dcast said:
Almost all casinos exclude, roulette, craps and bacarrat from receiving play bonuses...wonder why that is?
Personally I think it sucks
1. You can hedge your bets, at least on certain brands of software. The same is true for sic bo. Craps and baccarat have low enough house edge that you could take home a large chunk of the bonus without any risk. Roulette and sic bo have higher house edge, with today's typical high WR, the casinos should not worry about them. These days, when Viper software even has a built-in autoplay function, casino software should be able to recognise undesirable hedged or low risk bets and inform the player that they won't count towards the WR. This would be a much more civilized solution.
2. These are games of pure chance with no skill involved. You need to put in some effort to be a good blackjack or video poker player, and judging by casinos' payout reports and watching multi player tables, there are plenty of bad players out there.
When I first played BJ online, I managed to lose about 60 units in about 400 hands and almost lost all of my deposit, not just the bonus. I am sure bad luck was involved, but afterwards I found the Wizard of Odds and realized that I had played incorrect strategy. I still did well out of it, because I got a very generous second bonus offer, and I hit a royal flush at video poker.