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A Beginners Guide To Enveloping With Online Casinos

Oct 31, 2025

If you've ever read through a casinos terms of service, you'll notice the entry rules have a feature known as "AMOE" or Alternative Method of Entry. The first method is usually free coins given out when logging in, and the second involves sending in a post card with a unique code generated when logged into the casino. You generate the code, follow specific instructions to hand write a request on a notecard to the casino’s address with the code, and in a month or two they will credit your account with a set amount of coins based on the number of envelopes they deem valid. And here's the kicker, you can generate a code every day with most of these casinos and send in a large number of requests at a time. In the world of sweepstakes-style online casinos, enveloping is a unique way to claim free play credits — known as “Sweeps Coins” or “Gold Coins” — by sending a request through the mail.

Understanding Return to Player: The Frugal Gambler’s Guide to RTP

Oct 9, 2025

RTP RTP RTP, you hear it all the time when talking about casinos. But what does it actually mean and how does it work? If you could peek behind the curtain of every slot machine or online casino game, you’d find one number quietly deciding how much of your money comes back: RTP, short for Return to Player. RTP is the percentage of total money wagered on a game that is expected to be returned to players over time. It’s not a guess or marketing term, it’s a mathematical measurement of how generous (or stingy) a game is. The Frugal Gambler will break down more about it and how you can use it to your advantage.

How To Build a Bankroll With Casino Signup Bonuses

Jun 18, 2025

Hello Frugal Gamblers, and welcome to our article that explains how to use casino signup bonuses to build your initial bankroll. No-deposit signup bonuses help you start building an initial bankroll with each casino.  When you sign up, each casino will offer you a certain amount of real money currency to use in their casino.   This will vary with each Casino and could be as little as $1 or as much as $10.

Why You Should Use a Dedicated Email With Online Casinos

Jun 9, 2025

Before you get started signing up with casinos and building your bankroll with dailies and/or big coupons, let's talk about your email.  Casinos are going to send you....A LOT of emails.  I'm not talking about a few per week, I'm talking about multiple daily emails from most casinos. There isn't a huge variance in what you're going to get from an email provider, but there are 3 that I like better than the rest.

The Ultimate Guide to Online Casino Banking for Newbies

Jun 4, 2025

Hello Frugal Gambler newbie and welcome to our guide about online casino banking!  While a lot of casinos support traditional bank accounts, there are also some that don't.  These casinos use a variety of different payment methods and we'll help you get your money in-and out-of the casino as smoothly as possible.

How To Be A Frugal Gambler - The 6 Commandments

Feb 11, 2025

There are a number of things I do to maximize my ability to earn from online casinos. A shining light, if you will, on my path to solid beer money.  Being a Frugal Gambler isn't easy.  It takes discipline, and playing by a set of rules to build a bankroll that gives you better odds to cash out winnings.  In some ways, we're the anti gamblers, using every advantage presented to bring home the bacon. Without further adieu, the 6 Frugal Gambler Commandments:

Frugal Gambler Site Update 1.1

Feb 8, 2025

It's been a wild week since we officially launched.  We've added another 200 members to our community and you all have collected just about $3,500 in free spins so far.  So I salute you FOFG (friends of the frugal gambler)!  On my end I made good on my promise to add more casinos, adding support for another 18 that provide daily login bonuses.  I've still got more on my list to work through, verify and provide support for but I'm going to add about another 10 next week.  I just released update 1.1 of the website with a focus on mobile usability and speed, while also deploying the basis for our user profile system.  Don't worry about customizing your profiles just yet, I'll be adding quite a few more features and making them more interactive next week.  For those of you using your money feed daily you'll also notice the links open must faster now as I've moved processing to the background. 

Getting Started With The Frugal Gambler

Jan 28, 2025

The Frugal Gambler helps you maximize your bankroll by reminding you to log in through a notification system on your money feed.  Your money feed is a list of casinos you build on our site and set your bonus alerts to be sent either via email or push notification to the device of your choice. You can set the interval you want to receive these alerts and add or remove casinos at any time.  The goal of The Frugal Gambler is to help you earn at least $1,000 a year from online casinos and make the process as efficient for you as possible so you can earn money while enjoying your gambling hobby.