SG777 Turnover Explained — The Number Every Wagering Term Is Measured In
Turnover (also called handle): All the money staked during a period of play, tallied on every wager rather than once for each deposit.
Key facts and contents
- Term
- Turnover
- Short for
- also called handle
- Set by
- Arising from play and captured by the operator's platform
- Where you meet it
- Statements on responsible gambling, bonus terms, and the history of account activity
- Not the same as
- Turnover should be kept separate from net win and net loss, and from deposit as well. Turnover captures the volume of staking, not the outcome or the source: you can run up large turnover in a session and end up exactly break-even.
Among the terms on a casino page, Turnover is a sensible one to understand well.
Turnover (also called handle) — All the money staked during a period of play, tallied on every wager rather than once for each deposit.
What Turnover actually means
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Term | Turnover |
| Written out | also called handle |
| In one line | All the money staked during a period of play, tallied on every wager rather than once for each deposit. |
| Fixed by | Arising from play and captured by the operator’s platform |
| Where you meet it | Statements on responsible gambling, bonus terms, and the history of account activity |
What counts toward turnover is each amount bet, not each movement of money with the operator. Only ₱100 was ever deposited, yet playing it across five separate spins produces ₱500 of turnover because each spin staked it again. Because house edge is applied to it, wagering requirements are counted in it and RTP is defined relative to it, nearly all the other money terms on this list ultimately describe turnover.
The common misreading
Deposit totals and balances are commonly mistaken for turnover. It is neither. Turnover is generated by play, not by balance: a small deposit won back and replayed repeatedly may produce many times its size, and an unused large balance produces zero.
Turnover should be kept separate from net win and net loss, and from deposit as well. Turnover captures the volume of staking, not the outcome or the source: you can run up large turnover in a session and end up exactly break-even.
A worked example
With a ₱500 deposit played over ten rounds at ₱50 apiece, turnover comes to ₱500 (ten times ₱50), and the figures line up with the deposit only since no winnings were restaked. Should ₱50 of winnings be wagered a further ten times before the session ends, turnover comes to ₱1,000 on the same ₱500 deposit.
Using it in practice
Turnover, not the deposit, is the base to use when a wagering requirement or a house-edge figure is given. Both figures drift apart quickly as the balance gets replayed again and again in one session.
Terms such as Turnover appear on the game pages here, and those pages admit when the studio has not published the figure behind one instead of taking a number from a comparison site. It accounts for the missing entries in several spec tables on these pages.
Checking Turnover in the lobby you play at
- Start a game in the lobby you use and look for its info or help screen.
- Spot Turnover there, then apply the definition above.
- Compare it with the same entry on another title before you choose one to play.
- Write your stake and your stop point down before your first round.
FAQ
How can Turnover help me decide on a game?
Turnover, not the deposit, is the base to use when a wagering requirement or a house-edge figure is given. Both figures drift apart quickly as the balance gets replayed again and again in one session.
Is Turnover something a casino can change?
Not on this site's evidence. The studio, not the operator, owns any value behind turnover that the game's own mathematics sets, and no outside source can confirm one the studio has not published.
What does Turnover mean?
All the money staked during a period of play, tallied on every wager rather than once for each deposit.