this month!
Can you do this offer if you've done the June one? If so, I'll do £50 again, as my luck is bound to run out if I try £75.
yes, this is a completely new offer
> 200 profit from laddys on this offer from me, and >150 profit from their sister casino
evilsly, which casino are u referring to when u speak of the "sister casino"?
the one named after a popular special interest magazine.
I'm not going to explicitly name it, as there's a lot of people on here who aren't gamblers, and the t&c's are a bit trickier on that one.
People who are interested in offers like this should do some research on the specialist forums which have a lot more info.
Bapapapa
02-07-2005, 20:55
Too easy to bust out and chase your losses with the increased chip sizes you have to play with nowadays - which is why I don't do these anymore..
Had a good night on the poker tables, so thought I'd treat myself to the £75 offer. Started at £8 a hand BJ but soon got bored and upped it to £20 a go. £150 after £270 of wagering. Bored of BJ and used all my luck. Had 10 spins on Major Millions. Down £20, but up £55 overall. With £75 to come:D Don't think these promotions are gonna continue.
Well not as good as last month on the £75 offer. Down £20.00 awaiting bonus. Hopefully there should still be a nice profit at the end, although I don't think I'll play £8 per hand for the bonus!
Superstar P.J.
03-07-2005, 00:24
Cheers again for the July offer. Up £75 before the bonus! :)
EDIT - And just cashed out another £217 from the bonus! :clap:
As others have said tho, with the minimum bets you have to make these days it is far less of a 'sure thing' than it used to be so only do it if you can afford to lose your stake and fancy a gamble!
Northumbrian
03-07-2005, 00:53
Down on the inital £75, waiting for the bonus and hoping my luck has'nt deserted me :)
Northumbrian
03-07-2005, 12:42
Phew, just played out the bonus and ended up overall :clap:
Grandmaster
03-07-2005, 13:50
Do they email you when the bonus is paid or do you need to keep checking your balance?
Varies in my experience. It's usually there by the end of the next working day so just check if you haven't had an email.
Okay, so I cashed out with a £15 loss overall on the July £75 promotion.
Bah.
Tried this for the first time ever. Doing the 100% match paid in £50 and came out after the initial requirements even.
So if I can do the same with the £50 bonus I'll be a happy chappy. May then go onto to do the £75 match.
PorkyKungFu
03-07-2005, 17:02
deposited the £75, after betting £300 was upto £95 :n0rty:
just waiting for bonus now :clap:
Baz, I don't think you can do more than one of those promos in the month.
If you did the £50 for July, I think that is it for this month, and you'll have to wait till August for another promo.
Well, just played throught the bonus and ended up being £50 in profit overall. :D
Baz, I don't think you can do more than one of those promos in the month.
If you did the £50 for July, I think that is it for this month, and you'll have to wait till August for another promo.
Cheers. Good to know before splashing another £75 in vain.
Grandmaster
03-07-2005, 18:33
Hold on, surely if you've completed the New Player bonus you're now an Existing User, so you should be eligible for that promotion too?
Northumbrian
03-07-2005, 18:45
I claimed both the £100 new user bonus and then the £50 june (exisiting customer) bonus within 2 days of each other and did'nt have any problems.
Hold on, surely if you've completed the New Player bonus you're now an Existing User, so you should be eligible for that promotion too?
I think Floop has assumed Baz is talking about claiming the July £50 bonus AND the £75 July bonus. You cant claim both of those. But yes, you can do the new user £100 and £75 July one.
I think Floop has assumed Baz is talking about claiming the July £50 bonus AND the £75 July bonus. You cant claim both of those. But yes, you can do the new user £100 and £75 July one.
That's exactly what I assumed.
If I'm wrong, sorry for the confusion.
Yeah I was a new customer so have yet to do the £75 match. Checking out with £120, so £70 up. Can't believe I took so long to get into doing this sort of thing. To late I guess.
