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Originally Posted by babs7262
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This is not a blanket statement Im saying for "all" asians, but as you may have heard me before, The Trop is catered for the asian community. For some reason they love the Trop, we even have 2 asian channels in the room out of less than 15 channels
Anyway, I find that EVERYTIME I sit next to an asian when I play, they often do the same thing. They will play a anywhere from a 9-21 line game but only playing the First line, that's it, One line but at the max bet. I asked one of them why and he said because most of the time it's the line that comes up the most, so he would rather win big on one line and forego the other line wins
I gotta say, he was doing very well and outlasted me for a long time.
Alot of people do that here. Ive tried it a few times and it has worked out very nice for me too
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All that does (or should do) is increase the variance of a multiline slot. For a 9 line game, there should be 9 times less wins, but each one 9 times as big. If this strategy does indeed lead to a better outcome long term, then the simplest explanation is that there is something odd going on with the slot software, and that perhaps "asians" have figured out what it is.
Here in the UK, especially London, the top Fruit Machine players tend to be Asian, from places like China, Japan, Taiwan. These are all countries that embrace new technology, and/or have rapidly developing economies. This is an environment that should breed people who feel at home with technology, and would have an understanding of how it works that perhaps the rest of us don't. As well as this, they have contacts and strong links within their own communities, and this leads to information, such as fruit machine methods, or slot machine methods, remaining in limited circulation.
If this was at a Microgaming casino, it might be worth trying this with Zoozie's simulator to see if there is something about the reel structures that lead to certain winlines being better than others. It could also be tried on Autoplay over a long series of spins, some at 9 lines, some at 5, and some at only the one, to see if there is a difference.
I have played Thunderstruck at all 9 lines, and sometimes I am ahead over several tens of thousands of spins (all at low stake). It might just be coincidence, and the one line wins, being that much bigger, are more memorable and so seem more frequent.
Take Thunderstruck, the common big hit in free spins is wild hammers (or shafts). This pays 1500x line bet, but is tripled in free spins. If you bet £1 per line over 9 lines, then hitting this at £9 per spin gives £1500, or £4500 if hit in free spins. If, however, the £9 was on one line, then this will happen 9 times less often, but when it does it is £9 x 1500 x 3 which is a much more memorable £40,500. This makes the aforementioned $15,000 on one line at $30 a spin look rather lame.
If you could pile $30 on line one of Thunderstruck (which you can't), and hit wild hammers in free spins, you would get $135,000
If you hit the Jackpot, which is 10,000x line bet, this would be (in free spins) a huge $900,000. I have seen cases where wins over $100,000 have been recorded on these MG slots, and these probably are due to a big hit like this in the free spins at close to, or on, the max possible bet.