Depositing at Videoslots again, because at least it works

[ChopleyIOM]

Just a final note on this VS experience, I decided to withdraw last night when my balance dropped back down to £100, as I'd had a decent run and one can only expect to keep one's head above water for so long when playing a slot with a base RTP of 92.66%. (I'm just such a sucker for Worms Reloaded, it's one of my favourite ever online slots. There's a Worms games on the Blueprint cabs in the pubs here which is very similar, and I'm a right twat for getting involved with it at £1 play with a mere 90% RTP!).

The withdrawal was paid with no fuss inside of ten minutes, so it was basically money back, but I'd got nearly ten and a half hours (!) of play for free, basically, so can't argue with that.

Stats wise not too bad really, if you add on the Jackpot King round (which I triggered once on Worms), my RTP is basically bang on target.

Overall no complaints, would VS again.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Pushed my luck again on Genie Jackpots Wishmaker Jackpot King last night, and somehow ended up in profit again, last night's RTP was 106%, but you can see from my recent play on it, from over 10K spins (so admittedly a small number overall), I'm running at 103.63%. (Worst session I've had is 96.06%, which is still slightly above target.)

I triggered the Jackpot King bonus round twice, and it always pays something so it's not one of those 'dead' progressive rounds (I hate those) and means there's a good chance you'll realise some of the RTP that's given over to the progressives (which is small on this game).

Win of the session was 200x on the Big Money bonus round, which came from getting to the end of the Magic Carpet bonus round.

 

[PMKFRUITPRO]

Utter spawn.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Utter spawn.

I just checked my lifetime account history with them using the 'My Profile' section of the site, they've had a decent chunk of change out of me over the years

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Well it's been in the post somewhat but I came crashing back down to earth on Genie Jackpots Wishmaker Jackpot King this evening, achieving a paltry 76.36% RTP with 2206 spins, losing 525x stake in the process. I also failed to trigger the progressive round a single time.

It played like a bag of spanners all round, with the genie choosing to remain in his lamp for extended period times of time having a wank or something, when he should have been bestowing big cash prizes on me.

Oh well, you cannot indeed, win them all.

Lifetime RTP on the slot is still above T-RTP, albeit this evening's session has knocked it under 100%.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Far better results from my most recent deposit, which yielded a total of nearly twelve hours of playtime over the last three days, a peak balance of just over £200, and finally a withdrawal of just over £150 last night. (£100 deposit, all games played on 20-30p spins.)

It was mainly low-variance Jackpot King Blueprint games, nearly all of which behaved themselves pretty well. Honourable mentions go to Twin Happiness (thanks to @dave1888 for the heads-up on that one) for throwing a solid win into the mix (it's a full RTP clone of Twin Spin, although I prefer Twin Spin theme wise) and Wizard of Oz Ruby Slippers which is still on the books there (a great old low-medium volatility game), and reminded me of a time when online slots were better.

Turkey of the extended session award goes to BTG and Lucky Streak Mark 2, a game I have sworn off in the past and remembered why last night. It wanted nearly 1000 spins for a single feature that paid 59x and cost the better part of 250x to come in, with the base game and crappy side feature doing its usual death by a thousand cuts routine. It irritated me to the point I just said 'bollocks to this', withdrew my remaining balance and called it a night.

(The problem with Lucky Streak Mark 2 is I am a total sucker for the theme, which is 'old UK fruit machine', and BTG have absolutely nailed that side of things, it's so good in that respect, but the maths model is fucking atrocious.)

These are the slots I played over the three days, and as you can see, some nice numbers there, ignore Irish Riches because I only did a few spins on it, all the others I spent a decent amount of time on.

Finally, withdrawal was paid within 10 minutes at around midnight last night.

Paws of Fury kicked out a 326x (quite good for one of the low-variance Blueprint games!).

Twin Happiness lobbed in 321x.

Win below is not very impressive, more it's just to note that this great old slot is still available at VS.

An hour and twenty minutes for a single feature that paid 59x, this is when I decided to call it quits and withdraw my balance, that's the BTG Effect! It's a crying shame that BTG have lumbered this slot with such an abominable maths model.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Gah! Stupid me! I returned to the poisoned well last night, and to the amazement of no one, I got poisoned again. Poisoned wells will tend to do that.

