Casino Deposit Bonus

Online casinos are pretty generous places these days. No, we don’t say that as some kind of sales-y fluff to try and get you to sign up – as we’re independent it doesn’t really make much difference to us in any case…

…Except…we are committed to upholding and promoting industry standards, and we are anxious that you, if playing slots and other online games are what float your boat, do so at a fair-minded and safe site rather than falling foul of some of the ghouls out there (for instance Unibet).

Now we’ve got that out of our system, time to look at one aspect of gaming which nobody is going to have any disagreement with, neither you, the customer, who gets something gratis out of it, nor the casinos who attract business this way!

Nor even for that matter Casino Daily News, stuck in the middle as we are, with the privilege of being able to bring you all the interesting news as it comes up...

But to cut to the chase, we’re talking about casino deposit bonuses of course. First we’ll explain the ins and outs of exactly what an online casino deposit bonus is, before turning to briefly how it works and the pluses (and minuses) of deposit casino bonuses.

So what is a deposit bonus?

A casino deposit bonus is as its name suggests, a money which is given to you when you make a deposit.

This can be split into two types, the welcome bonus, and other.

Welcome bonuses are what you get when you first sign up to a site – a casino first deposit bonus in other words. They usually take a form of percentage which you deposit up to a certain amount, and a standard offer might be 100% to, say, €300.

So if you deposited €100 the casino would grant you €100 to play with, giving you €200 in total.

A sub-section of the welcome bonus, which is offered by some betting sites, is 2nd, 3rd and sometimes subsequent deposits.

These tend to be made up of a different percentage as the first deposit bonus, for instance 75%, though may be to higher amounts of money.

As a result, casinos often announce their offers as something like €1,000 welcome bonus, truthfully enough, but when you examine things closer with these larger amounts of free play money you often find that the amount is divided up into smaller bonuses, each of which require a separate deposit (eg. a first deposit of 100% up to €250, then a second deposit of 75% up to €300 etc).

Don’t worry though, our site is dedicated to bringing you the best deposit bonuses around so check back with us regularly to avoid the chaff (and there is plenty out there!).

The second type of bonus, what we imaginatively called ‘other’, are either a deposit casino bonus which comes at other times, for instance Christmas, Halloween, and often accompany the launching of a major new slot game, or they can also take other forms such as competitions (sometimes with pretty impressive prizes), free spins and some other goodies.

In general, the best casino deposit bonus is one which gives a generous amount (100% bonuses of larger amounts of money but with relatively good wagering requirements, say x20 or thereabouts) or is linked with other good subsequent offers and other perks.

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