Do all credit card companies charge a cash advance fee for gambling? Or just mine? (Marbles)
agent007
05-07-2005, 17:54
Neither all nor just yours; the answer lies somewhere inbetween those extremes! ;-)
Little_Dragon
05-07-2005, 18:02
Was going to do the £25 one, but my minimum chip size is £2, how do you change it so I can bet just the £2.50?
Was on European Blackjack
spencerjones
05-07-2005, 18:12
Thanks, did the 50 quid one and cashed out £90.
Was going to do the £25 one, but my minimum chip size is £2, how do you change it so I can bet just the £2.50?
Was on European Blackjack
I'm not sure you can, it's a bit of a con really! I had to bet £8 hands on a minimum of £7.50
timmons2001
05-07-2005, 19:00
Just cashed out £52.50 after playing everything through. Well, £2.50 profit is better than nothing :D
robotboy
09-07-2005, 09:39
nice, just had my first go after some shenanigans with ladbrokes about my card,
took the first time deposit offer
deposited 75 - now on 230 - waiting for bonus to come through!
not bad for a start
might have a go at these major millions free spins
nice, just had my first go after some shenanigans with ladbrokes about my card,
took the first time deposit offer
deposited 75 - now on 230 - waiting for bonus to come through!
not bad for a start
might have a go at these major millions free spins
Wow thats good! What were you playing?!
dbilsborough
09-07-2005, 17:36
played the £75 bonus one and did £10 goes on JoB Power Poker, was doing badly, and down to £15 when I hit 3x3oaK and 1x4oaK and then 4 straights to end up at £127.50 waiting for the bonus :clap: - was a bit worried there for a minute :suspect:
simion_levi
09-07-2005, 20:04
If anyone's new to Casino bagging, you could try www.skybetvegas.com as a bit of an introduction I've deliberately left this URL as plaintext, it would be best if people copied and pasted to a new window so the Casino don't get referral info (if they can be bothered to follow back and read this thread, they'll just end up blocking accounts/not honouring bonuses etc which can get messy.)
Deposit £20, wager through 5x to receive a 100% bonus. Bonus only needs 1x wager before the lot can be widthdrawn.
(For example, I deposited £20, wagered £107 on BJ mostly £1 hands, using the Wagerworks standard strategy (http://wizardofodds.com/wagerworks), ended on £25 balance and emailed them about the bonus. Credited to my account two minutes later, wagered 4 hands at £5.00 each, finished on £49 total and withdrew)
Remember, do not play if you cannot afford to lose your initial bonus!! This will be a free £10-£30 for most people who play. Some will walk away with more. Some will walk away with less than their original deposit or even nothing! Truely risk-free bagging is practically extinct, usually requiring the use of Roulette with a very low WR
*£20 Welcome Bonus Terms and Conditions
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Want to have a go on the sky bet one but I cant get it to let me register, the link does nothing! Bah!
Victor Chandler casino have a £100 sign up bonus, play thru 4 times too...
4 times the deposit followed by 4 times the bonus - same as Ladbrokes. has the advantage that there is no minimum bet however, guess I'll be going for this later this evening! Any other decent offers around?
4 times the deposit followed by 4 times the bonus - same as Ladbrokes. has the advantage that there is no minimum bet however, guess I'll be going for this later this evening! Any other decent offers around?
has the disadvantage of being chartwell software though .......
people should REALLY do their research on these casinos before playing.
Never heard of Chartwell software - haven't heard of this brand of software before, so does this automatically mean they are dodgy?
Ive decided I dont have the patience to leave my balance alone while I wait for the bonus to come through. Best I stay away from this sort of thing I think.
robotboy
10-07-2005, 16:14
i was using atlantic city blackjack using expert autoplay, got 130 out of the 75 bonus too
so thats 285 profit for me!
not bad for a newbie hey?
gonna have another go with the july bonus now...
has the disadvantage of being chartwell software though .......
people should REALLY do their research on these casinos before playing.
