Vegas Rio Casino

Vegas Rio Casino is an online gambling house which has been around since 2020, when it first opened its virtual doors. Even though it is far from new, the casino has a decent amount of interesting features to offer, like its many bonuses. However, being operational for three years makes certain aspects of what Vegas Rio Casino have to offer much worse, because there was a lot of time to fix them. For example, the Deposits page does not seem to load properly, and the Game providers of the casino are not listed at all.

But that is far from all of the disadvantages of the house. There is also its unclear regulatory status and the limited number of payment options it accepts too. It seems like a careful and thorough look into everything the casino has to offer is necessary in order to determine whether it is a good place to bet or not. The full review below will give you just that, so read on if you are interested in playing with Vegas Rio Casino:

Bonuses

A list of all of the promotions run by the casino, as well as their most important details, is available here:

What stands out about them has to be the fact that the maximum amount of bonus funds you can get is not specified for either one of the bonuses. Yet the bonuses have a lot of things in common with each other, which we would like to cover.

Firstly, the promotions which demand a deposit be made before they can be granted to the player all have the same minimum deposit requirement. That is set to $30, and such a requirement is way over what we would consider acceptable! Most of the casinos which have similar bonuses require you to deposit $20 at most to get them. Either way, there is a good amount of promotions which don't require any amount of funds to be cashed in too.

Secondly, all but one of the bonuses have the same wagering requirement of 30x for Slot games and 60x for Table games and Live gaming. Now, a wagering requirement is one of the most common part of casino bonuses nowadays, but what does it mean? Well, it represents the amount of times you are to turn a bonus over before being allowed to cash it out. And normally, that amount is between 30x and 40x, so, as far as slot games are concerned, it is a fair amount. The 60x turnover might seem excessive, but most casinos restrict the amount that table games contribute to the wagering requirement. On average, around 20% of every bet on them counts towards filling the requirement. If there is a 30x wagering requirement and they contribute 20% towards it, that effectively means you have a 150x requirement to deal with. So Vegas Rio Casino has quite competitive requirements for its players.

Third, there is a cash-out limit of 10x the initial deposit. What does that mean? Well, a cash out limit represents the maximum amount of money you can win from a bonus. Anything over that will be discarded by the casino. Normally, 10x is a pretty generous amount. However, most of the bonuses with Vegas Rio Casino grant over 400% of the player funds as bonus money. This means you can expect to cash out around 2.5x of the money you receive as part of them, on average. That is still not all that bad, but it is more restrictive than most houses out there.

With these specifics in mind, here is a more thorough look into the promotions, starting with the Welcome Bonuses:

• The first of these you can claim is the Welcome Free Spins. That is a No Deposit bonus, which means you don't need to cash in anything to get the Spins, which is a great incentive  for new players!
• They will also have access to the Welcome Deposit Bonus. This promotion is an alternative to the Welcome Bous Package which we will talk about next. Here is how it works: The first time you cash in, you can get 175% of the deposited funds as a bonus.
• The Welcome Bonus Package, on the other hand, covers the first three times you cash in. The difference between it and the other promotion is that you get 100% of the funds you deposit with the first deposit. The following two times you top up your account, you get 150% of the funds as bonus money. The Welcome Deposit Bonus is great for players who want a higher one-time reward, while the Package grants more to people who are willing to play with Vegas Rio Casino for longer.
• There is a bonus called Pho Sho. It grants the player a significant amount of bonus money to play the BetSoft game with the same title. You can get up to 550% of the funds you cash in!
• To make your summer more relaxing, you can opt in to the Perfect Summer Bonus. There is no information on how long this promotion will be available, but we do not presume it to be available outside of the summer. Regardless, it has a generous 450% bonus for the deposits you make.
• A special promotion can be claimed by depositing with a credit card. This is the so-called Visa Bonus. The promotion is actually quite limited. Firstly, credit card payments are banned for casinos in some countries. Secondly, not everyone uses a Visa card in particular. Nevertheless, if you have access to it, this is actually a fairly decent bonus. It grants you 475% of the deposit made with the card as promotional funds to use as you please.
• To celebrate your birthday, Vegas Rio Casino offers you a Birthday bonus of $50. Getting it requires you to submit the personal documents that the casino requires as a part of the KYC checks it performs on players.
• The next promotion which the house offers is not described properly at all, and there is very scarce information about it, on the casino's page dedicated to it, and in the Bonus Terms and Conditions. It is a Cashback bonus, which grants you a certain percentage of the losses you have realized while playing with the casino back. The percentage is fairly high and you can recover 30% of your wrong bets, but there is no information on what period of time the losses are counted from. Also, there is no information on the wagering requirement and cash-out limits of the bonus, but we presume them to be the same as with the rest of the promotions of Vegas Rio Casino. If anything, the house is consistent in terms of that!
• Last but not least, there is an exceptionally high bonus for players who deposit using BTC. That is the Vegas Rio BTC Bonus, which grants you 550% of the funds you cashed in as a bonus if you've used BTC to top up your account.

