Most of the gaming websites reward their bingo customers with ‘first-deposit bingo bonus’ when they deposit their monies with them for the very first time.

The general practice in the gaming industry these days is to give a 100% bonus to the new bingo players. This means that if you decided to deposit $100 with a bingo website, then the actual amount you see in your bingo account will be $200.
Apart from this ‘first-deposit bingo bonus’ there is another kind of deposit incentive too, which is generally called the ‘reload or redeposit award.’ But this is not as rewarding to the players as the first deposit option is.

The bonus percentage gets halved and instead of a double up, the player only gets bonus equivalent to half of his subsequent deposits. This is because once you have made your original deposit, the website considers you already hooked and hence their incentive to force you into making another deposit decreased significantly.

But there is no need to worry too much. The bonuses on subsequent deposits don’t normally go down below the 50% mark.  So you are at least guaranteed 50% extra, which is still pretty generous of these gaming websites. However, they won’t allow you to cash out that bonus amount, which means that even though you may have more money in your bingo account than you deposited, not all of it is yours to withdraw.

You can use that bonus to play with them and hope of hitting one of the big prizes. Once you win something and request them to cash you out, the bingo companies zero your bonus reserves and then let you withdraw whatever amount you had won.
Another piece of advice for those people who bonus reserve sitting in their bingo accounts is that they should hurry up and play bingo with that money as soon as possible. This is because the websites always impose time limits on bonuses and after the expiration of that time period, they seize that bonus.

Alex, the writer of this article, can often be found playing live casino games. In her spare time she also blogs about her wins and losses for the entertainment and amusement of others.