As you can see from the wide range of free spins bonuses available on our website, offering no deposit free spins to new customers as an incentive to join the site remains one of the most popular ways to entice people through the virtual doors of a casino.
Indeed, it seems almost every week or so, there is a new offer from another online casino promising free spins on some slots game. Slots of course remain the casinos most popular games and where's there demand there's going to be freebies and special offers of all sorts.
This is why so many casinos are now realising that free spins offers are the ones that attract new customers. Firstly because it is based on the games that they love and secondly, that they are entirely without risk to the player because they don't have to deposit a single cent in order to access the offer.
It is easy to see that these types of offers will appeal to the slots enthusiast for those two reasons alone, but what is somewhat unusual to note is that while free spins offers are relatively abundant in the online environment, finding similar offers for some of the other most popular forms of casino games, remains a rarity.
For example, have you heard of a casino giving away free spins on the roulette wheel? Or a casino offering players a stated amount of free hands of video poker, blackjack or baccarat? How many offer a free few rolls of the dice in the game of craps?
While slots may be the most popular form of entertainment played in casinos today, there is undoubtedly a large number of casino patrons who eschew the slots and instead prefer different types of casino games, such as those outlined above.
While this is not as large a number as slot players, the number of people is still very significant for casinos and so the question must be asked as to why casinos are not so forthcoming with offers for free bonuses for these types of game?
The answer to this is surprisingly simple and requires nothing more than a rudimentary understanding of game mechanics, odds and probability, as well as the structure of these other types of game.
The first thing to note about games like craps, video poker, roulette, baccarat or blackjack is that unlike slots, all the elements are not controllable. In craps and roulette for example, the player can opt to place bets of a high degree of variance.
In roulette for example these can range from the outer table bets (which offer the player close to a 50/50 chance of success) right through to betting on a single number, which has odds of success of around 36 or 37/1 depending on which type of roulette you are playing.
In other games such as video poker and blackjack, a player can use a strategic element to enhance their chances of winning. This is especially true in blackjack where a competent player strategy can almost wipe out the small advantage the casino has in this type of game.
In baccarat, the player can select which type of bet they wish to make (player, banker or tie) and as such, this offers the player a varying chance of success.
What is key to understand about all these various games is that the casino cannot make these games 'controllable' in the same way a slot game is. As such, given that a player is going to play these games free of charge, the casino is therefore at risk of a high number of players taking up on free introductory offer, and then being able to cash the offer out at the end of the bonus period.
Casinos like offering slots as a freebie to players because on every single spin, the odds of a player achieving a successful outcome is the same. They are consistent for every spin of every free offer that every player takes up. That allows the casino to make accurate forecasts about the potential financial impact of the offer and by doing these simple mathematical processes, casinos can then develop free spins offers that will both attract players, but not prove to be uneconomical to them.
With games like video poker and blackjack (which both have a very low house edge as it is), baccarat (which also has a low house edge on banker and player bets), roulette and craps (similarly low house edge on some bets) this is not possible to do. There are too many variables contained within these games for casinos to be able to offer free spins, deals or rolls of the dice without opening themselves to the risk of losing significant amounts of money.
Remember, a casino is not guaranteed to recoup any money from a player; the essence of these offers is that they are completely free and as such, a player is able to take advantage of the offer and then walk away at its completion without having spent a single penny of their own cash. That factor alone makes it difficult for casinos to offer these freebies in the same way that they do free spins on the slots.
It is also why when casinos award players a bonus, that when realising a bonus certain bets are exempt from the play through requirements. Typically bets that are around 50/50 (such as betting on red or black in roulette) only count a fraction, if at all towards a players play through requirement. When playing blackjack or video poker, only a fraction of your wager, rather than 100 percent of it, counts towards your play-through requirement.
The reason for this is that if they didn't, the player would have too much of an advantage and the casino would stand to lose money on the offer, thus making it redundant.
If you want to play video poker, blackjack or roulette for free, then your best bet is to use the free spins offers on our no deposit page and should you be lucky enough to win, use those winnings to play video poker, blackjack or roulette. At least this gives you a chance to play these awesome games for free. Enjoy.
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