Offer types
Deposit matches and rollover
Some offers add a bonus to your deposit, but only after you bet a set amount. Work out that amount, know what counts toward it, and get through it cheaply with low-hold pairs.
What rollover is
Rollover, also called playthrough, is the total you have to bet before a bonus is yours to withdraw. Most licensed welcome offers have none: a bonus bet is used once and that is it. You meet rollover on deposit matches, where a book adds a percentage of your deposit, mostly as offers for existing customers.
Your money is not locked: you keep betting it the whole time. Your job is to get through the rollover while giving up as little as possible.
Work out your number
Find the line in the terms that says how much you must bet, and turn it into dollars.
| The terms say | Work it out | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Wager your deposit once (1x) | The deposit | $1,000 deposit: $1,000 of bets |
| $1 released per $15 wagered | Bonus × 15 | $200 bonus: $3,000 |
| 5x deposit plus bonus | (Deposit + bonus) × 5 | ($1,000 + $200) × 5: $6,000 |
Then divide by the days you have: $3,000 over 30 days is $100 a day. Check the window as closely as the multiple, because the same offer can run 30 days in one state and 90 in another. If that daily number is more than your balances can place, deposit less: you never have to deposit up to the cap (How much to bet).
Before you deposit, get five things from the terms, screenshot them, and confirm anything unclear with the book's live chat: the multiple, what it applies to (bonus only, or deposit plus bonus), minimum odds, which bets count, and the deadline.
What counts toward it
- Cash bets, including a cash bonus. Bonus bets count for nothing, so convert those first (they expire) and clear the rollover with cash.
- At many books, a winning bet counts only the smaller of your stake and your winnings, and a losing bet counts its full stake. $300 on a -300 favorite wins $100, so if it wins it counts $100, not $300. Heavy favorites clear it slowly.
- Only qualifying bets. Books often set minimum odds (for example -200 or longer) and leave out parlays or live bets.
Watch out: a bet at shorter odds than the minimum, or in a market that doesn't count, still costs you its hold and clears nothing.
Clear it with low-hold pairs
Bet one side in the book with the rollover and the other side at your second book, sized so you get back about the same whichever wins. You give up a small, known amount called the hold: under 3% is the target, under 2% is great.
Pick pairs near even money, so nearly your whole stake counts, and games that start soon, so the money is back in time to bet again. Don't wait on a perfect 0.5% pair when a 2% one is on the board and a deadline is running.
Do it in BreadSync
Odds Screen · Low Hold view
Ranks every pair between the book with the rollover and your other books by what it costs, and sizes the second bet for you.
- 1.Low Hold view, "Single book": "Primary Book" = the book with the rollover, "Bet Size" = your round stake per pair.
- 2.In "Books", switch on that book and your second book. If the terms set minimum odds, type them into "Min Odds".
- 3.Sort by "%" and take the top row. Place both bets at the stakes shown, one right after the other.
- 4.Click the green bookmark ("Add to Tracker") so Bankroll counts both bets once they settle.
No Pro? The free Low Hold Calculator in Tools sizes the second bet once you have found both prices yourself. More on picking pairs: Low hold. How big each pair should be, from your bankroll, and what to do when one book's cash runs thin: How much to bet.
Worked example: a 20% match on $1,000
Say a book offers 20% of your deposit, released at $1 for every $15 you bet, within 30 days. You deposit $1,000.
- 1The bonus is $1,000 × 20% = $200. The rollover is $200 × 15 = $3,000, about $100 a day.
- 2Each day, one pair: Team A at +100 for $100 at the match book, Team B at -108 for $103.85 at your second book.
- 3If A wins: +$100 at one book, -$103.85 at the other. If B wins: -$100 and +$96.15. Either way you are down $3.85, a hold of about 1.9%.
- 4Win or lose, the $100 at +100 counts $100, so you need 30 pairs. You pay hold on both bets, though: about $115 in all, which leaves about $85 of the $200.
Now make the pairs a little worse. At +100 and -112 (about 2.8% hold) each pair costs $5.66, the rollover costs about $170, and only about $30 of the bonus is left. That is why you budget the hold before you deposit. If your second book has its own rollover running, each pair counts toward both, which halves the cost per book.
Track it and finish
Do it in BreadSync
Bankroll
Enter the rollover once and every settled bet you log at that book counts toward it, by the rule above, so you see what is left without a spreadsheet.
- 1."Add Deposit": the book, the "Deposit Amount", and any bonus already credited ("Site Credit" for cash, "Free Bet Bonus" for bonus bets).
- 2.On that book's card, "Edit": type the dollar figure into "Total Rollover" (3000 here) and set "Rollover Completion" to 0, so only bets that settle from now on count. Skip "Rollover Multiplier": it multiplies deposit plus bonus, which overstates a bonus-only rollover like this one.
- 3.Once a week, type how much the book says you have wagered so far into "Edit" > "Rollover Completion". When the two disagree, the book is right.
Finish with a round bet rather than chasing the last few dollars. Once the book shows the rollover complete, stop betting that balance, since every bet after it costs hold for nothing. Keep what your next offers need in your books and withdraw the rest: Cash out and track it.
Watch out: withdrawing before the rollover is done can cost you the bonus, or the part not yet released. Read your terms, and ask live chat if they are unclear.
Falling behind the deadline, or the book with the rollover ran out of money first? Never deposit more to rescue the bonus. The first steps are in When something goes wrong.