5 Dimes Bonus Structure

[IntheNegative]

I'm new to this board but I have heard great things about it from friends. I was wanting to sign up with 5 Dimes b/c they offer odds on everything. However, SBR says that they do not like bonus hunters. Basically, I am going to take a bonus anytime I can get one. Since their bonus is a free play, isn't the goal to try to collect that money? To do this, I know most guys will play the other side of a game and take the heavy underdog in the book where they have the free play. I know you can do the 3-team parlay as well but my main question is what is so different about 5 dimes than other books who offer free plays? Will they cut me off if I keep playing underdogs to try and capture the bonus? Will they cut my limits? I don't like free plays as a bonus b/c you still have to win to earn them unless you do it these other ways. I was just wondering if anyone else had experience with 5 Dimes and why SBR says that they don't appreciate Bonus Hunters.

I will decline the bonus if you guys think they are going to hassle me.

[rm18]

Don't worry about taking the bonus, the only thing with 5 dimes, is once you withdraw once, no bonuses ever again even if you are down a bunch of money with them.

[TLD]

IntheNegative, the main thing to note about 5 Dimes (unless this has changed very recently) is their bonus functions as a “loyalty points” type bonus instead of the traditional deposit bonus. Meaning, with most books you deposit, they give you the bonus, and then you have to meet a rollover (or lose your balance). With 5 Dimes, you deposit, you meet the rollover, and only then do you get the bonus. So you give them the action first, and the bonus is a reward for doing so.

This is anti-“bonus whore” in the sense that a lot of bonus players like to put their whole balance at risk on a scalp so that if they happen to lose it at the bonus book then they won’t have to worry about any more rollover. Obviously that doesn’t work at 5 Dimes because you don’t get the bonus unless and until you give them the full rollover action.

Other than that, I wouldn’t say 5 Dimes is aggressively anti-advantage player. They aren’t quite at the top as far as “taking on all comers,” but they are not nearly as much a “recreational” book as the majority of sportsbooks out there. Specifically, I doubt they’d take any countermeasures at all against your using free play bonuses on big underdogs and parlays.

[RickySteve]

Don't worry about taking the bonus, the only thing with 5 dimes, is once you withdraw once, no bonuses ever again even if you are down a bunch of money with them.

Not exactly. You just have to redeposit what you withdrew. Any money beyond that receives a bonus.

[rm18]

I knew that actually, but it still is not very fair, even if you lose 20,000 and take out 10,000, you have to deposit 11,000 to get a $200 bonus

[spliff]

I wouldn't take any chances, just play it out.

[rm18]

Actually you can still use the same scalp strategy though, I did it and I had like 5 bonuses at once to play through, then I finally started winning and made the rollovers

[spliff]

when I signed up a few years ago they had two options- a matchplay bonus and a teaser bet bonus option.

instead of taking a bonus, I had my account configured to grade a teaser bet in which one half pushed and the other lost a winner. I didn't use 5dimes for fb much last season, so I'm not sure if it's still effective or not though, lol

[pags11]

5 dimes bonus structure is horse crap...them, along with skybook, only reward you with bonuses if you have an overall losing record with them...don't like it so I don't play with either of these full juice books...

[Ortho]

Can I ask a question about where you think I stand vis-a-vis 5Dimes bonuses?

When I first started sportsbetting, I deposited $500 into 5d and won a $250 bet. I then withdrew $750 ($725 or something; they charged me for a neteller withdrawal). I deposited again last week, as they had a line I wanted to bet.

Now my bonus thing says "Bonus $0, Rollover $2500, Rollover Completed $1500" or something like that. I assume that this means that I forfeited the bonus when I made me initial withdrawal, and that I have a wagering requirement on the forfeited bonus! Assuming that this is true, does that also mean that I am likely to get a bonus on my next deposit after this phantom wagering requirement is met?

[TLD]

Ortho, I believe it means that you have currently earned zero bonus because the $1,500 you’ve bet is short of the $2,500 required. Once you’ve bet another $1,000, that bonus balance should be a non-zero figure.

You can actually have multiple bonuses in the pipeline like that, if you keep losing your deposits and redepositing. (That wouldn’t apply to your case, since you pulled your money out after you won that first bet and later redeposited. I doubt a bonus was generated by that second deposit.) As you give them sufficient action, each bonus is activated.

Again, think of it as a “loyalty points” type deal rather than a deposit bonus. You give them a certain predetermined amount of action and they then give you the bonus you’ve earned, not the other way around.

But the best thing to do is to call them and get the details from them on where you stand with the bonus.

[Ortho]

Yes, what you're saying makes more sense than my interpretation. I'll post back once I've made the wagers all the way to the requirement on the list (I do like their 5c overnight MLB lines).

[rm18]

If you want is just based on risk, you should have bet it all on USA moneyline against China