Session Report LAVB-20260730-01: One Lava Balls Run, Published in Full

Every review on this portal closes with a session ID and one promise: the complete record is available on request. This page removes the request step for one session, so the promise can be inspected rather than taken on trust. Below is the full log of LAVB-20260730-01, the run behind our Lava Balls review: 2,975 spins, 27 balance checkpoints, all 21 bonus rounds, five frames from the archive and the arithmetic that ties it together.

Nothing here is summarised. The tables print every checkpoint and every bonus round exactly as the session log recorded them, and the figures match the review to the cent. If a number on this page ever disagrees with the review, one of them is wrong, and the contact form is the right place to say so.

What these numbers are, and what they are not

Session numbers, not game numbers. The 90.59% return below is what this one 2,975-spin session paid back. It is not the RTP of Lava Balls. The stated figure printed in the game's own info panel is 96.50%, and a single session can land well under or well over that without anything being broken. That gap is the whole subject of observed vs stated RTP.
Demo wallet, no real money. The run used the provider's public demo build at a flat $2.00 stake, on demo credits. The same build sits on the demo shelf if you want to watch it behave yourself. 18+ applies to demo play too.

Session passport

Provider
Pragmatic Play
Session ID
LAVB-20260730-01
Date
30 July 2026
Length
3 h 53 m one sitting
Stake
$2.00 flat throughout
Spins
2,975
Starting balance
$100,000.00 demo credits
Total staked
$5,950.00
Total returned
$5,390.40
Final balance
$99,440.40
Net result
−$559.60
Observed return
90.59% this session only
Hit frequency
32.47% 966 of 2,975
Longest no-win run
17 spins
Bonus rounds
21 all free spins
Best full round
708.92x $1,417.84 · round 3 below
Frames retained
13,374

The arithmetic that has to close

One equation decides whether a session may be published at all: the starting balance, minus everything staked, plus everything returned, must equal the final balance on screen, to the cent.

$100,000.00 − $5,950.00 + $5,390.40 = $99,440.40start − 2,975 spins × $2.00 + total returns = final balance. Reconstructed and on-screen finals identical, discrepancy count zero.

Here it closes exactly. When it refuses to close, the session is discarded and run again; no number on this portal comes from a session that failed the check.

Balance curve across 27 checkpoints

99,500100,000100,500101,000101,50015001,0001,5002,0002,5002,975peak 101,315.20final 99,440.40spin

The curve connects the 27 checkpoint values from the table below; it does not interpolate the spins between them. The dotted line marks the $100,000.00 start.

Checkpoint table, in full

Checkpoints are fixed at session milestones. One start, one peak, three scheduled midpoints, one close and the 21 bonus openings make the 27 rows.

#SpinBalanceNet vs startMoment
11$99,998.00−$2.00Session start
286$99,847.60−$152.40Round 1 opens
3118$99,803.84−$196.16Round 2 opens
4123$99,862.00−$138.00Round 3 opens
5196$101,197.36+$1,197.36Round 4 opens
6218$101,237.36+$1,237.36Round 5 opens
7226$101,315.20+$1,315.20Session peak
8424$101,030.96+$1,030.96Round 6 opens
9441$101,184.40+$1,184.40Round 7 opens
10553$101,076.80+$1,076.80Round 8 opens
11698$100,937.76+$937.76Scheduled midpoint
12775$100,812.16+$812.16Round 9 opens
13916$100,828.96+$828.96Round 10 opens
141,101$100,582.80+$582.80Round 11 opens
151,188$100,676.16+$676.16Round 12 opens
161,462$100,438.08+$438.08Round 13 opens
171,463$100,470.80+$470.80Scheduled midpoint
181,524$100,355.28+$355.28Round 14 opens
191,584$100,423.12+$423.12Round 15 opens
201,931$100,006.32+$6.32Round 16 opens
211,963$100,071.36+$71.36Round 17 opens
222,025$100,235.44+$235.44Round 18 opens
232,194$100,304.56+$304.56Scheduled midpoint
242,372$100,090.48+$90.48Round 19 opens
252,603$99,783.04−$216.96Round 20 opens
262,941$99,444.08−$555.92Round 21 opens
272,975$99,440.40−$559.60Final checkpoint

Balances are read from the session log at the moment each checkpoint was fixed. Each checkpoint also stores its own frame; five of them are printed further down.

