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We're given free bets after signing up to an operator when making a minimum deposit, we claim bonuses with it. I don't normally try claiming bonuses for I know the wagering requirement but I'm trying it this time.

If you are to use them to your advantage and turn it into coins how do you do it? Besides betting on both sides it sure is but you know the math of it.

I forgot to make use of my first time deposit bonus on the last gambling site that I registered on as of now. It had expired before I remember that I have it. Gambling is fun and I deposited little amount that made me to forget. But this is not what this thread is all about.

If I win any free bet, I will withdraw it immediately. If not up to lowest withdrawal requirement yet, I leave it until I accomodate more money to withdraw all. But sometimes I can try my luck to either lose it all or make it up to require minimum withdrawal. If I am lucky, I will have a nice weekend with it.

It is gambling, either I win it or lose it. It is free bet.

No ither choice but to put it into bet. Of course, casino providers won’t allow players to get free money in the first place. Betting on both sides won’t give you huge profit ‘coz one would be losing for sure, you’d suffer small loss from fees as well and odd differences. The only way we could do is to just use the free bets as is and hope for luck to be on our side. Result will never be assured simply ‘coz this is gambling, should be an enough statement for us all to understand.

Good question
If you bet on both sides, you'll lose part of the bet for sure, unless the game is very eneven and you're lucky enough to win the bigger odd. In this type of bet, you'll secure part of the money, even with a "loss".

Bonuses are a good opportunity to place some riskier bets that pay very good odds, at least in my opinion
Trying to play it safe, but not 100%, you can still place bets that have a VERY high chance of happening, bets of 1.01 or 1.02 odds, in a soccer match for example when one team is winning 2x0 and the game is almost over

It's just important to check the rules of the bonuses, as some of them require you to bet at higher odds to be valid

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I'll follow this thread too see another opinions, I'm curious

I didn't receive any free bets in Stake.com but I did receive cryptocurrencies worth $20 in my Bronze VIP achievement. I am glad I did try to reach that rank but it was taken so fast that I didn't even notice all the balance was gone.
I don't think they will let you win from free money or I am just having an unlucky day. It's not like every gambler will double the money that came from a freebie but I do assure you that I had fun using all the money that came from just wagering enough. I mean, I didn't even waste up to $100 to wager $10,000. $1 can make me go far to almost $20-30 wagered amount and if I get lucky I can win it and withdraw some of that funds.
But the next level of wagering is higher so it becomes expensive, then the winning chance got lower unlike the time when I was a non VIP player.

I just spend them away… You can’t use them in any other way I think. I mean what are the other possibilities? You either use them or you keep them. If you use them there is a chance that you‘ll make something if you are lucky. The big question here is, does the casino let you withdraw your profits without depositing first? If that’s possible then it is good news. If not, depending on the size of the profits you’ll have to make another choice. If the casino is a trusted one then there will be no harm done.

I have tried this many times before, but when the loss will come, it would be huge. I can never go for bets of 1.01 and 1.02 odds ever in my life. The chance of winning is high but it is stupidity. When the person lose money would be when he will know that. I prefer to go for high odd like 1.5 or more but not far from 2 odds if it sport. I will prefer casino than bookies is another thing.

I am not a fan of getting bonuses from casinos because I believe it has restrictions to what you can do it and if you are lucky enough to make big winnings with it then you might be restricted from cashing out the funds because of the limit that is attached to bonus winnings. I have seen people that uses bonus to winner extremely large funds and they were not allowed to cash out the funds because of restrictions. It is better for us to use our deposited funds to play bets and if we are lucky enough, we can make big winnings which is going to count and withdrawable without no restrictions.

Betting on both side with lower EV is really the best thing to do so that you can guarantee profit on your free bet. Use arbitrage calculator to determine what’s match is the best will give you positive EV or a minimal -ve. You can use this website https://oddsjam.com/betting-calculators/arbitrage-hedge-bet to calculate it easily.

I usually bet on a 1.9 to 2.1 odds bet whenever I get freebet since I have nothing to lose here and all the freebet profit is still subject to wagering requirements so I do the normal betting when using the freebet then use the arbitrage to farm wager.

Other than what has been discussed about free bet above, it is not new to say free bet just like bonus bet is not withdrawn but meant to be wagered.

However, some betting house limit user on where to stake on with it. That is you may not have the leverage to bet on all the games like real money. Also, like if you have free bet in sportsbook, that is where you are allowed to wager and not visuals and if you have free bet in visuals, same is applicable.

Generally, I believe the winning from free bet is calculated in exclusion of the free bet value and mostly that is the purpose is also called stake not returned, the company is only interested to pay you your winning.

What I can say is that you can be reading the rules applied. Gambling sites have different rules about the first time free bet. The ones that I was able to win after reading the rules applied, I was able to withdraw my money. This has happened to me two or three times before. There are some that once I read the rules, I will not bother myself of using the free bet to gamble if the rules will only make the free bets to yield little or no return.

I would just use the bonus to test games on the platform. If I happen to win its a bonus for me, but most likely clearing the bonus terms is not going to be an easy task.

