I deposited $50 at an online casino and told them no bonus.
They said OK and gave me the bonus anyway. So now I have
to wager $2000 before I can withdraw any money.

They say any bets on Baccarat, the EC's in roulette, the dozens
or columns in roulette, do not count to bringing down the bonus.

Is anybody familiar with this? Does this mean I can still bet the
streets and double streets? If so, what's stopping me from betting
all 6 double streets at once and a small bet on the zero. This will
bring down the $2000 requirement in no time.

Any comments welcome.

Humans are linear thinkers, we tend to think in a straight
line. We even try to beat roulette that way, by reason and
logic. But random doesn't happen in a linear fashion, so it
can't be beat with linear thinking.

"Lateral thinking is solving problems through an indirect and
creative approach, using reasoning that is not immediately
obvious and involving ideas that may not be obtainable by
using only traditional step-by-step logic." Wiki

Using lateral thinking on random outcomes is a different
matter. It changes the game entirely. If you learn to teach
yourself how random 'thinks', you're then playing on its
level. It will never come down to where you are, you must
meet it on it own terms.

Is Bet365 honest and do they pay if you win?

If I ran a roulette camp, I would have people design systems
and methods that don't allow money management. No progressions.
No band aids, no short cuts. Just concentrate on bet selection.

Nobody would attend, what fun is roulette without its evil little partner
money management. What fun is flat betting. The thrill comes from
increasing your bets in clever ways to try and hide your total lack
of a good bet selection. Much like a cat buries its smelly business in
the litter box, money management lets you bury your smelly bet
selection. The only way to beat roulette is with no MM. But that's like
taking heroin away from an addict, he'll fight you all the way.

I played the airball roulette made by IGT a lot 2 years ago. I never
felt quite right about it. The ball was shot onto the track by air and
the computer could alter the speed of the wheel. One thing that
bothered me was on wins over $1200 it was paid like a slot machine.
A slot attendant gave you IRS paperwork and she paid in cash. Why
was this looked at as a slot if it was random?

Last month I noticed the airball setup was gone from a local casino.
I found the shift manager and asked him why. Keep in mind this is
the shift manager, the guy in the $2000 suit who runs the whole
casino during his shift. He has the final say in everything, this isn't
some flunky floor person I talked to.

He said two guys from Chicago had beaten the airball machine out
of a few hundred thousand dollars a few months before. Apparently
airball isn't random at all, its run by an algorhythm and these guys
had cracked it. No wonder I never felt quite right about it, it was rigged
just like a slot machine is rigged. Consequently they got rid of the
airball as did several local casinos. The ones that kept it lowered the
time to make a bet down to 15 seconds which defeats anybody trying
to beat the program.

So beware of airball roulette, the outcomes are not random, they are
preprogrammed to pay out like a slot machine, which means if you play
your system on them, you aren't getting fair results.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Lack of undersating of how random outcomes work is
the downfall of most systems.

Look at the casino. They understand random completely.
They know that it gives them their edge in roulette. They
start with the premise that the best you can do is 50/50,
throw in some unfair pay outs, a zero or two, and they
have their edge.

Set out first and foremost to understand how random works,
then come up a playable strategy. Don't make statements
like 'R/B is weaker than O/E or H/L.' Silliness like that just
shows you've never studied random. Learn it, grasp it, then
you're at square one. Anything else is just putting the cart
before the horse.