License

Regulation is incredibly important to an online casino. We find it disappointing that Vegas Rio Casino has been online for three years and has still failed to provide its players with any information on who runs the website of the casino and from where, much less a license. That does not automatically mean there is something wrong with the casino, but there are no guarantees that it follows the player-friendly policies mandated by most regulators. Here is what these policies are:

• The data you submit to Vegas Rio Casino as part of its KYC checks was mentioned in the previous section. Aside your birthday, this can contain all the information from your government issued ID that you don't want leaked! That is why regulators make licensed casinos use some of the strongest data encryption protocols out there when storing it.
• Regulators are also concerned with the integrity of the games you can play, too. That is why they require them to undergo audits. These are preformed by independent experts, selected by the regulator. They go over the random number generators which are used in the games to determine their outcomes, and check what the expected percentage of player funds is lost with them, on average. This percentage is the RTP rating you can easily find online for most games nowadays!
• Last but not least, a license means that the casino respects the self-exclusion regulatory policies which are commonplace in most jurisdictions these days. These policies are quite varied and can include custom deposit limits and time out warnings players can opt in to. The most extreme of these opt in measures is the closure of a player's account. Measures like these are important in curbing problem gambling and fostering a safer and more enjoyable environment for all players.

All in all, we recommend sticking with licensed casinos to benefit from the abovementioned. Back to Vegas Rio Casino, though, here is a list of the languages the website of the casino can be viewed in, as well as the restricted countries from where no players can sign up:

Languages: English

Restricted countries: Netherlands, United Kingdom, Show All, Belize, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, France, Iran, Iraq, Korea, North, Netherlands Antilles, Singapore, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Spain, Ukraine, United States, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Virgin Islands, British, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Deposit and Withdrawal

Depositing with Vegas Rio Casino can be done via two methods of payments – a variety of credit card providers like MasterCard, Visa and AmericanExpress, and via Crypto. Both of these methods are pretty restrictive. Cards are not available anywhere around the world and your country of residence might have banned them for casino payments. One country which has done that is the UK, for instance. And while crypto is not formally restricted by any government, it is still restrictive due to the high complexity in dealing with the digital assets. Here is what the known details about these payment methods with Vegas Rio Casino are, though:

Currencies: US Dollar (USD), Binance Coin (BNB), Bitcoin (BTC)

Not a lot of information is available at all! Here is why:

The error page popped up consistently when we tried to access the Deposits page. Needless to say, this is quite unprofessional! Things are not much better when it comes to the withdrawal policies of the house – here is what we know of them:

The processing times are pretty much the only thing that is set in stone with Vegas Rio Casino, and they are still too high. The first withdrawal request with the house has to pass its KYC checks too, which is allegedly done within 21 business days at most. That is way too wide of a timeframe!

There is also a requirement to turn over the funds you have deposited at least once to be able to withdraw. That is a common measure as a part of the anti money laundering policies of casinos. We also know that there is no maximum limit on withdrawal requests and you can cash out as much as you have cashed in, which is great.

Also, there are no fees to penalize inactive account users.

Games and Game Suppliers

One of the biggest issues with the casino is the fact it does not list its game suppliers at all. Neither does it mention who developed any of the games it features. This makes it very difficult to measure how many game studios it has partnered with. Going by their titles, we are sure the following suppliers offer their software to players with Vegas Rio Casino:

Game providers: Betsoft, Iron Dog Studio, Triple Edge Solution, Other

Once again, the casino has been online for three years but has not sought to fix this issue! This is not exactly professional. Here are the games you can play themselves:

• Slots: The vast majority of games in this category are by BetSoft, with titles like Pho Sho, Heart's desire, Charms and Treasures and so on. BetSoft is a great developer, but only having its slots, and those of Iron Dog means there is a lot of classics which are just missing from the catalog of the casino!
• Table Games: Here you can play only Blackjack and Roulettes. There are under 10 variations of these games in total, which is a depressingly low number too.
• Live Games: The only live dealer games with Vegas Rio Casino are a single Poker table and a single Baccarat one. Needless to say, this is pretty lackluster. Game shows are missing altogether too, which is also quite disappointing.
• There are no Crash Games, and fans of Plinko, Aviator and Minesweeper XY will have to look elsewhere to play them.

Conclusion

We are not inclined to recommend this casino. Its drawbacks are way too many and way too serious for that. From its restrictive deposit policies, to the long withdrawal processing times, this is not a competitive way to run a casino! And whoever is running it is not licensed as of the time of writing either. But the biggest issue we have with this house has to be the fact that there is barely anything to play here! That is why we recommend checking out one of the other, better, casinos we have covered, listed at the top and at the bottom of this article.