If BetMGM works anything like it does everywhere else, sign up, wait to deposit, in like 48 hours they will email you with a $500 deposit bonus which says you can’t combine with risk free, but you can. Deposit $500, do $1k risk free. You will then usually get a few more smaller deposit bonuses over the next days and weeks before inevitably being limited and promo banned.
Pretty much. Best to just hammer BetMGM as much as possible early because they won’t let you bet for much there very long if you’re winning.
Caesars is by far the best casino & book, at least in Michigan. Tons of regular promos and deposit bonuses that I’ve been hammering hard for months with no signs of a limit or promo ban in sight.
MGM is actually the only one to promo ban and limit me so far despite the fact that I’ve been hammering promos and bad lines non stop for 9 months.
Their promos have dried up significantly. Maybe 2 a week.
Not a ton of value to be found in Conference Tournament Season, but riding hard on Kent St to win the MAC.
+550 on Fanduel, they’re the 2 seed. Closed out the regular season winning 12 straight including wins over the other 4 best teams in the conference.
Thanks for this. Found a use for the 50% ncaabb boost I was probably going to fritter away on nothing.
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Just got this email from Caesars. Not sure if there are better options available. I remember hearing other states had higher free bets amount for first bet.
Was going to say every state has different i think, but nope, I did NJ last week and it was deposit matched as a free bet up to $1500 but now its a $1100 risk free bet there too. Brutal. The $1500 free bet is worth like $1200, but that new $1100 risk free is like $600.
NY and LA were $3k deposit bonus less than 2 months ago, lol. Promos dying FAST.
The NY deposit bonus actually ended prematurely iirc after Ceasars lost half a billion dollars or some such lol.
I saw something recently that sportsbooks were going to start rolling back bonuses/promos because customer acquisition was happening at a much faster rate than they anticipated. The past few weeks seems to indicate this is definitely happening. The free money appears to be mostly gone.
It will ramp up again next football season and in newly legalized states.
Customer retention requires less rakeback.
Hopefully we still get some nice bonuses in 10 years when MN legalizes betting, dumbass state
I’ve got balances at 5 online sites and they still shovel so many promos and boosts at me everyday by the time I can figure out how to allot them all I am too tired to even consider donking away any money on live bets. You mean to tell me there were even more last year?
What state are you in?
I’m in NY where they all just opened up 2 months ago. FWIW since I made that post 5 minutes ago, Caesars gave me a 20 free bet for no discernable reason. Its my third one from them today.
I’m guessing the promos are still really good in a state that just opened up, while states that have been open for awhile have mostly dried up.
Caesars and Draftkings in particular seem very much still agitating for customers. MGM promo banned me in 10 seconds even though I am a net loser on their site. I’ve taken Caesars for over 15k and they are still throwing money at me. I think the last free bet may be for just having diamond status, something I have earned entirely chasing promo money (haven’t been in one of their casinos in years).
It’s not just that promos are drying up.
I used to arb all day last year. In the early mlb season I was finding multiple $20 arbs a day.
Now if something is arbable. It’s gone in one minute
And you get banned.
Yeah arbing is not worth even risking with the heavy limiting and promo banning, I’m only arbing %boosts and to convert free bets.
Wait, how do they know you’re arbing if you’re placing the other bet on a different book?
I assume they are all checking lines on other books to make sure they’re not offering up free arbitrage. So when someone makes 20 straight bets on obscure props that are marked as arbitrage, that’s gonna get banned pretty quick.