Winner Island

Winner Island Welcome Bonuses

You can probably make out the Winner Island welcome bonus on the screenshot above, and it’s a good one. New arrivals at this tropical paradise of a casino can claim a 100% match up to £100 plus 100 free spins on Book of Dead with their first deposit – and that’s just for starters. The warm welcome continues with a 50% up to £200 on deposit two, and 25% up to £700 with deposit three. That makes the total potential value of the welcome package £1000, with the caveat that you have to spend big on your third deposit to get the full value of it. The Winner Island FAQ makes clear that all bonuses at the casino are subject to x30 wagering, which is fine by international iGaming standards.

Other Promotions

If you want the best of the ongoing bonuses that Winner Island has to offer, you’ll have to join the casino’s Telegram channel. That’s where “new drops” from the casino’s management land, so if you don’t have the app, you’re missing out on the fun. Unfortunately, the fact that no further details are offered means that we can’t tell you whether or not the rewards merit the effort it takes to download the app if you don’t have it already.

If you’ve had your fill of the Telegram bonuses (or just don’t want to download Telegram), Winner Island also offers a series of cash drop bonuses across its games, similar in nature to the Drops and Wins bonuses offered on Pragmatic Play slots. A surprise reward could land at random at any time on almost any slots game, and the casino keeps a £10,000,000 prize pot aside to ensure the promotion is well-funded. Extended acca bonuses are also available to football bettors, although the casino rather confusingly labels this as a “Treasure Map” bonus.

What are the Pros and Cons of Winner Island Casino?

Featured Slots and Games

Casinos that hold nothing beyond an Anjouan-issued licence sometimes have a hard time attracting slots and other casino games from the best providers in the business. That clearly hasn’t been a problem for the team at Winner Island. Well-known slots are plastered all over the homepage to compete for your attention, including Book of Dead, Gold Blitz: Ultimate, and Wanted: Dead or a Wild. They come from Play’n Go, Games Global, and Hacksaw Gaming, which further underlines the quality in the wider portfolio. Other highlights include Swoll (Shady Lady), Le Fisherman (Hacksaw Gaming), and Coin Fall (Kalamba).

Like most modern international casino brands, Winner Island offers a decent range of live casino and live dealer games, along with a sportsbook. Fans of those categories should be pleased to know that the best live games come from Evolution, including hit game shows like Ice Fishing and Monopoly: Big Baller. The featured sport over in the sportsbook is basketball, which indicates that the casino’s real target market might be the USA, but football betting and all the usual options are also there to be found if you look hard enough. The crash and instant win selection isn’t quite so impressive, but Chicken Road 2 and other reasonably popular titles are available in it.

Withdrawal Options and Speed

There isn’t a specific Payments page linked to the Winner Island homepage, which is an oversight on the design team’s part, but we’re happy to go off the logos that appear above the games on the homepage. They include Mastercard and Visa, which is the basics covered, plus Google Pay, Apple Pay, MiFinity, CashtoCode, and Bitcoin. There’s no suggestion that Winner Island works with other forms of crypto, so it looks like Bitcoin’s all you have if that’s how you want to play. The withdrawal process is simply too slow, though – 24-48 hours just to process a request, followed by a further 3-5 day wait regardless of which method you’ve selected.

Customer Support and License

Live chat is available throughout the day and night at Winner Island, so that’s the best (and only) way to get in touch if you can’t find the answer you’re looking for in the casino’s FAQ and Help Centre sections. Winner Island is covered by the Internet Gaming Licence that BitzEnt Ltd hold with Anjouan Gaming, and this same licence can be extended if the operator chooses to launch any Winner Island sister sites in the future. It’s not a UK-approved licence, though, and the fact remains that Winner Island can’t legally accept registrations or deposits from players in the UK.

Winner Island – The Verdict

We had high hopes for this casino, and for the main part, we feel like they’ve been met. It might have a tropical island theme, but it certainly hasn’t left us feeling shipwrecked or adrift. The welcome bonus is nice if you’re prepared to throw down a few large opening deposits, and the portfolio of slots is of excellent quality. Where things go awry is with the withdrawal process, which is simply too slow by modern standards. Players who have become accustomed to instant withdrawals from Bitcoin-supporting casinos elsewhere will expect more from it. We still think it could be a fun place to play if you’re not based in the UK, though.