Figures read 26 October 2026 Publisher’s bill, the money
How this site is paid, and which half of the bargain nobody publishes
Some of the links that lead off these pages are paid for. That goes at the top instead of the bottom, since it is the single fact about a domain of this sort that changes how the rest of it should be read. What earns it a page is the lopsidedness. Whatever an advertised count of rounds leaves behind can be computed exactly from quantities anybody is free to open; whatever a departure earns here is published by no one at all, and the remainder of this page is about working under that condition.
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The arrangement in kind, since the figures in it are nobody’s to print
Every link out of a page here carries a marker of this publisher’s own, which is what lets a cashier tell where an arrival came from and pay somebody for it. Two kinds of payment are usual in this trade. The first settles once, for a visitor who arrives and then goes on to register and put money in. The second keeps paying, as a proportion of whatever that account ends up yielding to the firm behind it, for the whole life of the account.
Which kind applies here, and at what rate, is a private matter between two firms and neither of them publishes it. That is true across the trade, and a reader should assume it of any publication in the trade whether or not the admission is made. Three things can still be said flatly. Nothing on this domain is written about in exchange for money. No payment buys a sentence, a heading or a position anywhere here. And no agreement with anybody shifts a quantity in a sum on any page by one penny, for the mechanical reason given in part three.
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Which way that pulls, put without softening
Read the second kind literally and the pull of it is obvious. A proportion of what an account yields grows as the yield grows, and the yield to the firm behind it grows as the person holding it ends up further down. Nobody should have to deduce that from a contract they cannot see, so it stands here in the bluntest form it has.
The first kind is no better, merely differently shaped. It rewards a visitor who registers and rewards nothing besides. Somebody who opens a page here, follows the sums to the conclusion that a count of rounds is worth nought and then shuts the tab has cost this publisher every penny of it, and is precisely the reader these pages exist for.
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The one part of a page the money cannot get at
What no agreement can touch is the arithmetic, and that has nothing to do with anybody’s character. Every quantity in a sum here is of one of two sorts. A published one carries a note beside it naming where it was read, so a thumb on the scale would mean misquoting a document a reader can go and open. An assumed one is admitted to be an assumption at the point of use, so a reader who thinks it wrong substitutes a number of their own and watches both columns move.
Because the steps are printed rather than summarised, a wrong answer here is findable by anybody with a pencil, and a dishonest one is findable in the same way and by the same method. Where a publication of this kind genuinely has room to flatter an offer is in the quantities it declines to show at all, and this domain is built the other way about: the second of its two sums is the one no sibling publication on these phrases prints, and it is the sum that says what the free thing actually costs to hold.
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A method that works against the incentive behind it
A publisher paid on departures has an interest in a reader coming away persuaded that a free round is worth claiming. The method used here prints the figure that settles the question, and on a simulated round the figure is nought: no arrangement exists by which money leaves a simulation, so the free column reads nought at every line and the distance between the two sides equals the paid side exactly. A good many pages on this domain end in that nought, and none of them buries it below the working.
The same holds for a quantity the sums need and nobody publishes. Rather than filling the hole with whatever is usual, the page names which figure is missing and strikes no total, which leaves a reader with an answer of the form that no price can be put on this one. A page that declines to price a thing is worth less to the money than a page that prices it generously, and keeping the rule anyway is the only evidence about a method that is worth anything at all.
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One quantity taken on trust, against one a reader can check
So a reader of this domain is asked to take precisely one thing on trust, which is what the departures earn. In return, the quantity that actually bears on a decision sits on the page with its working attached. At the stake and the long-run return the method page assumes, twenty-five rounds carrying a condition of ten turnovers are worth £2.88 where the offer stakes them and cost twenty pence where a reader does: £3.08 apart, or 15.4 further rounds in hand. Anybody may redo that. Nobody outside two firms can redo the other figure.
Two further things follow from where the money comes from, and both are said on every page here in one form or another. The cashiers putting these offers up hold no Great Britain licence, which is why the duties a British licence imposes are priced on each page instead of being taken for granted. And nothing on this domain is a recommendation to claim anything: the terms of use set the limits around what is written here, the page about the publisher says what the sums stand on, and the page about staying in control gives the tools that work whichever way an incentive points.