<div class="bbWrapper">but that's you, you cautious lowroller. <img src="/forums/styles/default/casinomeister/smilies/tongue.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue :p" data-shortname=":p" /><br />
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in your example the WR is 1x and the bonus is evidentally from rtg because you're saying "rinse, repeat, get rich". most bonuses are one-time only. <br />
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and the standard MG bonus rules have BJ counting @10% toward 30x playthrough. how can you ever win on that by flatbetting? you know as well as any that the house edge grinds you down the more bets you make. either way you'll need a lucky run to complete the WR with a profit. i would not want to play for eight hours knowing the end result is i get beaten down by the house and have no chance of making a cashout given my 300x WR. i would rather take a couple big chances out of the gate (and we all know the beginning is when you can afford to bet heaviest) than grind out $30000 in $1-5 bets for a $100 bonus. that way you can tell early on whether you have a chance of reaching wr or not, because obviously if you double- or treble-up<br />
early you have a much better cushion with which to witstand the gruelling wr. <br />
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i know this isn't what the house <i>wants</i> you to do, but assuming the bonus was one-time only, does it matter to them whether they get you to lose your $100 in one minute or 300 minutes? money's money. and since you always bet with <i>your money first</i>, if you bet half your roll (all your deposit) on one hand of bj and win (without a double or split), then you never even use their bonus money to generate the winnings. of course the bonus gives you extra equity such that you can do just what i said and be able to double or split it, but even without a bonus you could do this by betting half your stack each time. the reason it makes no sense to do this without bonus is because of transaction fees. <br />
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if i could make numerous deposits without paying $5 each time for using visa, plus currency conversion fees plus plus plus, indeed i might go all or nothing with each deposit, and it would then be much easier to stop when the losses are heavy by simply not depositing again. as it is now, when not playing with bonus, i usually deposit $50-100 and bet such that my stack is ~10 betting units (so $5-10 a hand respectively). if i start winning, i soon press it up and if i lose some, i just bet flat until i get back in black or bust. 10 units is not much of a cushion, but it lets me try to win big without putting a great deal of money at risk. and if fees were not an issue i would probably deposit even less ($5 c/c fee on $50 deposit is 10-bloody-%) and bet it all in one or two hands, and press heavily if i win on it. <br />
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funny how i can argue bankroll management and ekeing out small wins so eloquently you want to put it on your site, when in reality i am a gamb000000ler. but i did spend my signup chasing days grinding at very low bets most of the time. these days were still only ~1 year ago, and bonuses were actually half-decent back then. but nowhere the good ol days i hear of, like way back at the turn of the millenium. being only 22, that sort of is a substantial length of time for me. <br />
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anyhow, the OP is just saying it's almost criminal that they offer these types of incentives that give little to no chance of a winning result. if the bonuses in question were non-depositing bonus, and the chance to win was ~nil, then sure that's okay. but if it's set up such that you are almost a lock to lose all of your own money trying to earn the right to withdraw anything at all, then it's a bit like taking your money outright. <br />
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like if i give you keys to a car and say: <br />
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"you're welcome to have the car if you lend me a hundred bucks, but it's in china and must be signed for in person by you and imported via wagon north until the ground is frozen over, and pulled by yaks the rest of the way to the tip of siberia, by barge across the bering strait, and by dogsled from alaska until the snow is gone, and by log rollers (as per the blocks making up the pyramids) to your place of residence, whereupon it must be inspected by a licenced technician and transferred into your name, and if you fail to collect the car in the above manner i get to keep the money you lent me."<br />
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, then you realise it isn't really worth it to undertake the deal. but if this were the only way to get that car short of buying it for $500k (let's say it's a mercedes-benz slr mclaren), then it's pretty much your only choice to undertake it if you want one, yet with no hope of ever really getting it home.<br />
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wow that was a long response. i think i think too much...<img src="/forums/styles/default/casinomeister/smilies/redface.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":oops:" title="Oops! :oops:" data-shortname=":oops:" /></div>