Need your input: What’s your typical bet size and why?

[Webzcas]

Ok this hopefully will turn into a fun and active thread, away from all the negatives that can surround and raise their head in this industry. So here goes.

As the thread title states, what is your typical bet size and why when playing online? Now I know stake limits have come into play in the UK, well at least I think they have , but regardless I will go first!

My game of choice would be slots, even though I started out on the table games eons ago. I would invariably bet at £/$1 a spin and have in my head a total amount I would be prepared to deposit during a particular session. Around about a few hundred pounds.

If I managed to hit a decent win from a feature, which got my bankroll close to four figures, I would then ramp up the bet stake accordingly. When I have had a real good slice of good fortune, I have in the past bet as high as £25 a spin!!! Yes, that high! But these were in the days when I was an affiliate and also I saw it as betting with the casino's money and not mine.

It did come good a few times though. £5,000 feature win on the old King Kong cryptologic slot dropped a few times

Those were the days

 

[Downsman]

20p max..I'm a poor 64 yr old with an equally poor pension!

 

[greylady]

Anything from 9p (DoA) to 60-80p. It does depend on the site for me as some I am really unlucky.

I could afford more but choose not to so I limit my losses.

 

[L&L-Jan]

4/5euro + ante bet if available.
Medium volatile at 10/20 euros

 

[conker]

Good question @Webzcas - I usually start around 40p spins and then double up to 80p if things are going well or conversely if I have gone a long time without a win. Rarely do I go over £1, but occasionally I do if it feels right.

 

[SYPlayer95]

Generally around £2. But I will go up to the UK max £5 if I've had a hit.

 

[SYPlayer95]

4/5euro + ante bet if available.
Medium volatile at 10/20 euros

Rich man. Must be all my ABC deposits.

 

[DreamRJ]

0.20-0.40 nowadays - if I get some nice wins and in a good winning streak at numerous casinos and have a bigger gambling budget then I will do upto 0.80 on very rare occasions. But I am more comfortable with 0.20-0.40 bets.

I did once do £5 bets when I won that 12K euro jackpot a long time ago but I only did it that once. and I only did 20spins and I had no luck from them.

 

[andysbetting1187]

My bet sizing is a little bit all over the place - slots i will happily play at 0.20p - 0.40p

Roulette £200 - £1k a spin

Black.jack £500 - whatever the maximum is (highest I've ever done is £20k but that was a long time ago in a bricks and mortar casino)

I am finding it very very difficult to have a decent roulette or blackjack session online due to restrictions sites I.pose (max deposit limits/some blackjack games only allow a maximum of 250 a hand which doesn't suit my style)

 

[Cherries]

Usually start on 20p, prefer 30p and if I have a win, will play up to 80p, that gave me my best win! Did get stupid after that and played higher….soon stopped and now back to 30p spins

 

[CongoGB]

Depends for me - if the budget is running fairly low then 20p stakes. Normally these days 40p - 50p depending on the game. If things go well (rarely!) and I'm in profit with a lot safely back in my bank account, then I might up it to £1 if I have a decent amount remaining after a WD.

 

[DreamRJ]

Can I also add, some slots though I have a stake I always do regardless of bankroll. Like for example Multi Wild 243 from Edict/Merkur - That slot I always do minimum 0.40p bets because it has so much potential when it is in a good mood. It has helped me get withdraws many times when I have been in really hard and long losing streaks.

But that slot can also be very very brutal - it can easily do 50-100 dead spins in a row. So your balance can be wiped instantly fast. But it can do streaks as well and can also grow a balance pretty quick when the RNG is in a good mood.

 

[satchnz]

Slots - I'm strictly 0.20-0.30 including extra bet where available. When I am winning, I never ever increase my stake. Always 0.20-0.30.

Video Poker - 0.50 per hand.

