Figures read 26 October 2026 Bill U06, first printing
Non Gamstop Paysafe casinos: nothing prompts a deposit limit, and 15 free rounds come to £2.16
Fifteen rounds at 25p show a face of £3.75, and £3.60 of that lands as balance at the whole-market return this bill names. A demand of ten times takes £1.44 and leaves £2.16. Fifteen rounds bought at 25p stake £3.75 and hand back £3.60, so the cost is 15p and nothing is owed at the end of them, which leaves £2.31 between the two findings, or 9.24 rounds. A prepaid voucher puts a ceiling on what can be loaded, and that ceiling is not the limit the rules are about. The regulated one has a prompt behind it, and away from the register nothing prompts anybody.
| What is being priced | Priced as a free round | Priced as a paid round | The gap between the two |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loaded before a round | nothing | £3.75 | £3.75 |
| Face of fifteen at 25p | £3.75 | £3.75 | none |
| Landing as balance | £3.60 | £3.60 | none |
| Price of the demand | £1.44 | nothing owed | minus £1.44 |
| What it comes to | £2.16 | minus 15p | £2.31, or 9.24 rounds |
What the free round comes to £2.16 £3.60 of balance with nothing loaded behind it, less £1.44 for a demand set at the British ceiling. What the paid round comes to minus 15p Fifteen rounds loaded and played, costing what a return keeps and leaving nobody owing anything. The gap, in money and in rounds £2.31, 9.24 rounds One finding against the other, then the same distance read off in rounds at a quarter each.
Free rounds and what each asks in return
Paid placements are what these addresses are. A registration made through one brings this publisher a fee. Neither quote knows which address is which, and no figure on a bout would differ if it did.
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01Free Play Arena
Betportal
Thirty-five times, three deposits
What the free side comes tonothing150 rounds at 10c, across a play-through of 35 timesWhat the same play costs paid forminus 60cthe identical play behind the reader's own stake, where the only cost is the return itself and no play-through is owedThe distance, in money and in rounds60cthe two findings subtracted, and the same distance said again as 6 rounds at the stake aboveOffered free
How the free side is pricedA count of rounds the offer stakesRounds counted150 roundsWorth of one round10cstated by this publisher, as a quantity of the money this offer is quoted in, no operator having valued a round of its ownCredited as a sumunpublishedCredit waiting on a paymentstated300% over three deposits, ceiling €1,000The face of it€15.00Rounds priced at the stake this publisher states, in the money this offer is quoted in, no operator having valued a round of its ownAsked in return
Play-through35 timesthe bonusCredited towards it100 per centno share has been published anywhere, so every penny counts, that being the kindest available reading of the silencePrices out above25 timesagainst the return assumed here and the share above, any play-through beyond this leaves the free quote worth nothing whateverCeiling on winningsstatedFive times the bonusLargest stake while it runs€5.00capping the stake closes off part of whatever range a lobby offers, and keeps it closed while the credit lastsQualifying payment€20.00200 rounds at the worth above, and no price here touches itOne play priced on both sides of the free line Priced step by step With the offer staking With the reader staking The distance What goes in first nothing minus €15.00 €15.00 What the staking hands back €14.40 €14.40 none What the play-through takes minus €20.16 nothing owed minus €20.16 What it comes to nothing minus 60c 60c, or 6 rounds The play-through asked here is at or past 25 times, the point where the condition costs more than it is laid against, so the free side comes to nothing whatever and the distance is the paid cost by itself.
No licence for Great Britain
Licence held in Anjouan, Comoros, by BetPortal Gaming Ltd, with Excite Ultra Media Ltd, under number ALSI-202601040-FI2.
