Figures read 26 October 2026 Bill A12, first printing
Live casino UK: there is no free version at all, so a hundred and fifty paid hands cost £6.00
A seat at a dealt table has no free version, which is why the free column below says so at every line instead of carrying a figure. A hundred and fifty hands at the £1.00 this publisher assumes put £150.00 across the table, and at 96 per cent, a general return this domain supplies and could not read off a dealer, £144.00 comes back, so the session costs £6.00. The gap is therefore £6.00, which is six hands, because there is nothing on the free side to take off it and no simulation anywhere that would have reduced it.
| What is being priced | Priced as a free round | Priced as a paid round | The gap between the two |
|---|---|---|---|
| Needed to take a seat | no such seat | £150.00 | £150.00 |
| Paid back over the session | no such seat | £144.00 | minus £144.00 |
| Owed when a reader stands up | no such seat | nothing | none |
| What it comes to | none to be had | minus £6.00 | £6.00, or 6 hands |
What the free round comes to none to be had A dealt hand cannot be simulated for a visitor, because the dealer, the stream and the seat all cost somebody money. What the paid round comes to minus £6.00 Four pence held on each pound staked, across a hundred and fifty hands, with nothing owing afterwards. The gap, in money and in rounds £6.00, 6 hands The whole of the paid price, since an absence contributes nothing at all to a subtraction.
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
Why a dealt table cannot have a demo
Everywhere else in this section the free thing is a simulation: a build runs on a server, the counter moves, nothing is at stake and nothing is paid. A dealt table cannot be offered that way, and the reason is not a policy anybody could change. The table is a room with a person in it. A hand dealt to a visitor who has staked nothing occupies a dealer, a camera, a stream and a seat other players wanted, each of which costs the operator money by the minute whether anybody is staking or not.
So the arrangement that would have to exist for a free version to exist does not. A simulated reel costs its operator a fraction of a penny in computing. A simulated dealt hand costs the same as a real one, because the only thing that would be simulated is the stake. That is a structural fact about the product rather than a complaint about the market, and it is checkable by anybody: open a lobby, look for a practice mode on a dealt table, and there is not one.
The consequence for this bill is the point of the page. Every other guide in this section can put a nought in its free column and subtract it from something. This one cannot, because there is no free play of the thing to price at all, not even at nought. What the free column carries instead is a statement of absence, repeated at every line, and the gap column therefore equals the paid column exactly.
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What a free column says when nothing free exists
There is a difference between a column of noughts and a column that reports nothing to measure, and this site is careful about it because the two are easy to run together. A nought is a measurement: a simulated reel was priced and came to nothing. An absence is not a measurement at all: no priceable thing was found, so nothing was weighed and no figure resulted. Writing nought in the free column of this bill would claim to have priced something that is not on offer.
That distinction does real work on the arithmetic. Where the free side is a nought, the gap and the paid price coincide because subtracting nought changes nothing. Where the free side is an absence, the gap and the paid price coincide for a different reason: there is no second term in the subtraction, so the paid price stands alone as the whole distance between what a reader can find out for nothing and what finding out costs.
Both routes reach £6.00 on this page, so the question of whether the distinction earns its keep is a fair one. It matters because of what each implies about the next step. A nought tells a reader that free play exists, is worth nothing in money, and is still worth having for what it shows. An absence tells them that the only way to see the thing at all is to stake, which changes the decision in front of them rather than merely the figure beside it.
3
A hundred and fifty hands funded at a pound
The paid side is ordinary arithmetic. A hundred and fifty hands at £1.00 a stake set by this publisher put £150.00 across the table, and at 96 per cent assumed generally, read nowhere £144.00 comes back, so the session costs £6.00 in expectation. Nothing was advanced, so no turnover hangs over the balance and no list of qualifying games applies, and what remains when a reader stands up is theirs to call for.
