Chumba Casino

Been trying to find out what their deal was. How do they manage to run an online social casino, so fluently, and turn a healthy profit. After guardedly sifting through, more-than-several - let's put it that way - reviews of this brand on the internet, only a site called Playtenn had the least jokerish answer to my very valid query. Their players get *free* sweep coins, used to win prizes, which can then be conveniently exchanged for withdrawable cash. But, after the expiry of the free-love from Chumba (name is weird but we'll ruminate a little later), one has to buy Gold coins, and for that, one can pocket an equal number of sweep coins too. Yes, I know, the idea can be crazy mazy for a newbie to grasp. Took me some time to figure out their genius.

Chumba is a "free" social casino that is not free. Makes sense? Doesn't, but that's what it is. One still ends up, doing silly spending worth hundreds or even thousands of dollars, buying Gold coins, to *magically* earn the same number of *free* sweep coins, that can be emptied on slot titles - there's also table games like Blackjack and Video Poker - and in the case of a win, redeemable through cash. This is the least complicated explanation, I could reflectively manage to pull off, without sounding too pedantic.

Now let's come to its name; Chumba. It has two sides, one joyous, the other pathetically ugly. One one side, it's a form of lively, local music of the Garifuna people, but on the other hand, it's also used as the N-word-alternative to refer to a person of color in the Spanish language. Irony is that the Spanish are one the most tolerant and culturally oceanic people on the planet. Let's just believe that the people behind Chumba had the dancing version in mind, and had zero clue about the other. This is just something, I found while digging up its meaning. I'm not assuming anything.

Chumba is owned by VGW group, a company that also operates LuckyLand Slots and Global Poker. Chumba most probably serves as the legal version of their existence. Lottery-styled sweepstake social casinos aren't illegal in the United States. Whether its founding was a genuine attempt to wear the badge of legitness and legality for the ever-flowing American money, or just a now-rather-very-successful adventure into bedizening their other offshore gambling interests, is well, the guesswork of a smart mind.

They brazenly boast having over 1 million players, many winning $250K jackpots. With near-hundred, in-house-designed-and-coded slot titles and access to table games, they sort of deserve having this large-scale balance sheet of customers. Why not, it's a free casino account, with a chance to win free money, in a free country. Gambler or not, anyone would want a snuffle, at least once. Pertinent to mention here, that one still needs his lucky stars to award $100-worth of winnings before a withdrawal can be requested. They take about 5 days for ID verification, and 48 hours for processing payments - it's even more swift if you have their Prepaid Mastercard. I mean, that's the official signage. What happens on the battlefield is another script. Support is relatively slow, and done through email and a ticket system.

Users on Reddit and TrustPilot hold a slightly above-sub-par view of Chumba. Possibly because of its size. But the reviews there all revolve around delays in redemption of cash, and sometimes outright rejections. There's also a small group of angry people on there, who had always believed they were playing free sweepstakes, but actually ended up spending tens of thousands of dollars on buying Gold coins to get free SC coins, and then losing it all. Call it naivety, or what.

Humans have an unstrippable natural tendency to become bored. And at some point, Chumba casino will look and feel unattractive. So, it makes legit sense to explore - even if it's just popping in to say hello - other options such as, the EGR Award winner High 5 Casino; free 5,000 gold coins offering Pulsz; Wow Vegas that releases new games every week; Stake.us that Drake endorses; McLuck that's becoming mainstream due to its VIP program; or its sister site Luckyland Slots that posts real-life, non-fake pictures of its winners on its website. I know, I know, this list is rather long, but at least I can't be blamed for the lack of comprehensiveness.

And if you want to give real money gambling a try, sites like FanDuel, BetRivers (speaking of which, this one also has a social casino called BetRivers.NET) and DraftKings can also be examined.

Being legal in the US, Chumba Casino isn't devoid of an app, has one for both, called the Chumba Lite for App Store and Google Play, plus its platform works fine on smartphone browsers too.

Gold coins can be bought through cards, PayPal and bank transfers. Mere signing up there will land you with free 2 Million (yes a million with an M) gold coins and 3 free sweep coins.

Sweepstakes, real money or virtual - it's all gambling, set in stone. Chumba may wear a mask of a free social gaming site, but at its atomic core, it's still an online casino.

There isn't anything exciting about Chumba that Americans are going nuts for. At least with a real casino, one can enjoy peerless delectables. A real casino isn't ashamed of what it is. It will not hide behind a curtain.

If you've got a hankering for it, might as well head out there and have a blast; zero money lost. But, it wouldn't hurt to search for places that aren't dramatic proxies.

Official website address: www.chumbacasino.com

Christopher Meyers

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