Been reading this thread over the last day of so and thought I’d try out taking some bonuses at a couple of new casinos to see if they played any different to Sky Vegas where I’ve played for 3 years of so.
The majority of my play in Sky is bonanza, primal, DHV. Over the last few years I typically deposit £500/month and play £2 spins, never hit anything massive.
On average if would take me 600 spins or so to trigger the bonanza bonus with my biggest bonus around 280x and around 350x on DHV. Overall on Sky Vegas I’m probably down £8k or so over 3 years.
So firstly I sign up at Casumo, deposit £300 + £300 bonus and start smashing bonanza at £2/spin, over 3000 spins I had 11 bonuses, nothing special apart from a 450x win. I then take the balance to the final countdown and get 3 bonuses over 600 spins, again, nothing special but had a few 100x and one 200x hit in the base game. Next I go to primal where I start on £1/spin because I know it’s a bit more high variance and start spinning. After 1000 spins I’m down £300ish and up it to £2/spin with no joy after another 1000 spins.
At this point I have around £700 left in the account roughly split 50/50 between raw cash and bonus funds, so I up it to £4/spin. At the lowest I was down to £44 left in my account when I had a half decent bonus which paid 250x, so back to 1k or so in the account.
Fast forward another 16 hours of so with mixed play on £2/£4/£5 stakes depending on the balance on bonanza and F C and I’m only £5k away from beating wagering at which point it all goes to pot and its like I’m playing on Sky again and waiting 600 spins or so for a bonus and when it does come it’s in the 10-40x range.
Needless to say, I busted soon after. Coincidence that I ran really well when using bonus money and then ran bad when in distance of completing wagering? Being a rational and logically brained person I guess it’s just pure luck, but there’s always that niggling doubt that says it was too good to be true!
This afternoon I deposited at 21 Casino, £250 + £300 bonus. Smashed in a bonus on bonanza at £2/spin within 60 spins and got 185x. Decided to try fishing frenzy megaways at £2/spin and the bonus dropped in after 12 spins! 15 free spins later it paid roughly 280x! Spoke to the live chat to confirm I could forfeit my £300 bonus and withdraw £1k cash and withdrew. Fingers crossed it goes through ok. Just couldn’t face trying to beat 35x wagering again after the ups and downs of the previous day.
Does something untoward trigger in your account when you accept a bonus!? Who knows! Felt that way at times, but variance is variance, maybe I would’ve had the same results if I’d have done my usual and deposited at Sky, maybe I wouldn’t…