Four pence a hand is the per-hand figure, and it is the one worth carrying because the count of hands is what varies. A stake of £1.00 is higher than the stakes used elsewhere in this section, and deliberately: dealt tables post minimums, and a table minimum is a quantity a reader meets rather than chooses. The arithmetic scales exactly, so a reader at a £5.00 table should multiply every figure on this page by five.
| Stake on a hand | Staked across a hundred and fifty | Expected cost |
|---|---|---|
| 50p | £75.00 | £3.00 |
| £1.00 | £150.00 | £6.00 |
| £10.00 | £1,500.00 | £60.00 |
The usual caution is sharper at these stakes than at the pennies used on the reel pages. The expectation over a hundred and fifty hands is six pounds, with a spread about it at £1.00 a hand running into tens of pounds in either direction. On a table whose minimum is £10.00 the same session has an expectation of £60.00 and a spread in the hundreds, and neither figure can be discovered by trying because trying is the thing that costs money.
4
Six pounds of distance, and six hands of it
With nothing to set on the free side, the distance between what a dealt table can be tried for and what it costs is the whole of £6.00, which at £1.00 a hand is six hands. That is the finding, and the six-hand version is the one to keep hold of: the price of discovering what a table is like, at this minimum and this count, is six hands of play, and there is no arrangement under which a reader pays less than that and still sees it.
Read the distance column downwards and it is the paid column with a sign on it. The £150.00 a seat requires opens it, since no seat is available without funding one. The £144.00 coming back off the table comes off it, since nobody unfunded can be dealt to. The line that carries no obligation leaves it alone. And £6.00 closes it, equal to the paid price, because an absence contributes no second term.
a hundred and fifty hands with no free version in existence and minus £6.00 funded, £6.00 apart, which is six hands at a pound
5
How an absence differs from a nought, and why it is sharper
This section of the site is built on a floor: a simulated round returns nothing, always, by construction. That floor is exact and it is also generous in one respect, because it concedes that the free thing exists and can be inspected. A reader can sit with a simulated reel for an hour, learn its pace, its stake range and the shape of its feature, and pay nothing for the lesson. The nought is the value of the play and not the value of the hour.
A dealt table withholds even that. There is no hour to sit through, no pace to observe from the inside, and no feature to watch arrive. Everything a reader might want to know about how the thing actually runs with money on it is behind the stake, which means the floor on this page is lower than the floor everywhere else in the section: not nought, but nothing to measure.
| What the free side offers | What it is worth | What it still shows |
|---|---|---|
| A simulated reel | nought | pace, stakes, features |
| A dealt table | none to be had | nothing from inside |
What that last column holds is the argument of this page entire. A nought leaves a reader with something: a reliable look at the build for nothing. An absence leaves them with the choice between staking and not knowing, and that is a different position to be in. Two keys in this section stand on the second kind of nothing, and this is the one where the absence is a property of the product rather than of a record somebody has not had time to make.
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Three rules about the pace of a dealt game
Since the only way to see a dealt table is to stake at one, the rules governing how fast it can take a stake are the rules that decide what the seeing costs. Three British duties do that work, and a reader should know which of the three applies to a table and which does not apply to anything of this kind at all.
Tables of this kind are dealt from outside the Great Britain licensing regime, so the three duties below bind nothing a reader of this page will meet. Start with pace, since pace is what the money runs at. A licensed casino game other than a reel game has to leave five seconds between starting one cycle and starting the next, a figure the regulator dates to 17 January 2025 rule sheet, so an hour cannot hold more than 720 hands and 720 hands at a pound carry an expected cost of £28.80. Second, a licensed system is not allowed to put several simultaneous games within a customer’s reach, which takes in split screens and any arrangement running two tables together rule sheet. That duty is worth its own sentence on a page like this: two tables at a pound a hand double the hourly figure to £57.60 without the reader doing anything they would describe as playing faster. Third, the statutory stake ceiling of £5 a cycle covers reel games and nothing else rule sheet, so a dealt table carries no ceiling of that kind whatever, and the hundred and fifty hands above would cost £60.00 in expectation at £10.00 a hand rather than £6.00.
Those three say something precise when they are read together. On a reel the pace is capped, the stake is capped and a simulation lets a reader check both for nothing. On a dealt table outside the British regime the pace is uncapped, the stake is uncapped in law and there is no free version in which to inspect either. The two absences compound: the thing a reader most needs to see is the thing they can only see by paying, and what they pay rises with exactly the quantity they cannot check.
