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Bovada: Bonus Winnings.

Author
Gray et al.
Date
1 Aug 2017
Publisher
UXP2 Lab

“This online gambling site offers users generous ‘bonuses’ which are essentially free money for the express use of gambling on the site. It is not clear that the bonuses & any winnings can’t be withdrawn until a certain number of bets have been made on specific areas of the site.”

Bovada, an online gambling site, was catalogued by the UXP2 Lab over the terms attached to its “bonuses”. According to the entry, the site offers users generous bonuses presented as free money to gamble with, but it is not made clear that the bonuses and any winnings cannot be withdrawn until a certain number of bets have been placed on specific areas of the site.