When you search online for advice/information about roulette you will find a lot of different sites on the subject. You will also find a lot of what we would describe as “bad” advice.
The most common form of bad advice that we see splashed on roulette sites is information about bonuses. They say things like “Sign up at X casino because they have a £500 bonus” or something similar. This to us is nonsense for the reasons we shall go through now.
First of all, your decision on what casino you’re going to sign up to should be based on the clear reasons that we point out on the best roulette sites article. If you read through that article I’m sure you’ll concur.
However, bonuses are practically “Irrelevant” if all you want to play is roulette. This is because all bonuses come with terms and conditions and they aren’t really geared towards online roulette. Allow us to explain this in a little more detail.
You see, if you accept a bonus you will have to complete wagering requirements in order to cash out any money. The wagering requirements vary from one casino to another but you can expect it to be around 30x your bonus amount.
For example, if you received a £100 bonus from the casino when you signed up, you would have to wager 30x that which is £3000. Now £3000 sounds like a big number but it really isn’t, you can soon wager this much on a game like roulette.
The casinos realize this and roulette does not count towards the wagering requirements at all. So any money you win will be stuck in your account and you will not be able to withdraw it until the wagering requirements have been completed.
What Games Count Towards The Wagering requirements?
You will have to play games like slots in order to complete the wagering requirements and this is a huge inconvenience if your game of choice is roulette. It would also be a sickener if you won some money on roulette but then lost it all on slots in order to complete the wagering requirements.
So as you can see, bonuses really are a waste of time if roulette is your game because you won’t be able to cash out any money you win. We cannot understand why so many roulette sites preach about bonuses when it makes practically no sense from a player perspective.
Here’s The Good News
Now if you didn’t read this page to it’s entirety you could be forgiven for thinking that your roulette experience is going to be ruined by these pesky bonuses. Thankfully that is not the case because you don’t have to accept these bonuses. Let us explain the full process for you.
Normally when you sign up to a casino and make a deposit, the bonus is paid to you instantly via an automated process, there’s no human intervention.
What you need to do is contact the customer support team, preferably by phone, and tell them that you do **NOT** want any bonuses when you make your deposit. They will then disable your account from bonuses and you won’t get one when you make your first deposit.
This means that you can start playing roulette straight away and if you win, you will be able to withdraw your winnings straight away with absolutely no wagering requirements whatsoever to complete or worry about. This is much easier and it takes some of the stress away from playing.
However, we must emphasize that you have to tell the casino that you don’t want the bonus before you deposit money. As soon as you’ve placed a bet with the bonus money it’s too late to say that you don’t want it and you will be tied into the bonus terms and conditions so you’ve been warned.