Lucky Streak Mark 2, which really needs to be renamed to Unlucky Fucker Streak Of Piss did another piece of work on me, reducing a balance of 620x to zero (£124 on 20p spins). The stats sheet says it all really, utterly miserable from start to finish. The basegame is essentially incapable of paying decently (at least in my experience) and the little side feature thingy is almost always wank.

The main feature is great and I really like it, chasing those five wilds, a single line of which pays 500x, but good luck getting one of those bastards, let alone any stacks.

Only myself to blame really.

It's not even the losing that bothers me so much as how miserable it was, and what a terrible value for money proposition online slots can feel like. I'm comparing and contrasting last night's session with Cyberpunk 2077, which has cost me a total of £70 for the main game and expansion, and delivered TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY HOURS of top flight entertainment for that investment (and I'm still not finished with it yet).

Or there's Lucky Streak Mark 2, which took nearly double that amount of money and basically just annoyed me for nearly three and a half hours. At least I was playing Cyberpunk 2077 at the same time, so I had something nice to take my mind off it.

NOTE TO SELF - STOP PLAYING FUCKING LUCKY STREAK MARK 2, AND STOP GETTING SUCKERED IN BY THE OLD UK FRUIT MACHINE AESTHETICS OF IT

The stats say it all, really. (And remember, this is on top of my last session, which also delivered under 75% RTP.)

Or on the other hand, here's my playtime on Cyberpunk 2077, which cost me substantially less than the unwelcome rogering that BTG's bastard bollocks inflicted on me last night.

 

[TheAddict]

Looking forward to the next Lucky Streak mark 2 vid, Choppler.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Looking forward to the next Lucky Streak mark 2 vid, Choppler.

Never again!

Definitely never again this time. Just like the last time. And the time before that.

Should have stuck to my nice gentle Blueprint slots. That'll teach me to mess with BTG.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

So after the ignominious bottom-violation that Lucky Streak Mark 2 inflicted upon me, last night I returned to my trusty Blueprints, and the results were favourable.

Hey look, you don't have to wait an hour for a feature!
Hey look, even modest 100x wins don't feel like a lottery-odds result!
Hey look, they've even managed to incorporate a progressive that doesn't feel like a total waste of time for low-stakes players!

I don't have any screenshots as I had the slots running on my new DOOGEE (yes that's the brand name) tablet - (whilst I was playing Days Gone on my PC) - which cost £200 from Amazon because I refuse to pay the pisstake prices for tablets that all the main brands are charging these days, and my trusty old Samsung Galaxy Tab A struggles a bit even with some online slots, let alone Warcraft Rumble which I am currently enjoying (there is no PC version of it).

However thanks to the splendid MyRTP feature at VS I can at least produce the stats, which as you can see are pretty handsome.

I also had a short blast at Worms Reloaded (which is possibly my favourite online slot because I love the theme, I've been playing Worms since it came out on the Amiga back in 1995).

This took my starting balance of £100 to nearly £200, alas I couldn't quite crest £200 so stopped at £190, which remains in my account for more slotting this evening.

Also, here is the DOOGEE tablet I bought, would recommend! Fuck the prices Apple and Samsung are charging for tablets. It runs online casinos very well, and copes fine with a modern 3D game like Warcraft Rumble, without costing hundreds and hundreds of pounds in the process.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Megaways is wasted on me, one winline is all you need!

1000x top prize, overall moderate volatility, and a 97.06% RTP, this stuff is still out there if you have a poke around.

Also it largely looks after itself with a 250 spin autoplay option, I've set it to stop on 20x or greater. This means I can focus on surviving in the zombie apocalypse playing Days Gone. (I've completely finished Cyberpunk 2077 now, I got 265 hours of it, which isn't too shabby.)

Best win so far is 100x.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

200x, surely the 500x and/or 1000x is within reach..... (LOL)

That balance of £227 is all from a £100 deposit played at 20p spins on low-medium volatility slots.

I think a lot of what's gone wrong with the online slots landscape in recent years is stupidly high volatility across far too many of the games available. (And of course a nerfing of RTPs into the 94% zone.)

 

[ChopleyIOM]

So in the end I had that single liner slot - (Double Fancy 7s it's called, because fancy sevens are the best kind of sevens, fuck those normal sevens) - rattling away for over five hours and it chewed through 5,667 spins, keeping almost exactly to RTP, which means of course, that I lost some cash on it A house edge, even a small house edge, still means that the player will lose over time!

