The Windetta Shark Bonus, First Step
100% of your first deposit up to €500, from a €25 minimum, in cash and with no free spins attached.
Wagering is 40x the bonus amount, conversion is capped at five times the bonus, and it runs for 10 days from activation.
Shark is one of five welcome packages here and taking it rules out the other four. All five sit among the welcome packages this site tracks.
Shark Is the Cash Only Package
Shark pays money and nothing else. Of the five packages, one pays only free spins and three pay both, so this is the choice for a player who wants no spins at all.
At a straight 100% match, €500 produces the full €500 bonus, which is one of only two steps on the whole site paying a euro of bonus per euro deposited.
The other is the second step of a different package, and it carries a €1,000 cap at the same rate, so it produces twice as much bonus for twice the deposit. That is the comparison to make before committing to Shark. Starting small is the right frame for picking a figure in the first place.
Filled, 40x on €500 is €20,000 of betting. At the €5 maximum bet that is 4,000 spins inside 10 days.
What Shark Charges, and What It Charges It On
The multiple here is charged on the bonus alone. A great many sites apply the same headline figure to the deposit and the bonus added together, which on a 100% match is twice the betting for the same offer. What a multiple is applied to changes the arithmetic more than the number in front of the x does.
So a filled €500 bonus is €20,000 of betting rather than €40,000, and at the €25 minimum it is €1,000 rather than €2,000.
The bonus is also not sticky. Once the 40x is met it moves to your main balance and stays there rather than being stripped out when you withdraw, which makes whether bonus money can be withdrawn a clearer question here than at sites that keep bonus funds separate to the end.
Conversion from the bonus is capped at five times the bonus amount, a limit on what the bonus converts to rather than on your balance.
Slots Only, and a Game List You Cannot Open
Only slots count toward the requirement. The bonus rules put table games, video poker, roulette, blackjack, baccarat and craps all at zero, so there is no second route through it. Which games actually count is the thing to settle before starting rather than after.
Beyond that, a published list of around ninety named slots cannot be played at all while a bonus is active, and it covers a great many well known titles. Live casino is unavailable entirely for the same period, so the casinos built around live dealer tables is a better starting point if live dealer play is the reason you came.
One rule applies with no bonus involved and it sits in the main terms rather than the bonus ones: every deposit must be wagered three times before any withdrawal can be made. A €500 deposit carries €1,500 of betting on its own account.
That is a separate problem from the 40x and it catches players who never claim an offer. The reason a withdrawal gets refused is often that rule rather than the bonus one, and Shark sits alongside the casinos playing for real money for the wider comparison.