OK... I've done some research and have found nothing but glowing reviews for VC/chartwell... so your point is? :D
nothing but glowing reports for vc/chartwell ?
hello victor is that you ?
try putting chartwell into a forum search on casino meister or *******, or looking at the various threads on those forums about the individual casinos, particularly spin room.
if people are intent on playing at these casinos I offer the following very important advice.
stick completely to perfect strategy, bet very small amounts, and DO NOT fall into the red mist trap, of increasing your bets to compensate for long losing streaks. The software is VERY slow, and crashes a lot, this causes a lot of frustration.
I'm a fairly high profile 'gambler', I gamble a lot at casinos, 1000s a week, and yet I will never put any more of my money into a chartwell powered casino.
Draw whatever conclusions you want from that.
Thanks managed to get £70 from this, got awful hands on my bonus £100.
Anyone know of any Uk sites that offer a good new customer bonus?
Quick msg to say I lost my initial £50 after wagering £125! Deposited another £50 to try and make it to the wagering reqs and finally finished on £52.50. Awaiting bonus.
I did the whole casino bonus scam thing for years but stopped a while ago when the frequency of "busting out" began to incrase dramatically. I now remember why I stopped :)
Doesn't quite work like that.
You deposit £50 of your own money. Play that until you have wagered £200 (or 200 chips). You then cash what you have left (hopefully more than your £50 initial stake) and send in the promo code to Ladbrokes.
Ladbrokes will then deposit 50 free chips (equivalent of £50) into your account within 48 hours.
You then have to wager these 50 chips until you have played them through 200 chips worth, before you can cash them out.
The odds are that you should come out with some money if you stick to standard BJ (that's what I play) strategy.
I have already played through my initial £50 deposit, and have cashed out £150, so even if I lose all the bonus I'm still quids in.
Kevin
what is standard BJ ?
thanks
simion_levi
12-07-2005, 07:22
Want to have a go on the sky bet one but I cant get it to let me register, the link does nothing! Bah!
Oh, I had that problem originally. Turn on popups on skybetvegas, click the 'register' button and it should open up skybet (bookies site, same group). Should also popup a registration window, so you actually register with skybet and then use the same details on skybetvegas. MAKE SURE you deposit on the vegas site though! The Casino could wriggle out of the bonus payment if you deposit on bookie site and then transfer the funds over. If you've already deposited on the wrong site, just withdraw the funds (no penalty) and re-deposit on the correct one.
Blackjack played according to a strategy table
awallace
12-07-2005, 11:15
Just done the skybet one and ended up at £41.50 before the bonus so not doing too bad, If i do ok on this i might use the cash to give the ladbrokes one a go. :thumbs:
awallace
12-07-2005, 11:48
Right finished up on £50.50 so will give Ladbrokes a go now. Do you have to download software for ladbrokes?
Yes
I didn't. I played the online flash version
simion_levi
12-07-2005, 12:12
Just done the skybet one and ended up at £41.50 before the bonus so not doing too bad, If i do ok on this i might use the cash to give the ladbrokes one a go. :thumbs:
Well done. Remember that you only have to wager the bonus through 1x before you can withdraw - so you can bung £20 on one hand of BJ if you want :nuts: ;)
EDIT: sorry, getting ahead of myself. Seen your 'finished' post now :doh:
robotboy
12-07-2005, 12:23
I didn't. I played the online flash version
you can do that of course, but you stand a better chance if you download it and use the expert autoplay mode -which basically incorporates the strategy tables.
i used the 75 intro bonus and walked off with 230 before the bonus
played the 75 bonus and got another 140
then played the 75 july bonus and got 145 before the bonus
but only managed to keep the 75 bonus at 75 after playing through all requirements.
560 in total, now where shall i go next?
(remember you can also lose)
awallace
12-07-2005, 12:38
Just downloading the software now and have signed up for £50 new player bonus. By the looks of it there is no minimum hand limit for new players is this correct?
awallace
12-07-2005, 12:46
Anyone?
Oddfella
12-07-2005, 13:14
No I think its £5 a hand for the £50 one.... have they stopped doing the £100 one now as thats better?
Should be on the site - can't check it at work I'm afraid - if you scroll down the promo page the full T & C are normally at the bottom.
awallace
12-07-2005, 13:40
Right seriously messed the £50 one up and am -£5. Which table should i be playing autoplay on?
