Always nice when a new casino comes along with a good solid signup bonus to get stuck into, and even better when Blackjack is allowed - both are present with the arrival of Frontroom Casino, owned by the large entertainment company Luminar Leisure.

The casino uses Chartwell software (same as Coral / Eurobet), so fairly solid - little bit streaky, but nothing too bad I find.

Deposit £50 for your 100% match (not applied until you?ve met the wager requirement). I got stuck in on anything between 2 x £2 hands, and 3 x £5 when I was feeling adventurous on the Single Deck Blackjack. All good overall, returning a nice juicy profit.

Only weird thing is Chartwell?s little problem?whilst playing the game suddenly stopped and the error window came up asking me to click ok to reload (I have had this maybe 10 times in the past on Chartwell software). When clicking on ok it restarted but without finishing the games. I quit that window and reloaded Single Deck BJ 4 times until finally it replayed the end of my game, but now it had dealt me extra cards on all 3 x £3 hands - therefore causing them all to lose! Hopefully support will be sending me this, along with my £50 signup bonus!

DEPOSIT: £50
RETURN: £107 (+£50 bonus to come)
TOTAL CASINO BALANCE: +£10964.48
CASINO: Frontroom Casino

Eurobet is the sister casino to Coral - identical look, same Chartwell software, same monthly bonus, so if you?re doing one, why not get stuck into the other??!

After returning a £20 profit on Coral I did indeed do Eurobet, depositing £40 and playing Single Deck Blackjack again and got through the £250 wager requriement in under 30 minutes by playing 2 x £2 and 3 x £3 hands. No big surprises, no redeposit, just a £9 profit!

DEPOSIT: £40
RETURN: £49
TOTAL CASINO BALANCE: +£10857.48
CASINO: Eurobet Casino

The number of monthly bonuses has shrunk in past months, but you can still rely on Coral and Eurobet for a 100% match, albeit only £25.

Never mind - get stuck in and with only a £250 wager requirement on their Blackjack, you can?t really be looking at over half an hour. Playing mostly 2 x £2 hands, sometimes up to 3 x £3 hands, I soon get through this (although do have to redeposit another £30 once to make it through the £250) and return a modest profit in the end?

DEPOSIT: £60
RETURN: £80
TOTAL CASINO BALANCE: +£10848.48
CASINO: Coral Casino

Littewoods casino are offering double the usual monthly bonus during December - it?s still 100% match, but £50 instead of £25, and you get the bonus at the end rather than the start, so a bit more risk that you could crash out half way and need to redeposit to make it through.

Anyway, depositing £50 and wagering £1000 didn?t seem too bad - especially while I was chatting on the phone to pass the time! - so on I got with multihand Blackjack, playing between 1 x £1 per hand, and 3 x £3 or 2 x £4, and flew through the £1000 within an hour. The cards were actually very kind indeed to me and I ended up on £150, waiting for the (supposedly) automatic bonus to be applied. To make it look less like a bonus hunter I pumped £10 into the slots - that went in seconds! So a phone call to customer services got me this email reply?

Hello and thank you for contacting Players Help.

Further to our telephone conversation regarding your bonus query, an examination into your account revealed that your account was removed from the bonus recipients? list in March 2024 due to bonus abuse. Unfortunately, you may not receive the £50.00 reward in December or any other reward in the future.

We hope this attends to your enquiry. If we can be of any more assistance please feel free to contact us at anytime.

Oh dear!!!!! Just as well I was up, so no £50 bonus for me this time By the way, on withdrawing a weird thing happened - it only let me draw back to my credit card the maximum I had ever deposited there, then it said choose another method so I tried Neteller - it said you must deposit there before withdrawing via Neteller, so I was about to order a cheque when I thought hang on?stuck £20 in via Neteller, then drew the lot back out - much easier than the flimsy bit of paper coming through the Xmas loaded postal service!

DEPOSIT: £50
RETURN: £140
TOTAL CASINO BALANCE: +£10782.48
CASINO: Littlewoods Casino

Ahhh?.another day, another casino, another quick profit - this time courtesy of Paddy Power.

