Reload bonuses: what the weekly offers cost.
None of the recurring offers we can document is a reload in the textbook sense of a match on your next deposit. What they are instead is weekly play targets: bet a set amount on set games, collect a prize. That makes the deciding number the turnover they ask for, and the edge of the games you are allowed to produce it with.
The weekly offers, and what they ask.
None of these is a deposit match. Each asks for a set amount of betting on set games inside a set window, so the figure that decides them is what producing that turnover costs — shown here at the house edge of the games each one actually allows.
Wild Casino
Table Games TuesdaysBet $1,000 on table games to qualify. Live Casino, Craps and Qora tables do not count.
Wild Casino
Slots Happy HourBet $500 on slots to qualify. Playable on one mystery slot only.
Ignition Casino
Weekly Crypto BoostInvite only; account must be 30 days old. The amount is only visible once you log in, so it cannot be weighed against anything before you commit.
Costs are the turnover target multiplied by an assumed house edge for the eligible games — 0.5% for blackjack played to basic strategy, 2% for table games generally, 4% for slots. Those are our assumptions, not the operator’s figures, and your own game selection moves them. Targets, rewards and exclusions are quoted from each offer’s own terms. Affiliate disclaimer →
How a weekly offer actually works.
Six steps, and the third is where the money is. A recurring offer asks for turnover rather than a deposit, so its price is set by the games it lets you produce that turnover with.
The offer arrives on a schedule
Reload promotions are weekly rather than one-off, and that is the point of them. A welcome bonus buys your first deposit; a reload is designed to give you a reason to come back on a particular day.
It asks for turnover, not a deposit
Every recurring offer we can document works this way: bet a stated amount on stated games inside a stated window, and the reward follows. Your deposit is incidental. The requirement is the bet total.
The eligible games set the price
Producing turnover is not free — it costs the house edge of whatever you are allowed to play. A $1,000 target on blackjack costs about $5 to hit. The same target on slots costs about $40. Nothing else in the offer moves that far.
The reward lands — in cash, or not
A cash prize is worth its face value immediately. Free spins are worth their denomination times their count, minus whatever wagering their winnings carry, on a slot you may not have chosen. The two are not comparable and are advertised as if they were.
A claim window starts running
Rewards earned are not always rewards received. One of the offers here gives 48 hours to claim a prize you have already qualified for, and spins commonly expire a week after issue.
It resets, and you are asked again
This is what separates a reload from everything else on the site. A one-off offer that is slightly bad costs you once. A weekly one that is slightly bad costs you fifty-two times, and the habit is the product.
The six traps in a weekly offer.
A target and a prize look like a simple trade. What complicates it is which games count, what the reward actually is, how long you have to collect it — and the fact that it all happens again next week.
The eligible games decide everything
CostlyA turnover target is priced by the edge of the games that count toward it. The same $1,000 requirement is a $5 cost on blackjack and a $40 cost on slots — the difference between an offer worth taking every week and one worth avoiding entirely. Read which games qualify before the reward.
Exclusions inside the eligible category
CostlyA "table games" target that excludes Live Casino, Craps and a named supplier is narrower than it sounds, and the excluded ones are often exactly what you were going to play. The exclusion list is where a low-edge offer quietly becomes a higher-edge one.
A reward you cannot value
CostlyFree spins on an unnamed slot, or a "mystery" amount visible only after you log in, cannot be weighed against the turnover they demand. You can still price the requirement — and if qualifying costs $20, an unvalued reward has to beat $20 before it is worth doing.
Short claim windows on money you earned
Watch outMeeting the target is not collecting the prize. Windows of 48 hours to claim, and spins that expire seven days after issue, mean a promotion completed on Tuesday can be worth nothing by Friday.
The schedule is the product
Watch outTuesday table games, Wednesday happy hour, Thursday reload — the days are chosen to build a routine, and a routine is worth more to the operator than the prize costs. Play when it suits you and take the offer if it happens to be running, not the other way round.
Weekly offers compound in both directions
MinorThe one bonus type where the annual figure is the honest one. A promotion worth $20 a week is $1,040 a year; one that costs $15 a week is $780 a year. Judge a recurring offer on what a year of it does, because that is how it is designed to be used.
One target, three games.
The same offer, the same turnover, the same prize — produced on three different games. Nothing else in a recurring promotion moves the outcome this far, and it is the one detail the headline never mentions.
Wild Casino’s Table Games Tuesdays pays $25 for $1,000 of turnover, and the prize does not care how you produce it. At blackjack that turnover is expected to cost about $5, so the offer clears +$20 — roughly $1,040 across a year of taking it every week. On slots the same target costs about $40, turning the identical promotion into −$15 a week. The offer did not change; the eligible-games line did. Check that line before the prize, and check what it excludes — this one bars live dealer tables, craps and one supplier’s games from counting at all.
A recurring offer is a bill for turnover with a prize attached.
Price the bill before the prize. The turnover a reload demands costs you the house edge of whatever games it lets you produce it with, and that single line in the terms swings the answer further than the reward ever does. Once you have both numbers the decision is arithmetic — and then multiply it by fifty-two, because that is what weekly means.
So… should you chase the target?
Only if the turnover was happening anyway, on games you were going to play. A recurring offer is worth taking when it pays you for your normal week, and worth ignoring the moment it starts dictating one.
- The eligible games are ones you already play, at an edge you already accept.
- The reward is cash, so its value is not a guess.
- The turnover target is inside what you would have bet that week anyway.
- You can meet the claim window without rearranging your week around it.
- The target can only be met on high-edge games — that is where the cost hides.
- The reward is unpublished or arrives as credit with its own requirement.
- Hitting the target means betting more, or on different games, than you planned.
- You would be playing on the promotion's schedule rather than your own.
Price the turnover, then multiply by 52.
Price the turnover, not the prize.
A target costs you the house edge of the games that count toward it. That figure decides whether a recurring offer pays you or bills you, and it is never the number in the headline.
An unvalued reward still has a bar to clear.
You do not need to know what free spins are worth to know they must beat the cost of qualifying. Work out the cost, and you have the minimum the reward has to be worth for the offer to make sense.
Multiply by fifty-two.
Weekly offers are the only ones where the annual figure is the honest one. A small edge compounds into a real return; a small leak compounds into a real loss. Decide once, then let the schedule work for you rather than on you.