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Online sportsbook bonuses are an incentive to get new players to sign up and to provide loyal players with rewards for their continued play. What’s the best baseball betting bonus for you? What are the differences? I would classify bonus structures in three ways, Deposit Bonuses, Free Bets and Reduced Juice Sportsbook.
Deposit Bonuses and Free Bets are similar to one another, but have one key difference.
The first thing to know is that your Deposit Bonus or your Free Bets are never attributed
to your sportsbook account immediately upon your registration. You will need to
wager/risk/play the value of your first deposit several times over, in order to be
eligible for either type of bonus. Online sportsbooks want their bonus to reward
your play with them. So if you play, your bonus will be awarded once you’ve reached
the sportsbook’s defined play-
Here’s the key difference between a Deposit Bonus and a Free Bet bonus. With a Deposit
Bonus, the bonus itself may become eligible to be withdrawn as real money from your
account once you’ve satisfied the play-
The other type of bonus structure is the reduced juice sportsbook. These companies offer consistently higher paying odds for most games, but in doing so, forego the deposit bonus or free bet incentive. Pinnacle does not offer a deposit bonus or free bets and are the lowest juice sportsbook, consistently offering very high paying odds. The added value is passed on to the bettor through the odds pricing rather than bonuses. This just means you will get your bonus over time forever, rather than all up front and your bonus has no limit.
How to decide? If you see yourself playing in the long term, Pinnacle will likely
payout more to you than any sign up bonus possibly could. However, if you like the
idea of building a fat stack from a smaller deposit and the initial bonus structure
would help in building this, go for any of the other sign-
About My Baseball Betting Listings:
Why is my list so tiny? I only list betting companies that I consider to be the best for Canadians. Would it really make sense for me to research 20 companies and then rank them one through 20? Would you sign up with sportsbook number 18? Not a chance!
That’s why I try to keep things simple. If a company fails to meet my uniquely Canadian criteria, it doesn’t get listed.
Why might a site fail to get listed? Limited baseball betting offerings, poor payout record like withholding player funds or placing limits on the accounts of winning players, not offering CAD wagering or not offering mobile betting.
Each site I list has satisfied my review criteria, however, they are each different in their service offerings. So read the reviews and choose based on your own preferences and requirements, not a phoney rating scheme. If you like to shop for the best odds, it might make sense to sign up with more than one so that you can maximise your winnings.
Bodog provides up to $100 in free bets for new customers. A free bet means that customers will need to rollover their deposit + free bet amount 3 times over. The free bet stake amount is not for withdrawal, but any proceeds from bets won are able to be withdrawn. There is a 30 day time limit to use your free bet amount from the time of your initial deposit.