Vesuvio said:
It is a nightmare for beginners - but don't underestimate the autoplay. If you've got $800 extra you're more or less guaranteed a large profit. At fastest settings you can get up to 2000 hands an hour & you can take off 10% (or more) of the number of hands to take account of doubling and splitting. With a good connection and leaving your computer running for a day you can do it playing $1 hands. Your expected loss is only about $100, leaving you with an expected $700 profit.
Having said that I do agree it's not an ideal bonus system for the player.
hi, my personal results aside (i'll tell the story later on if there's time, basically i did as you suggested by w/ very surprising results) i just want everbody to know what these t&c feels like from a player's perspective:
most players play at a casino for FUN, win or lose, the main objective for a recreational player is FUN. the OBVIOUS pre-requisite of having "fun" is to be able to stop when you're "NOT HAVING FUN". and you can stop having fun for a variety of reasons, it doesn't have to be when you lose, it could also be when you're tired, bothered, bored, or have other committments (like a job)
now here comes this online casino that says 'here, try our site, we'll give you some free money if you play with some of your own money'
the player say 'great! what's the catch?'
casino 'well, you have to play a certain number of hands, regardless of you win or not, and regardless if you're having fun or not'
player 'well, i really don't want to keep playing longer if i'm not having fun, but i guess i can tough it out a little longer since i do get something extra'
now consider the following 2 scenarios:
scenario 1: player plays and lose, player is not having fun anymore, but he is still required to keep playing before he can cash out any remaining money that he has left
scenario 2: player plays and win (w/ bonus account), but now he has to play EVEN MORE (significantly more) hands before he can cash out ANYTHING, well player is also not having fun anymore; player thinks 'well, i hope i stop winning b/c i have to goto work in the next week and don't have time to play all those EXTRA hands' (it's a sad day when you hope you STOP winning for the sake of future)
so regardless of if you win or lose, you will stop having fun playing there: you lose you have to play more hands, you win you have to play EVEN MORE hands. why would you play there? I think i will stick with the casinos from now on that tell you beforehand when you can quit....