Originally Posted by
hehfest
They are pounding people with the whole responsible gambling and do you have a gambling problem hotline phone numbers every time you log out or go to the main page. Its everywhere. They really do mention it constantly. As far as the promotions, they offer "risk free bets" for people. Up to 2,021 at William Hill for example. And Pointsbet offered 2 risk free bets of 500 and 1500. If you lose they put it into the "free bets" or "free play" category. So, you have to win it back into your account.
In my opinion, Pointsbet is pretty good so far. $1 per $100 bet goes into your account as more free play money. They offered me a 350 let it rip bet free play the first week I was there, and then another 50 buck let it rip the second day I was there.
I still like offshore better I think because I can get the 100% deposit match at some very solid books but of course there is that big rollover with that. Here, I met my Pointsbet cashout withdrawal available nearly within one day. I didn't even look to see the promotional rollover rules. So, it was almost nothing.
As far as the promotions to encourage.....I understand your points and slightly agree, but this stuff is all over the TV on commercials. They have local sports shows on TV sponsored by FanDuel talking about betting and who to bet, etc. I don't think this is going to stop at all (promotions).
I also think these books like Pointsbet are very fair to any bettor giving them many chances to win back money.