johnsteed
Dormant Account
I've been playing online for about 4 years now, and maybe it's just me, but there seems to be more restrictions (and fine print) on all bonuses. After getting through all wording, playing through all of the restrictions (like trying to beat the game itself isn't enough), hiring a lawyer to figure out what I can and cannot do, working numbers that would make any SABERMETRIC proud, I've decided to take another route altogether.
Why bother with bonuses anymore? It seems to give the casino's TOO many advantages over the player, and it really hinders the player's ability to go in and win money.
PlayTech and RTG offer all of these wonderful bonuses at first glance, but they really aren't so wonderful.
If you've been playing at PlayTech for as long as I have, and as frequently as I have (I think of been breathing and dreaming of PlayTech for the past 3 years now... should talk to psychologist about that one), one can't get this funny feeling that the outcome of the cards are FAR worse (and too controlled/hardly random) when playing through a bonus. I've played at every PlayTech casino (multiple deposits... and I've never touched BlackWidow... originally because of the name which can't be good... and because of THE worst gossip going around about them) listed on bonusrating.com, and I've done far too poorly. I've lost $40,000 USD over that time, with likely $37,000 going directly to BJ use. I play a very tight game, and have done so since early '04, and almost all of those times a bonus had been attached.
Those bonuses (in my mind) ALWAYS seem to turn the gameplay into the greatest dogfight of all time. It's like the computer's making fun of you, coming up with too many ridiculous card variations, and destroying any sort of run you should have. It's insane.
So, the VERY few times that I played (and the times I'd asked them to remove the bonus), it was playing without migraine for the first time in years. It was as if the dealers kindly removed the handcuffs from my wrists, and said, "Now, you can jump into the ocean and swim wherever you would like to go". Exaggeration of course, but the gameplay was MUCH different. While PlayTech STILL doesn't seem to play a random/fair game of blackjack, there seemed to be the odd chance that I could actually GAIN money from playing. I won't play at PlayTech casino's anymore (though I must say that Kiwi and Diamond Club feel like the old GREAT PlayTech's from long ago, which is why I elected to dump so much money into that software to begin with).
RTG dealers gets stupid whenever I've EVER increased my bets, and the gameplay seems to get faster (too fast), so it's seems all too clear that the player may dump the grind-it-out Joey Knish style, and recklessly move towards the Mikey McDermott 3 stakes-of-high-society "I'm all in" on Teddy KGB's bluff. The speed-up should be "the Oreo-tell", but we all have to take that lousy morning route for 9 months to figure-out what went wrong. Whoops, back to what I was talking about...
RTG's give out the most insane bonuses around, so you know something's not right. I've done slightly better there, I suppose because I at least got some money back. One of the 3 withdrawals accomplished over the past two years was from Destination Poker of all places... of the no deposit offer (first and last time this will happen to me).
Getting back to my original point, I feel that I've done much better as of late, at some of the more reputable casino's around (namely MicroGaming casino's), but I specifically ask not to include any bonuses. At least when I know I make it up to $300 on a $100 deposit, I know it's all mine. No BS included, and I wonder if there's any other PRO's (not that I'm one, based on my losses) who's decided to give up on the bonuses route altogether.
It just seems that the gameplay is more fair, there's nothing to worry about on withdrawals, basically there's no rings to go through. Am I looking at this wrongly, and should I ALWAYS be looking only play with bonuses? Because the way I see it, it gives the casino's all the power that the player thinks he/she might have.
Why bother with bonuses anymore? It seems to give the casino's TOO many advantages over the player, and it really hinders the player's ability to go in and win money.
PlayTech and RTG offer all of these wonderful bonuses at first glance, but they really aren't so wonderful.
If you've been playing at PlayTech for as long as I have, and as frequently as I have (I think of been breathing and dreaming of PlayTech for the past 3 years now... should talk to psychologist about that one), one can't get this funny feeling that the outcome of the cards are FAR worse (and too controlled/hardly random) when playing through a bonus. I've played at every PlayTech casino (multiple deposits... and I've never touched BlackWidow... originally because of the name which can't be good... and because of THE worst gossip going around about them) listed on bonusrating.com, and I've done far too poorly. I've lost $40,000 USD over that time, with likely $37,000 going directly to BJ use. I play a very tight game, and have done so since early '04, and almost all of those times a bonus had been attached.
Those bonuses (in my mind) ALWAYS seem to turn the gameplay into the greatest dogfight of all time. It's like the computer's making fun of you, coming up with too many ridiculous card variations, and destroying any sort of run you should have. It's insane.
So, the VERY few times that I played (and the times I'd asked them to remove the bonus), it was playing without migraine for the first time in years. It was as if the dealers kindly removed the handcuffs from my wrists, and said, "Now, you can jump into the ocean and swim wherever you would like to go". Exaggeration of course, but the gameplay was MUCH different. While PlayTech STILL doesn't seem to play a random/fair game of blackjack, there seemed to be the odd chance that I could actually GAIN money from playing. I won't play at PlayTech casino's anymore (though I must say that Kiwi and Diamond Club feel like the old GREAT PlayTech's from long ago, which is why I elected to dump so much money into that software to begin with).
RTG dealers gets stupid whenever I've EVER increased my bets, and the gameplay seems to get faster (too fast), so it's seems all too clear that the player may dump the grind-it-out Joey Knish style, and recklessly move towards the Mikey McDermott 3 stakes-of-high-society "I'm all in" on Teddy KGB's bluff. The speed-up should be "the Oreo-tell", but we all have to take that lousy morning route for 9 months to figure-out what went wrong. Whoops, back to what I was talking about...
RTG's give out the most insane bonuses around, so you know something's not right. I've done slightly better there, I suppose because I at least got some money back. One of the 3 withdrawals accomplished over the past two years was from Destination Poker of all places... of the no deposit offer (first and last time this will happen to me).
Getting back to my original point, I feel that I've done much better as of late, at some of the more reputable casino's around (namely MicroGaming casino's), but I specifically ask not to include any bonuses. At least when I know I make it up to $300 on a $100 deposit, I know it's all mine. No BS included, and I wonder if there's any other PRO's (not that I'm one, based on my losses) who's decided to give up on the bonuses route altogether.
It just seems that the gameplay is more fair, there's nothing to worry about on withdrawals, basically there's no rings to go through. Am I looking at this wrongly, and should I ALWAYS be looking only play with bonuses? Because the way I see it, it gives the casino's all the power that the player thinks he/she might have.
