A 400% welcome bonus up to $10,000 is the biggest headline on the scoreboard. It's also not near the biggest PVI. Here's why.
Forty times wagering. Five-dollar max bet during bonus. 3.5% effective house edge on a default-mix player. Those three numbers mean that to "clear" a $10,000 bonus, you'd need to put $400,000 of turnover through the casino, at a trickle rate, during which the house takes an expected $14,000.
You can't lose more than the bonus, of course — the negative gets capped at forfeit. But what you realistically extract is far below $10,000. Our model puts Wild.io's PVI at roughly a quarter of what the flat maths of the 400% headline would imply.
None of which means Wild.io is a bad casino. It means the welcome bonus is a worse sign-up reason than the headline suggests, and the rakeback-led offers on Stake and Shuffle quietly beat it over any horizon longer than a couple of weeks.
The scoreboard exists to make that visible. The headline doesn't.