{"id":8946,"date":"2025-04-28T11:52:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T10:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/?p=8946"},"modified":"2025-04-28T11:56:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T10:56:05","slug":"what-are-casino-free-spins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/matched-betting\/casino\/what-are-casino-free-spins\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are Casino Free Spins?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Free spins are crucial to success with casino offers &#8211; but if you\u2019re a newcomer to casino, you might never have encountered them before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So how do they work, and how can you use them to your advantage?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this beginner\u2019s guide, we\u2019ll talk you through all you need to know about free spins &#8211; what they are, how you get your hands on them, how to claim your winnings, and exactly how you can <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/matched-betting\/casino-matched-betting\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">turn casino offers into profit<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What Are Casino Free Spins?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>A casino free spin means a free play of a slots game<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Slots games work by pressing a button to spin a series of reels &#8211; you win if you get several matching symbols along a payline, or if you manage to land a certain number of bonus symbols.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Normally, you stake your own money when you play a slots game. Stakes can be as low as 5p or as high as \u00a35, the legal maximum for a stake per game cycle (or \u00a32 for 18-24 year olds).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But bookies and online casinos are always keen to incentivise customers to play their games.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Offering free spins is, from their point of view, a great way to give a customer a taste of slots, in the hope they\u2019ll want to keep playing with their own money.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>How Do You Get Free Spins?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bookies have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/matched-betting\/casino\/best-casino-offer\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tons of offers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that will reward you with free spins! Those offers can be roughly divided into two categories: <\/span><b>sign up offers and reload offers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Sign up offers are for new customers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and are generally pretty generous. Sadly, you\u2019ll only be able to do each offer once per bookie, as they aren\u2019t accessible to existing customers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Reload offers are for existing customers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and aren\u2019t nearly as generous as sign up offers. However, they\u2019re often still worth doing, and can make a significant contribution to your monthly profits.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As for what you have to do to receive your free spins, there\u2019s a wide range of different qualification requirements. Some bookies or casinos will hand them out for no reason at all, on particular days or to certain customers, but it\u2019s more common to have to \u2018earn\u2019 your free spins somehow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Depending on the site in question, there are a few different ways you might qualify for your free spins.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Make a deposit. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the more generous offers will only ask you to make a deposit in order to earn free spins &#8211; meaning you get a risk-free way to potentially profit.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Play a free game<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Lots of bookies and casinos have daily or weekly free games, which give you the chance to win rewards, including free spins.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Stake your own money on slots<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. One of the most common ways to earn free spins is to risk your own money. For example, you might be asked to play through \u00a310 on slots (sometimes on a specific game) to earn a number of free spins.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Place a sports bet<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Some sites like to mix and match their sports\/casino offers, so you might be asked to bet money on a certain sport, or a certain event, to earn free spins.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Play a different casino game<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. On occasion, you might be asked to wager a certain amount of money on a live casino game, like roulette or blackjack, to receive free spins.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Exchange credits for free spins<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Some bookies\/casinos have their own internal \u2018currency\u2019 (such as coins on Coral and ladbucks with Ladbrokes), that can be exchanged for free spins. You can usually earn these credits by completing daily free games.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Are Your Winnings Paid In Cash?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Often, but not always.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Many offers will pay you any winnings directly in cash<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is perfect &#8211; you can withdraw the funds straight away if you like, or keep them in your account for use on other offers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Some offers, however, may pay your winnings as a \u2018bonus\u2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, rather than as cash, and ask you to wager your winnings in order to convert them to cash.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This means you could in theory lose all your bonus from your free spins before you get to profit from it, reducing the potential value of the offer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You should therefore always double check how your winnings will be paid before you embark on an offer.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What Are Wagering Requirements?