Gwen Ashworth

Wagering analyst · Leeds

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I work out what a bonus costs to clear, so the comparison shows the price as well as the prize.

Before this I worked as a pricing analyst in Leeds, building the spreadsheets that decide what a discount really costs a business. It turns out that a casino bonus is a discount with conditions, and the conditions are where the arithmetic lives.

The question I ask of every offer is simple: how much do you have to stake before the bonus becomes money you can withdraw? A bonus of a hundred pounds at 35 times wagering means three and a half thousand pounds of play first. The same bonus at 10 times is a very different deal, and a headline will never tell you which one you are looking at. So the wagering multiplier sits beside every offer on this page, together with the minimum deposit, because those two numbers decide whether a welcome package is worth having.

I use each operator's published terms and nothing else. Where a site gives two different figures I show both and say they disagree. Where it gives none, I leave the space blank rather than estimating.

Offshore casinos sit outside the UK Gambling Commission and outside GamStop, and the protections that come with a UK licence do not apply. If you have self-excluded, please do not use them. If you do play, set a budget before you deposit and treat it as spent.

Corrections go to corrections@lythampizza.com. I check every one against the operator's terms and date the page when it changes.