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Most online casinos operate with different bonuses to new or existing players. This means that they're literally giving you money for nothing. However, the online casinos must make sure that these give aways are not abused so they place certain restrictions on withdrawing your free money. Such restrictions are better known as wagering requirements or playthrough requirements.
When you’re playing at an online casino you’ll often see that the wagering or playthrough typically will be around 20 – 30X. This means that the bonus must be wagered 20 or 30 times before you actually get your bonus.
To sum this up - if a bonus of $100 is subject to a 20x wagering or playthrough requirement, you need to place a total of £2000 worth of bets before you receive your actual bonus.
However, things can become a bit more complicated than this. Thus, an online casino may place different contributing percentages on specific games.
These percentages vary from casino to casino. However, you can stick to this rule of thumb: Keno counts 100%, Roulette, Sic Bo and Pai Gow 50% and Blackjack and Punto Banco/Baccarat 10%.
So if for example you wish to play Sic Bo only, your wagering or playthrough requirement on the example bonus above (£100, 20x play) would be £4000. If your game is Blackjack, it would be £20000.
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