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The Bought Round / the maximum win
how a ceiling reprices the buy

The maximum win rewrites the buy price

Every game has a most it will pay, and a buy price changes what that ceiling means. If the maximum win is 5,000 times the base stake and a buy costs 100 times the stake, then the most a bought round can return is fifty times what it cost. The cap does not change the price; it puts a lid on what the price can buy, and that lid is easy to read once both figures are in the same units.

Desk spec
maximum win
5,000x stake
the buy price
100x stake
the cap as a multiple of the price
50.0x
buys that reached it
12
reached share
2.5%
buys sampled
480
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

A maximum win caps what a bought round can return. If a game pays at most 5,000 times the base stake and a buy costs 100 times the stake, the most one bought round can return is fifty times the price. Of 480 invented buys, 12 reached the cap - 2.5% - so a buy makes the ceiling nearer in reach as well as larger in money.

Converting a cap into a multiple of the buy price the maximum win the game pays 5,000 x the base stake the price of a buy 100 x the base stake the cap in price units = 5,000 / 100 = 50.0x the price the same cap in base-stake units on a 1.00 spin: the most any round returns is 5,000.00 on a 100.00 buy: the most the bought round returns is 5,000.00 the money ceiling is identical but the buy reaches it in one decision instead of across a hundred spins so a bought round hits the cap far more often
the same 5,000x cap at two round sizes
roundpricethe most it returnscap in price units
a single spin1.005,000.005,000.0x
a bought round100.005,000.0050.0x
a buy compresses the same ceiling into one round100x

Why a buy makes the ceiling matter more

A cap is a rate as well as an amount. Reached across a hundred small spins, a 5,000-stake ceiling is distant; reached by one 100-stake buy, the same ceiling is fifty times the price and far more likely to be the thing that truncates a good round. Twelve of the 480 sampled buys reached it, and there is a second effect a reader should hold: a capped round returns the ceiling and no more, so the top of the return distribution is thinner than the game mathematics would otherwise produce. Where a bought round would have paid more, the cap quietly files the remainder away. The desk cannot quantify that remainder for a named game, but it can show the shape: the ceiling binds most on the round that does best.

Reading a cap at a buy price
  • Convert the maximum win into multiples of the buy price: cap divided by price.
  • Remember the money ceiling does not change with the round size - only the multiple does.
  • Check how a game defines the cap: per round, per bet or per session.
  • Note that a cap thins the top of the return, because the best rounds are truncated.
  • Compare the cap with the price before deciding what a buy can ever win.
This desk names no real game or studio and prints an invented cap. Maximum-win definitions - per round, per bet or per session - vary by game and jurisdiction, and this page gives no advice on any particular cap.
The pricethe buy price against the average returnThe feature buyone round bought at a fixed priceThe ruleswagering and eligibility for a bought round