Figures read 26 October 2026 Bill A09, first printing
Slots free spins: at least £5.76 off twenty-five advanced rounds, 40p off twenty-five bought
Twenty-five rounds advanced at the 40p this publisher assumes carry a face of £10.00, none of it a reader’s, and with 96 per cent standing as this domain’s general assumption rather than a reading, £9.60 arrives as balance. The offer’s own turnover is not published, so the free column stands on the ten times a British licence may not exceed, which leaves £5.76. Buy the same twenty-five and they cost 40p with no term afterwards. The findings lie £6.16 apart, 15.4 rounds at the same stake, and ten being as much turnover as the law lets a licensee demand, that distance is a floor rather than an average.
| What is being priced | Priced as a free round | Priced as a paid round | The gap between the two |
|---|---|---|---|
| Put up by the player | nothing | £10.00 | £10.00 |
| Staked by twenty-five rounds | £10.00 | £10.00 | none |
| Arriving back off the reels | £9.60 | £9.60 | none |
| Taken at the ten times ceiling | £3.84 | nothing owed | minus £3.84 |
| What it comes to | £5.76 | minus 40p | £6.16, or 15.4 rounds |
What the free round comes to £5.76 The rounds stake themselves, so £9.60 of balance meets the highest turnover Britain permits and three fifths of it survives. What the paid round comes to minus 40p The margin on £10.00 of staking, which is the whole price of twenty-five rounds a reader paid for. The gap, in money and in rounds £6.16, 15.4 rounds A ceiling on the free side makes this the widest the advance can look and the narrowest the distance can be.
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.
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What a free spin is, and the two things it is not
A free spin, properly so called, is a round a cashier stakes on a registered account so that whatever it wins lands as a balance in that account. The rounds cost the reader nothing at the door, which is the sense in which they are free, and the winnings carry a term saying how much has to be staked before they can leave. That makes a free spin the one arrangement in this section with a figure in it worth computing, because unlike a simulation it produces money and unlike a purchase it produces an obligation.
It is not a simulation. A simulated round produces a number on a display with no account behind it, and pays nought by construction however the reels fall. It is also not a discount. Nobody has reduced the price of anything: the cashier has advanced a stake and attached a condition, so the right comparison is not with a cheaper round but with a round the reader paid for outright and owes nothing on.
This bill makes that comparison at a count of twenty-five and a stake of 40p, both declared rather than read. The turnover an offer of this kind asks is not published anywhere, so the free column is worked at the ten times a British licence may not exceed, and a permitted title is taken at full credit because no share is published either. The first of those is the harshest multiple the law permits and the second the kindest weight available, which is why the distance this bill prints is a floor.
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Twenty-five advanced rounds, and the balance they make
Twenty-five rounds at 40p a stake stated here have a face of £10.00. The rounds stake themselves, so the £10.00 crosses the reels without leaving a reader’s pocket, and at a general return of 96 per cent this publisher’s assumption £9.60 of it comes back. That £9.60 is the balance the whole of the rest of the bill works on. It exists, which is what distinguishes this page from the simulated pages in this section, and it is encumbered, which is what distinguishes it from a purchase.
Two cautions belong on the £9.60 before any term touches it. Twenty-five rounds is far too short a run for an expectation to describe, so a particular twenty-five may yield nothing or several multiples of the figure. And the house has already been paid: the 40p the reels keep out of £10.00 is gone whoever put the money up, which is why that line of the instrument shows no distance between the two columns.
The count is also worth a word. Twenty-five is a small advance by the standards of the headlines readers meet, and a small advance behind a heavy term is worth less than a reader expects for a simple reason: the term scales with the balance, so doubling the count doubles both the balance and the staking required of it, and the proportion surviving stays where it was. A larger count is worth more in pounds and identical in percentage terms.
3
The ceiling on the multiple, and what a share would do to it
What survives a term is E = B × (1 − W × (1 − RTP) ∕ g). The balance here is £9.60, the multiple is the ten times no licensee may exceed rule sheet, the return is the assumed 96 per cent, and a permitted title is taken at full credit because no share is published. Work the bracket out: ten turnovers at four pence of margin in the pound is forty pence of margin for every pound of balance, which leaves three fifths coming through. Three fifths of £9.60 is £5.76.