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>The wagering requirement is the number of times you\u2019re expected to wager your bonus funds in order to convert them to cash<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The number of times you\u2019re expected to wager your winnings can vary enormously. Some sites won\u2019t have any wagering requirement at all, and will pay you in cash, while others may require you to wager your winnings as many as 40 times over, or even more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In practice, this means that if you\u2019ve won, say, \u00a310 in bonus funds from your free spins, with a 40x wagering requirement, you\u2019ll need to play through an entire \u00a3400 before you can access your winnings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019re completing an offer with a high wagering requirement, <\/span><b>we recommend playing through the wagering with fairly low value stakes, in order to reduce the impact of variance<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, you could easily lose an entire \u00a310 bonus in two \u00a35 spins &#8211; but if you went with 20 50p spins instead, there\u2019s much less risk of losing the lot.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>How Do You Know The Value Of Free Spins?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a rule, free spins are low value &#8211; a casino isn\u2019t going to give away more money than it has to!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To find the exact value, you can check the terms of the offer, usually listed on the opt in page.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The vast majority of free spins will be worth 10p each, but sometimes you\u2019ll see free spins at 5p or 20p &#8211; or, very occasionally, even higher values.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>How Can You Take Advantage Of Free Spins?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most important question of all! <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/matched-betting\/pricing\/\"><b>Oddsmonkey members<\/b><\/a><b> who choose the All Access package gain access to over 100 casino sign up offers, plus tons of reload offers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. These allow our members to make hundreds of pounds a month from casino!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So how does that work? To start with, it\u2019s important to understand the concept of \u2018<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/matched-betting\/what-does-return-to-player-rtp-mean\/\"><b>return to player<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019 (also known as RTP) in casino games. This refers to the average percentage of money staked that is paid out in winnings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So for example, a game with an advertised RTP of 95% would pay out \u00a395 for every \u00a3100 staked on average, with the remaining \u00a35 forming the casino\u2019s profit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Every slots game has this profit margin baked right into its operating software<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This means that, on average, players should always expect to lose a portion of their money when paying slots.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But that\u2019s before you take free spins into account.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you factor in the free spins from an offer, it\u2019s often the case that, rather than expecting to lose a percentage of the money you\u2019ve staked, you come out statistically ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, let\u2019s consider a typical sign up offer to receive 100 free spins if you wager \u00a310 of your own money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If the game in question has an RTP of 95%, you\u2019d expect to win \u00a39.50 on average from your \u00a310 wagering, making a 50p loss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taking a typical value of 10p per free spin, you can calculate that your free spins are also worth \u00a310 &#8211; and if you play them on a slots game with a 95% RTP, you can expect to make another \u00a39.50 in winnings on average.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>As a result, you would end up with an average of \u00a39 in profit from the offer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; not a bad return on a \u00a310 investment!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>It\u2019s important to be aware that there is risk in completing casino offers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. You won\u2019t get results that precisely match the advertised RTP of a game over the course of just a couple of hundred spins &#8211; and in theory you could lose your \u00a310 and win nothing from your free spins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the likelihood is that you will end up in profit overall, and this is ever more likely as you complete more offers, reducing the variance in your results.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Other Ways To Make Money From Online Betting Sites<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Casino offers are a great way to make money from the comfort of your own home, but they do involve an element of risk.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A much less risky alternative, which we\u2019d recommend if you can\u2019t comfortably afford to lose any money staked on casino offers, is to have a go at Matched Betting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Matched Betting is a strategy that involves betting both for and against the same outcome, and using freebies from bookies to come out in profit. Oddsmonkey\u2019s handy tools and guides make this a super straightforward process, even if you don\u2019t have any experience of sports betting at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To find out more, take a look at our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/matched-betting\/what-is-matched-betting\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">beginner\u2019s guide to Matched Betting<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; or if you prefer to learn on the go, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/members.oddsmonkey.com\/account\/register?_ga=2.101552325.595463937.1741273333-1624392710.1741273333\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">take out our free trial<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>earn your first \u00a329 in Matched Betting profits<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free spins are crucial to success with casino offers &#8211; but if you\u2019re a newcomer to casino, you might never have encountered them before. 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