Pragmatic Play · 2023 · tested 2026-10-05
Big Bass – Hold & Spinner
In run one of the Big Bass Hold & Spinner demo, coins that opened the respin bonus were paid again for USD 1,460 in all, money the record keeps apart from free spins.
- RTP measured / declared 94.8% 96.07%
- Hit frequency 14%
- Max win · no bonus 672x
- Bonus buy · mean result 100x · 0.93x
- Free spins, natural 87 / 20,000
- Bonus frequency 4.4 bHz
In numbers: measured RTP 94.8% against 96.07% declared over 20,000 logged rounds in 2 runs; 13.5% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 230 rounds (87 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 34x the stake, mean 75.6x, trigger spin included; 100 bonus buys at 100x returned 0.93x of their price on average, 77% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 934.4x; the longest dry run was 66 spins.
Test card
20,000 spins · USD 2.00 bet · every request logged| Spins | 20,000 · 2 runs |
| Bet | USD 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.07% |
| RTP measured | 94.77% (approximate 95% CI 76.0–113.5) |
| Hit frequency | 14% · every 7.4 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 66 / 7.35 |
| Median hit | 1.00x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 672.2x · run 2, round 6756 |
| Free spins, natural | 87 · 4.4 bHz · every 229.9 spins · mean bonus round payout 75.6x stake |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 97,910 |
- 012026-09-1110,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓77.13%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 022026-10-0510,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓112.42%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
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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PRAGMATIC PLAY · official demo · same math as real play
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Same reels, real payouts
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300% up to $2,000 + 150 FS 18+ · T&Cs apply · the demo stays free
Bonus buy lab
100 buys × 100x · USD 200 eachmean 0.93x · median 0.411× price (USD 82.20) · 77 of 100 below price · best 13.45x · worst 0.05x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 14.8 / 10–45 |
| Retriggered | 37% |
| Money-symbol collects, avg win | 178.14 |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
Four collected fishermen unlock the next batch of 10 spins when the current batch ends, up to three extensions. In the combined purchase sample, 37 of 100 bonuses extended beyond their starting award; the three 15-spin starts are counted as initial awards.
- Spent
- USD 20,000100 × USD 200
- Returned
- USD 18,554.4092.77% · approximate 95% CI 55–131%
- Net
- −USD 1,445.60−7.2 buys
- Break-even or better
- 23 / 10023%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 8 / 1008%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~230 spins
One ticket equals 100 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 230 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 the 2 runs in sequence needed| 50 bets | bust at spin 72 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 144 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 297 |
The runs are played back to back as one series, 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
Ten fixed paylines cross a grid of five reels and three rows. A matching run must begin on the first reel; three symbols normally qualify, although two fishing floats also pay. Each line contributes only its longest match, and separate winning lines are added together. There are no tumbling reels.
Coins and diamonds use a different route to payment: three money symbols open Hold & Spinner. The entry symbols lock in place and their displayed values are paid immediately, followed by four respins. A new money symbol pays its own amount plus the values of the original held symbols, then restores the counter to four; the new arrival is cleared before the next respin. The bonus finishes when that counter runs out.
The scatter award is 10 free spins for three symbols, 15 for four and 20 for five. Fisherman wilds collect every fish cash value in view, and each group of four fishermen earns another 10 spins at collection multipliers of 2x, 3x and finally 10x. These extra batches wait until the current batch ends, with no further retrigger after the third; a random fish-adding event can occur while fishermen are visible. Fish can also form ordinary line wins, whose paytable amounts are separate from their cash labels.
Either bonus can be purchased separately for 100x the stake; every tested purchase selected Free Spins at USD 200. Ante uses 15 credits instead of 10, increasing natural respin chances and scatter presence while making the Free Spins purchase unavailable. The game lists medium volatility, a 10,000x win cap and a theoretical RTP of 96.07% for the ordinary game and both purchase options, or 96.09% with Ante. Stakes span USD 0.10–250 in ordinary play and reach USD 375 with Ante.
Free spins
Wild symbol
Respin
Hold and Win
Bonus buy
Multiplier
Extra bet
Retrigger
Bet range USD 0.10 – 375 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet USD 2.00
Gallery
5 frames from the demo session
Verdict
Coin payouts more than doubledOrdinary-play RTP spread from 77.13% in the first run to 112.42% in the second, settling at 94.77% over 20,000 rounds. Hold & Spinner kept the same count, 36 per run, while its payout rose from USD 3,624 to USD 8,058. Repeat payments of the opening money symbols supplied 48.9% of what the coin feature paid across both runs.
Free Spins purchases returned 62.25% over the first run's 50 tickets and 123.30% over the second run's. Across 100 purchases the pooled return was 92.77%, with a USD 82.20 median and 77 payouts below the USD 200 price. Every ticket bought Free Spins, so the fisherman ladder has a purchase record while the coin feature is known only from its natural triggers.
- Held starting symbols earned USD 5,718 after their initial payments across both runs' natural coin bonuses.
- Both routes produced sizeable ordinary-play rounds: 934.4x with Free Spins and 672.2x with Hold & Spinner.
- The fisherman ladder reached its 10x collection stage in three natural features and three purchased features.
- Across 20,000 rounds the two natural bonuses paid comparable sums: USD 11,682 from the coin feature and USD 13,162.20 from Free Spins rounds.
- Buying Free Spins produced a USD 82.20 median payout against a USD 200 entry charge across 100 purchases.
- A 15-spin opening award could still finish below its price: purchase 10 of run one returned USD 148 after extending to 25 spins.
- An extension occurred in 24 of 87 natural Free Spins features; the other 63 ended with their original allowance.
- Run two contained 66 consecutive rounds without a payout, from 7776 to 7841, and run one waited 1,263 rounds between natural Free Spins triggers at 7793 and 9057.