Oddfella
12-07-2005, 13:46
Vegas Strip BJ is normally the best.... but with this offer I'd play it manually anyhow until you get the bonus - then do £1 a hand to wager the bonus 4x.
awallace
12-07-2005, 13:59
Seeing as i seriously messed up the original stake :( i want to make sure i play the bonus properly!
Should i play vegas strip using this http://www.beatthehouse.co.uk/tables.htm#Microgaming strategy at £1 a hand for 200 hands?
awallace
12-07-2005, 14:00
Also how long does it usually take for the bonus to come through?
I'm a fairly high profile 'gambler', I gamble a lot at casinos, 1000s a week, and yet I will never put any more of my money into a chartwell powered casino.
I unfortunately had deposited at VC before your reply. The good reviews were from a google search. I have to say I thought the software was pretty good - apart from them storing their gfx on a non secure server while the rest of the site is on a secure server which causes IE to pester me with security pop-ups several times per change of page.
Anyway, after all that, I made a glorious profit of exactly £2.50 - which my bank will take as a cash advance fee :|
And the only reason I didn't make a loss is cause the software messed up in my favour and gave me an extra £25 bonus which it let me gamble alongside the £100
Think I'll stick to ladbrokes...
Offer on at Hard Rock Casino for returning members - deposit £50, stake £400, get £50 bonus (other smaller offers available with slightly better ratios - see below).
What do you think the bit 'Bonuses are only withdrawable as part of a winning bet' means - basically that you need to wager your £50 bonus 1x through? Or what?
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MONTHLY MATCH BONUS
Terms and conditions - Monthly Match Bonus
This offer is only available to existing members registering for the first time before 1st July 2005, new Hardrockcasino.com members are not eligible for this offer. Bonuses will be awarded according to your first deposit of the month and the total amount staked on Hard Rock Casino games in real-play mode.
Initial Deposit Total stake Bonus
£10/$15/€15 £30/$45/€45 £10/$15/€15
£25/$40/€40 £150/$225/€225 £25/$40/€40
£50/$75/€75 £400/$600/€600 £50/$75/€75
Check your casino stake history using 'Daily Transaction Summary' in 'Transaction History'.
Stakes on Craps, Punto Banco and even money bets on Roulette will not contribute towards the total stake required to obtain the bonus. Only one free stake offer per person, household, family, email address, IP address, credit/debit card number. The maximum bonus per customer is £50/$75/€75.
Play on 'free to play' games does not contribute to eligibility for this offer. Bonuses are only withdrawable as part of a winning bet. This offer will close at midnight (GMT) on 31st August 2005. To qualify, all eligibility requirements must be met by this date. New members registering after this date will not be eligible for this offer. We reserve the right to extend the offer beyond this date.
When you have made your initial deposit and staked the necessary funds, please send an email to members@hardrockcasino.com (using the e-mail address that you registered with Hardrockcasino.com). Include your username in the email message field. Please write 'Monthly Bonus' as the subject of the e-mail. Please allow up to 48 hours for your account to be credited.
This promotion is subject to the Hardrockcasino.com T&Cs. The Promoter reserves the right to refuse the offer to any player for any reason, revoke the offer from any player for any reason or to withdraw this offer at any time. No correspondence will be entered into.
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yes, you have to wager your bonus through 1x
I wiped out 100 quid qualifying for the bonus here, and lost >66% of the bonus playing it through 1x, and lost the rest in no time trying to get my balance up.
do not gamble here unless you are prepared to seriously risk the money, wagerworks blackjack is not for the faint of heart.
still plenty of people win on this software, me included on many other occasions
Interesting. I did OK on Hard Rock a while back.
Question: if all the big name casinos are audited, and the house edge for these games varies only by small amounts (0.5%), what explanation can you give for people's claims that one brand of software is 'less fair' than that of another brand.
because the house edge is over millions of hands.
if you have one person who wins a LOT, that can cover for 100 people losing a medium amount.
no one really knows what the score is with these casinos, but certainly going by the 1000s of posts I've seen, there are some casinos where some people just can't see to win, and yet some people cant' see to lose at them.
