PHMACAO Game weighting Explained — Why Not All Turnover Counts the Same

Game weighting is one of the terms that appears on every casino page and is explained on almost none of them.

Game weighting (also called contribution rate) — The rate at which wagers placed on a given game count toward clearing a wagering requirement.

What Game weighting actually means

Field	Value
Term	Game weighting
Written out	also called contribution rate
In one line	The rate at which wagers placed on a given game count toward clearing a wagering requirement.
Fixed by	The operator, per promotion, per game category
Where you meet it	Bonus terms and conditions, usually as a table listing game categories and their rates

A wagering requirement is measured in turnover, but not every peso staked counts at the same rate toward it. Operators commonly assign different contribution rates by game category — slots, table games, live dealer and others can each contribute differently — because those categories differ in house edge and in how predictable their short-run outcomes are. The rate that applies to each category is set by the operator for that specific promotion, and it is stated in the terms as a percentage next to each game type.

The common misreading

It is easy to assume that ₱100 wagered always clears ₱100 of a wagering requirement, regardless of what it was wagered on. That is only true for games contributing at 100%. A game contributing at a lower rate, or at 0%, can be played extensively while barely moving the requirement, or not moving it at all — with no warning beyond the weighting table itself.

Game weighting is not the wagering requirement itself — the requirement is the multiple to be cleared; weighting is the rate at which different games count toward it. It is also not the same as a maximum bet rule, which is a cap on stake size rather than a rate of contribution.

A worked example

Take a hypothetical case to see the mechanism, not a real rate: if a promotion states slots contribute 100% and table games contribute 10%, then ₱100 wagered on a slot clears ₱100 of the requirement, while the same ₱100 wagered on a table game clears only ₱10. Which categories get which rate, in any real promotion, is stated in that promotion’s own terms — it is not a fixed industry figure and should never be assumed from another operator’s offer.

Using it in practice

Before choosing which games to play toward a bonus, read the weighting table in that specific promotion’s terms. A favourite table or live-dealer game may contribute at a much lower rate than assumed, silently extending how much turnover is actually needed. It is easier to hold onto alongside wagering requirement and what max bet rule means, which the same pages tend to mention in the same breath.

Terms like Game weighting run through the game pages on this site, and where the studio does not publish the figure behind one, those pages say so instead of quoting a number from a comparison site. That is why several spec tables here carry blanks.