The tool
Free, no sign-up, nothing stored. Illustrative only: the court, not this page, decides what is paid.
- Fund
- 14,000,000
- minus attorney fees (30% of fund)
- 4,200,000
- minus administration costs
- 500,000
- minus incentive awards
- 70,000
- = net fund
- 9,230,000
- divided by claimants (500,000 × 5%)
- 25,000
- = per claimant
- 369
Illustrative only. Real settlements pay pro rata on each claimant's spend or losses, in tiers, or in credits rather than cash, and the fee award is set by the court after the deadline. Read the settlement agreement's allocation plan; the case pages quote it where it is on record.
How the estimate works
A class action pays each claimant a share of what is left of the fund after attorney fees, administration costs and incentive awards, divided by the number of valid claims. Enter the fund and the shares; the calculator shows the arithmetic, not a promise.
4 gambling settlements accept claims as of 14 November 2026, and this calculator estimates a per-claimant share of a class settlement fund from the numbers in the court record; it is not a personal-injury calculator and it gives a payout estimate, never a promise.
As a class action payout calculator it divides the fund, minus fees and costs, by valid claims, and the court sets the fee award after the deadline. Filing a claim in any settlement is free; we are not a law firm and not an administrator.
Settlements you can run through the calculator today
Only the Pulsz six-state settlement (election deadline 30 November 2026), the High 5 Games Washington settlement (claims to 4 January 2027, per the settlement site) and the New York Attorney General's VGW redemption window (to 31 August 2027) are open as of 14 November 2026.
Pulsz gives an estimated total benefit of about USD 14,000,000, mostly Gold Coins, with cash capped at about USD 3,500,000. High 5 gives USD 12,000,000 to USD 30,000,000 over up to eight years. New York gives nothing to divide: the USD 8,000,000 goes to the State. See open gambling class action settlements by deadline.
Pulsz estimate: USD 1,000 of net spend gives about USD 230 in cash before deductions, roughly USD 150 to 230 after, if the court grants final approval.
What to enter in each field, and where the number comes from
Every field of the calculator has a counterpart in a settlement agreement, an approval order or an administrator notice, and the table says where to look.
| Field | What it means | Where it sits in the record | Example value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fund | Gross amount before fees, unless stated | Settlement agreement | Big Fish USD 155,000,000 gross; Pulsz about USD 14,000,000 is an estimated total benefit, mostly Gold Coins |
| Fee share | Awarded or requested percentage of the fund | Fee order or agreement | Pulsz up to 30 percent requested; High 5 up to 35 percent requested |
| Administration | Cost of running the claims process | Agreement or approval order | DoubleDown cap USD 3,000,000; High 5 up to USD 150,000 |
| Incentive awards | Payments to the named plaintiffs | Agreement or approval order | DoubleDown USD 7,500 each; Pulsz up to USD 10,000 each |
| Class size | Number of class members | Notice | DraftKings NFT about 175,000 members |
| Claim rate | Share of class spend or members who claim | Order after the deadline | Zynga 25.25 percent of class spend, the only measured gambling figure |
| Valid claimants | Number of approved claims | Not published in the record | None published |
| Caps and floors | Tiers, cash caps, minimum payments | Notice | MGM about USD 75, 50 and 20 by data type, documented losses up to USD 15,000; DraftKings NFT pays nothing under USD 5 |
The notice shows these numbers, and how to file a claim in a gambling settlement explains where to find it.
The arithmetic, line by line: DoubleDown as the worked case
The DoubleDown Casino settlement is the one gambling case where the final approval order gives every deduction, so it is the worked case: USD 415,000,000 fund, USD 121,485,000 in attorney fees (29.3 percent), an administration cap of USD 3,000,000 and USD 15,000 in incentive awards, leaving about USD 290,000,000 to divide.
| Line | Amount |
|---|---|
| Gross fund | USD 415,000,000 |
| Minus attorney fees (29.3 percent) | USD 121,485,000 |
| Minus administration (cap) | USD 3,000,000 |
| Minus incentive awards (USD 7,500 each) | USD 15,000 |
| Net fund to divide | about USD 290,000,000 |
| Divided by valid claims | number not published |
Figures from the final approval order of 1 June 2023 (Dkt. 549, W.D. Wash. 2:18-cv-00525), read from a third-party copy.
The division line is where the record stops: valid claims were never published, so the claimant field is your assumption.
Fee shares run from 25 percent in five Washington-era settlements to 29.3 percent in DoubleDown; see attorney fees in gambling class actions.
Why the result is a payout estimate, not what you will be paid
The calculator divides a net fund by a claimant count because that is the only arithmetic a reader can do before the deadline, and every gambling settlement in the record then departs from it in at least one of three ways.
Pro rata on spend, not an equal share
No gambling settlement in the record pays an equal share: each member's payment is the net fund times that member's recognized spend or loss divided by that of all valid claimants.