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02Free Play Arena
WinBeast
Five deposits, with a free bet
What the free side comes tonothing500 rounds at 10c, across a play-through of 40 timesWhat the same play costs paid forminus €2.00the identical play behind the reader's own stake, where the only cost is the return itself and no play-through is owedThe distance, in money and in rounds€2.00the two findings subtracted, and the same distance said again as 20 rounds at the stake aboveOffered free
How the free side is pricedA count of rounds the offer stakesRounds counted500 roundsWorth of one round10cstated by this publisher, as a quantity of the money this offer is quoted in, no operator having valued a round of its ownCredited as a sumunpublishedCredit waiting on a paymentstated50% to 100% over five deposits, each ceiling €1,000, with a €650 free betThe face of it€50.00Rounds priced at the stake this publisher states, in the money this offer is quoted in, no operator having valued a round of its ownAsked in return
Play-through40 timesthe bonus and the winnings from the spinsCredited towards it100 per centno share has been published anywhere, so every penny counts, that being the kindest available reading of the silencePrices out above25 timesagainst the return assumed here and the share above, any play-through beyond this leaves the free quote worth nothing whateverCeiling on winningsstated€100 a batch of spinsQualifying payment€20.00200 rounds at the worth above, and no price here touches itOne play priced on both sides of the free line Priced step by step With the offer staking With the reader staking The distance What goes in first nothing minus €50.00 €50.00 What the staking hands back €48.00 €48.00 none What the play-through takes minus €76.80 nothing owed minus €76.80 What it comes to nothing minus €2.00 €2.00, or 20 rounds The play-through asked here is at or past 25 times, the point where the condition costs more than it is laid against, so the free side comes to nothing whatever and the distance is the paid cost by itself.
No licence for Great Britain
Licence held in Curaçao, behind a company the site declines to name.
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03Free Play Arena
EliteSpin
Forty times, five deposits
What the free side comes tonothing500 rounds at 10p, across a play-through of 40 timesWhat the same play costs paid forminus £2.00the identical play behind the reader's own stake, where the only cost is the return itself and no play-through is owedThe distance, in money and in rounds£2.00the two findings subtracted, and the same distance said again as 20 rounds at the stake aboveOffered free
How the free side is pricedA count of rounds the offer stakesRounds counted500 roundsWorth of one round10pstated by this publisher, as a quantity of the money this offer is quoted in, no operator having valued a round of its ownCredited as a sumunpublishedCredit waiting on a paymentstated50% to 100% over five deposits, each ceiling £1,000The face of it£50.00Rounds priced at the stake this publisher states, in the money this offer is quoted in, no operator having valued a round of its ownAsked in return
Play-through40 timesthe bonus and the winnings from the spinsCredited towards it100 per centno share has been published anywhere, so every penny counts, that being the kindest available reading of the silencePrices out above25 timesagainst the return assumed here and the share above, any play-through beyond this leaves the free quote worth nothing whateverCeiling on winningsstatedFive times the bonusQualifying payment£20.00200 rounds at the worth above, and no price here touches itOne play priced on both sides of the free line Priced step by step With the offer staking With the reader staking The distance What goes in first nothing minus £50.00 £50.00 What the staking hands back £48.00 £48.00 none What the play-through takes minus £76.80 nothing owed minus £76.80 What it comes to nothing minus £2.00 £2.00, or 20 rounds The play-through asked here is at or past 25 times, the point where the condition costs more than it is laid against, so the free side comes to nothing whatever and the distance is the paid cost by itself.
No licence for Great Britain
Licence held in Costa Rica, by PrimeTier Limited.
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04Free Play Arena
Nightluck
No play-through published
What the free side comes toNOT STRUCKNot struck in full, for want of the count of rounds this offer puts up.What the same play costs paid forNOT STRUCKNot struck in full, for want of the count of rounds this offer puts up.The distance, in money and in roundsUNPRICEDone of the two sides is short of a figure, so nothing is subtracted here and nothing is struckOffered free
How the free side is pricedA count of rounds the offer stakesRounds countedunpublishedWorth of one round10pstated by this publisher, as a quantity of the money this offer is quoted in, no operator having valued a round of its ownCredited as a sumunpublishedCredit waiting on a paymentstated100% of the first deposit, ceiling £300The face of itunpublishedAsked in return
Play-throughunpublishedThe offer page sends a reader to the terms for the multiple and prints no figure itselfCredited towards it100 per centno share has been published anywhere, so every penny counts, that being the kindest available reading of the silencePrices out above25 timesagainst the return assumed here and the share above, any play-through beyond this leaves the free quote worth nothing whateverCeiling on winningsunpublishedQualifying payment£10.00100 rounds at the worth above, and no price here touches itNot struck in full, for want of the count of rounds this offer puts up.
