[happygobrokey]

if you played there before, you should know this is how it works. when they gave the free bet on the steelers, many people put 1100 USD onto their site for a free chance at a 1000 win. many hedged on it at other sites for a guaranteed profit. i let it ride and steelers eked out a win just over the spread.

and in making the free bet, everyone doing this triggered a casino deposit bonus that they could play to earn another 1000 in bonus after doing like 200,000 in wagering. admittedly i was a committed follower to some whoring websites at the time and thus maybe had some special knowledge from previous users so i knew what i was in for, but this is how it has always been at mansion.

and they have had issues, there was a huge thread (20+ pages?) here from a whiner who tried to grind that bonus using keno with sidebets, and when they disallowed usa players he was trying to have them credit an amount of the bonus in the proportion to how much of the wr was complete (even though he would not be able to rollover the bonus once given, for the same reason he can't finish the wr now).

they finally capitulated and allowed him to finish the wr at poker, where americans were still allowed (and which he could have done all along also) and still this was unacceptable to the player ("i'm not a poker player, so it isn't really fair since i can't win"). but being a regular at 2+2, i contend that he probably is not a keno player either, but rather an advantage player on a quest for free money. and he got burned. stupid american laws. not mansion's fault at all imo. he undertook to play the bonus with huge wr at a slow-ish game like keno, and surely knew the cloud of the uigea loomed near.

i agree "triggered" is an ambiguous term, and indeed in their earlier days there was even a provision that you had to ask in live chat to "promote" the bonus chips, once given, to the top of your stack. if you did not do this, you could never roll the bonus chips over into cash (as required) without losing all the cash funds first.

dodgy, arguably. typical mansion though, ever since.