Welcome bonuses for Irish players

The nine packages

The same €100, nine different bills

The fairest way to compare these packages is to feed each one the same deposit and see how much play it demands. Take a €100 bonus. NetBet's 10x asks €1,000 of bets. Videoslots counts 35x on the deposit, so €3,500. 888 Casino, Slotrave and BetVictor sit at 40x on the bonus, €4,000. Rolling Slots asks €4,500 at 45x on the bonus, or €9,000 if its Irish rule of 45x on deposit plus bonus applies to you. TonyBet and Puntit ask €5,000 at 50x on the bonus. Wild Tokyo counts 50x on deposit plus bonus, so a €100 deposit with a €100 match needs €10,000.

That spread is tenfold from the lightest package to the heaviest. A headline of €2,300 or €2,600 tells you nothing about which end of it a package sits at, and the wagering calculator will do the sum for any offer before you deposit.

Time matters as much as the multiplier

888 Casino's 40x on a €100 bonus is €4,000 in bets over 90 days: about €45 a day. Wild Tokyo's first stage, 100% plus 150 spins on a €50 deposit, puts 50x on €100 of deposit plus bonus for €5,000 in bets inside five days, about €1,000 a day. Few casual players can do that, and unfinished wagering forfeits the bonus.

TonyBet sits between the two. A €200 first deposit earns a €200 bonus and 100 of the 150 spins, paid 25 a day over four days; 50x on that bonus is €10,000 of bets inside 14 days, roughly €715 a day at no more than €5 a spin. Videoslots gives the longest runway after 888: activate the match within 30 days of your first deposit, then clear 35x the deposit within 60 days.

NetBet's tiers

NetBet pays €20, €50, €100, €200 or €400 in bonus depending on the deposit, from €20 up to €400 and above, with 10 to 100 spins whose winnings carry no wagering. Bets are capped at €5 while it runs. It is the lightest match bonus anywhere in our euro lists.

The catch is a cash-out ceiling that rises with the tier: €100 on the €20 tier, €200 on €50, €500 on €100, €1,000 on €200 and €2,000 on the top tier. On the €100 tier, then, the bonus needs €1,000 of bets and can turn into no more than €500 of withdrawable money. For a light package that is a fair trade, but it means the top tier's €400 bonus is worth chasing only if you would deposit €400 anyway.

Videoslots releases it in steps

Videoslots does not hand over the match in one piece. The bonus is released in 10% steps as you play through 35x your deposit, so on a €100 deposit and €100 bonus every €350 of bets frees €10, step by step rather than all at the end. The betting limit is tied to the bonus size, half the bonus or €20, whichever is lower. Videoslots holds Malta and UK licences, has run since 2011 and states payouts in about an hour.

Caps and exclusions

• BetVictor stops welcome winnings at €750, so a lucky run on its €50 bonus is trimmed there.
• Wild Tokyo caps winnings from its cash bonus at ten times the deposit and spin winnings at €100, and its biggest tiers need €100 deposits.
• TonyBet counts no table, live or crash games toward its bonus and excludes a list of slots as well.
• Slotrave counts table and live games at 0% toward wagering in its Irish terms.
• Rolling Slots excludes Skrill and Neteller deposits from Irish bonuses and does not publish a per-deposit split for this package.
• Puntit spreads 100% up to €500 across five deposits without a published split, so each stage may be small.

Spins and caps

Videoslots' 11 spins on Starburst are wager-free and expire 24 hours after activation; its match bonus counts 35x on the deposit, not the bonus, over 60 days. TonyBet releases 25 spins a day: four days on the first deposit, two on the second. Wild Tokyo caps spin winnings at €100.

Which to pick

For a small first deposit with the least play attached, NetBet's tiered bonus at 10x is the clear starting point, followed by 888 Casino's 40x spread over three months. If you want the bigger headline packages, read the cap and the clock first: Wild Tokyo and TonyBet ask for daily play most people will not put in. Prefer offers that pay cash? See wager-free bonuses or the free spins page. Rules on bonuses in Ireland: online casino law in Ireland. Back to Irish bonuses.