Playing Bonus Buy Slots In Ontario

September 30, 2026

Most of a modern slot’s potential payout sits in its bonus round, and landing that round naturally can take hundreds of spins. A bonus buy, also called a feature buy, lets you skip the wait: you pay a fixed price and the game drops you straight into the feature.

How the price works

The cost is a multiple of your base stake, shown on screen before you confirm. At a $0.50 stake, a 100x buy costs $50 for one bonus round. Many games charge somewhere between 50x and 100x, and some offer premium buys with extra features for several hundred times the stake. Always read the price in dollars before you tap.

RTP and risk

Some studios set the bonus buy at the same RTP as the base game; others set it slightly higher or lower. The game’s info screen normally shows this. Either way, the RTP is a long run average across many purchases. A single bought feature can pay many times its cost or a fraction of it, and results cluster at the low end more often than players expect.

Bonus buys compress the swings of a whole session into a single purchase. That makes them the highest risk way to play a slot, even when the RTP looks good.

Budgeting for feature buys

1. Decide in advance how many buys your session budget covers, and stop there.
2. Consider lowering your base stake so each buy costs less.
3. Set a deposit limit in your casino account. Every AGCO registered operator must provide one, and it is the simplest guard against chasing a result.

Want to reach the feature the traditional way? Our online slots guide explains how bonus rounds trigger, and Megaways covers the games where bought features are most common.