Pragmatic Play · 2023
Big Bass – Hold & Spinner is a fishing-themed 5x3 video slot from Pragmatic Play with high volatility, 10 fixed paylines and two bonus modes.
Play the demo for free. The real game needs an account and is for players 18+.
5x3 grid with a fishing theme and 10 fixed paylines that pay left to right from the leftmost reel. Two matching symbols can already pay. Bass, bobbers, rods, tackle boxes and fish catches appear alongside the card symbols A, K, Q and J, and the reels hold the game's two bonus triggers: three or more SCATTER symbols and three or more MONEY symbols.
3, 4 or 5 SCATTER symbols award 10, 15 or 20 free spins. A fisherman WILD covers every reel and collects FISH MONEY on a 12-slot meter. Each fourth WILD collected adds 10 spins and a rising multiplier, up to x10. Three or more MONEY symbols open Hold & Spinner, turning the grid into a fishing net; four respins reset on every MONEY hit.
7 figures to check
Bizzo Casino puts each figure in plain numbers, so you can read the terms before you spin.
| What it measures | As shown |
|---|---|
| Provider | Pragmatic Play |
| Return to player | 96.07% / 96.09% |
| Volatility | High |
| Grid and paylines | 5x3 |
| Max win times bet | x10,000 |
| Max win at top bet | A$3,750,000 |
| Release date | 27/03/2023 |
A$200 is the price of each bonus buy at a total bet of A$2, which is 100 times that bet.
| Paid option | Price tag | RTP |
|---|---|---|
| Free Spins buy at 100x | x100 · A$200 | – |
| Hold & Spinner buy at 100x | x100 · A$200 | – |
A$100 staked is the base of every RTP figure. The return to player is the share of that stake the game pays back over time. Bizzo Casino's RTP version is listed in the game rules.
| RTP version | RTP | Provider default |
|---|---|---|
| Version 1 | 96.09% | None |
| Version 2 | 96.07% | Available |
Understand Extra Play
The usual worry is not knowing when a bonus starts or how it pays out.
3, 4 or 5 scatters award 10, 15 or 20 free spins. A Fisherman wild on all reels collects fish money values on a 12-slot meter. Every 4th collected wild retriggers 10 spins, with multipliers x2 at the 4th, x3 at the 8th and x10 at the 12th.
Base game reelsSpins and multipliers
3+ money symbols trigger the mode. The grid re-skins as a fishing net; non-money cells become filler tiles. The round starts with 4 respins. Any new money symbol resets the respin counter to 4 and adds its value to the total. The round ends when respins run out.
Money symbols landRespins and money
Every spin starts on a 5x3 grid with 10 fixed paylines, paying left to right from the leftmost reel. Landing 3+ money symbols opens Hold & Spinner. Landing 3+ scatters opens Free Spins.
Place a betPaylines and triggers
Know the look
Useful before your first spin, when you want to see the bonus screens.
Before the first bet
Most players worry about what a bet buys and when the round ends.
Pick a bet from A$0.10 up to A$375 before each spin. Every payout scales with the bet, so the paytable uses A$0.20 as its reference bet.
Wins run left to right across the 5x3 grid on 10 fixed paylines. A line pays when at least 2 matching symbols land from the leftmost reel.
Money symbols open Hold & Spinner, and Scatter symbols open Free Spins, from 3 symbols each. The Wild (Fisherman) substitutes in Free Spins, where it collects FISH MONEY values.
Three, four or five Scatter symbols award 10, 15 or 20 free spins. Then the Wild appears on every reel and fills a 12-slot meter with FISH MONEY values.
Set a session limit before the first spin and stop when you reach it. Bonus rounds come without warning, so the limit should leave room for them.
5x3 grid, 10 paylines, and still no way to know when the bonus arrives. How often Free Spins or Hold & Spinner come is not known in advance. The result of one session is random, whatever the RTP. An RTP describes the long run, not the next session.
96.07 or 96.09 is the RTP version in play, and only the game rules show which one applies. Read them before your first spin, since the two versions pay differently over time. Both figures sit close together, but close is still a difference on paper.
x10,000 is the ceiling: the highest multiple of the bet this slot pays. At the top example bet of A$2, that ceiling is A$20,000. It is reached very rarely, so treat it as a ceiling, not a target.
Players must be 18+. Help is available from the National Gambling Helpline on 1800 858 858, and BetStop is the national self-exclusion register.
At the A$0.20 paytable bet, set a session budget before the first spin and keep to it.
10, 15 or 20 spins follow the scatter count. Decide your stop point before the round starts, and keep to it after a win.
A$375 is the highest bet on this game, so a deposit or loss limit set on your account matters most when stakes rise.
4 respins start each Hold & Spinner round. When the game stops being fun, take a pause or register with BetStop.
Know the rules first
After this page you can judge the bonus rounds, the top win and what a buy costs.
A$0.10 is the lowest bet on Big Bass – Hold & Spinner, so a first session can start small. The paytable shows amounts for an A$0.20 bet, and the highest bet here is A$375.
3 or more SCATTER symbols trigger the Free Spins. Three, four or five SCATTER symbols award 10, 15 or 20 spins. The Wild is the Fisherman, who appears on all reels.
10,000 times the bet is the top win of Big Bass – Hold & Spinner. At the A$2 example bet that is A$20,000, and at the highest bet of A$375 it reaches A$3,750,000. How often any win comes close to the cap cannot be known in advance.
96.07% and 96.09% are the two RTP versions of Big Bass – Hold & Spinner. RTP is the average return over a very long run of play, not a result for one session. The money table uses A$100 staked as its basis.
100x the total bet buys the Free Spins or the Hold & Spinner round. Each buy costs A$200 at the A$2 example bet. The Ante Bet is a separate option that costs 1.5 times the bet, or A$3 at A$2.
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