Accept That the Round Is Random Before You Spin
A 96.49% or 96.50% return is a long-run average across millions of spins, not a promise for your session, and nobody can tell you how often the Respin round lands or how much a single evening returns. Each spin resolves independently, so a cold run and a hot run are both ordinary parts of the same game.
The two published return figures sit a hundredth of a percentage point apart, and which one a given build runs is disclosed only inside the in-game rules screen, not on the lobby tile. Read the rules panel before you stake real money if the difference matters to you.
The headline ceiling of x30,000 is a statistical tail, not a target: it needs a full grid of coins swept by an apex multiplier in Super Bonus, which is the rarest combination the game can produce. Treat that figure as the top edge of the paytable, not an expectation for any single round.