Pragmatic Play · 2023 · tested 2026-09-10
Big Bass Amazon Xtreme
Printed cash on Amazon fish pays nothing until a Fisherman collects it in free spins or a random feature does in the base game; the demo logged 72 straight blanks from round 9364.
- RTP measured / declared 89.7% 96.07%
- Hit frequency 12%
- Max win · no bonus 201x
- Bonus buy · mean result 100x · 0.82x
- Free spins, natural 69 / 10,000
- Bonus frequency 6.9 bHz
In numbers: measured RTP 89.7% against 96.07% declared over 10,000 logged rounds; 12.3% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 145 rounds (69 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 40.4x the stake, mean 76.5x, trigger spin included; 50 bonus buys at 100x returned 0.82x of their price on average, 72% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 405.6x; the longest dry run was 72 spins.
Test card
10,000 spins · USD 2.00 bet · every request logged| Spins | 10,000 |
| Bet | USD 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.07% |
| RTP measured | 89.66% (approximate 95% CI 69.9–109.4) |
| Hit frequency | 12% · every 8.13 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 72 / 8.09 |
| Median hit | 2.00x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 200.5x · round 7369 |
| Free spins, natural | 69 · 6.9 bHz · every 144.9 spins · mean bonus round payout 76.5x stake |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 97,932 |
each run keeps its own spin log, CSV and raw server journal with checksums; the figures on this card combine all runs
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Bonus buy lab
50 buys × 100x · USD 200 eachmean 0.82x · median 0.575× price (USD 115.00) · 36 of 50 below price · best 6.15x · worst 0.10x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 17.8 / 10–43 |
| Retriggered | 40% |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
Twenty of 50 purchases ran past their starting spins, each extension coming from every fourth collected Fisherman; spins added in the pick round before the reels start are left out.
- Spent
- USD 10,00050 × USD 200
- Returned
- USD 8,190.4081.90% · approximate 95% CI 54–110%
- Net
- −USD 1,809.60−9.0 buys
- Break-even or better
- 14 / 5028%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 4 / 508%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~145 spins
One ticket equals 100 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 145 ordinary rounds in this sample. Stakes multiplied by this interval measure gross wagering, not the net cost of obtaining a bonus. Purchase returns above include the complete purchased round and are divided by the ticket price.
Risk profile
how much bankroll this run needed| 50 bets | bust at spin 80 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 251 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 394 |
One run, one bet size. A different session can bust earlier or never; treat this as a measured example, not a rule.
How it plays
8 rules screens from the game
A cash value on a fish is not an automatic payout. Money symbols can be collected by a random base-game feature, which applies a multiplier to their combined value; during free spins, each Fisherman Wild collects the fish visible beside it. Ordinary symbols pay on ten paylines in a five-reel, three-row grid, counting from the leftmost reel, while the Fisherman substitutes for paying symbols only during the feature.
A minimum of three scatters awards ten free spins, preceded by a pick round. Objects remain selectable until a boot ends the selection: revealed modifiers can add starting spins, guarantee fish, advance the Fisherman collection meter or remove low fish values. Four or five triggering scatters pre-reveal one or two boots respectively, and two scatters can sometimes gain a third through a reel respin or a crocodile transformation.
Every fourth collected Fisherman adds ten spins and advances the fish-collection multiplier through 2x, 3x, 10x, 20x, 30x, 40x and 50x. No further retriggers follow the eighth level. Hooks, appearing fish and a waterfall can alter feature screens, so the initial reel stop need not be the final outcome of a free spin.
Entry to the feature can be bought outright for 100 times the stake, a USD 200 price at the USD 2 bet level of these tests. Ante Bet instead increases a regular spin to USD 3 and adds scatters to the reels; purchases stay unavailable while that toggle is on. Ante stayed off throughout the measured base series. The pick sequence in the automated samples always selected the first unopened position, with no claim that this order improves results.
The captured rules display Low Volatility, a USD 0.10 minimum, a USD 375 maximum and a 10,000x round cap that ends any remaining feature play. They state 96.07% RTP for ordinary play and purchases, and 96.06% with Ante Bet. These are the values of the captured demo build; the low-volatility description should be read alongside the observed gaps between payouts below.
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Bet range USD 0.10 – 375 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet USD 2.00
Gallery
6 frames from the demo session
Verdict
Printed cash, scarce payoutsThe longest pause makes the pacing clearer than the fish graphics do: rounds 9364–9435 paid nothing at all. There were 80 blank stretches lasting at least 20 spins, while payouts had a median size of 2x stake.
