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This is the full back catalogue of the promo desk and the betting-news desk: every dated post on the site, grouped by what it covered. Nothing here has been rewritten to look current. A post that was written for one weekend still reads as that weekend, and that is the point of an archive — the offers change, the way the offers are built does not.

For what is live right now, use the hubs instead: the sportsbook hub, the current sportsbook promo codes, how betting works state by state, and the guides and blog.

Super Bowl week is the one weekend a year when a sportsbook will take a bet on almost anything, and the coverage below was written as those markets opened. It is kept here because the mechanics repeat every season: how the prop menu is built, which side of a prop the book keeps for itself, and what a sign-up offer is actually worth once it is tied to a single game.

College basketball brings the widest spread between what a book offers a new customer and what the same book offers in February. These pages tracked conference tournaments and the Final Four round by round, and they show how quickly a promo attached to one game disappears once the game is played.

Kentucky went live with sports betting after its neighbours, and every book on the market bought attention in the same week. The archive is a useful record of a launch: pre-registration offers, the day-one scramble, and the questions players asked before the first legal bet was taken.

North Carolina repeated the pattern a season later, with the tournament calendar landing in the middle of the launch. Read together with the Kentucky pages, it shows which parts of a launch offer are standard across the industry and which are the operator trying something.

Through the NFL season the same books rewrite the same offer every Thursday, and the pages below caught each rewrite as it happened. They are worth skimming before you accept a mid-season promotion: the wording changes far more often than the value does.

Racing, baseball, the draft and the odd futures market that only trades for a few weeks. These are the markets where a book posts a number and then leaves it alone, which is exactly why they are the ones worth reading up on before you bet.

Everything else from the promo desk, newest first. The offers named in these posts have long since been replaced — the current ones live on the sportsbook promo hub — but the read-through on terms, playthrough and payout timing still holds.