No licence for Great Britain
The site names no jurisdiction for its licence, behind a company the site declines to name.
Terms read 22 October 2026
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Three quantities on a bout were worked out here. Everything else was transcribed. The free quote comes off E = B × (1 − W × (1 − RTP) ∕ g), where W is whatever play-through the terms demand, g is the proportion of a qualifying stake that counts towards it, RTP is the return assumed of an ordinary slot, and B is whatever is left standing by the time the condition applies. A batch of rounds surrenders part of itself before that point, every round having staked its value and taken the return against it, while a credited sum surrenders nothing at all yet, nothing having gone through the machine. Past break-even the charge exceeds whatever it is charged against, and the free quote settles at nothing rather than below it, nothing being removable beyond what turned up.
The paid side is cost = N × s × (1 − RTP), and it is the figure that makes this bill different from every other ranking in this network. The identical count of rounds at the identical stake, with the reader's own money behind them, hands the margin over once and owes nothing afterwards, there being no credit to turn over and no ceiling to come under. So the two sides are not two readings of one offer. They are one play at two prices, and the distance between them is what the word free is worth on that bout, said as a sum and said again as a count of rounds, because a reader counts in rounds and pays in money.
Read the reckoning downwards and the distance column adds up to the finding. It opens at whatever the paid side has to put in before a round turns, loses whatever the free side gives up that the paid side does not, and closes at the answer, so the bout can be checked without any of it being worked again. A step where both sides move alike leaves the distance reading none, which says the return treats the two the same way there and the distance is made somewhere else.
On a bout whose free half is a demo, both of its own figures are nought and neither one is approximate. Cash has no route out of a demo, so a demo balance showing five hundred pounds settles at nought, and the distance comes out at exactly what buying the rounds costs. Those noughts are findings rather than figures somebody held back. Where a figure really is absent, one of three words takes its place instead. Stated means a condition written out in sentences, which costs something and offers nothing to subtract. Unpublished means a condition written down nowhere whatever. Unpriced means a count published clearly enough, with nothing anywhere putting a value on one of them. None of the three conceals an approximation, and nobody here is credited with a figure they never supplied.
Two figures on every bout belong to this publisher and are stated rather than read. The return both sides are worked at is a general industry figure for an ordinary slot: it is an assumption of this publisher's, it is not read off any title or off anybody who builds one, and a line that spends it says so where it spends it. The worth of one round is the other, and it is spent only where no operator has put a worth on one of its own, nobody publishing a minimum or a maximum for that and no rule setting either. Every bout spending that figure prints whose figure it is. Everything else in a bout was quoted out of an operator's own terms on the day recorded at its foot.
Four duties written by a Great Britain licence come down on the free column of a bout. None of the four comes down on the paid column, because nothing is advanced there for a condition to attach itself to, and that lopsidedness is the argument of the whole bill. Limb 3(a) of Social Responsibility Code 5.1.1 took effect on 19 January 2026 and forbids a holder to ask that bonus funds be played through more than ten times over. Read the play-through term above against that: anything beyond ten times is a term no British holder could have published. Whether a free round counts as bonus funds for the purposes of that limit has not been published in either direction, so this publisher asserts neither reading of it. Statutory Instrument 2025 No. 215, made on 25 February 2025, inserted regulation 5(2), under which no individual may stake more than £5 on a single game cycle of an online slot, falling to £2 under the age of 25. That limit fastens itself to the operating licence rather than to any game, so beyond the licence a lobby offers whatever stake range it pleases with nothing standing over the top of it. Requirement 3C of the remote technical standards obliges a holder to make the rules of a game available before anybody commits money to it. Both quotes above rest on an assumed return rather than a published one, and that duty is the reason an assumption is needed at all out here. Membership of Gamstop Online is a condition of holding the British licence, so the scheme stretches exactly as far as the licence stretches and no further. An offer licensed beyond it sits outside by construction, and a registration somebody has already completed does not reach this offer. Free and confidential help is on the National Gambling Helpline, 0808 8020 133, answering 24 hours a day on every day of the year.