However you proceed, I would toss in a few bets on roulette betting both red and black praying no green to clear some of the rollover.

This is the best way to clear wagering requirements especially the use of french roulette since it refund 50% bet when green win while you bet on both red and black. Other type of roulette 100% when green win.

But there’s some casino that find this kind of method unacceptable on claiming the bonus due to there tricky ToS. I stop using this method to avoid potential conflict on claiming bonus once cleared and just focus on blackjack using basic strategy using the standard table matrix. 

use it on a match that is somewhat less risky. there is obviously something like a David vs Goliath fight in sports of course that may just be an obvious suggestion and you may have been doing it already.

free bets are free bets, you won't feel you are really spending the money from your wallet with it. i would treat it like its go big or go home money, if its worth $1000 i bet it on one game to feel like i'm a high roller overnight.  ;D

Haha well but it is an advantage to use free bet to try your luck, so you can take it as an opportunity and play responsibly and try your luck by not taking a very high risk to wager all the chance away on just one bet. Although depending on the casino, they may limit you to wager few times on the free bet so that you can exhaust it fast. Actually so, you may still have to take bigger risk like you said after all  ;D

For first time deposit bonuses then most likely i would really be that getting that bonus yet i would really be that making outmost of my time to be long as possible on which i do really like for me to be able to play longer and wont really be minding much if losing it all or with that balance. It wont really be that much of an issue for me since i could really be able to deposit if ever i didnt be able to
get that entertainment or leisure that i do seek but of course everything should really be that in controlled manner or else, you would really be spending up that much and not something that
really be that recommended.

We are all aware that free bits or simply bonuses are having that huge wagering requirement on which it would really be just that so normal that it is really that hard
to reach out those threshold and dont expect that making yourself able to reach up those threshold would really be that simple.

Frankly speaking I haven't experienced anything like that since I started gambling,  I don't know if there is anything I am not doing right with signing ups and bonuses,  although I am aware that some casinos will have you fill out your profile details in form of level one KYC and also including your banking details before qualifying for those free bets or welcome bonuses.

But I am the type of gambler who just registers, makes deposits and would rather have a big winning before considering supplying my other details,  it could be because of this that I have not had the privilege of free bets.

Honestly I've still never figured out how to properly use the "free money" that is given out at different gambling houses/online casinos etc.  Typically when I sign up these newer online casinos tend to have an extra bonus for using bitcoin as your means of payment (bovada is a big one that does this).  I always end up just losing it because I can't seem to withdraw it even after using those funds to make several bets.  So I'm typically careless with it.

Free bets in sport betting is easy to achieve results just find some really low odds,in games of good leagues like Premier League,Bundesliga,Serie A,La Liga and French Ligue 1 and try to parlay many of these games in Over 1.5 goals as the odd which will be from 1.15 to 1.35 for game and 6-7 games are enough to go to some odd of near 4 or something along these lines,you most of the time hit such bets although in gambling nothing is guaranteed as some of such games can end 0-0 making your bet a lost one.

For the wagering though it would be better if you use the casino,most of the time you can achieve their wagering requirements by just playing dice with 98% chance to win to keep you playing a long time and such to entitle you to that bonus,this is what I do with such bonuses.

in this type of bonus I simply place a bet that I would have normally played.
there is a cap on the winnings and a minimum quota to be respected, I don't see "much room for maneuver" to maximize this profit...so Just gamble and lets See....

Not really that something that you would really be boggled up yourself and just been said that there's really not much room for you to maneuver on which its true. Bonuses or free bets arent something that you could really rely on and just been said that its better to play like normal and not really that making yourself that too mindful about on the profit making out of bonuses.Just like been said that amounts arent that big
and wagering or rollover requirements arent really that something attainable or something you could easily deal with. This is why i dont usually getting these free bets because i dont want on chasing up something but on the time that i do love to make my gambling session to be a bit more longer then this is where i do decide to get it.

There would be always those rules and its true that its better to see those requirements specially on odds because if not then you would really be making out some complaints
that it didnt count but actually its your mistake since you havent been able to read up careful with those terms.

Usually with these free bets, it's really hard to turn them into coins as there are certain wager requirements that needed to be done for you to turn them into coins. You can mostly use them to try out games on the platform and as most of these free bets are for some roulette or slots games.
But there are times where you'll be able to earn certain amount with the given bets on slots and be able to use them on your other bets or even withdraw them but again it rarely happens not only because of how the games are but rather with the requirements as well to use those winnings. Never expect casinos to give away free stuffs easily unless you spend too much with them.

No, I also don't try to claim these bonuses because of the wagering requirements, and usually, I will make sure to read the requirements first. Most of the time, the requirements are too high for me to get. I prefer to make the free deposits I want so that there are no requirements that I have to achieve. But usually, certain requirements ask us to make a wagering requirement of X times, and if that is still within reasonable limits, I will deposit the money. But if before depositing, I read that there are unreasonable or very high betting requirements, I will give up my intention to deposit the money.