Purchasing entry removes the wait for scatters but leaves a substantial risk of loss. Thirty-six of the 50 bought features came back below their USD 200 cost, and the median one repaid USD 115. Purchase 36 paid USD 1,230.80, the largest result in that separate batch, yet the batch still lost USD 1,809.60.
The pick modifiers and the Fisherman collection ladder are the parts of the bonus that can be traced in the log. The Low Volatility label sits beside a different record: regular play lost USD 2,067.80 over this sequence, and the printed cash symbols did not turn into frequent returns of the stake.
- The pick round can change starting spins, guaranteed fish and progress towards a retrigger.
- A 200.5x result arrived in regular play without a free-spin feature.
- The Fisherman meter makes the next retrigger threshold visible.
- Cash symbols can appear on a screen that ultimately pays nothing.
- Only 1,230 of the 10,000 regular rounds produced a payout.
- Buying the feature lost USD 1,809.60 across the recorded batch.
- The Low Volatility label did not rule out a 72-spin blank stretch.
Test record
10,000 rounds · 50 buys · open data · closed rigOne test run so far: a single session of the base game plus a separate series of bonus purchases on the official demo server, every request and response logged. When the game is tested again, the new run is added here and the figures on this page combine all runs into one sample.
- 10,000rounds logged
- 12%rounds that paid
- 406xbiggest round
- 1 / 145natural bonus rate
- 0.82xmean of 50 buys
- 72longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-09-10 lab note measured return89.66%-6.4 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 69.9–109.4%
- rounds that paid
- 12%
- biggest round
- 406x · round 7,727
- longest dry streak
- 72
- natural bonuses
- 69 · one per 145 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.82x · median 0.575x · 72% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 97,932
- deepest drawdown
- 1,104x
Corrected 29 September 2026: this run was recorded by an early rig that lost the last free spin of a feature, so fisherman collections on that spin were missing from 13 natural features and 5 purchases. Natural collections rise from 202 to 215. Round wins, the RTP and the trigger count are unchanged, and the published spin log keeps the figures as first recorded.
10000 base-game spins at a fixed USD 2.0 bet; 50 bonus buys at 200.0 each (100.0x) on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.07%); every request and response logged; test run 2026-09-10.
The test rig plays the official demo build over the network and records every server round: bet, win, intermediate steps (cascades, respins), free spins, collect. Screenshots and video were captured in a separate browser session and are not part of the statistical samples. The text was read against the log by an editor before publication. How we test →
FAQ
6 questions · answered from the logThe fish showed money, so why was my payout zero?
Those amounts need a collection event. In ordinary play, a random feature can collect the visible cash fish; in free spins, the Fisherman Wild does the collecting. A screen full of values is therefore not the same thing as a credited win: only 1,230 of the 10,000 regular rounds produced a payout.
What ends the picking screen before the free spins?
Revealing a boot stops the picks and starts the feature with the modifiers already uncovered. Other objects can add spins, guaranteed fish or collected Fishermen, or remove low fish values. The automated sample picked unopened positions in index order across all 50 purchases and 69 natural features; it did not compare picking strategies.
Is the USD 3 button a fifteen-times-bigger bet?
No. At the USD 2 ordinary stake shown in the screenshots, Ante Bet costs USD 3, an increase of 50%. The rules use 10x and 15x stake-unit settings, which explains the confusing wording. Purchases stay unavailable while Ante is on, and the measured regular series used the ordinary USD 2 setting.
How far apart were the Amazon bonuses?
The journal contains 69 natural triggers in 10,000 regular rounds. Its longest gap was between rounds 3263 and 3995, leaving 731 spins between those triggers. That observed gap is not a countdown: an earlier run of blanks does not promise an approaching bonus.
Did any USD 200 purchase return more than USD 1,000?
Yes, purchase 36 paid USD 1,230.80, or 6.154 times its price. It was the only purchase above USD 1,000 in this batch. Total repayments were USD 8,190.40, so that one result did not cover the losses elsewhere in the 50 purchases.
Why does the rules screen call this low volatility?
That is the label displayed by the captured demo build, so the review preserves it. The sample still recorded a 12.3% payout frequency and 72 consecutive zero returns at its longest. A volatility category does not specify how long any particular session can go without a payout.
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