Playtika's tiers run from 10 percent of spend under USD 1,000 to 60 percent above USD 100,000; see class action payout per person: what gambling settlements actually paid.
Coins, credits and cash caps
Pulsz pays 27 percent of a member's net purchases in Gold Coins by default and 23 percent in cash only on election, and the cash pool is capped at a quarter of the estimated total benefit, about USD 3,500,000, with any excess paid in coins.
SciPlay's six-state settlement pays 25 percent of spend with cash capped at USD 5,000,000, and Playstudios' fund amount is not stated in its notice.
The fee award comes after the deadline
The court fixes attorney fees, costs and incentive awards at or after final approval, which in every gambling settlement on record fell after the claim deadline, so a calculation made before the deadline uses the requested share, not the awarded one.
What gambling settlements actually deducted: fund, fees, costs
The table lists every US gambling settlement whose deductions are on the record, with the fund as gross and the fee as awarded or, where marked, as requested.
| Case | Fund (gross) | Fee award and share | Costs and administration | Incentive awards | Per-claimant figure published? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DoubleDown | USD 415,000,000 | USD 121,485,000 (29.3%) | Administration cap USD 3,000,000 | USD 15,000 in total | Not published |
| Big Fish | USD 155,000,000 | USD 38,750,000 (25%) | Costs USD 1,590,690 | Deducted, amount not stated | Not published |
| Playtika | USD 38,000,000 | USD 9,500,000 (25%) | Not stated | Not stated | Not published |
| Huuuge | USD 6,500,000 | USD 1,625,000 (25%) | Costs USD 27,487.04 | USD 10,000 and USD 1,000 | Not published |
| Zynga | USD 12,000,000 | USD 3,000,000 (25%) | Costs USD 22,500 | Not stated | Not published; claims covered 25.25 percent of class spend |
| SciPlay Washington | USD 24,500,000 | USD 6,125,000 (25%) | Costs USD 33,688.74 | Not stated | Not published |
| SciPlay six-state | Cash cap USD 5,000,000, not the total benefit | Up to USD 9,000,000 requested | Administration at least USD 200,000 | Up to USD 15,000 each | Not published |
| DraftKings NFT | USD 10,000,000 | 33 1/3 percent requested (about USD 3,330,000) | Administration up to USD 180,000 authorized | USD 50,000 requested | Not published |
| MGM data breach | USD 45,000,000 | 30 percent requested (USD 13,500,000), award not verified | Not stated | Not stated | Tiers of about USD 75, 50 and 20 |
| Pulsz | Estimated total benefit about USD 14,000,000, mostly Gold Coins | Up to 30 percent requested | Not stated | Up to USD 10,000 each | Estimate USD 150 to 230 per USD 1,000 of net spend |
| High 5 | USD 12,000,000 to 30,000,000 over up to eight years | Up to 35 percent requested | Administration up to USD 150,000 | Up to USD 15,000 | Not published |
| Papaya | USD 15,000,000 | Capped at one third (USD 4,999,500) | Administration preliminarily USD 389,886 | USD 3,000 | Aggregator estimate USD 96 to 192, not in the administrator's notice |
| Armstead | USD 11,750,000 | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated | Administrator ran a payment estimator; amounts not published |
| Fortnite (FTC order, not a class settlement) | USD 245,000,000 | None | None | None | Averages of about USD 114 and USD 130 per payment in two rounds |
Fortnite is the one matter with published averages, and it came from an FTC order, not a class settlement. Year-by-year amounts are on gambling settlements by year and amount.
How this tool is built
The calculator runs in the browser, stores nothing and shows every line of its arithmetic; its default values are examples, not the record of any case. It sits with the other lists in trackers: open claims, deadlines and new filings.
The case records and their CSV are published as open data under CC BY 4.0.
Questions people ask
How much will I get for a 100,000 settlement?
That question belongs to personal-injury settlements, which this site does not cover; a class settlement pays a share of a common fund, after the deductions above.
Does everyone get the same amount, and what is the average?
No gambling settlement in the record pays equal shares or publishes an average: each payment is pro rata on recognized spend or loss. See class action payout per person: what gambling settlements actually paid.
When is a gambling settlement paid, and who is paid first?
Fees, costs and incentive awards come off the fund first, and gambling settlements since 2021 paid 69 to 196 days after final approval. See how long gambling settlements take, filing to payment.
Do I pay tax on a gambling settlement payment?
That depends on what the payment replaces, and this site only collects the official references; see are gambling settlement payments taxable.
Where do I find the fund, fee and claim numbers for a case?
On the case page, which quotes the agreement, the approval order and the administrator notice with docket numbers. Check any site against how to spot fake settlement and claim sites before entering details.
Sources and method
Every figure on this page comes from a court order, a settlement agreement or an administrator notice named on the linked case page; third-party copies are marked as such, and no value rests on a law-firm tracker alone.
See methodology: how every case is sourced and checked and the corrections page.
Last checked 14 November 2026. Next scheduled check: 30 November 2026 (Pulsz election deadline).