Investigation and experiences

Well i have always known it at some point and with online casino gambling investigation i also got to know it after a month. Everything started at very last days of July 2008. I was really excited of this possiblity to earn some extra and pay some loans off. I even told it to my wife (i prefer openness on relationship, even sometimes it is hard). I presented step by step, how casino roulette games should be played, legendary increasing reb & black tactics and it happened happily, that everything worked well on demonstration. But when i sat back to my chair and played dozens of times, i noticed the well know limitation of Martingale method. I lose a lot of money, because table limit was reached. Fortunately i was playing practice games (bank roll was not an issue, as in real game it is) at this point. I almost lose my hope, but i didn't give up. I made searches to internet and made some statistical calculations with advanced Martingale tactics (which i labelled III-VI), also known as "dozens bet". It seemed to work quite well actually. Even when i tried it with quite strict min/max scale, namely 1-25€.

At same time i realized, that this was also too complex / risky method for my wife to manage (not that it requires special abilities, but it requires time and devotion, because you need to keep track of your bets and good timing), so i decided to try by myself. I made one clear thing for myself. I will deposit only 58€ to the account. Some of the sites (like DocsMoney, RealMakingMoney and EasyMoney), that promote dozens bet, suggest to deposit 200€, but from my point, they are just hoping to get bigger provisions from player through the affiliate programs, that the casinos are offering.

So to me 58€ is not too much to lose. I started very carefully and saw some progress on gaming. I decided to withdraw my first winnings. But it didn't work, because minimum withdraw was 100€, so i had to play little more. And i was successful with playing again. I went over 100€ and tried to withdraw. But still i could't withdraw, because i have not met wagering requirements! That was the second surprise, because gullible i was and followed recommendation of some casino "beating" sites, that bonus is good way to make sure, you don't lose your actual money and you can try with casinos money.

Bonuses

So i'd like to go back and talk about the bonuses. Here is one example of "fun" wagering requirements quote from River Belle Casino terms and conditions:

"Wagering on all games except Roulette, Sic Bo, Craps, Baccarat, Table Poker, Casino War & Red Dog will count towards meeting the Play Through Requirement; however the percentage of the Sign-Up Bonus which may be wagered on certain games"

"Before any withdrawals are processed, your play will be reviewed for any irregular playing patterns e.g. playing of equal, zero margin bets or hedge betting, which all shall be considered irregular gaming for Sign-Up Bonus Play Through Requirement purposes. Other examples of irregular game play include but are not limited to, placing large single bets using your entire or the majority of your account balance, where the majority of that balance is made up of Bonus Balance, using the double-up feature to increase your initial bets, followed by small or minimum bets to meet the Play through Requirement. The Casino reserves the right to decide in its sole discretion which activities constitute “irregular play” for Sign-Up Bonus Play through Requirement purposes from time-to-time and to withhold any withdrawals where irregular play has occurred to meet Sign-Up Bonus Play through Requirements."

So basically they want your money to be bet in a way, it cannot produce winnings, but in very very rare cases! And in most cases terms are really hard to understand and apparently it is not just because of making them purposely hard, but prevent too much money loss to bonus hunters.

But after saying that, i must confess, that i managed to go through Golden Palace Casino wagering requirements althought i was really skeptical and desparate with it. I found a nice Slots game called Neptune Kingdom. It is a 3 reel 5 line slot. One of my succesful method was to bet with minimum stake and one line and wait for 3-5 misses, then bet with all 5 lines with minimum stake and wait if any wins came. If not, then i rose stake one step and tried with that. If i won, i lowered back to minimum and waited some rounds with one line. That it was basically, but i was adjusting method and sometimes made shorter and longer waits, bigger and lower stakes. I don't know, if this is common method (i assume it is), but it worked most of the time. Again the key point was to be really patient. Sometimes it happened, that there was no hits even after 20 runs.

Earnings

I had some unsuccesful games, that costed 3-5 sessions, but after some days i was up to 400€. I had a long discussion with Golden Palace customer care with wagering terms and finally i got an answer, that i have met requirements, so i made my first 200€ bank wire withdraw. At this point everything seemed really good, great indeed and in my dreams i thought i have finally found my way of secure gambling. I decided to wager up to second 400€ and then i got my first real hit to my face. It really tested my pride persistence. I got totally out of controll at one point and found myself at 0€ on account!!! It was my second ”give it up” moment. I can feel the sweat, pulse, walking back and forth on lobby. On bus i found myself thinking, that this is it, i’m gonna stop here. I had good reason for pause. This is really stressfull way of earning money.

I made one week break with gambling at this point and revised, what i wanted with this investigation. I am still 200€+ but my investigation has not ended yet. My initial plan was to earn some hundreds from first casino and then spread same initial money (58€) to 5 casinos and try playing really conservative and make it clear, if it is possible to earn 100-150 units / day along the month.

Good thing about my first loss was, that i learn by heel, what is self-discipline and control when gambling and another thing was, that i lose only half of my all winnings in this period. I must say, that i could have won more than 1000€ at some point, but like said, inexperience was fault to this mostly. Then just bad luck. As a conclusion i can say for sure, that this is NOT 100% bomb safe earning, no-one think really think it is, when gambling??? I can also say, there are a lot of risks through addiction. And on the other side, with little luck and calm nerves you can earn something.

If you still want to try (being like me: believing only when seen, tried and experienced), please read my former blog entry or try these links to go deep to the rabbit hole:

Swiss	Amber coast	32Vegas	Mansion
Prestige	Golden Palace	William Hill Casino	Betsson

Right line of business

At this point i have also seen, that many religions forbids gambling as many countries forbids online gambling. I think i have managed to find some reasons for this, but on the other hand, i still want to make my own research and get my comprehension by myself, not following blindly what others are saying. What i know, is that i want to follow good ethics. Two questionable things here are the problems the casinos may lead its gamblers: social, financial, wealth. Some of the online casino founders also have criminal background, so is it, what i want to support?

I think i'm gonna have third article about this very same subject on forthcoming month. :-)

Please see my former blog entry ”Making money with roulette” to find how i came to these thoughts.