What is Cash Balance Priority?

Cash balance priority is the rule deciding which pot a stake is drawn from when an account holds both real money and bonus money. It is one line in the terms, it is almost never in the promotional copy, and it changes what a bonus is worth more than the headline percentage does. There are two orders and they produce different games. Cash first means your own money is spent before the bonus is touched: the deposit plays as normal, anything won from it is withdrawable, and the bonus only comes into play once the cash is gone. Bonus first means the stake comes out of the bonus from the first spin, so every result is bound by the wagering requirement and the maximum conversion from the moment you start. The practical difference is what happens if you stop. Under cash first, a player who wins early can withdraw and forfeit the untouched bonus, losing only something they never had. Under bonus first, stopping early means stopping inside a wagering requirement, and the balance on screen is not money — it is progress towards a cap. This is also the mechanism underneath the non-sticky and sticky distinction, which describes the same arrangement from the other end. If you take one thing from a set of bonus terms before opting in, take this one: find out which balance is spent first, because it is the difference between a bonus you can abandon and a bonus you have already accepted.