What is it used for?

Today all online casinos try to attract as much players as it possible, thus the greater part of them has different kinds of bonuses, such as: Match Bonuses, Sign Up Bonus, Welcome Bonuses, Refer-a-friend bonus, Recurrent Bonuses and many others. Probably Welcome and Sign Up bonuses are the most generous, offered by casino. With great amounts of money they encourage new players on further collaboration with online casino. However, the practice of such freebie showed bad results in past - many players abused the possibility by withdrawing a given amount of money without playing never to return them back. So, online casinos` owners have decided to assume the measures that can protect them from this kind of fraud. That is the reason of using wagering requirements by every online casino while providing bonuses.

What are wagering requirements?

Almost every type of online casino bonuses, except no deposit bonus, implies wagering requirements within. It may be called the Playthrough also. The Playthrough means that choosing some kind of bonus a client is obliged to wager with this money a certain quantity of times stated by online casino. Some casinos require to make bets only with an amount of bonus while wagering requirements at others casinos cover an initial deposit as well. It`s better to show both of these processes on easy examples:

1. A player`s deposit is $50. Casino matched this amount with 100% of his deposit. It means that now player has $50 of online casino bonus and a total amount of $100 to play with ($50 on deposit + $50 of bonus). Let's pretend that a wagering requirement is 10× the total amount of player`s balance (initial deposit + bonus). Now the elementary math goes:

$100 (deposit + bonus) × 10 (wagering requirement) = $1000. So the player won`t be able to withdraw any money from his balance while the sum of $1000 won't be staked.

1. Frequently when the playthrough concerns exclusively an amount of bonus, the quantity of times is greater than in case with initial deposit + balance. For the next example an initial deposit doesn`t matter, it stays aside of question.

The bonus of $50 needs to be played with about 20 times, that`s the rule which casino has stated. The number of times is doubled comparing to the previous example, as you can see.

$50 (bonus) ×20 (wagering requirement) = $ 1000

Online casino wagering requirements differ from one casino to another. They also may depend on the type of casino game, e.g. as a rule stakes on roulette or craps do not consider to be the playthrough. To clarify all peculiarities of wagering requirements we recommend you to read all information carefully.