Beginners First Casino Bonuses

Here we list six first (best) casino bonuses you should take a look at as a beginner.

1. William Hill (Cryptologic)

William Hill offers a great cashable casino bonus as their welcome bonus. Bonus is so called after-wager cashable bonus, meaning that you get the bonus credited after you have completed required wagering requirements. Wagering reguirements can be completed in blackjack or in many other games too, but blackjack has the lowest house edge if you are aiming for the highest possible gain and is therefore recommended choice.

Welcome bonus is £25. Wagering requirement is only 16 times bonus in blackjack (=£400 total wagering) and the expected gain is +£23 (=25€).

William Hill is very reputable casino/sportsbook so it’s not likely that you would encounter any problems. Also what is great is that William Hill’s casino software offers fast European Blackjack, which has autoplay option, so you don’t have to manually play yourself at all if you don’t wish to. You can just setup the casino program to play for you instead and start drinking coffee or go to sleep. Of course you can play yourself too if you like. In that case it is recommended to choose Standard Blackjack as your game, to which you can find optimal strategy under our blackjack page. You can also use return and variance calculator to determine chance of gain with different bet sizes. If you have a small bankroll, it is recommended not to use bet size higher than £1 to one spot only. Also there is no need to use higher betsize if you use autoplay option if you don’t wish to, because you don’t need to sit in front of computer anyway. Larger betsizes increase variance, which is unnecessary in after-wager cashable bonuses. You can track your wagering through your account details on the website.

Step-by-step instructions for beginners:

1. Click the William Hill Casino link.
2. Download (you have to choose if you want to operate in USD or GBP at this point) and install the casino software.
3. Register an account.
4. Deposit £50 for example so that you won’t have to redeposit in the middle of the wagering. Wager required £400 depending on your currency choice in eligible games (blackjack has lowest house edge and is therefore recommended as already explained above).
5. You have 30 days to fulfill the wagering requirements. You can check your wagering details from your account details at the website.
6. After completing wagering requirements, your account will be credited with £25. You have to exit the game and refresh your balance for this to show up in your balance.

Some players have had to to send an ID doc (a proof of age) to William Hill after a first deposit or on time of first cash out, but not nearly everyone. This is standard safety procedure, and you don’t have to get scared if they request documents from you via email. Just email them your ID photo (passport or driver’s license) and they will unlock your account and you can continue to play and cash out normally.

A Word About Variance:

Half of the people will have worse result than expected value calculation gives and half will have better luck (=better result) in this single bonus. If you are one of the 50% having worse than neutral luck in this first bonus, you might be very well the one who has good luck in the next bonus or one after that and so on. In the long run, your luck will even out in gambling and mathematical thruths will work out (only total collected +EV will matter!). So do NOT give up, but move on to to the next bonus if you happen to belong to the 50% of players, who won’t reach the calculated expected value in this very first bonus. You will reach the calculated total EV in the long run for sure.

For more info about variance in gambling, check out these (and other) forum posts about long-term luck and variance: Variance Thread One | Variance Thread Two

2. Gamebookers (Party Gaming)

Gamebookers is mainly a large sportsbook, offering also an online casino powered by Party Gaming. The bonus offer is 50% up to 50€. Wagering requirement attached to the bonus is 25xbonus = 1250€. Blackjack is allowed among many other games. Enter bonus code GAMEBWG when registering account / making first deposit. You can again use return and variance calculator to determine a chance of gain with different bet sizes. EV of the bonus is +45€. Software is nice and fast. Gamebookers also offers good 100% up to 30€ sports betting bonus with 5xbonus wagering requirement with odds 2.0 or higher simultaneously. You can play both sports betting and casino bonus with same initial deposit. You can reject the sports betting bonus from the cashier if you don’t want it but just the casino bonus.

3. Casino-on-Net (Random Logic)

Casino-on-Net offers a 100% up to $200 bonus. Total wagering requirement in this bonus is $4500 (to get the follow-up part of the bonus credited) + $300 (to be allowed to cash it out) = $4800 = 24xBonus. For finns the follow-up part of the bonus has 20x wagering requirement making the total wagering requirement $4500 + $3000 = $7500 = 37.5xBonus. You have to deposit and wait a minute or two to get the first part of the bonus credited and when you have accumulated enough points for the follow-up part you might have to wait a couple of hoiurs to get bonus credited to your account.  If you already happen to have Pacific Poker account, you still have to make separate account for Casino-on-Net. Accounts are different for Poker and Casino within 888.com brand.

4. VC Casino (Chartwell)

Victor Chandler Casino offers a sign-up bonus of 125€ (or £100/$200), but GBP casino uses Net Ent software and has worse bonus so you should register your account in euro or USD to get this better bonus credited. Wagering requirement on this bonus is 25xBonus and this is an after-wager cashable bonus as the first two ones have been also. Regular blackjack is lowest house edge allowed game for bonus wagering. Note that you can deposit any amount and then redeposit if you bust before completing wagering requirements. You have to claim the bonus using form available on the casino website. See bonus T&C for exact details. You can check how much you have wagered through your cashier page (on the casino web page). EV of this bonus is +110€. Note that there are several countries restricted from getting this bonus in the bonus T&C. For example finns are banned from getting this bonus. So if you belong to one of the restricted countries, skip to the next bonus.

Remember to play VC Games and VC Live Casino section bonuses too. Games section uses Orbis software and has regular blackjack available. You can use same account created in every section of the VC Gaming site. Bonus amount is £25 and EV of this Games bonus is +25€ when wagering requirement for it is only 8xBonus. VC Live Casino has £50 bonus with 30xB WR in blackjack with EV of +50€.

Your next casino bonus after these four casinos

When you have completed playing these bonuses, you can move on to the best 100 casino sign-up bonuses section of this website and choose your next bonus.