Pragmatic Play · 2022 · tested 2026-10-15
Big Bass – Keeping it Reel
With no fish on the reels, a golden fisherman still paid USD 75.60 from the shrinking landing net during Big Bass Keeping It Reel free spins in round 4655 of the first demo run.
- RTP measured / declared 86.3% 96.07%
- Hit frequency 12%
- Max win · no bonus 101x
- Bonus buy · mean result 100x · 0.70x
- Free spins, natural 147 / 20,000
- Bonus frequency 7.4 bHz
In numbers: measured RTP 86.3% against 96.07% declared over 20,000 logged rounds in 2 runs; 12.4% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 136 rounds (147 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 46x the stake, mean 70.2x, trigger spin included; 100 bonus buys at 100x returned 0.70x of their price on average, 78% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 687.0x; the longest dry run was 56 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 | 86.32% (approximate 95% CI 72.5–100.1) |
| Hit frequency | 12% · every 8.06 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 56 / 8.18 |
| Median hit | 2.00x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 101.0x · run 1, round 7714 |
| Free spins, natural | 147 · 7.4 bHz · every 136.1 spins · mean bonus round payout 70.2x stake |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 94,526 |
- 012026-09-1110,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓83.55%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 022026-10-1510,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓89.09%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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Bonus buy lab
100 buys × 100x · USD 200 eachmean 0.70x · median 0.34× price (USD 68.00) · 78 of 100 below price · best 5.72x · worst 0.02x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 14.1 / 10–45 |
| Retriggered | 32% |
| Money-symbol collects, avg win | 133.10 |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
Four fishermen queue another ten spins and advance the collection stage. A larger opening scatter award is excluded. Fifteen of run two's 50 purchased features and 31 of its 78 natural features earned at least one extension, after 17 and 21 in run one.
- Spent
- USD 20,000100 × USD 200
- Returned
- USD 13,959.8069.80% · approximate 95% CI 51–89%
- Net
- −USD 6,040.20−30.2 buys
- Break-even or better
- 22 / 10022%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 7 / 1007%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~136 spins
One ticket equals 100 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 136 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 56 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 286 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 401 |
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
7 rules screens from the game
The base layout is 5x3, with ten fixed lines. Matching symbols must connect from the first reel; the float can pay with two matches, while the other paying symbols need at least three. A fish has both an ordinary line payout and a cash value, which is only collected during the feature.
A three-scatter trigger brings ten free spins, with fifteen available from four scatters and twenty from five. Fish money left without a fisherman accumulates in a landing net, but a randomly valued fish escapes from that net on every free spin. Regular fishermen collect the fish visible on the reels; a golden fisherman collects those fish and the remaining net value. A displayed net balance is therefore conditional, with no automatic payment when the feature finishes.
Four accumulated fishermen earn another ten free spins, with further groups advancing the collection multiplier through 2x, 3x and 10x. The current batch finishes before those extra spins begin, carrying the newly earned multiplier. The fourth level is the last, while fishermen also substitute in paying lines during the feature.
A hook can complete a two-scatter setup in ordinary play. During free spins, a hook may reveal a fisherman, while dynamite or a passing boat can add fish when a fisherman has nothing to collect. Buying entry costs 100x the spin stake and can begin with three, four or five scatters. Ante costs 15 credits against the normal ten and increases scatter presence; bonus purchases require normal play.
All three listed modes quote 96.07% RTP, and the game's own volatility label reads low. Stakes start at USD 0.10 and reach USD 250 in ordinary mode or USD 375 with Ante. Reaching the 10,000x cap settles the round immediately, cancelling any remaining feature play.
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Wild symbol
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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
5 frames from the demo session
Verdict
Longer features, same thin baseExtensions shaped run two: 31 of its 78 natural features gained spins, against 21 of 69 in run one, round 3127 ran to forty spins, the longest feature of 20,000 rounds, and ticket 1 grew from fifteen spins to 45 for USD 1,144.20, the first of 100 purchases past five times its price. Round 4181 of run two, USD 1,142.20 over 30 spins with nine collections, is the second-largest natural feature of the series behind run one's round 9829 at USD 1,374.
The two samples returned 83.55% and 89.09%, 86.32% with both runs pooled (approximate 95% CI 72.50%–100.14%, which concerns the precision of this mean alone) against the loaded profile's 96.07%. Paying screens stayed scarce, 12.16% and 12.64% of rounds, with 17,520 blank rounds in 20,000 and dry spells of 56 and 50 rounds; natural features supplied 59.8% of all money at a 46-stake median.
The purchase ledger now holds 100 tickets at USD 200 and USD 13,960 returned, 69.80% of cost, with a USD 68 median and 78 under their price; seven doubled it and one, ticket 1 of run two, passed five times, and without it the other 99 returned 64.73% of their price. Extensions reached 32 of the 100 purchases, and the golden fisherman's net collections remain the feature's main source of money.
