Originally Posted by vinylweatherman
I used to do well, then MG "did something" to the tournament servers, and at the same time all MG casinos offering them had to redownload the tournament slots all over again. That same weekend, there were such severe technical issues with the tournaments that operators had to apologise, and some tournaments were extended. Since then, it has been all downhill, and I seem to have prolonged spells of naked spins on one continue to offset any good spell I have on another, and my scores on the weekender seem to have very little variance at all. The top players keep on hitting 50,000 to 60,000+ on the same number of coins that I can never get outside the range 25,000 to 45,000 on. To get those high scores, the slot has to play well throughout, and this just does not seem to happen for the tournament version.
This time, I had 22,000 from my first couple of rounds, but the other 4 only added a further 10,000 or so, as there were long spells of completely naked spins with only isolated wins. There ARE no really high payouts on Tomb Raider, unlike Thunderstruck, mainly because the second highest win only pays 2500 coins, and not 7,500 coins as on Thunderstruck. With such a flat game, it seems odd that the top scores are so high week in and week out. Since pretty much everybody uses all coins, it can't be to do with speed.
Last weekend, I hit a special pattern in the free spins, rarer than wild hammers on Thunderstruck, yet it paid a mere 15,000 coins, and still only had me at 8th place. Such a hit on Thunderstruck (wild hammers on free spins) pretty much guarantees first place due to the size of the payout, some 22,500 coins.
The ONLY strategy is to bet the max each spin, and spin as fast as possible, any other strategy will leave more coins unused than necessary. Each session has to be played in one go, so you can't even log off when the slot gives a few naked spins as one might do on the lobby games, perhaps coming back later.
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