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Interrupted Round

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What is Interrupted Round?

What happens to your stake when a connection drops: slots preserve the round, live tables settle without you, and a void returns it.

ByCasino Desk·Casino & Slots Editor

Reviewed byKris Fawkes·Chief Editor

What it means in practice

An interrupted round is one that stops before it is finished — a dropped connection, a closed tab, a browser crash, or a studio fault at the table. What happens to the money afterwards is decided by the game's own rules, and the outcomes are not equivalent. Slots and other software games hold the round server-side. The stake has already been taken and the outcome for that spin is already determined, so the round is preserved and resumes the next time the game is opened. This is why an unfinished free-spins feature reappears on the next visit, sometimes on a different device, and why the balance may look wrong until the round is completed. Live tables cannot wait. The dealer plays on, and a bet already accepted is settled by the table's rules without you. A blackjack hand left mid-decision is normally auto-completed to a defined rule rather than forfeited, and a bet placed on a roulette or baccarat round is simply settled on the result. Where a round genuinely cannot be completed — a studio failure, a malfunction called by the operator — the round is voided and stakes are returned. Void is a very different outcome from auto-complete, and which one applies is written in the game rules rather than in the site's general terms. Every round carries an identifier, and quoting it is what turns a support enquiry into a check of the record.

Why it matters

A definition like this one decides what an offer is actually worth. The same wording turns up in bonus terms, on payment pages and in game rules, and it is usually where a promotion’s real cost is hiding — so it is worth reading an operator’s own terms with this meaning in mind rather than the marketing above them.

You must be of legal gambling age where you live — 18 in most markets, 19 or 21 in others. Understanding a term does not make an outcome more likely: casino games are built to return less than they take over time. Set deposit and time limits before you play.

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