Oh, I had that problem originally. Turn on popups on skybetvegas, click the 'register' button and it should open up skybet (bookies site, same group). Should also popup a registration window, so you actually register with skybet and then use the same details on skybetvegas. MAKE SURE you deposit on the vegas site though! The Casino could wriggle out of the bonus payment if you deposit on bookie site and then transfer the funds over. If you've already deposited on the wrong site, just withdraw the funds (no penalty) and re-deposit on the correct one.
Still doesn't work, tried it on firefox and IE6 now.
Edit: Now got it, had to click open account rather than register now to get it to popup.
ok (for the skybet offer) say I deposit £20.
I then wager £100 , just to clarify if i was really unlucky and I lost every hand I would be £100 down?
Then I would get my £20 bonus, which I have to bet with once.
Sorry to be a noob but I wanna make sure I understand the risks.
So worst case, I lose every single hand and I would be £100 down.
..............but hopefully not!!!!!!
No, worst case you lose £20 - that's all you've ever given them. The whole betting £100 thing assumes you're gonna win the odd hand and rebet your winnings.
Thanks for the info target.
So if I lost every hand I'd run out of money after £20 worth of bets?
simion_levi
12-07-2005, 21:02
Thanks for the info target.
So if I lost every hand I'd run out of money after £20 worth of bets?
Yup. As you probably (definitely!) want to do £1.00 flat bets, that means 20 hands, doubles and splits aside. Minimises your risk. Just ensure that you stick to the strategy tables - you may beat a single hand by chancing it, but over time you will lose more :nono: The odds of you losing everything are ~0.118% so provided you accept there is some risk and you can afford to chuck £20 away, you know that the odds are in your favour (92.863% chance of turning a profit, 45.688% chance of more than doubling your money - using Beatthehouse (http://www.beatthehouse.co.uk/calculator.htm) calculator)
Now we just need to get CJ in here with her £20,000 SBT for some nail biting, white knuckle online BJ action :nuts: ;)
Interesting. I did OK on Hard Rock a while back.
Question: if all the big name casinos are audited, and the house edge for these games varies only by small amounts (0.5%), what explanation can you give for people's claims that one brand of software is 'less fair' than that of another brand.
Another issue related to evilsly's reply is that often only the casino's random number generator is audited, not how that random number generator is used.
Losing with this particular offer is not particularly unlikely (and therefore not unfair) as the miniumum stake per hand is pretty large (10% of the deposit) so it only takes a few hands and you're in trouble.
I lost my initial deposit and I don't necessarily think it was dodgy... maybe... unless I don't recover it on the bonus ;)
I finished on £8 after my initial wager reqts on skybet, got my £20 and the accidentally bet a £25 hand as I thought I was wagering 5x £1, it was actually 5x £5. needless to say I lost and the whole thing was a wase of time (and £20).
robotboy
13-07-2005, 08:40
Now we just need to get CJ in here with her £20,000 SBT for some nail biting, white knuckle online BJ action :nuts: ;)
ooh that sounds good, always up for some online bj action!
just played the skybetvegas one myself, came out 5gbp up before the bonus, still from small acorns...
www.casinomeister.com also has some good help for newbies
awallace
13-07-2005, 09:16
I finished on £8 after my initial wager reqts on skybet, got my £20 and the accidentally bet a £25 hand as I thought I was wagering 5x £1, it was actually 5x £5. needless to say I lost and the whole thing was a wase of time (and £20).
Did a similar thing with the LAdbrookes one. Accidentally set the autoplay on £10 hands and lost three before i managed to stop it. Therefore i had to wager £170 with the remaining £20 i had left. Unbelievably i managed to bet another £180 by depositing only £5 so i have lost £55 with my bonus to come, hopefully i can do a bit better with that. Not sure how to play it though. (£1, £2, or £5 bets on manual or autoplay???)
awallace
13-07-2005, 09:29
Anyone any idea how long the bonus from ladbrokes usually takes to come through??
awallace
13-07-2005, 13:47
Well thats me well and truly screwed lost my stake and my bonus.