Blackjack (online) - 1.00-5.00. At a physical casino - 5.00-well it depends. Max I've ever put on one hand is NZD$500

Free money from the one with the letters - for some reason this place has started giving me $50-80 no deposit bonuses every couple of weeks, despite me not having deposited there for a while now... So I spaff this balance on Hacksaw extra bet spins of 0.60 (0.20 base bet) hoping to catch something sizable to allow me to complete wagering for a max withdrawal of the bonus amount.

 

[PeenyBunslinger]

Usually .20 per spin or a bit more with ante bet. If I get a big win then sometimes I'll up my stake to .40. I'm typically just trying to gamble for as long as possible.

If I go up and down for a long period of time, or if I get a big win and then proceed to lose most of it, I'll usually up my stake to £1-£5 to try break the streak/recover losses. I don't think it has worked even once on slots. It has worked on dice games though.

 

[Kroffe]

I generally stick to minimum bet, so 10-20p for most of the time.
Back in the day when we still could get bonuses on the Swedish market i would bet a bit more, its hard to wager a bonus on 10p spins.

It happens that i do 40-50p spins on some megaways slot after i have hit a wildline or similar big win, but the thing is a good bonus from a megaways slot at 40p probably still pays less than what a 9p wildline does, so whats the point.

 

[sufferinsilence]

Between min bet of 9/10c and €2 a spin depending on how moody the slots are and my bankroll. €2 is very rare tho and these days I'm usually topping out at €1. When I play some videopoker it's usually between 50c and €1 a hand.

Poker tournaments I stick to the micro's: from 50c to $2.20.

 

[Casinos Hate Winners]

That is a damn good question.

If I am playing to clear a bonus, I choose the max bet and a higher volatility slot.

If I am playing to win a progressive jackpot, I usually also choose the max bet to do it as fast as possible and to minimize the chance that someone else hits it. For example, one hundred for Divine Fortune.

If I feel there is no competition, I may drop it to fifty or twenty to reduce the variance.

If I am just playing for fun, I buy High Noon Saloon bonuses in DOA 2 for six to twelve dollars. It is still high variance, similar to playing The Dog House at the same stake. In those cases my deposit is one or two thousand and I have a preset number of rebuys. But I do not do this often.

Sometimes I play Book of 99 simply because the house edge is minimal and the slot is still volatile. Once I even hit two thousand x at five dollars when I only wanted to safely complete a wagering requirement.

I once cleared 100% bonuses up to 200 dollars with a single four hundred dollar spin in A Night Out.
Those were the sweet days, the grass was greener and the sun was brighter.

 

[DreamRJ]

That is a damn good question.

If I am playing to clear a bonus, I choose the max bet and a higher volatility slot.

If I am playing to win a progressive jackpot, I usually also choose the max bet to do it as fast as possible and to minimize the chance that someone else hits it. For example, one hundred for Divine Fortune.

If I feel there is no competition, I may drop it to fifty or twenty to reduce the variance.

If I am just playing for fun, I buy High Noon Saloon bonuses in DOA 2 for six to twelve dollars. It is still high variance, similar to playing The Dog House at the same stake. In those cases my deposit is one or two thousand and I have a preset number of rebuys. But I do not do this often.

Sometimes I play Book of 99 simply because the house edge is minimal and the slot is still volatile. Once I even hit two thousand x at five dollars when I only wanted to safely complete a wagering requirement.

I once cleared 100% bonuses up to 200 dollars with a single four hundred dollar spin in A Night Out.
Those were the sweet days, the grass was greener and the sun was brighter.

I am sorry but that last bit is questionable. Pretty much most casinos have max bet limits when using bonus funds. So I find that very doubtful that you did that. Unless you had a special bonus with different rules like streamers get? And again even if that was the case that would mean if it had a 60X playthrough and you did a $100 deposit and had $100 bonus that is $200 X60 playthrough so again 1 spin at $200 would only be 1X of that playthrough.

I am not being funny but some things you are saying is making no sense and starting to think maybe it is AI?