That £5.76 is the least the advance can lawfully be worth and not what it is likely to be worth. Ten is a ceiling rather than any offer’s own figure, and because the subtraction grows with the multiple a real turnover under ten leaves more standing, not less. A contribution share works the same way in the other direction, and the table below shows what a published share would do to the £5.76 if one existed to read: at half credit the same requirement needs twice the staking, and the balance falls to £1.92.
| What a permitted title counts | Staking the tenfold turnover needs | Surviving out of £9.60 |
|---|---|---|
| Full weight | £96.00 | £5.76 |
| Half weight | £192.00 | £1.92 |
| 30 per cent | £320.00 | nothing |
The bottom line of that table is the one worth carrying away. At a thirty per cent contribution the tenfold turnover needs £320.00 of staking to satisfy £96.00 of requirement, the margin on £320.00 is £12.80, and £12.80 against a £9.60 balance puts the expectation below nothing. This bill floors it at nothing rather than printing a negative, no reader having more than the advanced balance at stake in the first place. A multiple at the ceiling, married to a share nobody mentioned, produces the same finding as a simulation, which is why the £5.76 in the instrument is a maximum and the £6.16 beside it is the narrowest the distance can be.
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The same twenty-five bought at the counter
Take the advance away and buy the identical rounds. Twenty-five at 40p stake £10.00, the assumed return hands £9.60 back, and the 40p difference is what the rounds cost in expectation. With no advance there is nothing to turn over, no list of permitted titles to work from and no contribution share to hunt out, and the money sitting there when the reels stop is ordinary balance.
The paid side ends there, and its plainness is the point. One multiplication settles it and no term enters it. Multiples, contribution shares, windows and ceilings are all irrelevant to it, which is why one line does the work where the free side wanted a formula and two tables. Across twenty-five rounds, 40p works out at 1.6p each, and that per-round figure will price a session of any length.
It is also the figure the free side has to be measured against, and measuring against it changes how an advance reads. Twenty-five advanced rounds at the ceiling are worth at most £5.76, which is fourteen times the 40p the same rounds would have cost. At a thirty per cent share they are worth nothing, which is £6.16 worse than the bought version in the only sense that counts, because the bought version at least leaves a balance behind.
5
Six pounds sixteen of distance, and 15.4 rounds of it
The advance comes to at least £5.76 and the purchase costs 40p, so £6.16 separates the two findings, and £6.16 at a 40p stake is 15.4 rounds. Taking the advance rather than buying the rounds is therefore worth no more than 15.4 rounds at this count and this stake, and a real turnover anywhere under the ceiling, or any published share below full credit, makes it more.
Read the distance column downwards and it accounts for itself. It opens at the £10.00 only a buyer finds. It records no distance at the two lines where both arrangements stake the same money and receive the same return. It loses the £3.84 the ceiling takes off the advanced side alone. And it closes at £6.16, which is what the two closing figures come to once the smaller is removed from the larger.
twenty-five rounds worth at least £5.76 advanced at the ten times ceiling and minus 40p bought, £6.16 apart at the narrowest, which is 15.4 further rounds at 40p
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Three quantities nobody publishes at all
This page needed four quantities and two of them are not available from any source this publisher will cite. Saying which two, and why, matters more than filling them in, because a stated absence can be checked by a reader and a plausible figure cannot.
A cashier advancing rounds like these is authorised elsewhere than Great Britain, and three things a reader would want to know are unpublished even inside the British regime. First, what one advanced round is worth. No cash value for a free spin appears in any primary source, nothing names whose job fixing one would be, and no duty obliges anybody to disclose it rule sheet, so the 40p on this bill is this publisher’s figure and is labelled as such on every line that spends it. Second, whether what an advanced round wins counts as the sort of funds the tenfold ceiling governs. That ceiling speaks of advanced funds, and nothing has been published that applies it to a round instead of a sum rule sheet, so this page says neither that the ceiling reaches such a round nor that it misses it. Third, the weighting. A contribution share is a term, not a rule, and the regulator left weighting alone when it fixed the multiple rule sheet, so no published figure says what a share typically is. Full credit is what the instrument above therefore assumes, that being the kindest reading of a term nobody printed, and the lower shares in part three are illustrations rather than readings.
One figure in that area is sourced and is worth having, as a rate rather than as a market fact. A thirty per cent contribution rate appears in the regulator’s published consultation response, quoted from a respondent, and and the working built on it belongs to this publisher: at thirty pence in the pound, ten turnovers of a £10.00 advance call for £100.00 of contribution, and producing £100.00 of contribution takes roughly £333.33 across the reels. The third line of the table in part three is that same calculation done on the £9.60 this bill works with.
