How the Bubbling Pot of Fortune freeroll works
A freeroll is a tournament with no entry fee. Instead of betting your own money, you're handed a stack of tournament credits, and a leaderboard ranks how well players do with them. When the tournament closes, prizes from the pool go to the players at the top.
Fair Go's listing confirms the headline terms: Freeroll, $25,000 prize pool, 70 free credits, free entry. It doesn't publish the game, the start and finish times, how scores are counted or how the pool is split. Those live in Fair Go's tournament lobby, which the promotions page links to. Read the tournament card there before you spin, because the scoring rule decides how you should play.
What Fair Go confirms, and what it doesn't
| Detail | Status |
|---|---|
| Entry fee | Free, confirmed |
| Deposit needed | None, confirmed |
| Starting credits | 70, confirmed |
| Prize pool | $25,000, confirmed |
| Game | Not on the listing |
| Start and end times | Not on the listing |
| How the leaderboard is scored | Not on the listing |
| Number of places paid | Not on the listing |
| Cash or bonus prizes | Not stated |
| Prize wagering or cap | Not stated |
Gaps like these are normal for a promotions banner, but they matter. The $25,000 is the total across every prize, not what a typical entrant takes home. In most freerolls, the large majority of players finish outside the paid places.
Playing 70 credits: what actually matters
Your credits are tournament chips, not money, so the usual bankroll advice flips around. Your own cash isn't at stake, and an unused credit is simply wasted. A few honest points:
- Play them all. Credits left over at the close usually add nothing to your result.
- Bet size changes the swing, not the average. With a fixed stack, bigger bets make your score more extreme: more chance of a top finish, and more chance of running out early. Smaller bets give a steadier, usually middling score.
- Check the scoring. If the leaderboard ranks total winnings, one big hit can win it. If it ranks something else, read exactly what.
- No trick changes the maths. Timing, patterns and "hot" machines don't alter a pokie's return. The leaderboard is mostly luck.
If you win: prize terms to check
The listing doesn't say whether prizes are paid as cash or bonus money. If a prize lands as bonus money, Fair Go's general terms set the defaults for free bonuses unless stated otherwise: a 60x playthrough and a $180 limit on what free-money promotions pay out.
Those defaults bite hard on a prize. A $100 bonus prize at 60x would need $6,000 of bets, costing about $240 on average at our cautious 96% RTP, and even a lucky run would stop at $180. That's why we'd ask live chat two questions before playing any prize: does it carry a playthrough, and is there a cash-out cap? Our max cash-out guide explains how the cap works, and the wagering guide covers the playthrough.
The freeroll and Fair Go's other free play
The Bubbling Pot sits alongside Fair Go's other ways to play without depositing. New players have BUBBLE15, covered on our no-deposit bonus page. Existing players can turn comp points into spins through Fair eXchange. The freeroll is the only one of the three with a leaderboard, which makes it the most fun to follow and the least predictable to win.
