Bull Rush pokies are a Konami Australia series and the name of the hold-and-respin feature its titles share, in Australian clubs and pubs since 2020. Six or more bulls anywhere start a respin round with coin prizes, a Mega progressive and a Grand jackpot for filling the screen, and each title adds free games. The free demo below is a similar bull-themed pokie, with no download.
Golden Empress Bull Rush runs on five reels and three rows, and those 15 positions are also the board for the feature. Konami does not state the number of lines: its US page calls lines and maximum bet configurable, and secondary sources, mostly on the US Bull Blitz, give 25 to 50. Australian machines take 1c, 2c, 5c, 10c and $1 denominations, the $1 added after launch, and no source gives the maximum bet. Konami publishes no RTP, the ACT approvals list none, and on a cabinet the return is a venue setting. Volatility is high according to Konami Australia and The Drop. Hit frequency is not published, and neither is a maximum win as a multiple of the bet: the top prize is the progressive Grand, which The Drop reported starting at $5,125 or $7,125 on standalone machines.
Bull Rush Pokies Characteristics
An unofficial site has line wins paying left to right; Konami does not say. In Golden Empress a crowned woman is the wild, per a US listing, and the lantern is the free games scatter, which on the launch titles can land on reel 4 as a double counting as two. Bulls count anywhere, and six or more on one spin start the Bull Rush feature.
The stake matters more than usual: Konami’s US page says bonus amounts scale with denomination and bigger bets improve the odds of bonus awards, and the Mega is likelier at higher bets. There is no bonus buy and no confirmed gamble. The maths comes from Konami’s All Aboard pokie, which The Drop calls the base math game.
Konami publishes no line pays, so the list gives the feature prizes, in dollars where The Drop reported them for the launch period.
No scatter pay or top line win is confirmed, so there is no base-game multiple to quote, and Grand multiples on unofficial sites have no source. Startups may differ on later titles or in other states.
Six or more bulls on one spin become prize symbols and start three spins on the 15-position board. Each new bull fills a position, pays every prize already revealed again and resets the spins to three, and the round ends when the spins run out or the board is full. That repeat win sets the format apart: a bull landing on a half-full board pays the whole board again.
X-TRA Hit applies when two or more bulls land on one feature spin. One becomes a silver coin revealing a credit prize, a Mini, Major or Maxi bonus or the Mega; the others become X-TRA Hit symbols, each paying every gold coin credit prize on screen before turning into a silver coin. Sources word the coin conversions slightly differently, but a multi-bull spin late in the round is where the feature jumps in value, short of the Grand.
Three lanterns start 6 free games in Golden Empress, with any wild on reels 2 to 5 expanding to cover the reel. Roses & Riches and Toucan Twist give 5 from three roses or three eggs, adding stacks of wilds to two or more of reels 2 to 5 each spin. Fire Mountain, a Stampede title, gives 4 from three gongs with stacked bulls or wilds each spin, and extra gongs add games. No retrigger rule is stated for the launch titles. The jackpots all sit in the Bull Rush and Stampede rounds.
The Grand is won by filling all 15 positions. On a standalone machine the Grand and the Mega, revealed on a coin, are the two progressives; Mini, Major and Maxi are fixed. Bull Rush Blitz moves the Grand onto a link shared across machines, run by Konami’s KT2 controller, and keeps one in-machine progressive, probably the Mega, though the approvals only say “1 Link + 1 iSAP”. Stampede adds a second route to the Grand. We found no published record wins.
With no published RTP there is no reliable cents-in-the-dollar figure, and the 87% to 96% quoted on review and fan sites has no source. High volatility fits the structure: the big prizes sit in a feature that can take a long time to arrive.
At $1 a spin, $100 buys 100 spins before any wins come back, and that can pass without a Bull Rush round. A lower stake stretches the session but, by Konami’s own description, lowers the odds of bonus awards and the size of the coin prizes.
Konami keeps adding titles, and an unrelated online game shares the name.
In Stampede, each Diamond Bull counts as a bull and adds a position to the Stampede Feature after Bull Rush, where each credit prize collected resets the spins to three and a credit prize in every column also wins the Grand.
Bull Rush is a feature brand rather than a theme: Golden Empress has an Asian empress and lanterns, Roses & Riches roses, Toucan Twist tropical birds and eggs, Yarr Matey pirates and El Matador bullfighting. The common thread is the charging bull, the gold and silver coins and the ladder from Mini to Grand. In Australia the games run in Konami’s DIMENSION cabinets, with Fire Mountain listed for the Dimension 27, 75C and 49. There is no official mobile version, and no source describes the sound.
Bull Rush is a club and pub pokie, on Australian floors since 2020. The Drop reported above-average results in NSW and Queensland and the Blitz link topping the Queensland charts, the ACT approved Bull Rush games from 2021 to 2025, and in September 2026 Inside Asian Gaming called Bull Rush Stampede one of the strongest-performing games in the Australian market. Online, we found no Konami release, Konami’s real-money online play appears limited to regulated US markets, and no listing turned up at the offshore casinos we review; a lobby search is the only check, and any Novomatic Bull Rush it finds is the bullfight slot. Konami publishes no official free demo; the unofficial sites advertising one are not Konami’s.
Bull Rush has earned its place on Australian floors with a respin round that does more than collect coins: the repeat win and X-TRA Hit make late bulls count, and Stampede adds a second round. Fans of the Lightning Link and Dragon Link respins will recognise the format. It does not suit anyone who wants a published RTP, a paytable, a demo or online play. The one thing to check is the stake: a smaller bet lowers the odds of the bonus awards, not just the size of the prizes.
Konami does not publish one. On a cabinet it is a venue setting, and the 87% to 96% quoted online has no source.
Land six or more bulls anywhere on one spin. Each new bull in the feature resets the three spins and pays all revealed prizes again.
The Grand, for filling all 15 positions. No maximum multiple is published; reported Grand startups run from $5,125 standalone to $20,125 on the Blitz link.
When two or more bulls land on one feature spin, one becomes a prize coin and the others X-TRA Hit symbols, each paying all gold coin prizes on screen.
Not officially. There is no Konami online or demo version, and the online Bull Rush labelled Novomatic is a different game.
Bull Rush is standalone with its own Grand and Mega, Blitz shares the Grand across a link, and Stampede adds Diamond Bulls and a second feature. Bull Blitz is the North American name.