They are offering what is currently the most generous casino bonus around - put in minimum £25 (I did £30 to look less like a bonus bagger), wager through just £50 (blackjack is fine - I recommend the Players Suite Blackjack at £1 to £2 per hand, especially as wager requirement is so low), then when you hit £50 you?re done! Supposedly it?s an automatic bonus that?ll be applied within 48 hours?Paddy Power are reputable so shouldn?t be a problem.

DEPOSIT: £30
RETURN: £53
TOTAL CASINO BALANCE: +£10683.48
CASINO: Paddy Power

One of the old faithful monthlies that is there month in month out is the Intercasino offers - UK and US, both giving 100% match. UK one first up this time and got my £50 in for an immediate £50 match, with £1250 needing to be wagered before withdrawing.

Straight to the multi hand blackjack, and start playing the strategy, though this time after winning at Sporting Odds I upped the stakes and played most of it at 3 hands of £5 each. Unfortunately the variance had the better of me this time (maybe the strict strategy of £1 hands would have been better!!) Within £200 of wagering the whole £50 was all gone, but at least Intercasino gives you the bonus first so once it?s gone, it?s gone - time to move on!!

DEPOSIT: £50
RETURN: £0
TOTAL CASINO BALANCE: +£10660.48
CASINO: Intercasino UK

This casino lark never ceases to amaze me! - it is just a continual stream of nice easy tax free cash straight through to my bank!!!

Sporting Odds this month started December with a 100% match £25 bonus. I slotted in slightly over the minimum at £30 and played £25 of Private Table Blackjack (6 deck I believe). Then you log out and back in again and lo and behold a £25 bonus is there waiting! It needs to have £500 wagered before it?s mine, so time to get cracking on more Blackjack!

Software is reasonably fast once you turn the music and voices off (hint), and I was playing between 1 x £2 hand, and at the highest 2 x £4 hands, no specific system, just trying the odd larger hand every so often, but most of it at 2 x £2. About 30 minutes later (playing whilst chatting to a mate on the phone - multi tasking!) it?s time to cash out with a healthy profit?

DEPOSIT: £30
RETURN: £117
TOTAL CASINO BALANCE: +£10740.48
CASINO: Sporting Odds

There were times when if a bonus wasn?t 100% or more I wouldn?t touch it!! Then I thought about it and this one is actually a very fair deal from Sky Bet Vegas. On certain days (usually 2 a month) they?ll offer you up to £50 free on a £100 deposit (50% match) and allow their Players Suite Blackjack - a nicely designed game, although sometimes a little pause whilst it communicates with their website - perhaps only when it?s busy on promo days?

Unfortunately the bonus goes on at the end, so you do have to risk your own money to complete the wagering requirement, but at x10 of your deposit it?s not too bad, and in fact, damn profitable for 1 hour?s work in my case!!

DEPOSIT: £100
RETURN: £221
TOTAL CASINO BALANCE: +£10548.98
CASINO: Sky Bet Vegas

I have to say 32 Red is my favourite casino of all. With Microgaming?s excellent Viper software, you can play autoplay for a few hands, then take over again, all ultra smooth and fast. Payouts are always quick and customer service is excellent too.

Got banned from the bonus this month as I?d just been playing the bonuses, and not at any other time - take heed from this if you value a casino, and make sure you do play with some of your own money too - it?s worth it overall. I popped in here with a quick £50 today, and played Vegas Strip Blackjack at £2, £4 or £6 a hand for about 15 mintes or so and cashed out with a £21 profit!

DEPOSIT: £50
RETURN: £71
TOTAL CASINO BALANCE: £10427.98
Casino: 32 Red

Hard Rock & Blue Square run the same software, so when they both put up a match bonus I decided to have a crack at them. As you might of read earlier, Hard Rock shined kindly on me, getting through the £500 wager requirement (WR) on Blackjack £158 up! Unfortunately it didn?t work so well today on Blue Square - I had to deposit £120 in total to clear the £500 WR, and with the £25 bonus applied I?ll be cashing out £65 down. Not great, but just under £100 up over the two.

DEPOSIT: £120
RETURN: £65
TOTAL CASINO BALANCE: +£10406.98
CASINO: Blue Square