At some point a sportsbook will limit your account — cut your max stake to a few dollars, stop offering you bonuses, or restrict your markets. In the community this is called being "gubbed." It's normal, expected, and not a sign you did anything wrong. These books make money from losing customers, and you're not one. Take it as a compliment.
Here's the honest truth most sites skip: the big welcome-offer money is finite. Every state has a countable list of new-customer offers, and once you've worked through the books available to you, that windfall is done — usually over a few weeks to a couple of months. Getting gubbed just ends that first phase a little sooner on that one book.
So the game changes — and this pivot separates people who make $50 and quit from people who keep earning:
Ongoing promos & reloads
Even limited accounts often still get reload offers — profit boosts, odds specials, insurance, bet-and-gets. Each is smaller than a welcome offer, but they refresh every week, and you hedge them exactly like you converted your first bonus. (That's what the Reload feed is for.)
+EV betting
When a book prices something wrong — better odds than the true probability — betting it has positive expected value. Any single one can lose, but placed consistently over dozens of plays, the maths pays. This is a longer game that needs discipline, not a locked per-bet profit.
Manage your accounts
Spread your activity, mix in some normal-looking bets, and don't go all-in on one book — it extends how long each account stays useful.
This is why the journey splits in two: the welcome offers get you your first profit and prove the maths; everything after — reloads and +EV — is the ongoing game.