newbie to this site but not to casino blackjack

[troyer]

hey guys! this site looks great, and a lot of smart people it seems to be. anyways i played a little bj online for fun before but have been reading into the 888 casino and how to profit from the deposit bonus. i was wondering if sometime someone was willing to walk me through all of this and be there to help me as i do it. thanks

[LeonShuffle]

There's not too much to it. Download the casino. Sign up as a real money player. Deposit $200 using any method other than Neteller. You will immediately have another $200 added to your account for a total of $400. Play small bets. Maybe $4 to start with, less if you want to be even safer. Keep track of your wagers either with a clicker or just by putting lines on paper. Remember to include splits and DDs as wagers. Once you've wagered over $4,000, wait a couple hours because they don't update it immediately, then withdraw whatever you want. You can leave money in there if you'd like to actually gamble some more, but I'd only recommend that if you've made more than just the bonus (a balance of over $400), and maybe not even then.

One word of warning of though, the software that they use is very slow compared to every other casino at which I've played. It could take a while, and I don't suggest you do it all in one sitting. They also take longer to pay than most others.

Other good places to start are Bet365 (same terms, MUCH faster play), Starluck and Planetluck ($100 bonus, $1,600 WR).

Good luck, let us know how it goes.

[troyer]

any reason for no neteller? they just dont accept it is it?

[LeonShuffle]

First piece of advice on these bonuses: Read the Ts & Cs VERY carefully. Someone else here recently ran into this problem.

Casino-On-Net does accept Neteller, BUT the WR becomes $10,000 instead of $4,000. I'm not sure what they have against Neteller but that's the way it is.

[troyer]

thanks. should i play just one hand at a time? also i read about people losing the $200 bonus and then cashing out with their original $200 so in essence they lost nothing (maybe a few dollars for fees). So do you have to reach the WR and then you can cash the bonus out too but meanwhile you can wager with the bonus money?

[LeonShuffle]

I'm not sure about cashing out your deposit once you've lost the bonus. That doesn't seem right to me but others have said it's the case.

As for how many hands to play, it doesn't matter too much. If you were planning on starting at $4 for one hand, maybe play $3 for all three hands. Just be careful because the first hand you act upon at 888 is the middle one for some reason.

[troyer]

thanks. so it lets you play with the bonus right away? for example i deposit $200 i will have $400 to play with?

[bosco4300]

I just signed up for casino on net and deposited 200 plus they called me and gave me another 10, which one needs 20 WR. I played 200 hands 35 -40 minutes and i was playing slow. I have talked to them on the phone and they said if you wanted you could immediately cash out your 200 deposit and play with the bonus money, but it might get caught and labeled as "bonus abuse" so they would not recomend it. But still nice to know that you can do things like that. I am interested to know if you lose say 200 if you can cash out the remaining 200, that would be nice. When I first started playing I could have sworn it was rigged the dealer could not bust and beat me by 1 everytime, was down 30 bucks and finally brought it back to being down 3 dollars after 400 wagered. So i guess that works out to be less than 1%, though I wonder what the house edge is in their particular blackjack game. If this bonus works out well I plan on trying bet365 if their offer doesnt expire, it says Feb 28 but hopefully they will promote it again. I would be interested to hear anyone elses stories about their online play. Bosco4300

[LeonShuffle]

These offers always say they expire at the end of the current month. Don't pay attention.

[Bigdiggie]

I've played on Vegas Red (which i believe if i'm not mistaken is associated with 888?).... they match up to a certain percentage of initial deposit, which escapes me at the moment... I was up $1200...then tried testing out a betting scheme i'm working on... ended up losing all except my initial deposit. Turns out Vegas Red bonus is sticky??? So the $200 that was left in the account is theirs...not mine. So I ended up losing my initial deposit. Live and learn i guess.

Just be careful using Vegas Red... good casino for learning on but had a few sketchy streaks both ways. I'm aware of the fluctuations, but it seemed sometimes as if things were a bit to "regular"; such as everytime I would start the casino and begin playing, I'd win a majority of the hands up until about 20 hands with constant min bets, then things would go down hill. This seemed to happen very very frequently. Has anyone else run into "Regularaties" such as these in online casinos... almost as if "baiting"