:brickwall:
Grandmaster
13-07-2005, 13:58
I have to ask - if people are actually losing up to £75 on this offer, is it really a bargain? :?:
awallace
13-07-2005, 14:32
Probably not, but cant think of a forum it would be better suite too?
Urghhh just played skybet and even though ladbrokes and victor chandler seemed a little random this was pure rip off! Must of lost around 15 hands on the trot and when I did get blackjack so did the dealer. It was funny how it managed to work 21 without hitting 17 on many occasions.
Finished with nowt after gambling £95, £5 short for the bonus.
If I deposit a £10 and play another £5 will I get the £20?
Edit: They gave me the bonus anyway and withdrew £35 so £10 for a few minutes work. nice
blakea8k
13-07-2005, 16:37
I played the £100 sign up offer and lost the lot before it was even played through twice. Was really gutted and wasn't going to play the monthly one but thought i would give the £50 one i go. I came £35 up on that one so that makes me £65 down in total.
I unfortunately had deposited at VC before your reply. The good reviews were from a google search. I have to say I thought the software was pretty good - apart from them storing their gfx on a non secure server while the rest of the site is on a secure server which causes IE to pester me with security pop-ups several times per change of page.
Anyway, after all that, I made a glorious profit of exactly £2.50 - which my bank will take as a cash advance fee :|
And the only reason I didn't make a loss is cause the software messed up in my favour and gave me an extra £25 bonus which it let me gamble alongside the £100
Think I'll stick to ladbrokes...
I must be lucky with this one. played thru my £100 on VP, cashed out £120.
got the bonus, wagered £400+ and am sitting on £110. will wait for the £120 to hit my bacnk before cashing the bonus out though.
Okay - here is a question for casino experts.
My mate (who we shall refer to as 'Bob') has come up with a cunning plan - what is to stop 5 friends getting online together, going into an online casino room, and waiting for an unsuspecting sixth player to enter the room.
The five friendly players would then collude, and pass information to each other via MSN Messenger, WebCam or Telephone as to what cards they actually had, in order to effectively smoke out the sixth unsuspecting player and figure out what cards he has.
They would take it in turns to win so nothing looked too suspicious, and end up taking the unsuspecting sixth player to the cleaners.
Apart from this being a morally unfair thing to do, is there any technical flaw in this plan that would prevent the five-player-syndicate from being statistically almost guaranteed to make money?
Floop
the online poker rooms monitor for that kind of thing, they use staggeringly complicated detection algorythms.
I've talked at length with the head of security at a major online casino, and I was impressed at some of the things they actually do to ensure security, which people would not realise.
basically remember this,
if you come up with a scam for a casino, the chances are someone has thought of it, and tried it first.
Wagered £25*4 and up to £39 before bonus. Big thanks to the Bank of Ladbrokes.
Should have had the bottle and gone for the £50 but couldn't afford to lose £50 and therefore wagering it would have broken the golden rule of casino betting - don't bet what you can't afford to lose.
EDIT - meant to say I used autoplay.
I had problems claiming my bonuses (£25 new user and £50 matched) so I phoned up and the kind lady credited my account with £75. This credit appeared under the 'sports' heading and came up as not withdrawable. No problem I thought, I probably have to play it through. So I transferred it to the casino account and it came up as withdrawable. Needless to say, I took it straight out (after playing through £100, I was sitting on a big fat £0). So all in all, £25 down.
you will be banned from future promotions now
the 'transfer' between sportsbook/casino making bonuses withdrawable bug is well known, and they regularly ban people for using it.
you will be banned from future promotions now
the 'transfer' between sportsbook/casino making bonuses withdrawable bug is well known, and they regularly ban people for using it.
oh well. never mind. Will they let me know that I've been banned?
slow joe
27-07-2005, 23:56
oh well. never mind. Will they let me know that I've been banned?
If you apply for another bonus they will just say you didn't meet the required T&C and list about 6 possible reasons,one of which will be failing to wager a previous bonus
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