Figures read 26 October 2026 Bill A15, first printing
New casino sites: a simulation pays nought and no record exists yet, so eighty paid rounds cost 96p
A venue four weeks old will put a simulation in front of a visitor on its first day, and the simulation is worth nought, the entry printed at every line of the free column underneath. Eighty rounds at the 30p set here have a face of £24.00, and taking the general 96 per cent this domain assumes and reads nowhere, £23.04 returns, so the eighty cost 96p. The sides are 96p apart, 3.2 rounds at that stake, and the other thing missing at such a venue is no figure but a record, an absence of a different kind and the subject of this bill.
| What is being priced | Priced as a free round | Priced as a paid round | The gap between the two |
|---|---|---|---|
| Needed on arrival | nought | £24.00 | £24.00 |
| Returned over eighty rounds | nought | £23.04 | minus £23.04 |
| Owing when the tab closes | nought | nothing | none |
| What it comes to | nought | minus 96p | 96p, or 3.2 rounds |
What the free round comes to nought A venue’s age does not reach the figure: a simulation on its opening day is worth what one on its tenth anniversary is worth. What the paid round comes to minus 96p The margin an assumed 96 per cent keeps out of £24.00 of staking, and nothing besides. The gap, in money and in rounds 96p, 3.2 rounds Three rounds and a fifth, exact in both directions, since nought takes nothing off the paid side.
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
Open the offer at Nightluck, opens in a window of its own
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
Two absences at a venue four weeks old
Two things are missing at a venue that opened last month, and they are missing in different ways. The first is the value of its free play, which is nought, and that is missing by construction, there being nothing behind a simulated counter that holds money, and no quantity of weeks in business alters it. The second is a record, missing for a reason a calendar can put right. Nobody has complained yet, nothing has been enforced yet, and no pattern of behaviour has had time to form.
Running the two together is the error this page exists to avoid. Calling the missing record permanent tells a reader that a venue can never be known at all, which is false, since records do come into being and the regulator publishes them with dates attached. Calling the nought temporary implies that a simulation might one day pay, which is worse than false, that nought being the single quantity on this domain that needs no qualification at all.
So this bill prices eighty rounds twice, which takes two short sums, and then does something none of the other guides in this section needs to do: it describes what a record is made of, says what the regulator publishes and when, and leaves the reader with the one honest conclusion about a four-week-old venue, which is that the free round settles nothing and the record settles nothing either because it does not exist yet.
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Eighty simulated rounds at a venue with no past
Eighty rounds at 30p a stake fixed here make a face of £24.00. Simulated, the £24.00 moves across a counter driven by whichever build was opened, and the build behaves as built: features arrive at their designed frequency and a good run pushes the number well up. The number is still a display. No holding stands behind it, so nothing in the venue converts a total into a payment.
Opening week makes no difference to any of that. The value of a simulated session at a venue four weeks old is identical to the value of one at a venue four years old, which is a genuinely useful thing to know and is also the whole of what the free side contributes. A new venue competes on offers and on appearance, and the one quantity it cannot compete on is the value of its free play, because every venue’s free play is worth the same nought.
| How long the venue has traded | What its simulation is worth | What its record holds |
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| Four weeks | nothing | nothing yet |
| Two years | nothing | whatever accrued |
| Ten years | nothing | whatever accrued |
The middle column of that table is the point of printing it. One column of the comparison is flat and the other fills up over time, which is the cleanest way of showing that the two absences at a new venue are absences of different kinds. The flat column needs no source and cannot change. The other one changes with every month the venue trades.
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The same eighty funded at 30p
Fund the identical session and a price emerges from one subtraction. Eighty rounds at 30p send £24.00 over the builds, the assumed 96 per cent this domain’s general figure returns £23.04, and 96p is the expected cost. With nothing advanced there is no turnover to clear and no permitted build to find, and whatever stands in the account afterwards can be asked for.
Ninety-six pence over eighty rounds is 1.2p a round, and that form carries further than the session figure does, pricing any length of session by one multiplication, and it is unaffected by the venue’s age, its branding or the offers on its front page: a round at 30p costs 1.2p in expectation at a venue a month old and at one a decade old, so long as the return behind it is the same.
