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Christmas Casino Promotions Are Here!

Several online casinos welcomed the festive season with a variety of promotions, including tournaments, raffles, slot tickets and free spins.

Christmas Casino Promotions Are Here!

The offers featured tournament points, entries in selected raffles and tickets earned on slots or live dealer tables. Some promotions also included free spins, with any resulting winnings added to a bonus balance for the holidays.

Casino Joy’s Christmas Fair: €500k in Prizes Every Week

At Casino Joy, making a deposit qualified players for its Christmas Fair promotions. The campaign ran from 6 to 30 December and listed several offers with €500,000 in total prize money.

Play’n Go Cash Raffle: Running from 6-12 December, the Cash Raffle had a €5,000 prize pool. Deposit and opt in to receive one ticket for every €20 in deposits + wagers during the promotion. Players had to play a Play’n Go title to qualify. 3 winners were due to be drawn on 29 December and awarded €3000, €1500 or €500, with a 0x wagering requirement.

Deposit Match Mondays: Each Monday during Casino Joy’s Christmas Fair, a deposit of €20+ qualified for a 100% bonus money match.

Live Blackjack & Roulette Wednesdays/Thursdays Raffle: This 4-part live dealer raffle featured roulette and blackjack, with entries available on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Each raffle awarded $1500 in prizes, with 0x wagering.

  • 8-9 December: $1500 Prize
  • 15-16 December: $1500 Prize
  • 22-23 December: $1500 Prize
  • 29-30 December: $1500 Prize

Fridays to Sundays: 120 seconds of Free Spins: Play 2 featured slot titles to earn 30 seconds of free spins after wagering €50 in total on Gonzo’s Quest Megaways™ or Reel King Mega. Winnings from those 30 seconds were credited to a bonus balance with 40x wagering.

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€5000 Tournament: Real-money slot play earned leaderboard points based on multipliers won, rather than cash amounts. Eligible games included Big Bad Wolf Christmas Special, Sticky Bandits 3 Most Wanted and Golden Glyph 2. Winners’ cash prizes had 0x wagering on those winnings.

  • 1st = €1200
  • 2nd = €800
  • 3rd = €500
  • 4th = €350
  • 5th = €250
  • 6th = €200
  • 7th = €150
  • 8th = €100
  • 9th–20th = €50
  • 21st–54th = €25

Santa’s Extras: Casino Joy members were encouraged to check their email for more Christmas gifts arriving between then and New Year.

Playluck and Mr Play Casino Each Offer a €40k Winterfest Tournament

From 1 December 2021 to 3 January 2022, players at Playluck Casino and Mr. Play could enter a slots tournament featuring games from Microgaming, Playn'Go, Ruby Play, Stakelogic and Blueprint. The leaderboard offered €40k in prizes, with 1 point awarded for every €20 bet—a format favouring players prepared to wager heavily to climb the standings.

Cash prizes were awarded to the top 300 places, with 0x wagering on the prizes:

  • 1st = €5,000
  • 2nd = €3,000
  • 3rd = €2,500
  • 4th = €2,000
  • 5th = €1,000
  • 6th–10th = €750
  • 11th–20th = €500
  • 21st–35th = €250
  • 36th –50th = €200
  • 51st–75th = €150
  • 76th –100th = €100
  • 101st–150th = €50
  • 151st–200th = €25
  • 201st–300th = €10

The organizers said the results would be published on 4 January 2022. In the meantime, players could check their position on the live, real time leaderboard linked from the promotions page.

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