Bonus: the condition is the offer

Three kinds of offer, three pages: the wagering condition everything hangs on, free spins and cashback. Read in that order they make a calculation; read the other way round, a sales message.

Most bonus comparisons carry a column of amounts. Such columns are wrong within weeks, because operators keep changing their offers — and an out-of-date figure is worse than none, because it looks as though it had been checked.

What stands here instead does not go out of date: the build of the conditions and the sum with which two offers can be compared. Anyone who knows the sum needs no table — they need the bonus rules of the operator in front of them.

1. The base of the wagering. Bonus alone or bonus plus deposit — the factor between the two readings is roughly two.
2. Game weighting. What share of a stake is counted. Live tables often sit well below a hundred per cent.
3. Deadline. In what time the wagering has to be done. A short deadline forces larger stakes than planned.
4. Withdrawal cap. How much can come out of the bonus at all. It turns a large bonus figure into decoration.

Every operator's bonus rules answer those four questions, and they answer them in different places. Work through them in order and it takes a few minutes, after which you know more about the offer than any comparison table gives.

This comparison scores cashiers, not offers. Three bonus pages stand here all the same, and the reason is the way back: a wagering condition is the second hurdle between the balance and your own wallet, right beside the verification clause. Choose a cashier by its verification clause and then accept a bonus whose condition you have not read, and the work was for nothing.

So these pages are written the way the rest of this comparison is: they say which clause stands where and what it means in francs, instead of asserting a ranking of offers. The sum belongs to the reader, not to the site — and it works with any operator, including one that does not appear here at all.

No bonus without a deposit. Such offers regularly carry the hardest conditions in the whole family and are most often advertised without them — which is why they do not appear on this site.

And no manufactured urgency: no expiring clocks, no «today only» notes, no counters supposedly showing other people reading along. A bonus that needs a clock to look attractive probably answers the four questions above uncomfortably.