Run 01·2026-09-11·77.13%
The added coin feature did not displace the fisherman as the larger source of bonus money: natural Free Spins rounds paid USD 5,800.20, against USD 3,624 from Hold & Spinner. Round 6792 alone returned USD 1,601.60 over 40 free spins, whereas the largest coin-bonus round paid USD 292. Buying Free Spins was a separate test with a USD 72.50 median return on USD 200 entries; 39 purchases fell below that price.
Following the held coins explains a payout that is easy to misread. Round 2354 began with USD 16 locked on the board, then paid USD 34, USD 50 and USD 18 on new money-symbol hits. Those awards included the same original USD 16 each time, taking the round to USD 118. The opening coins therefore paid four times, even though their displayed values never grew.
Run 02·2026-10-05·112.42%
USD 438 in opening money symbols paid three times during the Hold & Spinner feature at round 6756. The two repeat payments added USD 876; the feature paid USD 1,344, with a USD 0.40 trigger-line win bringing the complete round to USD 1,344.40, or 672.2x the ordinary stake. Across 36 coin bonuses, Hold & Spinner paid USD 8,058.
Scatter-triggered Free Spins rounds supplied USD 7,362 from 42 entries. The largest ordinary round was 3397 at USD 1,868.80: USD 1,868.40 from 40 free spins plus USD 0.40 on the trigger. All 10,000 ordinary rounds together returned USD 22,483.80 on USD 20,000 wagered, a measured 112.42% RTP.
A purchase batch returning 123.30% still left 38 of its 50 entry charges unrecovered. The median payout was USD 86.50 per USD 200 ticket. Purchase 19 began with 15 spins, earned another 30 and paid USD 2,690, or 13.45 times its entry price. All three permitted extensions occurred in that ticket; the larger opening award was separate from them.
Test record
2 runs · 20,000 rounds · 100 buys · open data · closed rigThis game has been through 2 separate test runs on the official demo server, each a fresh session of 10,000 rounds at a fixed bet. Every figure on this page combines the runs into one sample, as if they were one long session; the record below keeps each run apart, with its own numbers and its own downloadable log.
- 20,000rounds, all runs
- 14%rounds that paid
- 934xbiggest round
- 1 / 230natural bonus rate
- 0.93xmean of 100 buys
- 66longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-09-11 measured return77.13%-18.9 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 57.7–96.6%
- rounds that paid
- 13%
- biggest round
- 801x · round 6,792
- longest dry streak
- 43
- natural bonuses
- 45 · one per 222 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.62x · median 0.363x · 78% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 95,426
- deepest drawdown
- 2,338x
02run Run 022026-10-05 lab note measured return112.42%+16.4 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 80.4–144.4%
- rounds that paid
- 14%
- biggest round
- 934x · round 3,397
- longest dry streak
- 66
- natural bonuses
- 42 · one per 238 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 1.23x · median 0.433x · 76% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 102,484
- deepest drawdown
- 950x
Ordinary-play RTP rose from 77.13% to 112.42%. Hold & Spinner again appeared 36 times, but its feature payouts increased from USD 3,624 to USD 8,058; the Free Spins purchase batch returned 123.30%, against 62.25% previously.
2 test runs combined into one sample (2026-09-11, 2026-10-05): 20,000 ordinary rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed USD 2 bet; 100 bonus buys at USD 200 each (100x); recorded on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.07%); every request and response logged.
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
7 questions · answered from the logWhat split the two Big Bass Hold & Spinner RTP results?
Three rounds of the second Big Bass Hold & Spinner run paid USD 4,536 together: 3397 with USD 1,868.80, 6756 with USD 1,344.40 and 2783 with USD 1,322.80. The other 9,997 rounds of that run returned 89.77% of their stake, while the first run's largest round paid USD 1,601.60. Over 20,000 rounds in two runs the game returned 94.77% against a configured theoretical 96.07%.
Which bonus should I buy in Big Bass Hold & Spinner?
This record cannot rank the two buttons, which both cost 100x the current stake. Only the Free Spins option was bought in the Big Bass Hold & Spinner tests: 100 purchases at USD 200 returned USD 18,554.40. Hold & Spinner was observed only through its natural triggers in ordinary play.
Were the coin respins as frequent as Free Spins?
No. With Ante off, the two Big Bass Hold & Spinner runs recorded 87 natural Free Spins triggers and 72 coin bonuses over 20,000 ordinary rounds: a Free Spins feature every 230 rounds on average and a coin bonus every 278. The page's natural Free Spins count excludes the separate coin feature.
Are the opening coins counted in every later respin award?
Yes. The money symbols that open Hold & Spinner stay held and are added to every later money-symbol award. Round 4832 of run one opened with USD 42 in held coins; four later awards of USD 44, 60, 44 and 52 each included that USD 42, adding USD 168, and the feature closed at USD 242.
Can the fisherman earn another retrigger after reaching 10x?
No. Big Bass Hold & Spinner permits three extensions, advancing the collection factor to 2x, 3x and 10x, and no further batch follows the third. Across both runs, three of 87 natural Free Spins features and three of 100 purchases reached that final stage.
Was Ante used for either of the recorded runs?
No. Neither Big Bass Hold & Spinner run used Ante, so there is no measured comparison: both ordinary-play samples ran on the standard 10-credit charge and the 96.07% profile, against 96.09% listed for Ante.
Why was purchase 19 allowed 45 free spins?
Purchase 19 of run two opened with 15 spins and earned three separate 10-spin extensions, finishing with 45. Its USD 2,690 payout equalled 13.45 times the USD 200 purchase price. The 15-spin start was the initial scatter award, not a retrigger.
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