That last clause carries the weight, and it is where a new venue’s missing record actually bites. The assumed return is the one quantity the age of a venue could bear on, since a venue with a record is a venue whose published figures somebody has had time to check against its behaviour. Four weeks is not enough time, which does not make the figure wrong and does mean nobody has checked it.
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Ninety-six pence of distance, and 3.2 rounds of it
Ninety-six pence stands between an exact nought and minus 96p, and 96p divided by a 30p stake is 3.2 rounds. Both forms are worth keeping. The money form is what a reader declines to spend by simulating, and the rounds form shows its size: thirteen seconds or so of play, with no balance and no claim on anybody to show for it.
Reading the distance column downwards settles where the figure comes from. The £24.00 only a funded session needs opens it. The £23.04 coming back off the builds, which nobody playing a display receives, is taken off it. The line with nothing owing either way is passed over. And 96p closes it, being the paid figure with the sign reversed.
eighty rounds worth nought simulated and minus 96p funded, 96p apart, which is 3.2 further rounds at 30p
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What a record consists of, and how long one takes
Whatever else a record is, it is not a feeling about a venue. It is a set of published things, each with a date on it, and the useful move is to list them and ask of each how long it needs before it can exist. Enforcement comes with a penalty and a date. A suspension comes with a date. A complaint route has to have been used before anybody can say how it behaves. And a pattern across a licensee’s handling of withdrawals takes a volume of cases that a month cannot supply.
| The published thing | What it needs before existing | Available at four weeks |
|---|---|---|
| A licence entry | an application granted | yes, if licensed |
| A complaint outcome | a complaint, then a process | no |
| A penalty or a suspension | an investigation | no |
| A pattern of behaviour | a volume of cases | no |
For a reader deciding anything, the first line is the one that counts, and it is the one a four-week-old venue can have. A licence entry exists as soon as a licence is granted, costs nothing to look up, and settles which rulebook the rest of the arithmetic on this page sits under. The other three lines take months or years, and no free round shortens any of them by a day.
Nothing about that is a criticism of a new venue. A venue has to start somewhere and the absence of a record is a fact about the calendar rather than about the operator. What it does mean is that a reader choosing a four-week-old venue is choosing on the two things that do exist, which are the licence position and the terms, and on no record whatever.
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Eighty rounds advanced, held against the lawful ceiling
New venues advertise hard, which makes the third arrangement the likeliest of the three to be put in front of anybody reading this. The venue credits eighty rounds to a freshly registered account, turns them over on its own account, and lets the proceeds settle as a balance with a term attached. Twenty-four pounds of face once more, £23.04 back off the builds once more, and on this occasion the £23.04 is money.
What the term leaves is E = B × (1 − W × (1 − RTP) ∕ g). B is the £23.04 those rounds produced. W is the turnover the term demands. RTP is the assumed share coming home. And g covers how much of a pound staked a permitted build is credited with. The venue’s own multiple is not published, so W takes the value of ten, past which a licensee may not go rule sheet, and at full credit E comes to £13.82. Ten being the heaviest multiple the law permits, that is the least such an advance can lawfully be worth.
| Turnover demanded | Staking it needs | Balance left |
|---|---|---|
| 10, the ceiling | £230.40 | £13.82 |
| 15 | £345.60 | £9.22 |
| 20 | £460.80 | £4.61 |
| 25 | £576.00 | nothing |
So the narrowest the advance can be is £13.82, which is fourteen times the 96p the funded session costs, and the gap between an advance and a purchase at this venue is accordingly a floor rather than an average. The lower three lines are terms no licensee may set, and the last of them brings a credited eighty down to the value of the simulation. A reader at a four-week-old venue has no record against which to judge which of those four lines they are being offered, which is exactly the point of the page.
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Three duties that make a record possible at all
A record exists because somebody is obliged to publish one, and three British duties do that work. They are worth setting out precisely because they are what a four-week-old venue has not yet had time to generate, rather than what it has been excused.