Any condition quoted on a bout appears in the words of whoever published it, and every bout states the day somebody read it. The furthest back of those days on this bill is 22 October 2026. What binds a reader is an operator's own terms, entire, and never a line of this.
1
Fifteen free rounds at a quarter, £3.75 down to £2.16
The stake on this page is 25p ours, named here and the return 96 per cent, a whole-market figure this publisher states and takes from no title ours, stated not read. Fifteen rounds at 25p show a face of £3.75, and £3.60 of that lands as balance at the whole-market figure just named. The £3.75 came from the cashier. The £3.60 is the reader’s, before anything is asked of it.
The surviving amount is given by E = B × (1 − W × (1 − RTP) ∕ g). Here B is the balance, W the multiple, RTP the return, and g the share a qualifying title puts towards clearing it. Ten times against £3.60 at full weight leaves six tenths standing, which is £2.16, and £1.44 has gone on the demand. Ten times £3.60 is £36.00 of turnover, whose 4 per cent margin is £1.44, which is the same figure the bracket produced.
A British licence will not let a wagering requirement pass ten times the funds advanced, and has not since January 2026 rule sheet, claims 58 and 91. Nothing else published anywhere puts a figure over a multiple, so the ten above is a borrowing rather than a reading. Ten times is the heaviest demand a British licence will allow, so a column built on it stands at its lowest lawful point. £2.16 is a floor rather than an expectation: any multiple under ten returns a larger share of £3.60 than this. Twenty-five times £3.60 is £90.00 of turnover, costing £3.60 at 4p in the pound, which is the balance exactly.
A cashier taking prepaid vouchers for rounds like these carries neither a Great Britain licence nor any equivalent of one, and the limit rules below stop at that boundary. Three of them have figures against this bill. The ten-times ceiling, worth the whole £2.16. The requirement that a customer be asked to set a financial limit when they join or when they first pay, with setting one put forward as the default rule sheet, claims 23 and 31, which is the duty deciding whether a limit exists to be exceeded. And the national scheme, whose reach follows the British licence rule sheet, claim 181, and the scheme concedes in writing that an operator outside it lies past its power rule sheet, claim 183.
2
Fifteen rounds loaded and played, priced in one subtraction
Fifteen rounds bought at 25p stake £3.75 and hand back £3.60, so the cost is 15p and nothing is owed at the end of them. One line of arithmetic with no conditions in it, and a figure that is final the moment the fifteenth round finishes. The reader owns the outcome outright, there being nothing to clear and nobody to ask.
£2.31 needs a label too. Treat it as a floor below the gap rather than a likely figure: the heaviest lawful demand gives the narrowest gap, so the columns are at least that far apart where a licence applies. With no licence in play nothing fixes the demand at either end, so the £2.31 rests on a number this publisher picked and prints as a choice.
Together: £2.16 free, 15p of expected cost paid, £2.31 between the two, and £2.31 at 25p is 9.24 rounds. The second figure is what the sibling publications on this key leave out, and without it a reader has a number and no way of judging whether it is large.
Move those fifteen rounds to a cashier past the edge of the register and the 15p is unchanged, the return being all that sets it. One column of this bill was protected and the other never needed to be, which is the whole of what a register was doing. The free finding is therefore the one that moves, and it moves by whatever the borrowed ceiling was holding up.
fifteen free rounds come to £2.16 under a bound nobody there is held to, cost 15p bought, and leave £2.31 between them, or 9.24 rounds at 25p
3
A till ceiling is not a deposit limit, and who holds the pen
A prepaid voucher caps what can be loaded, and that cap is a real thing which is not the limit the rules are about. Both are ceilings on money going in. One is a property of a piece of paper and the other is an obligation on a business, and the distance between those two ideas is this part’s subject.
A voucher’s ceiling is picked at a till by whoever buys it. A deposit limit is a facility the cashier has to build, offer and then honour. The first requires nothing of the cashier at all, and that is worth saying because a reader looking for a prepaid route is often looking for exactly the self-imposed ceiling the second provides. The two feel similar from the outside and only one of them has a rulebook attached.
