Can you determine what slot payout percentages are on any offered machine?

By Frank Scoblete

The lament amongst some slot players, a lot of other casino players and most gaming writers is the reality that slot machines do not inform you what their percentage returns are except in situations exactly where an area of machines has signs saying anything to the effect that “these machines return a minimum of 98 percent” or the like.

You play a machine and you have no idea of what percent of the funds it will return. That is correct. But what is also true is that the casino tells us no info about the return of any of its games.

That is right—no casino explains what the returns are at their games at any of their games. Appear at a machine and it tells you nothing at all, that is true, but appear at the blackjack table or craps table or roulette able or at any other game’s table and nowhere does it tell you what the return is.

So how is it that we gaming writers can confidently tell individuals in articles about all the other games and what their returns are? There are no indicators at the tables telling us this info. There are no indicators on video poker machines telling us this details either. But, we know what the video poker returns are.

So how do we know?

The casino does not make a point by telling us something about what we can anticipate to get if we play any game. However, we talk and act as if the casino does such a factor. Once more, it doesn’t.

How do we know what the percentage return at each craps bet is but we don’t know what the return is on Fortunate Slots Entertaining?

Expertise OF PAYOUT PERCENTAGES

We know payout percentages at practically all games simply because the casino tells us at every game but slots what a bet pays us.

Adhere to this now: We know how usually that decision comes up, what it pays and what it ought to pay if the game had been a fair contest.

We know in craps that the pass-line bet pays even funds and that the casino will win 251 decisions and the player will win 244 decisions on that bet. We know for that reason that the home edge is 1.41 percent. We are expected to drop $1.41 per $one hundred wagered more than time.

We know the relationship of every number at craps to the 7 or to producing it as a one-roll bet. We know the percentages and how these percentages relate to cash.

One particular far more instance: Roulette has a house edge of five.26 % on the American roulette game that has a and a 00 as two of its 38 numbers. Make a bet on this game and you have a one particular in 38 opportunity of hitting the winning quantity. The payout is 35-to-a single, which indicates the casino shorts you by two units on a win. A fair game would pay out 37-to-a single.

We can then figure how a lot of a percentage edge the casino has at a roulette game by knowing these numbers. The casino does not post this on the tables we have to do the figuring to come up with the percentages. You can read this details in a publication such as this but you won’t find it posted on the table.

The casino prefers not to inform us something. On most games, nevertheless, we can figure every little thing out. Not at slots.

THE SLOT MYSTERY

The casinos know how considerably an person slot machine returns but the players do not. There is no way we can find out without having getting provided privileged info.

Yes, we can guess but those guesses are just that—guesses. Okay, how do we guess? And can we in fact have “smart” guesses?

Most states have laws that tell the casinos they need to show the return percentages on their slot machines, normally primarily based on the denomination of those machines. Consequently, we can locate out what the 5-dollar machines return, what the dollar machines return, what the twenty- five cent machines return and so on.

Sadly, these are just averages. It may be correct that the five-dollar machines are returning 95 % of the funds played in them but we don’t know if the certain machine at which we are gazing actually returns 95 percent or 92 or 98 %.

But we can say with some self-assurance that a 5-dollar machine will return more to the players than a dollar machine, whose typical is about 91 percent. Is this an absolute statement? No. It is a guess an informed guess, yes, but it is not definitely a accurate statement.

We are seeking at averages and creating our guess primarily based on these. We just don’t have the figures available to us and we can’t figure everything out the way we can at games such as video poker, blackjack, roulette, craps, and so on.

We will usually be guessing at person slot machine percentages simply because the programming is a secret in between the producers and the casinos. The player is an outsider in this case and truly has tiny capacity to ferret out the right percentages on any provided machine.

Guessing is the best we can do. We do not have figures as we do with the other casino games so, okay, point to a machine and take your greatest guess!

All the very best in and out of the casinos!

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Frank Scoblete’s website is www.frankscoblete.com. His books are obtainable at Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Kindle, e-books, libraries and bookstores.