A venue four weeks old is reached by no Great Britain licence either, and three duties that would have made a record of it do not apply. First, penalties are published with their amounts and their dates, and suspensions are published too rule sheet, which together are the record a reader of this page cannot find. A caution travels with that listing. The date beside a penalty on it and the date carried by the licensee’s register entry need not agree, so a date belongs to the entry rather than the listing, which speaks only to the record’s general shape rule sheet. Second, that enforcement page gives no date for itself, and the latest item standing on it when this publisher looked was 7 October 2026 rule sheet, which is one way of seeing how recent a record can be. Third, half a year is the shortest window a complaint has after whatever prompted it, and a venue has to have been trading long enough for a window of that size to mean anything rule sheet.
That third duty is the sharpest of the three on a page about newness. A six-month complaint window is worth having and a venue four weeks old cannot yet have produced a single resolved complaint, because the process itself runs to eight weeks from arrival and nothing has arrived. So a reader is not looking at a venue with a clean record. A venue with no record is what they are looking at, and keeping those two apart is what this page is for.
8
Telling the two absences apart, and why it matters
This section of the site carries two keys whose finding is an absence rather than a figure, and they are absences of different species. On one of them a product simply has no free version to price, because a dealt hand costs a dealer and a seat. On this one the free version exists and is worth nought, while the thing that would have been worth reading is a record that has not had time to accumulate.
| What is absent | Why | Will it ever exist |
|---|---|---|
| A simulation’s value | no holding behind it | no |
| A free dealt hand | a dealer costs money | no |
| A venue’s record | four weeks of trading | yes, with time |
What a reader should act on is the last of those three columns. Two of those three absences are permanent and the third resolves itself, which means a reader who wants a record has a real option that costs nothing: wait, and look again. That is the only advice on this page, it is arithmetic on nobody’s figures, and it is the thing a free round cannot offer, since no quantity of free play brings a record into existence a day sooner.
One quantity this bill leans on could not be got at all. No such readings are gathered behind this domain and none will be, so every line above spends 96 per cent as a declared general assumption, and anybody with a figure for a particular build should put that one in. A new venue is exactly the case where nobody has had time to check such a figure, which is worth saying rather than working round.
So the bill closes at 96p and 3.2 rounds, with nought on the free side and a lower bound of £13.82 on an advance of the same eighty. The record that would let a reader test any of it does not exist, and this page reports that rather than estimating it, a stated absence being checkable by anybody where an estimate is checkable by nobody.
Questions
- Are new casino sites worth trying
- Nothing on this page answers that, and nothing free would. A simulation at a venue four weeks old is worth the same exact nought as one at a venue four years old, and the record that would distinguish them has not had time to exist.
- What does a session of eighty rounds cost at 30p
- Ninety-six pence in expectation. The eighty rounds send £24.00 over the builds and the assumed 96 per cent returns £23.04. One round comes to 1.2p, which prices a session of any length.
- How far apart do the two versions of the session sit
- Ninety-six pence, which is 3.2 rounds at 30p, or about thirteen seconds of play. Nought takes nothing off the other side, so the cost of funding the session and its distance from the simulation are one quantity.
- What can I find out about a venue that opened last month
- The licence position and the terms, and little else. A licence entry exists as soon as a licence is granted and costs nothing to look up. A complaint outcome, a penalty, a suspension and a pattern of behaviour all need months or years before they can exist.
- Does no record mean a clean record
- No, and the difference matters. Where a British licence applies the complaint process runs to eight weeks from arrival, and six months at the least is how long a complaint remains open, so a venue four weeks old has had no time to produce a resolved complaint either way.
- How much could eighty advanced rounds be worth
- At least £13.82. The advance makes £23.04 of balance, and ten turnovers, which is the ceiling a licensee may not exceed, leave £13.82 of it. Fifteen leave £9.22, twenty leave £4.61 and twenty-five leave nothing, and because the heaviest lawful multiple leaves the least standing, £13.82 is a lower bound.
- Why is the simulation worth nothing however new the venue is
- Because the figure comes out of what a simulation is and not out of anything the venue decided. A simulated counter has no holding behind it, so no total on one converts into a payment, and the venue’s age, branding and offers are all irrelevant to that.