I don't place that kind of bet either. It was just to suggest to the OP about a more "guaranteed" way of using bonuses so as not to lose them
But I still don't recommend it
As I said, in my opinion it's better to use the bonus to make riskier bets, since it was a bonus anyway
The risk/return of these 1.01 bets is not worth it at all, let's say you hit 20 of these bets in a row, or even more... when you lose, you'll be at loss, since the odds were only 1.01 or 1.02, for example

These bonuses are tiring sometimes because of their terms and conditions, you have to roll it over severally before you claim it, if am to advise on the selection it is better on goals in soccer, you have to target teams that score more goals, if you want to select direct win it should be a team that's much in good form,  but also know that no bet is certain, I severally left my bonus to expire because when I win high odd I still need to roll it over, ordinarily I would have win with my normal deposit, so what is the need of making use of the free bet, but if you must bet with this free bet you have to play few games and don't be greedy with odds just pick your few best games I believe you will win if your apply this strategy.

It’s on.y tiring if you are playing just to claim bonuses. This kind of gambling will just make you lose than win since your goal is just to wager and not to win. Claiming this bonus is easy for those natural gambler that gambling with or without bonus since they consider it as extra money for their game while they are naturally playing until they hit the bonus requirements plus the game win.

It’s important to focus on game rather than the bonus since you can earn more if you win on the other hand house edge will surely give you lose long term if you are playing just to breakeven and farm wager.

Same thing happened to me but the case was that I had to forego it. When I wanted to withdraw my winnings, I was told that I had not used the free bet or bonus and that I had the option of using it or if I went ahead with the withdrawal then, I would have to forego the bonus.

For me, the only free bets I like is free spins. It comes with no conditions. Free bets on the other hand comes with conditions that may require you to use it before withdrawal or forfeit it entirely. Greedy gamblers may decide to use it and then lose the amount that they have already won.

Most of them are just for fun so either win or lose with that free bet, you just ensure yourself that you're not going to regret whatever is the outcome of it.

Because if you're expecting a lot that you'll make such money on it, that's unlikely so as a consolation just enjoy the bet that you're about to do with it.

As you have the idea on how these free bets go, that would assume you that it's likely going nowhere if the hope is there but I don't want to cut the fun so just see it for yourself and enjoy.

If those free bets are sports bets, there is always the option to bet on both teams in the same match, let's say you go to MMA and search for a fight with x1.9 on each fighter, then you use the free bet for the fighter A and with your own money bet the same amount on the fighter B, that way, you will lose 10% but you will make from the free bet real money that you can withdrawal.

By the way, the casino can take this as abuse and ask you for kyc and lock your account, you know how casinos roll nowadays, if it's easy for the user to win, then that means the user is cheating.

It's quite common for gambling sites to offer enticing bonuses as a way to attract gamblers. However, some individuals take a more serious approach and prioritize the reputation of the gambling site as their foremost consideration. On the other hand, there are also gamblers who appreciate signing up bonuses. While it's advisable to claim any bonuses offered, it's essential not to become overly fixated on them. Instead, the primary focus should be on increasing your chances of winning your bets.


This strategy is only applicable when you're at the final stage of meeting your wagering requirements. You have the option to bet on both sides to ensure a profit. The potential outcomes range from breaking even to winning modestly or hitting it big. The key point is that you won't incur losses with this approach, but it's worth noting that fulfilling the wagering requirements is very challenging.

And so the reason I wanna keep winning and turn these free bets into BTC. I was doing that both sides for a week, I getting hopeless about it while the amount getting lesser and lesser.

Either way, I wouldn't want to waste free bets all because it's free. You as a gambler always make a deposit so you can participate in betting, you have to make it worth it and turn it into a profit.  I have done most of the suggestions though. I got some wins and some losses.  This time that the imminent bull market is coming, it seems like every sats is worth keeping.

I will consider how many wager are required if we claim a free bet. I don't like it if the wager is around 40x because that's too big and usually our money is all gone before the wager is fulfilled. If the wager required is around 20x, I would still consider taking it

But to be honest, I prefer to play without taking the free bet bonus because there are no conditions when we win and we can withdraw our money at any time. I take free bets if I only have a small deposit so that I can have more balance and can enjoy the game longer. I was probably just looking for some fun as I didn't expect much from the free bets

The bull market should not impact your betting decisions. If you find yourself regretting losses, it's likely that you're wagering more than you can comfortably afford to lose. Personally, I appreciate free bets, but I typically receive them from the longstanding gambling sites I've been using. You could say it's a reward for my loyalty. The free bets I receive usually don't come with a high wagering requirement.

When you get free betting bonus and succeed in getting a win from that bet, are there any other requirements when you want to withdraw it?
Because few months ago I tried a new casino and got bonus like that then there was a win of around $95 but it couldn't be withdrawn because there were still wagering requirements that had to be met to withdraw it unfortunately the amount had to be three times the amount I won.

I only have that one experience in using bonuses and from that experience I started to feel like I didn't really believe in every bonus that existed but the bonuses given by big casinos might still be something to consider.
But up to now there are still quite lot of gamblers who chase bonuses like that somehow they do so by withdrawing certain amount of money when they win from the claimed bonus but in reality they can continue to chase every existing bonus.