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The most you can have at one time is 5 so whenever you win 5 lives you can't go over full (5). If you are at zero, one, two, three, or four, you go to 5. If you are at 5 you stay full. Happens to me all the time.
Heard there is a test feature out allowing 6 lives but haven't seen it.