 

[sufferinsilence]

I am sorry but that last bit is questionable. Pretty much most casinos have max bet limits when using bonus funds. So I find that very doubtful that you did that. Unless you had a special bonus with different rules like streamers get? And again even if that was the case that would mean if it had a 60X playthrough and you did a $100 deposit and had $100 bonus that is $200 X60 playthrough so again 1 spin at $200 would only be 1X of that playthrough.

I am not being funny but some things you are saying is making no sense and starting to think maybe it is AI?

To be fair, when I was quite new to sports betting one of the bookies I played at gave me "unlimited" 100% bonuses with 1x wager for every €50 deposited. I made some dough until they caught on I was just recycling the bonus money over and over I'm still not sure if that was a bug or a feature

 

[interlog]

60p a spin for me usually, increase to 1.00 if going well.

When I receive rakeback / cashback / free spins winnings it is 20p a spin on Bonanza to try to get balance up

 

[Molster18]

Ok this hopefully will turn into a fun and active thread, away from all the negatives that can surround and raise their head in this industry. So here goes.

As the thread title states, what is your typical bet size and why when playing online? Now I know stake limits have come into play in the UK, well at least I think they have , but regardless I will go first!

My game of choice would be slots, even though I started out on the table games eons ago. I would invariably bet at £/$1 a spin and have in my head a total amount I would be prepared to deposit during a particular session. Around about a few hundred pounds.

If I managed to hit a decent win from a feature, which got my bankroll close to four figures, I would then ramp up the bet stake accordingly. When I have had a real good slice of good fortune, I have in the past bet as high as £25 a spin!!! Yes, that high! But these were in the days when I was an affiliate and also I saw it as betting with the casino's money and not mine.

It did come good a few times though. £5,000 feature win on the old King Kong cryptologic slot dropped a few times

Those were the days

£1 I think max is £2 for me at 18. I do play big bass games and tbh I’ve had some good wins, lately I’ve played Halloween 3 which I absolutely love! More than splash, it’s much more fun. I’ve played some huff game too and the odd other game but at this time my new fave is definitely Halloween 3 on big bass it doesn’t seem to have such long periods of nothingness iykwim

 

[winner2021]

£1-£2 on slots and £2-£5 on slingo usually. I will play slots at £5 a spin if I've won a lot like once a month or something. But of course that triggers safer gambling emails...it's almost not worth the hassle at this point. I've never won big doing that either. I'd rather play slingo than slots (I know it's not popular on here) but I get way more gameplay out of it (usually) whereas staking high on slots my balance would be gone in 10 mins.

 

[ESCJAMIE]

40-60p

 

[incrediblestuff]

Directly correlated to w/e my bankroll may be for that particular session. 90 percent of the time that amounts to minimum bets though....

Ive spun at all sort of bets, and remember doing crazy 200 dollar Keno spins back in the day, on the old MG sites..One of my few reasons to bet higher is ofc. the possibility to hit huge, on the off chance you hit a 1000x or better whilst doing it, but so far that hasn't really happened yet. The other reason is that its a freaking heart-pounding adrenaline rush, when u hit or close to hitting

Ofc. These days there are many slots that have insane max wins so i could theoretically now hit similar regions of riches, by just betting 10p....

Side note, even though i am fine betting high at times, i do dislike certain provider's choices to put a higher min bet on some games: i simply tend to avoid them then, and even after i may have increased my bankroll on other games, usually dont think about opening them either
...

 

[Casinos Hate Winners]

I am sorry but that last bit is questionable. Pretty much most casinos have max bet limits when using bonus funds. So I find that very doubtful that you did that. Unless you had a special bonus with different rules like streamers get? And again even if that was the case that would mean if it had a 60X playthrough and you did a $100 deposit and had $100 bonus that is $200 X60 playthrough so again 1 spin at $200 would only be 1X of that playthrough.

I am not being funny but some things you are saying is making no sense and starting to think maybe it is AI?

