Yes, I ALWAYS claim SUBs. I have to admit that I'm a bit of a...ermmmm (I hope I'm using the right term here)...."bonus whore"?
I also have to admit that perhaps claiming a bonus is not always the best thing for me. For example, I have twice made £300 deposits on Allslots (with 100% match bonus). On both occasions, I got my initial balance of £600 up to just over £975 (never quite hit the magic four figure amount). But unfortunately, my bonus was nowhere fully cleared. By the time the bonuses had cleared (on both occasions), I had dropped to well under my initial deposit of £300. And then ultimately, gone busto
On another occasion, I got a huge first deposit bonus at Casino Tropez (deposit £70, bonus £250) and built it up to £2,000 (along the way I hit a £1,200 spin on Iron Man after getting a fully stacked wild on reels 2,3 and 4 along with an Iron Man in the centre of both reels 1 and 5 - which meant I got 6 x Iron Man 5OAKs @ £200 each on a £1 bet - basically only the Marvel progressive jackpot could have paid more). That one spin took me up to £1,750 and even after that it continued to deliver nice wins - including a 5 scatters win (of £200 I think). Obviously I wanted to cash out but could not as the bonus was barely 40% cleared. And then I just went on a week-long downward spiral. The slots that were winning me money on the way up to that £2k (Iron Man, Daredevil, Atlantis Queen and Sultans Gold) started to play badly...really badly. By the time I had realised my "feeling of invincibility" had well and truly worn off, most of the damage had been done (a valuable lesson learned there - never feel invincible even when you're killing the slots). On reflection, I should have set a point where if I dropped below x£ , then I go to grind mode to protect my sizeable profit. I didn't do that and fell into the trap of wanting to get the bonus cleared ASAP when it would have been much more prudent to drop the bet sizes. By the time the bonus had cleared (I kept tabs on it regularly), I was down to....£60
And that £60 soon went the same way the other £1,940 had gone. A bit of an anti-climactic downer in the end, but it was a helluva ride on the way up
I'm going to continue to take advantage of SUBs (with new casinos that I have yet to try) and percentage match bonuses (with ones that I already play at)...but perhaps I need to have a re-think on the size of my deposits (and therefore the size of the bonuses) as the bonuses have ultimately prevented me from withdrawing while in good profit on a few occasions. Perhaps I would be better served taking bonuses no greater than £100 (I have successfully cleared a £100 bonus and also a £77 bonus and withdrawn while in profit before). But that is something for me to figure out....and the quicker the better
Apologies for the length of the post. I have too much to say sometimes