Three practical differences follow and each has a figure in it. A voucher’s ceiling applies to one load, so another voucher resets it, where a deposit limit covers a stretch of time whatever arrives inside it. A voucher’s ceiling can be raised by buying a larger one, where a regulated increase waits and then has to be confirmed. And a voucher leaves no record a cashier is obliged to act on, where a limit is an instruction the cashier is obliged to enforce.
A fourth difference exists and few readers would think of it unprompted. A regulated limit is a record the cashier holds and acts on, so it survives a reader forgetting about it. A voucher ceiling survives nothing: the next purchase is a fresh decision taken at a fresh moment, and the moment a person is least likely to choose well is exactly the moment that decision arrives. That is not a figure this bill can price, and it is the reason the rules put the prompt and the cooling-off period where they are.
None of the three touches the £2.16. That figure is decided by the multiple, the weighting and the return, and a ceiling on what goes in does not appear in the expression at all. What the ceiling decides is the size of the paid column over a period, which is a different and in most cases larger question. A reader who wants both answers needs both columns, which is why this bill prints both.
4
Six published figures standing behind one deposit limit
Six published figures stand behind a deposit limit on the licensed side, and the table gives them with what each one does. Their sources run from claim 23 to claim 31 on the rule sheet rule sheet, claims 23 to 31. None is a courtesy and none is at the cashier’s discretion.
| What the standard fixes | The figure | What it achieves |
|---|---|---|
| when the prompt arrives | registration, or the first payment | a limit before any play |
| how a limit is entered | a free text box, at account level | the reader picks the number |
| periods offered | a day, a week, a month | a choice of three at least |
| a reduction | immediate | nothing stands in the way |
| an increase | a day’s wait, then confirmed | two separate acts |
| a review prompt | every six months while active | the limit is revisited |
The asymmetry in rows four and five is the most carefully built thing on the list. Coming down is instant and going up is slow, which means a limit set in a calm hour cannot be undone in an impulsive one. That is a protection with a shape rather than a slogan, and arithmetic can respect it without being able to put a price on it.
Row one is the row this page’s finding turns on. A limit that is never offered is a limit that does not exist, and a limit presented as the default, with a positive act needed to decline it, is a different thing again from one buried in a settings menu. Both of those are British requirements. Neither of them is a property of a voucher, and neither follows a reader to a cashier the licence does not cover.
5
The overlap example worked, and £36.00 of turnover in rounds
The regulator works the overlap example itself, and the second table carries it alongside what the answer buys in rounds at the stake assumed here. Where a reader has set two periods, the tighter of them governs, and the published illustration puts a daily figure beside a weekly one rule sheet, claim 27.
| The line | The figure | At 25p a round |
|---|---|---|
| daily limit set | £10 | 40 rounds |
| weekly limit set | £100 | 400 rounds |
| what the system must allow | £10 a day, £70 a week | 280 rounds a week |
| turnover a ten-times demand needs | £36.00 | 144 rounds |
Seventy pounds a week at 25p a round would fund 280 rounds if each pound were staked once, and £36.00 of turnover is 144 of them. So clearing a ten-times demand on a £2.16 free round would absorb a little over half the week a reader had already limited themselves to. That is the sharpest thing this key has to offer, and it is arithmetic on a figure the regulator worked rather than a figure anybody invented.
Two cautions belong with that comparison. The first is that turnover and deposits are not the same quantity: a pound can be staked more than once as winnings recycle, so 144 rounds of turnover need not mean £36.00 of fresh money. The second is that the £10 and £100 in the example are the regulator’s illustration of how overlapping periods resolve and not a recommendation about what anybody should set. Both cautions make the comparison weaker and both are true, so both are printed.
What survives the cautions is the ratio, and the ratio is the point. A free round of fifteen produces a demand whose turnover is a substantial fraction of a week’s play at a limit the regulator itself used as an illustration. The free round looks small. The obligation attached to it does not, and that mismatch is the thing this site exists to compute.
