500 free spins, released across four deposits

The opening 200 are the only batch that arrives gradually, and the pacing is deliberate. Forty spins land on the day the first match is switched on and another forty follow on each of the next four days, which stretches the batch across a working week instead of burning it out in one sitting.

Each daily batch is credited to your account rather than queued behind the one before it, so the sensible habit during that week is to sign in once a day, use the forty that have arrived and let the next lot appear. If a day slips past you, raise it with live chat while the five day run is still open rather than after it closes.

The eligible game and the value carried by each spin are shown on the offer inside your account. We publish the counts and the conditions here and leave the per spin detail to the offer itself, because that is the version governing your play. Everything in the pokies lobby stays open to your own balance at any time, bonus or no bonus.

The A$25 above is illustrative arithmetic rather than a forecast: free spins can return nothing at all, and most sessions finish well below the figures a game screen likes to show off. What matters is the mechanic. Whatever the spins do return lands as bonus money, carries 40 times its own value in turnover and has to be worked through inside the seven day window before any of it can convert.

That is also why the A$8 stake ceiling bites harder on this page than anywhere else. Players finish a batch, see a pending balance and raise their stake to clear the turnover quicker. One spin above A$8 while bonus funds are live breaches the conditions and can remove the pending amount altogether, so the quick route turns out to be the slow one: small stakes, held steady.

Two smaller points round it off. Progress counts your stakes rather than your results, so a losing run still carries you forward. And if you decide the condition is not worth chasing, you can simply walk away from it: when the week lapses the bonus and its pending winnings are cleared, and the balance you deposited is untouched.

Free spins are the part of the package most often lost to simple mistakes rather than to bad luck, and all of those mistakes are avoidable. The list below is what our chat team ends up explaining most often, so it is better read before the first batch than after the fourth.

• Open the nominated game from the offer itself so the spins register against the right title.
• Leave the stake slider alone once bonus funds are pending. A$8 is the ceiling, not a target.
• Use each daily batch on the day it lands rather than hoping forty will roll into eighty.
• Watch the seven day clock on the match, because the spins and the match share the same window.
• Do not request a payout with turnover outstanding unless you are happy to lose the pending amount.
• Keep one account only. Duplicate accounts void offers under our terms.

None of that is unusual for a deposit offer, but it is written here rather than hidden because we would rather you finish a batch than query it afterwards. If anything about an offer on your account looks different to what this page says, our 24/7 live chat team can check the version attached to you in a couple of minutes.