About this desk

The Bought Round is desk 85 in a series of independent, single-subject information sites about how gambling products actually work. This one has a single subject: the controls that change what a single round costs. It is funded by one disclosed partner link, it names no game, studio or operator, and every figure on it is invented and derives from ten samples.

Desk spec

desk: 85
the subject: the price of a round
funding: one sponsored partner link
figures: ten invented samples
readers: adults, 18+
rankings: none

The control platesample A / 1,200 extra-stake rounds, four controls

feature buy100x stakeBuys one whole round at a fixed price. The stake moves from 1x to 100x in a single decision; the return is the bought round's, not the base game's.

ante bet+25% per spinRaises the price of every spin a little and the stated chance of reaching the feature a lot. It makes a non-triggering spin dearer and can make the route to the feature cheaper.

super stake2x per spinDoubles the stake for roughly double the quoted chance. It changes the size of the bet and the variance, not the expected cost of reaching the feature.

gamble0 until a winCosts nothing to be offered, then stakes a win on a double-or-nothing. It is the only control here that can take money already won and put it back at risk.

four controls, one thing in common: each changes what a round costs, and none changes what it can return beyond the game's own mathematics.

Direct answer

The Bought Round is desk 85 in a series of single-subject information sites. Its subject is the controls that change what a single round costs. It is funded by one disclosed sponsored partner link, it carries no rankings and recommends no control, it names no real game, studio or operator, and every figure on it derives from ten invented samples stated on its overview page.

How it is funded

One link, disclosed above every page: a sponsored link to a partner operator, carrying rel="sponsored noopener". If a reader opens an account through it, the site may be paid, at no extra cost to the reader. There is no second revenue source, no advertising, no data sale and no operator payment for coverage. A site about what a round costs should be as clear about its own price as about any other, which is why the disclosure sits above the fold rather than in the footer.

What it will not do

It names no real game, studio, operator or person, and prices no real product. It recommends no control and tells no reader to buy a feature, to use an ante, to take a super stake or to gamble a win. It gives no financial, legal or tax advice and no profit method. It does not describe how to reach a bonus it is not entitled to, and it does not present any strategy as a way to beat a game.

How the figures work

Everything numeric on this desk comes from ten invented samples, each stated in full on the overview page and restated on the pages that use it. The samples are a small, self-contained dataset: 1,200 extra-stake rounds, 480 buys, 300 antes, 240 super stakes, 180 gambles, a 96.5% buy return, a 5,000-times cap. They are not observed from a live game and are labelled illustrative everywhere they appear. Because they are self-contained, any figure on any page can be checked by arithmetic against the others, which is the point.

How to read this desk

Treat every figure as illustrative, derived from the ten samples.
Read a control as a price, and look for the return beside it.
Check the cap and the terms before anything else.
Expect no recommendation: the desk prices controls equally.
Prefer the arithmetic on the page to the sentence around it.

This desk is educational content for adults, about how an extra-stake control changes the cost and the shape of a round. It is not financial, legal or tax advice for any jurisdiction and makes no claim about any real product or operator.

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