6
What it means that nothing prompts anybody at all
Before that, one figure for the paid column over a period, because this key invites it. At the resolved weekly figure of £70 a reader could stake 280 rounds at a quarter each, and 4p in each pound of that turnover is £2.80 of expected cost. Set the £2.16 free finding beside it and the free round is worth about three quarters of a week’s expected cost at that ceiling. That comparison is the clearest thing a limit does for a reader: it turns an open-ended question into a bounded one.
Take the prompt away and nothing else on the list can happen. A reader who was never asked at registration, never shown a limit as the default, and never asked again six months later has no limit to reduce instantly and no increase to confirm twice. The whole apparatus in part four rests on the first row, and the first row is a condition of a licence rather than a feature anybody builds for its own sake.
That is what this key’s finding amounts to. A prepaid instrument gives a reader a ceiling they can choose at a till, and a licensed cashier gives them one the cashier must build and honour. The second is the stronger of the two by every measure in part four, and it is the one that stops at the licence. A reader buying a voucher instead has substituted a thing they control once for a thing somebody else was obliged to maintain.
One further figure sits on the same side of the line. Light-touch financial checks start above a £150 net deposit inside one month, a threshold the regulator set in February 2025, and the £3.75 face above is a fortieth of it rule sheet, claim 48. A free round of fifteen is nowhere near that line, which is the right way round: the threshold is built for sustained spending and not for a count of free rounds.
A last word on what a voucher is good for, since this page has spent four parts on what it is not. A fixed load is a real constraint on one occasion and nobody should pretend otherwise. It stops a single sitting running past a figure chosen in advance, it leaves no stored instrument behind it, and it requires a decision before money moves rather than after. Those are three genuine properties and none of them is a substitute for a facility a business is obliged to build, offer, enforce and revisit.
The comparison this page makes is between a thing a reader does for themselves and a thing somebody else is made to do for them, and the second is the one that vanishes with the licence. Two sources behind that part of the finding, both on the rule sheet: the prompt and the default sit at claims 23 and 31, and the timing of a reduction and an increase at claim 29 rule sheet, as cited. A reader who wants to see what a limit is worth in rounds can do the sum on any figure they like, since a period limit divided by a stake is a count and nothing more complicated than that.
Where those checks apply, the regulator records that neither they nor the separate pilot of enhanced assessments affects anybody’s credit rating rule sheet, claim 49. That is worth stating because the belief that they do is a reason some readers give for looking past the register, and the published position is the opposite. Nothing on this page describes a route anywhere; it records what the published position is.
7
The weighting, the point the balance dies, and a demo
Weighted at 30p in the pound, £36.00 of owed contribution becomes £120.00 of turnover costing £4.80 against a balance of £3.60 rule sheet, claim 96. The demand is larger than the balance, the result floors at nothing, and the ceiling the column stands on has not been passed. g goes in at one for want of any printed weighting, and the line using it says as much.
| What is asked | Turnover | Left of £3.60 |
|---|---|---|
| ten times, full weight | £36.00 | £2.16 |
| twenty times, full weight | £72.00 | 72p |
| twenty-five times, full weight | £90.00 | nothing |
| ten times, 30p weighting | £120.00 | nothing |
Read the bottom pair of rows against each other and the exposure takes shape. There are two independent roads to an empty free column, one through the multiple and one through the weighting, and only the first of them is bounded anywhere. An offer can sit inside the British ceiling on the figure it advertises and empty the column through the figure it does not.
Nought both ways for a demo. There is no exit for money from a demo, so a demo balance of £500.00 is a display and not a sum. A demo puts nought in the free column at every entry, and the distance then reads 15p. Both noughts are exact and neither is an estimate, which is the only figure on the site needing no assumption behind it at all.
8
Every figure gathered, and the limits that are missing
Gathered: £3.75 of face, £3.60 of balance, £1.44 for a ten-times demand, £2.16 free, 15p of expected cost paid, £2.31 of distance, 9.24 rounds. Behind them £36.00 of turnover at ten times, £90.00 where the balance dies, £120.00 at a weighting of 30p in the pound, and 144 rounds of turnover against the 280 a £70 weekly ceiling would fund.