It is also however, a very good example of how small changes in RTP can hurt once you get into the mid to high 90s on RTPs, on this occasion I moved to Double Fancy 7s with £176, after 5,667 spins on a 97.64% RTP, my overall balance had declined £26 (I finished last night with £150).

If Double Fancy 7s had a 94% RTP and it'd stuck to that, I'd be left with not much over £100, as my total loss would have been £68 instead of £26.

Here are last night's stats for it, I hit £40 (200x) twice and £20 once, they both stick out very clearly on the chart, aside from a couple of £10 wins in there too, you can see that actually, there's a lot of RTP churn on small wins. Alas the £100 and £200 wins eluded me - but I can't help but feel they should be achievable!

Overall, would not rule out Fancy Sevening again, however, there are loads of games that VS still have on their books in the 96-97% range, so I want to work my way through more of those.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Oh yes here's the other £40 win, swap out that red seven on reel two for a fancy seven, and that'd be the 1000x top prize.

I suspect the reels on this game are 'real reels', which I also quite like.

 

[dunover]

Oh yes here's the other £40 win, swap out that red seven on reel two for a fancy seven, and that'd be the 1000x top prize.

I suspect the reels on this game are 'real reels', which I also quite like.

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Nothing is 'real' in online gambling.

 

[PMKFRUITPRO]

Apart from your endless spawn!!

 

[TheAddict]

Did u ever play Scorched Tanks on the Amiga, Chop? Similar to worms, was great.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Nice to see that Starburst is still a weapon of choice for casino free spins in the year 2023....

This Wheel of Jackpots thing doesn't seem too bad in fairness, you get it on a decently regular basis and it yields at least 50 free spins, although on this occasion I have been spoiled with one hundred free spins on everyone's favourite 'never pays anything out ever' game. (Now featuring an excitingly nerfed RTP as well, because Starburst at 96% was just too spicy a proposition for some casinos!)

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Did u ever play Scorched Tanks on the Amiga, Chop? Similar to worms, was great.

Didn't ring a bell so had a quick look on YT, not one I remember owning or playing, it was a PD game by the looks of it? I would often buy my games from a dodgy geezer at Bury Market who had boxes full of copied disks, if I didn't lose all my money in the arcades or pubs on my way there....

 

[Kroffe]

Its never too late.

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I remember looking for it some time ago, problem was that me and my friend that played it only ever called the game 'bomb' because that was the name of the .exe file for some reason.
Not very impressive graphics when compared to worms, but very satisfying weapons.

I dont remember if it was the first worms game that had a level generator, but whichever version of worms it was me and some friends spent a lot of time generating levels.
You could input whatever text you wanted and it would generate a level, so we had a file with a bunch of good words saved so we could replay them.

Pretty funny looking back because with every new game that released you sat there thinking 'Wow, this is surely the pinnacle of computer graphics, cant get any better than this'
But somehow it did get better, imagine that.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Still on the ascent, I can't help but feel one needs to pick the right time to call it a day and cash out....

Current status from that £100 starting point - £250 cash balance.

 

[kidgloves]

Days Gone is a hell of a game. First time I encountered a chasing horde I shat myself.
Oh and this - "ignominious bottom-violation" made me chuckle.

 

[sufferinsilence]

I can't help but feel one needs to pick the right time to call it a day and cash out....

Well yes, if you get ahead. You could also cash out a loss if nothing is playing "right" but not many of us will do that. We should tho.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

In the end I called it a day at £200 and withdrew. The final push to cash out was when I decided to have a little flutter on Lucky Streak Mark 2 (yes.... I know....) and amazingly triggered the feature within 5 spins (this is a slot that can make you wait an hour for a feature), it didn't even pay that terribly at 54x and put my balance back up £210.

However somehow it felt like a sensible point to call it, because I know what that slot can do if you let it draw you in, so I played back down to £200 and stopped.

Here's the feature trigger after 5 spins on my first autoplay block of 100.

11 winspins, not too bad. (Every spin is a guaranteed win in free spins on this game.)

TBH from that number of spins I was expecting more. This put me back up £210, I carried on until it dropped down to £200 and withdrew.

