ALL ABOUT INTRODUCTORY BONUSES
  Approximately 95% of the online casinos included in TheMoneyTour.Com database have some sort of bonuses - especially for first-time real players at the casino. There are four main types of bonuses out there. (Freebie, Fixed-Amount, Risk Free and Percentage). The goal of this page is to list the bonuses themselves, describe each one to you, and provide you a link to a list of all of the casinos which currently offer that promotion. The introductory promotions are what TheMoneyTour's Casino Section is all about - this page will get you started!


THE FREEBIE BONUS is the best kind of bonus there is! This type of bonus is also the easiest to understand. A freebie bonus is FREE, meaning that the casino requires absolutely no deposit to receive the bonus. They will simply place some free chips into your new casino account after you open it! This bonuses of this type usually range from $10.00 to $25.00.. Frequently the free chips take a while to enter your account, and sometimes you have to email to request them. Some are very quickly added, but you can understand why they sometimes take their time - they want to you get anxious and deposit your own money and start playing while you're waiting for the bonus!

Some casinos have strange stipulations such as not allowing you to withdrawal the free chips, while others may require a small deposit before you can redeem the free chips for cash. Do not worry, though, if such a stipulation exists in the casinos' rules they will be presented to you within the bonus information on this site! Keep an eye out for these free offers! If you come across one that is not listed here please contact the webmaster so that it can be added promptly for all to enjoy!

Click HERE To View A List Of All The Current Freebie Promotions!


THE FIXED-RATE BONUS is when the casino will give you a certain amount in free chips for a certain amount of opening deposit. The current amounts are as little as a $10.00 bonus for a $10.00 deposit, and as high as a $100.00 bonus for a $100.00 deposit! This type of bonus is typically for your first purchase at a casino, though very often some casinos (such as Geisha Lounge and King Solomon's) will send their members a promotional e-mail offering this type of promotion every month or so.

The stipulations for this kind of bonus very GREATLY, and are detailed for each and every casino entry with this type of promotion. The bonus might be instant (added immediately after you make your deposit), you may have to request it before or after you make the deposit, or you might even have to request it after you have wagered your deposit one or more times. Also, some casinos allow you to withdrawal the bonus immediately after you receive it, others require you to wager it through one or more times. Again, this information will be detailed for you in the casino information (review) page.

Click HERE To View A List Of All The Current Fixed-Rate Promotions - There are a LOT of them!


RISK-FREE BONUSES are rare, yet very exciting to play with! With this type of promotion the rules differ very little, if any, between different casinos. With fixed-rate bonuses you deposit a certain amount into a casino the day that you join them. This amount is normally $50.00 exactly. The rules stipulate that you can wager this money as much or as little as you want during the next 24 hours. If you end up ahead you get to keep your winnings and you may cash out as if you didn't "really" receive a promotion. However, if you lose, they will refund the amount of your losses up to $50.00 - this is where the promotional aspect of the offer kicks-in.

I suggest a simple "game-plan" with this type of promotion. I suggest you pick a certain amount that you want to attain, (say $100.00 or or $200.00, for example), and STOP wagering when you reach that mark. You wager until you either reach that mark or until your $50.00 is completely gone. There really is not point in having $50.00 or less in your account the end of bonus period because you would receive that much back anyway.

What I mean is, if you're going to use the bonus, you might as well use ALL of it! For example: You have $40.00 in your account and you are tired of gambling. I would throw that entire amount into a single hand of Blackjack and hope I win - though if I didn't it would be OK because I would still receive the $50.00 back as the bonus the next day, which I could then cash out and lose nothing. Personally, one time I used this tactic when I had $100 left in my account and luckily I won - so I immediately cashed out the $200 and enjoyed my $150 profit! If I had lost I would have received my original $50.00 deposit back the next day and lost NOTHING! As I said in the opening, this type of deposit is VERY EXCITING TO PLAY! It brings out the true, high-bid gambler in me!

Click HERE To View A List Of All The Current Risk-Free Promotions!


A PERCENTAGE BONUS is exactly what it sounds like. You make a deposit at a casino and they will give you bonus chips based on the amount of that deposit. There are a great deal of these offers - this is kind of the "last resort" bonus that many casinos offer when they really don't want to offer a promotion, but KNOW that they must offer something to encourage new players to join. The percentage bonuses can be for only the first deposit that a player makes, or it could be a small amount for EVERY deposit!

This amount varies from as low as 5% to as high as 50% - and rarely a short-time offer of a 100% offer may exist. Technically, many of the fixed rate deposits are 100% or more bonuses, but because the casino does not classify it as a percentage bonus, neither does this website. In fact, some casinos offer multiple bonuses - a fixed rate OR a percentage - giving you whichever one will reward you the MOST when you make a deposit. (Usually the higher deposit will reward you with a percentage bonus.) In the case of this situation, TheMoneyTour.Com lists the one with the "best deal" in the webmaster's opinion, but does describe each possibility in detail within the casino's information page (review).

As with the fixed-rate bonuses, the terms of receiving and withdrawing the percentage bonuses can vary greatly. Some casinos only require that you wager the amount of the bonus, some require that you wager the purchase before you receive the bonus, and then the bonus afterwards. Some casinos will award this bonus immediately upon your deposit, while some require you to request it and take a few days to credit your bonus. As always, the exact procedure and terms for the bonus will be outlined with great detail on the casino information page. If you have a large bankroll that you want/intend to wager with, this type of bonus would be your favorite because the amounts that you receive depend solely on your deposit, and most casinos set the maximum amount for percentage bonuses upwards of $250 each! Often they even INCREASE in percentage the more you deposit!!!!!

Click HERE To View A List Of All The Current Introductory-Percentage Bonuses.


NO BONUS. This is a "sad" state for an online casino to be in. In my opinion a casino with no introductory bonus gives others no reason to try their program to see if they like it. A casino might a reason to offer no bonuses if they have a lot of frequent, devoted players to keep them funded. Or, perhaps, they do not have the cash surpluses on hand to offer promotions, which could potentially have a high-percentage of winners playing on "house" chips. In any case, just because a casino has no promotion does not mean that they are not worth signing up for. Many times I have signed up for a casino without a promotion in hopes that they would, in time, offer me one. I have indeed received numerous offers in the mail for promotions a month or two after I joined.

However, if a casino does not have a promotional offer they are obviously not noticed, and therefore may not be included in this website's database. Many times a casino will cancel a bonus for a little while - meaning that they received enough new customers from their last promotion to have it not necessary any more. These account for most of the casinos that are listed in TheMoneyTour.Com database without bonuses. In fact, there is one casino listed here currently without a bonus that is one of my favorites! It is GalaxiWorld Casino. On the last week in July 2000, this casino offered a 100% match bonus up to $100.00 - and it was INSTANT. I was amazed with how much I liked this site, and was even happier when I won 'big' with their promotion! Therefore I am certainly not going to remove it from the database. In fact, if there is ONE site that I recommend you join even though they don't have a bonus it would be that one. I can't wait to see what their NEXT bonus will be!

It is unfortunate when a casino does not offer an introductory bonus, but it is a reality. I recommend that you sign up for them regardless - but you may want to hold off on depositing anything, as most often the casino's promotions are ONLY for the first-deposit of the new player - and you want to remain eligible for the promotion when they offer it at a later date.

Click HERE To View A List Of The Unfortunate Casinos With No Current Bonuses.

 
 

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