A deposit tells you how much money entered an account. It does not tell you how much a session lost. For a settled, cash-only period, calculate closing balance + withdrawals − opening balance − deposits. A negative answer is a loss. Keeping both balance snapshots is the part that a deposits-versus-withdrawals note misses.
For the topic overview, see JILI Slot Games.
This guide in the Super Ace guides works through one fictional peso account, then checks the answer against stakes and awards. All entries below are settled; there are no bonuses, fees, refunds, currency conversions or transfers between accounts. Those exceptions need separate entries.
Four numbers to save before comparing results
Choose one account and one time window, such as the start and end of a session. Save the opening balance before the first transaction and the closing balance after all included rounds settle. Add deposits and completed withdrawals within that same window. Use pesos throughout; a credit count cannot be mixed with PHP until the credit value is known.
Money left in the account still matters even if you have not withdrawn it. An old balance matters too: spending money deposited last week creates a loss this week without a new deposit. Conversely, depositing money and leaving it untouched changes the account balance but creates no gambling loss.
GamCare’s spending factsheet, page 1, recommends a gambling diary and checking bank or gambling-account statements. The worked reconciliation here is our own example. A bank statement shows payments; the account history supplies balances and game entries that the bank cannot see.
One account, two ways to find a ₱40 cost
Imagine an account with ₱50 already in it. During the period, two deposits add ₱300. Twelve paid rounds at ₱10 each cost ₱120 in total, and their settled awards return ₱80. A completed withdrawal removes ₱100. The order of deposits and play does not change the totals below.
| Entry | Amount | What it measures |
|---|---|---|
| Opening cash balance | ₱50 | Money already present before this period |
| Deposits: ₱200 + ₱100 | +₱300 | New funding, not a game award |
| Paid stakes: 12 × ₱10 | −₱120 | Turnover across the included rounds |
| Settled awards | +₱80 | Total credited returns, not net profit |
| Completed withdrawal | −₱100 | Money taken out, not another wager |
| Closing cash balance | ₱210 | ₱50 + ₱300 − ₱120 + ₱80 − ₱100 |
The balance method gives ₱210 + ₱100 − ₱50 − ₱300 = −₱40. The game-entry method gives ₱80 − ₱120 = −₱40. The agreement is useful: it checks that the account movements and game totals describe the same period.
Deposits minus withdrawals are ₱200 here, but the loss is only ₱40. The remaining ₱160 difference is the increase from the ₱50 opening balance to the ₱210 closing balance. Nor is the ₱80 award total a profit: it is smaller than the ₱120 staked.
One paid round can contain several displays
The JILI page for original Super Ace describes consecutive eliminations and a Golden Joker appearing after a Golden Card is cleared. That sequence makes it useful to distinguish a paid round from the changing totals shown during it. The product page does not establish the account-history format or peso stake offered by a particular operator.
In a fictional ₱10 round, suppose an accumulating award counter shows ₱3 and later finishes at ₱7. If the latter is the running total, the award is ₱7, not ₱3 + ₱7. The round result is ₱7 − ₱10 = −₱3. If the history instead lists two separate credits of ₱3 and ₱4, their sum is the same ₱7. Read whether a number is a new credit or a cumulative display before adding it.
Check the Golden Card sequence for the symbol change and the paytable guide for stake units. Neither an animation nor a running counter is a substitute for the settled transaction record.
When the simple calculation needs more work
- Pending withdrawal or unfinished round: mark it unresolved. If money has left the displayed balance but is not yet paid out, excluding it from both places makes it look lost. Use a later settled snapshot or reconcile the pending item separately; do not count it twice.
- Restricted bonus balance: record cash and bonus amounts separately. If the operator mixes them or converts one into the other, identify those movements before calling the display withdrawable money.
- Fees, refunds or adjustments: list them separately. A fee affects total cash cost but is not a slot loss. The two methods above only agree directly when these extra entries are absent or reconciled.
- Multiple wallets: set the account boundary first. A transfer between two included wallets is internal movement, not a fresh deposit into their combined total.
If the numbers still disagree, check the date range, currency and transaction status, then ask the account provider about the specific entry. Keep its reference privately. The Super Ace website does not hold the partner’s account ledger or settle payment disputes.
Use the record to recognise a stopping point
Turnover is total stakes, including money returned and staked again. It is neither a deposit target nor a forecast of the final loss. A twelve-round example also says nothing about a game’s long-run RTP. The UK Gambling Commission’s RTP explanation distinguishes long-run averages from an individual session; it does not supply a Super Ace RTP figure.
Write down your money boundary and end time before any play, and keep the record when you stop. Reaching a boundary is a reason to stop, even if the running result feels unfinished. PAGCOR’s current guidance advises time limits, avoiding borrowed funds and not chasing losses. If keeping those boundaries is difficult, use its exclusion and support routes or read our responsible-gambling page.
What changed and what was checked
Updated 4 October 2026; originally published 22 September 2026. This revision corrects the earlier implication that deposits minus withdrawals alone measure a session’s result. It adds both balance snapshots, a checked two-way reconciliation and exceptions for unsettled or non-cash entries. All peso figures and images are illustrative. Sources were read on the update date; no gambling session, payment test or operator-account audit was performed. This is AI-assisted source research and arithmetic, without a confirmed named human reviewer.