Bonus registry, all 21 rounds

Every free-spins round the session hit, in order. No selection, no highlights reel. Lava Balls pays a round out as one collect at its close, so the payout column is the whole round, retriggers included.

RoundTrigger spinRound payoutPayout ×bet
187$16.088.04x
2119$68.1634.08x
3124$1,417.84708.92x
4197$21.4410.72x
5219$76.7238.36x
6425$184.9692.48x
7442$84.0042.00x
8554$63.2831.64x
9776$233.92116.96x
10917$29.3614.68x
111,102$183.0491.52x
121,189$14.007.00x
131,463$34.7217.36x
141,525$117.7658.88x
151,585$39.6019.80x
161,932$82.8041.40x
171,964$245.36122.68x
182,026$317.68158.84x
192,373$47.5223.76x
202,604$28.6414.32x
212,942$46.4023.20x
21 rounds$3,353.281,676.64x

Round payout is the amount the round put back on the balance at collect, read straight from the balance ledger. Each figure is checked against the checkpoint curve above; round 3 is the jump between checkpoints 4 and 5.

The 21 rounds returned $3,353.28 between them, 62% of everything the session paid back; the base game contributed $2,037.12 across the same 2,975 spins. The split closes its own equation too: $2,037.12 + $3,353.28 = $5,390.40 returned.

Five frames from the archive

The archive behind this session holds 13,374 timestamped frames. These five sit at the moments the tables above describe.

Lava Balls session LAVB-20260730-01, start frame
Checkpoint 1, the opening screen: $100,000.00 on the demo balance, $2.00 stake set, nothing played yet.
Lava Balls session LAVB-20260730-01, round11 frame
Round 11 opens with 12 free spins on the board. The balance line in the frame reads $100,582.80, the exact figure checkpoint 14 recorded at spin 1,101.
Lava Balls session LAVB-20260730-01, peak frame
The neighbourhood of the session peak. The checkpoint at spin 226 fixed $101,315.20; the frame was grabbed a beat later, so its balance line sits a few dollars behind the log entry.
Lava Balls session LAVB-20260730-01, round21 frame
Round 21, the last bonus of the log, opens with the balance already below the start line. It returned 23.20x and softened the finish rather than saving it.
Lava Balls session LAVB-20260730-01, final frame
The closing screen. The final checkpoint fixed $99,440.40 after 2,975 spins; the frame was grabbed one settlement earlier, which is why its balance line sits $2.00 higher.

How this was logged

The run took one sitting on 30 July 2026, 3 hours 53 minutes at a flat $2.00 stake, launched from the same link the demo shelf uses. The balance was fixed at every checkpoint listed above, and the archive kept a timestamped frame of the screen through the whole run. After the close, the totals were rebuilt from the recorded spins and set against the on-screen final; the invariant section shows the result. The full protocol, including the rule that a failed reconciliation kills the session, lives on the methodology page.

Logs for any other published session stay available on request through the contact form: name the game and the session ID from its review.

Where these numbers live

The review takes its headline figures straight from this log: the 90.59% observed return, the 32.47% hit frequency and the 708.92x best full round. They sit in context in the Lava Balls review, next to the paytable on the Lava Balls rules page. For why a session figure may sit six points under the printed one, read observed vs stated RTP; for what return figures mean at all, start with what RTP actually is.

The tables on this page are published under the CC BY 4.0 licence: reuse the numbers freely, with a link back to this report as the source.