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What can be established before any money is staked
The honest version of this page has to say what is available for nothing, because something is. Where a lobby lets a visitor watch a table without taking a seat, what can be seen is the posted minimum and maximum, the dealer working, and how long a round of dealing takes from one settlement to the next. Those are real quantities and two of them feed the sums above: a minimum fixes the stake and the interval fixes the hourly cost.
What cannot be seen is everything that depends on the stake being real. Watching a table does not show how a settlement is handled on the account, what a withdrawal request involves, what happens to a hand when a stream drops, or what the house edge on the particular side bets on offer amounts to. None of those is observable from outside the seat, and each one of them bears on whether the £144.00 in part three is money a reader would actually receive.
So the position is narrower than a nought and wider than nothing. Watching is free and yields two of the four quantities a price needs. Staking is the only way to establish the rest. And no arrangement anywhere on this market converts watching into playing without money changing hands, which is the sense in which this page’s free column is an absence rather than a figure.
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What the absence costs, put as a figure
An absence can be priced, which is the last thing this bill does, and pricing it is more useful than lamenting it. The question is what the smallest session costs that shows a reader how a dealt table behaves with their own money on it. Twenty hands is a fair answer: enough to see several settlements, a run of losses and the rhythm of the table. Twenty hands at £1.00 stake £20.00, and the expected cost is 80p.
Eighty pence is therefore the price of the information that a simulated reel hands over for nothing. It is not a large sum and it is not nothing, and stating it as a figure is what distinguishes this page from one that simply reports a gap. Anybody hoping to learn what a dealt table is like, and expecting to learn it free as they would on a reel, is being charged 80p at a pound a hand and £8.00 at a table of ten.
| Hands needed to see anything | Staked at a pound | Expected cost of looking |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | £10.00 | 40p |
| 20 | £20.00 | 80p |
| 50 | £50.00 | £2.00 |
Two figures close the bill. The session this page prices, a hundred and fifty hands at a pound, costs £6.00 in expectation, which is six hands, and the free side of the comparison does not exist, so that £6.00 is the entire distance. The smaller figure is the one a reader will use: 80p is what it costs to buy the look that a simulation gives away, and there is nowhere on this market where that look is free.
One quantity this bill could not get belongs in the closing paragraph. No source this publisher will cite publishes the house edge on a dealt game or on the side bets offered beside one, and the 96 per cent above is accordingly carried as a general assumption rather than as a reading, declared on every line that spends it. Anybody holding a figure for the table they are looking at should drop it in where the assumption stands, and anybody who finds none has met the usual case.
Questions
- Can I play live casino games for free
- No, and not because anybody is withholding it. A dealt hand occupies a dealer, a camera and a seat, all of which cost by the minute, so the only thing a simulation could simulate is the stake. There is no practice mode on a dealt table to be found.
- What is the cost of a hundred and fifty hands at a pound
- Six pounds in expectation. A hundred and fifty pounds crosses the table and the assumed 96 per cent brings £144.00 of it back. Per hand that is four pence, and a reader at a £10.00 table should multiply every figure by ten.
- Why does this page say no free version rather than nought
- Because a nought is a measurement and an absence is not. Writing nought would claim that something free had been priced and come to nothing. Nothing free was found to price, so the free column reports that instead, and the gap equals the paid price because the subtraction has only one term.
- How fast can a live table take my money
- Under a British licence a casino game other than a reel game is held to five seconds between one cycle and the next, a figure dated to 17 January 2025, so an hour holds at most 720 hands and £28.80 of expected cost at a pound. Beyond that licence no minimum applies at all.
- Is there a stake limit on a live dealer table
- Not a statutory one. The £5 ceiling on a game cycle is written for reel games and reaches no other casino game, so a dealt table is limited only by its own posted maximum. At £10.00 a hand the session above would cost £60.00 rather than £6.00.
- What can I see before I sit down
- Where a lobby lets a visitor watch, the posted minimum and maximum, the dealer working and the interval between settlements. Two of those feed the sums here. What a withdrawal involves, how a dropped stream is handled and the edge on a side bet are not visible from outside the seat.
- What does it cost to find out what a table is like
- About eighty pence at a pound a hand, taking twenty hands as the smallest session that shows a reader anything. Ten hands cost 40p and fifty cost £2.00. That is the price of the look a simulated reel gives away, and nothing on this market gives it away here.