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What a weighting does once it is read as staking
Money is the right unit for a finding and staking is the right unit for understanding how a term behaves, because staking is what a reader actually has to do. A tenfold turnover of £9.60 is £96.00 of requirement. At full weight, £96.00 of staking meets it. At half weight, every pound staked counts fifty pence, so £192.00 of staking is needed. At thirty per cent, every pound counts thirty pence and £320.00 is needed. The requirement never changed: only the work needed to discharge it.
| Weighting on permitted titles | Rounds of 40p it takes | Hours at four seconds a round |
|---|---|---|
| Full weight | 240 | 0.27 |
| Half weight | 480 | 0.53 |
| 30 per cent | 800 | 0.89 |
What a banner never mentions is the right-hand column. Twenty-five advanced rounds are about a hundred seconds of play. Discharging the term that comes with them is between a quarter of an hour and the better part of an hour at an unhurried pace, and the whole of that time is spent putting money across reels that keep four pence in the pound. Those two facts together are why the term and not the count decides what an advance is worth.
The relation also runs the other way and is worth stating once. Because the margin is taken on staking rather than on the balance, the cost of a term rises in exact proportion to the staking it demands. Doubling the requirement doubles the cost. Halving the weighting doubles the staking and therefore doubles the cost. That is the whole mechanism, and it is the reason a weighting buried in a condition can be worth more to a cashier than the multiple printed on the front of the offer.
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Where a simulated round sits against both figures
This section of the site exists to put a floor under every other finding on the domain, and the floor belongs on this page as the third line of the comparison. A simulated twenty-five rounds, run on the same reels at the same stake, is worth nought. Not approximately nought and not nought because of a term somebody wrote: nought because a simulated counter has nothing behind it holding money and no route to a payment, so a face of £10.00 on a display settles at nothing whatever the reels do.
Putting the three side by side orders them and shows what the ordering depends on. An advance at the ceiling is worth at least £5.76. A purchase costs 40p. A simulation is worth nought. The advance is first and the simulation is last, and the whole of the advance’s advantage, £5.76 against nought at the narrowest, rests on a term a reader has to go and read before they can know whether it exists.
The ordering is also fragile in one direction and not the other. Raise the weighting burden to thirty per cent and the advance drops to nothing, which puts it level with the simulation and behind the purchase, since the purchase at least leaves a balance. The simulation is immovable, being the one line on this bill that no condition, no multiple and no contribution share could improve or spoil. That is the sense in which an exact nought is the hardest figure on this site.
So the bill closes at £6.16 and 15.4 rounds at the narrowest between the advance and the purchase, with the simulation at nought beneath both. A reader who wants to know what twenty-five free spins are worth has the answer in four quantities, two of which this publisher states as its own and two of which have to be read off the cashier’s terms, and the page has said which is which on every line.
Questions
- What are twenty-five free spins actually worth
- At 40p a round, with the assumed return of 96 per cent, the face is £10.00 and the balance £9.60. No offer of this kind publishes its turnover, so the figure is worked at the ten times a British licence may not exceed, which leaves £5.76 at the most. A published share below full credit makes it less: half credit leaves £1.92 and thirty pence in the pound leaves nothing.
- What would the same twenty-five rounds cost me to buy
- Forty pence in expectation. Twenty-five rounds at 40p turn over £10.00 and the assumed return brings £9.60 back, so 40p is the price, with nothing owing on the winnings. Per round that is 1.6p.
- How far ahead does the advance leave me
- Six pounds sixteen at the narrowest, which is 15.4 rounds at 40p. The free side stands on the heaviest multiple the law allows, so that distance is a floor: a lower real turnover widens it, while a published share under full credit cuts it, and at thirty pence in the pound it closes entirely.
- Why does a contribution share matter more than the multiple
- Because the multiple fixes the requirement while the share fixes how much staking discharging it takes. A tenfold turnover of £9.60 is £96.00 of requirement: £96.00 of staking at full weight, £192.00 at half weight, £320.00 at thirty per cent. The house margin is taken on the staking, so the cost rises with it.
- Is there any ceiling on the turnover a cashier may demand
- Ten turnovers of the advanced funds, where a British licence is held, with effect from 19 January 2026. A cashier licensed elsewhere owes none of that, and the ceiling was put on the multiple by itself, so a weighting can push the staking well above what ten turnovers suggests.
- How long does meeting the turnover take
- At 40p a round, the £192.00 of staking a half-weighted tenfold turnover requires is 480 rounds, which is about half an hour at four seconds a round. The advance itself was twenty-five rounds, or roughly a hundred seconds.
- What is a free spin worth if nobody says what one stakes
- Nothing fixes the value. There is no primary source putting a cash value on a free spin and no duty on anybody to disclose one, and the 40p on this bill is the publisher’s own figure, declared wherever it is spent. A reader with a figure of their own should substitute it.
- How does a simulated round compare with either of these
- It sits beneath both at an exact nought. A simulated counter has no account behind it, so a face of £10.00 on a display settles at nothing however the reels fall, and no term and no contribution share shifts it either way.