- A 15-spin opening on ticket 1 of run two grew to 45 spins and USD 1,144.20
- Thirty-one of run two's 78 natural features were extended, one of them to forty spins
- Features arrived every 128 rounds in run two, against every 145 in run one
- Round 4181's nine collections in run two were worth USD 1,135 of its USD 1,142.20
- Seventy-eight of the 100 tickets fell short of their USD 200 price
- Paying screens covered only 12.64% of run two's rounds, with a 50-round dry stretch
- The balance of run two finished 1,091.3 stakes under its start, its lowest point
- Ordinary play never passed 101 stakes in 20,000 rounds
Run 01·2026-09-11·83.55%
Purchasing all 50 features left a USD 3,765.60 deficit. Only nine tickets recovered the USD 200 entry charge, and the USD 58 median was less than a third of that price. Even purchase 14, the strongest at USD 923.80, stayed below five times its cost.
Golden fishermen appeared in 26 of the 69 natural bonuses and 11 of the 50 purchased features. Their net collections supplied USD 3,786 in ordinary play and USD 1,822.20 through purchases. At round 9829, two visits to the net contributed USD 1,128 of a USD 1,374 bonus, the largest full-round return in the test.
The net can matter even when the reels offer no fish to catch. On free spin six of round 4655, its value fell from USD 105 to USD 75.60 before a golden fisherman collected the remainder. That feature eventually ended with USD 484.20 still in the net; the paid result was USD 125.60, with no final cash-out of the displayed reserve.
Run 02·2026-10-15·89.09%
Ticket 1 opened with fifteen spins, ran through three extensions to 45 and paid USD 1,144.20, 5.72 times its USD 200 price, with 15 fisherman collections worth USD 1,133.80; ticket 27 added USD 924.80 over 30 spins. The other 48 tickets could not keep up: the batch returned USD 7,725.40, 77.25% of cost, with a USD 81.40 median, 37 tickets under price and the other 49 at 67.16% of their price once ticket 1 is set aside. Fifteen purchased features earned at least one extension.
Seventy-eight natural features arrived, one per 128 rounds, and 31 of them were extended, 26 to twenty spins, four to thirty and one, round 3127, to forty; they paid USD 10,761 in all, 60.4% of the run's money, at a 40.45-stake median, and fisherman collections accounted for USD 10,439.60 of that across 78 of the 78 features. Round 4181 collected nine times in 30 spins for USD 1,142.20, 571.1 stakes, USD 451.20 of it on spin 24, and round 3127's forty spins paid USD 891.80. The 10,000 USD 2 rounds returned 89.09%, USD 17,817.40, with 8,736 blank rounds, a 50-round dry stretch from 4574 to 4623 and a low point 1,091.3 stakes under the start; the best ordinary screen, round 3609, paid USD 200.
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
- 12%rounds that paid
- 687xbiggest round
- 1 / 136natural bonus rate
- 0.70xmean of 100 buys
- 56longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-09-11 measured return83.55%-12.5 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 64.2–102.9%
- rounds that paid
- 12%
- biggest round
- 687x · round 9,829
- longest dry streak
- 56
- natural bonuses
- 69 · one per 145 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.62x · median 0.29x · 82% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 96,709
- deepest drawdown
- 2,234x
02run Run 022026-10-15 lab note measured return89.09%-7.0 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 69.3–108.9%
- rounds that paid
- 13%
- biggest round
- 571x · round 4,181
- longest dry streak
- 50
- natural bonuses
- 78 · one per 128 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.77x · median 0.407x · 74% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 97,817
- deepest drawdown
- 1,491x
Run two returned 89.09% after 83.55%, with 78 natural features against 69, 31 of them extended against 21, and the longest feature of the series at forty spins. Purchases improved to 77.25% of cost from 62.34% on ticket 1's USD 1,144.20, the first ticket of 100 past five times its price.
2 test runs combined into one sample (2026-09-11, 2026-10-15): 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
6 questions · answered from the logWhere does Big Bass Keeping It Reel stand after two runs?
86.32% from 20,000 USD 2 rounds, 83.55% and then 89.09%; run two paid USD 17,817.40 on USD 20,000, against the loaded profile's 96.07%.
What made ticket 1 of run two worth USD 1,144.20?
A fifteen-spin opening award, three ten-spin extensions to 45 spins and 15 fisherman collections worth USD 1,133.80; its largest spins paid USD 391.80, USD 241.00 and USD 100.00. It is the only one of 100 tickets to return five times its price.
Were the fifty run-two tickets a better batch?
No. Fifty tickets returned USD 7,725.40, 77.25% of cost, after 62.34% in run one; the median was USD 81.40, 37 paid under price, four doubled it and ticket 27 was the second best at USD 924.80 over 30 spins.
What lengths did run two's features reach?
Forty-seven of 78 ended after their ten starting spins, 26 reached twenty, four reached thirty and round 3127 reached forty, paying USD 891.80 through ten collections; the mean was 14.7 spins against 13.5 in run one.
Round 4181 collected nine times: was it run two's best?
Yes: USD 1,142.20 over 30 spins, 571.1 stakes, with USD 451.20 on spin 24 and USD 162.80 on spin 15. Round 3127 followed at USD 891.80 and round 5118 at USD 551.40 over twenty spins.
Has the base game stayed as thin as in run one?
Yes. Hits came on 12.64% of run two's rounds against 12.16%, the median paying screen was 2 stakes in both, and the worst dry stretch ran 50 rounds, from 4574 to 4623, after 56 in run one; no ordinary screen passed USD 200.
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