Completing your Wagering Requirements at Online Casinos

• Published: May 12, 2016
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When you sign up to any of our featured online casinos you will instantly qualify for some kind of guaranteed new player welcome bonus. This free bonus cash can usually be claimed when you deposit for the very first time and before you could withdraw this bonus cash you would need to wager X amount of cash in the casino.

With most online casino deposit bonuses today you generally need to wager anywhere from as little as 10x times the bonus amount up to usually no more than 60x times the bonus amount. This particular policy is known as the wagering requirement (or playthrough requirement) and it is something that you cannot avoid. The lower this number is, the better it is for you as a player and as soon as you have completed your wagering requirements you can start the withdrawal process.

We can take a quick look at an example of how the online casino bonus wagering requirements work. Let’s just say that you have just accepted a 100% matching deposit bonus worth up to AU$200 with a 30x times wagering requirement. If you deposit a total of AU$25.00, you will end up with a AU$25.00 bonus, giving you a grand total of AU$50.00 to play with.

You would then need to wager your AU$25.00 bonus at least 30 times before you could withdraw. In other words, you would need to wager a total of AU$750. Most online casino bonuses also require you to wager the initial deposit amount as well as the bonus amount, therefore you would need to wager a total of AU$775 before you can start the withdrawal process.

Don’t forget that you generally have to complete the wagering requirements within a certain amount of time (could be one week or one month), but you can also forfeit your bonus cash at any time, which means that although you would lose your bonus, you wouldn’t need to complete any more annoying wagering requirements.

The other thing that you need to be aware of is that not all games will contribute 100% towards completing your wagering requirements. For example certain table & card games and one or two video poker games may only contribute anywhere from 1.00% to 10.00% towards completing them (per dollar wagered), whereas online pokies (classic pokies and video pokies), as well as keno and scratchcards generally contribute anywhere from 80.00% to 100.00% towards completing them per AU$1.00 wagered in the casino.