Check out the pay tables and read the rules. Sometimes I'm in the mood to hit and run. Sometimes I'm in the mood to stretch out my play. But there are other machines that will take your money super fast with generally awful hits but once in a while a spectacular hit comes out to make it all worthwhile. But, if you put $20 in, it's easy to have that $20 last a long time but you'll probably lose it all. At my local, there are a few machines with paytables and symbol frequency where you can blow through hundreds of spins without getting anything more then 5x bet is nigh impossible, but most spins are between 0.25x - 2x bet. The trick is to find a game set to the volatility you are OK with. For the chance to win, some bets are going to have to pay back less than they take to place. The trend, over time, is to give back less than it takes in, but that volatility means that some machines on a given day might pay out more than they take.īest way to visualize it is a theoretical minimum-volatility game at 5% hold would literally pay 95 cents on every dollar bet.
Each game itself has it's own volatility curve. But that's over the lifetime of the machine. Sure, there's the payback percentage that you'll find pretty clustered together per denomination.
