Online Casino Bonus Types

Types of online casino bonuses

When looking around on our website you will see lots of different types of bonuses. Every type of bonus is unique in any way, shape or form. Knowing what the types of bonuses mean can help a lot and will safe you a lot of unnecessary trouble. Here are the bonus types you will find on our website:

Sticky Bonus

The sticky bonus is the most commonly bonus found. When opting for a sticky bonus, your deposit will most likely be matched with a 100% Casino Bonus, sometimes even higher. You are then required to match a wager requirement, which is usually around 30 to 50 times your bonus balance.

Quick example: You deposit 100€ and get 100€ Casino bonus on top with a wager requirement of 40 times the bonus, you are required to wager a total of 4.000€. The sticky bonus prevents you from cashing out your balance until these wager requirements are met.

Non-Sticky Bonus

The non-sticky bonus is very similar to the sticky bonus but with one big difference: your real money balance and your bonus money balance are split. This means that, usually, you first play with your real money balance before your bonus money comes in play. With that being said, the non-sticky bonus allows you to cash out any profits you have made, as long as you did NOT touch your bonus balance. As this sounds quite lucrative, non-sticky bonuses are pretty rare.

Quick example here as well: You deposit 100€ and get a 100€ non-sticky online casino bonus on top, which sums up to 200€. You play until you reach 150€ and all of a sudden you win 500€. You are now allowed to cancel your active bonus and keep your real money balance of 550€.

No Deposit Bonus

The no deposit bonus is not quite like the ones before. For a no deposit bonus you are indeed not required to deposit any money, hence the name. That’s what makes them very popular, because you can test out a casino without having any risk. Usually no deposit bonuses come in form of free spins or a little bonus money or something along those lines. We also offer some online casinos with a no deposit bonus, so be sure to look around.

Cashback & Rakeback

While most online casinos offer deposit bonuses, sticky bonuses in particular, there are some online casinos that offer Cashback and Rakeback. To be more specific: Almost every online casino offers Cashback in some sort, but there are some that offer a higher percentage. These Cashback promotions are great for players who don’t like to play with an online casino bonus. You only play with real money and if you’re unlucky you get a percentage of your losses back with a wager requirement of usually 1 time the Cashback amount. Some casinos also directly convert it to real money, it varies.

100% Casino Bonus

The 100% Casino Bonus is the one you will encounter most of the time. It’s more or less the standard amount that was established by online casinos years ago. Basically, what a 100% Casino Bonus means is that your deposit will be doubled up to a certain amount. E.g. a 100% Casino Bonus up to 200€ means that any deposit up to 200€ will be doubled. Anything you deposit over this amount will of course not be doubled and will be just added as extra balance on your account, so most of the time it’s not really worth to deposit more than needed, except maybe if you go for a Non-Sticky Casino Bonus.

200% Casino Bonus

A 200% Casino Bonus is much rarer than the 100% Casino Bonus. Like the name suggests, you can triple your deposit. Not much of a difference to the 100% Casino Bonus, but tripling your deposit is something you won’t see everywhere. Nonetheless we have a few 200% Casino Bonus offerings that you can check out.

300% Casino Bonus and beyond

A 300% Casino Bonus or more is something you rarely ever see on serious casinos. You need to be very careful when choosing one of these for a simple reason. Something like a „400% Casino Bonus up to 2000€“ looks tempting, but they are often not trustworthy or serious. We recommend that you check our page from time to time and see if we have something like a 300% Casino Bonus or beyond to offer. We will always make sure to only offer serious online casino promotions.

Which bonus should i use?

This is something you will have to answer for yourself. We can only try and recommend the best online casino bonuses for certain players, but in the end the decision is up to you.

The first question you should ask yourself is of course: „Do i even want to play with a bonus?“ Depending on answering yes or no your options will narrow down. If you answer „No“ your options are really only either playing without any bonus or with a Cashback offer. And you should probably go for the latter since there is not really a reason to not go for it when playing without any bonuses. So take a look around, we have some nice online casino offerings with a good Cashback percentage for you.

If you answered the question with „Yes“ it gets more complicated though. You can still opt-in to every bonus option. We recommend a Non-Sticky bonus though, just for the fact that you can withdraw any winnings with your real money balance. This alone gives it such a huge advantage as oppose to the Sticky bonus.

For newer players we also recommend a No Deposit Bonus. This way they can test a casino without having to deposit anything and still get a bit of an image of an online casino. While this is also true for experienced players, they usually know what to look out for to spot a good or not so good online casino.

What are wager requirements?

You heard the term „wager requirements“ quite often now and as a new player you might wonder what that even is. When playing with a bonus, you will most certainly meet wager requirements. These wager requirements prevent the player from cashing out the bonus too early. Of course casinos don’t go around and gift money to players, that’s why the wager requirements serve as an obstacle. Every online casino offering a welcome bonus has a set amount of wager tied to it. This is totally up to the casino and can range from 30 times to 50 times the bonus amount or even 20 to 35 times the deposit and bonus amount (D+B). Here is a quick example for both:

Wager for bonus amount:

Let’s say you take a sticky bonus of 100% up to 100€ with a wager requirement of 40 times the bonus. So you deposit 100€ and get 100€ on top for a total balance of 200€. Your wager requirement will be 4.000€, since it is only multiplied with the bonus amount.

Wager for deposit plus bonus:

Let’s take the same example, you take a sticky bonus of 100% up to 100€, but the wager requirement is now 30 times the deposit and bonus amount. Again you deposit 100€ and get 100€ on top, your total balance is 200€. Your wager requirement will now be 6.000€, since it is multiplied with the total of your deposit and bonus.

So how do I reduce the wager?

Every spin will reduce your wager depending on your betsize. If you spin on 1€ betsize (or aquivalent) your wager will go down 1€. If you spin on 2€ betsize, it will go down 2€ and so on. So every spin counts towards bringing the wager down, as long as the bonus terms of the casino you’re playing at don’t state otherwise. So we don’t get tired to say: read the bonus terms before depositing!