Per round the distance is 15.4p, or just under 62 pence for every pound staked, and that proportion is what a reader can carry to a different count. Thirty rounds at the same stake would show £7.50 of face, £7.20 of balance, £2.88 of demand and £4.32 free against 30p bought. The pounds change with the count and the proportion does not.
One comparison closes the account. Thirty rounds would double every line: £7.50 of face, £7.20 of balance, £2.88 of demand, £4.32 free, 30p bought, £4.62 apart. Seven rounds would roughly halve it: £1.75 of face, £1.68 of balance, 67p of demand, £1.01 free, 7p bought, £1.08 apart. The arithmetic is linear in the count, so one per-round figure reads any offer of this shape, and the per-round figure here is 15.4p of distance.
Linearity earns a sentence of its own, since it is what makes a small count worth writing about at all. A free round of fifteen looks trivial beside a free round of a hundred and fifty, and in pounds it is. In proportion the two are identical, and the proportion is the thing a reader is actually choosing between when they choose between cashiers.
This key’s answer to the question the section asks. A free round at a cashier taking prepaid money is worth less where the register does not reach, by the same mechanism as every other key here, and the purchase costs 15p wherever it happens. The addition this key makes is that the ceiling a reader thinks they are buying with a voucher is not the ceiling the rules build, and the one the rules build is the one that disappears.
The absences, each sourced: a reader asked to set a financial limit when they join or first pay; that limit put forward as the default, with an act needed to refuse it; three periods at the least, measured in days, weeks and months; a reduction biting at once; an increase waiting and then confirmed; a review twice a year; checks above a monthly deposit threshold; a requirement held to ten times at the most; identity settled first, bonus play included rule sheet, claim 18; and a national register whose single signature reaches every operator Britain licenses. No item there is something to be got past, and nothing above describes an attempt. The two figures to keep are £2.16 and 15p.
Questions
- What are fifteen free rounds worth at a cashier outside the register
- At least £2.16 where a licence holds the demand down, and nothing held down elsewhere. A face of £3.75 at 25p a round lands £3.60 of balance at this bill’s assumed return, and a ten-times demand costs £1.44 of it. Twenty-five times would take the £3.60 entire, and nothing out there bounds the demand at either end.
- What do the same fifteen rounds cost when a reader loads the money
- 15p in expectation. £3.75 is staked, £3.60 returns at the rate assumed, and the 15p left is the whole margin over fifteen rounds at a quarter each. Nothing is owed afterwards and the figure does not change with the cashier.
- Is a prepaid voucher’s ceiling the same as a deposit limit
- It is not. A voucher’s ceiling is picked at a till by whoever buys it. A deposit limit is a facility the cashier has to build, offer and then honour, with a prompt behind it, periods to choose from, an instant reduction and a delayed increase.
- Which of the two is the stronger protection
- The regulated limit, by every measure. It covers a period rather than a single load, it cannot be raised in one action, it is presented as the default with a positive act needed to decline, and it is revisited twice a year while an account is in use.
- How much play does a ten-times demand on £3.60 absorb
- £36.00 of turnover, which is 144 rounds at a quarter each. Set against the regulator’s own worked example of a £10 daily and £100 weekly limit resolving to £70 a week, that weekly figure would fund 280 rounds if each pound were staked once, so the demand absorbs a little over half of it.
- Do financial checks affect a reader’s credit rating
- The regulator records that they do not, and says the same of the separate pilot of enhanced assessments. Light-touch checks begin above a £150 net deposit inside one month, a threshold the regulator set in February 2025, and a free round of fifteen is nowhere near that line.
- Does the £2.16 survive a weighting below full
- It does not. £36.00 of owed contribution at 30p in the pound needs £120.00 of turnover, which costs £4.80 against a £3.60 balance, so the figure floors at nothing with the ceiling this page stands on unexceeded.
- Fifteen rounds in a demo, priced on the same basis
- Nought both ways. There is no exit for money from a demo, so a demo balance of £500.00 is a display and not a sum. A demo puts nought in the free column at every entry, and the distance then reads 15p.