There is much more to this than you might think, and you give AI far too much credit for its abilities.
Let me explain in a bit more detail.

This was back in 2017 at William Hill Casino Club. It was a subsidiary site of William Hill, and they also had another project called Eurogrand. The old players will remember them. Both projects are shut down today, but at the time they offered excellent bonuses with no max bet restrictions.

At first I cleared their bonuses in the table roulette by placing 100 dollars on a single number.

If you want to clear a bonus with maximum profit, you need variance. The goal is to win everything or lose everything. I have written about this many times. The idea is that you will clear a bonus very rarely, maybe one out of twenty depending on the game, stake and terms. It can even be one out of fifty. But the wins are so large that they cover all losses and leave you ahead with around a 60% ROI or even higher.

They had many bonuses. For example they had a week when they were giving out three bonuses a day, and they also had an unlimited fifteen percent Skrill deposit bonus. At some point, when I was already well ahead, they limited my roulette stake to fifteen dollars per spin and increased the wagering requirement. That was the moment I decided to try slots.

Roulette is easy to simulate. You can write a simple program that imitates a straight-up number bet and run one million bonuses through Monte Carlo to calculate EV. Slots are more complicated, so I simply picked a slot with a 97% RTP and placed the entire balance in one spin. The bonus was 200$ and the deposit was 200$, so the total stake was 400$.

Of course in almost every case I lost everything on the very first spin. Eventually one of the bonuses cleared at 18k. It was only a 45x win and those cocktail girls could have paid even more. After some time all the bonuses were gone.

 

[satchnz]

Free money from the one with the letters - for some reason this place has started giving me $50-80 no deposit bonuses every couple of weeks, despite me not having deposited there for a while now... So I spaff this balance on Hacksaw extra bet spins of 0.60 (0.20 base bet) hoping to catch something sizable to allow me to complete wagering for a max withdrawal of the bonus amount.

And this week’s no deposit bonus is $105.80. I mean, wtf? Is anyone else here getting these bonuses??

 

[Reelsoffun]

Being UK my slot max bet size is £5 ( I was happy to play up to £10 and up to £20 for bonus buys before all the bans ) but rarely go above £1/£2 these days got my slot budget to protect lol

When I’m trying new slots I tend to stick to min bet 10 - 25p

Generally I avoid slots with min bets of 30p+ out of principle, as if feels I’m being bullied to betting more than I want. I will very often bet 30p+ but not on ones where it’s the min. Yes maybe I’m strange like that but it’s how I play.

I have lost count of the times I have opened a new slot and the min bet is 40p, 50p, 60p, 88p and £1 and instantly close it, don’t providers realise they are losing players just by doing that?

 

[M!ke]

.20 and .40 at first, but I increase it as my balance grows. I rarely go above $1.

 

[johnnymcc1966]

0.10-0.30 on Big Bass games. 0.30 on Book of Dead and other Book games. 0.36 on Dead or Alive original and sequel and 0.60 on Bonanza,Millionaire Megaways,Beef Lightning and most other BTG games.

 

[Lemon]

Usually min line bet, max lines. I know I'm going to lose so all I want is maximum entertainment for my cash. There are some games I'll go a bit higher on if I fancy a punt though.

 

[cheekymonkey]

Years ago when Microgaming ruled the net, I used to play anything from 90p to £22.50 a spin on the likes of Ladies Nite, Spring Break, Thunderstruck etc.

THESE DAYS, anything from 20p up to £2 maximum. Any higher than that is either suicide or having the means to an exceptionally large bankroll.

 

[satchnz]

Usually min line bet, max lines. I know I'm going to lose so all I want is maximum entertainment for my cash. There are some games I'll go a bit higher on if I fancy a punt though.

For some of us it is just that. The chance of the occasional win just sweetens the experience.

 

[hubbadubbadingdong]

$0.80 as that’s the luckiest - FACT