Videoslots paid in less than ten minutes on a Sunday evening, can't complain about that

 

[TheAddict]

Didn't ring a bell so had a quick look on YT, not one I remember owning or playing, it was a PD game by the looks of it? I would often buy my games from a dodgy geezer at Bury Market who had boxes full of copied disks, if I didn't lose all my money in the arcades or pubs on my way there....

Was my friend who hadthe Amiga. PD game I believe yeah, i forgot that term, PD, it's been so long lol. We would skip school, probably 11 years old, playig schorced pants. That's what we called it. Ithad a weapo called Crimson Flood, which woud flood an area then leave them buried miles beneath it once it had finished. Was better tha worms imo.

My friend was making games othe Amiga at the time, only 11 or 12 years old. He ripped off bubble bobble but used an ass and a head to burp and fart as the characters. Had a unique sense of humour

Was more of an Atari ST man myself

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Was my friend who hadthe Amiga. PD game I believe yeah, i forgot that term, PD, it's been so long lol. We would skip school, probably 11 years old, playig schorced pants. That's what we called it. Ithad a weapo called Crimson Flood, which woud flood an area then leave them buried miles beneath it once it had finished. Was better tha worms imo.

My friend was making games othe Amiga at the time, only 11 or 12 years old. He ripped off bubble bobble but used an ass and a head to burp and fart as the characters. Had a unique sense of humour

Was more of an Atari ST man myself

The problem I had with the ZX Spectrum and the Atari ST was their feeble sound compared to their main rivals, the Commodore 64 and Amiga respectively. I know that as Brits we're supposed to root for dear old Clive's plucky UK contender, but once I first heard the dulcet tones of the C64's SID chip I was a convert, and decamped from my Spectrum to the C64, although I kept my Spectrum 128 around too.

When the 16-bit computers first started becoming sort of affordable (albeit well out of reach of our household), I remember being shown an Atari ST round at a friend of a friend's, and whilst I was impressed by the graphics, the first thing that jumped out at me was the fact the music was worse than my on my C64! (Atari having used a pretty shit sound chip in the ST, of course.)

Then a good friend of mine got an Amiga A500 (I was still on my C64, the expense of an Amiga was pie in the sky to me as a teenager, we're talking 1988/1989 at this point), and I was utterly blown way by it, the graphics were as good or better as the Atari ST, but the sound and music the thing was capable of kicking out, just incredible. We spent hours and hours playing on his Amiga together, quite often just watching demos and cracktro screens, to enjoy the music and special graphical trickery the Amiga's custom graphics chips could produce.

This is one I very clearly remember us being transfixed by, this was released in 1988, no other computer in the world could knock music like this out using just its own internal sound hardware (unfortunately the little pulsating bars at the top of the screen get out of sync with the audio, which I suspect is because it's being run through an emulator rather than on actual hardware):

 

[goatwack]

The problem I had with the ZX Spectrum and the Atari ST was their feeble sound compared to their main rivals, the Commodore 64 and Amiga respectively. I know that as Brits we're supposed to root for dear old Clive's plucky UK contender, but once I first heard the dulcet tones of the C64's SID chip I was a convert, and decamped from my Spectrum to the C64, although I kept my Spectrum 128 around too.

When the 16-bit computers first started becoming sort of affordable (albeit well out of reach of our household), I remember being shown an Atari ST round at a friend of a friend's, and whilst I was impressed by the graphics, the first thing that jumped out at me was the fact the music was worse than my on my C64! (Atari having used a pretty shit sound chip in the ST, of course.)

Then a good friend of mine got an Amiga A500 (I was still on my C64, the expense of an Amiga was pie in the sky to me as a teenager, we're talking 1988/1989 at this point), and I was utterly blown way by it, the graphics were as good or better as the Atari ST, but the sound and music the thing was capable of kicking out, just incredible. We spent hours and hours playing on his Amiga together, quite often just watching demos and cracktro screens, to enjoy the music and special graphical trickery the Amiga's custom graphics chips could produce.

This is one I very clearly remember us being transfixed by, this was released in 1988, no other computer in the world could knock music like this out using just its own internal sound hardware (unfortunately the little pulsating bars at the top of the screen get out of sync with the audio, which I suspect is because it's being run through an emulator rather than on actual hardware):

Not true at all -

yes, the Amiga had better graphics compared to the ST, but the latter was renowned for its sound hardware capabilities, offering MIDI support favoured by music producers. In fact, I remember hawking mine to a sound engineer, and we're talking late '90s, I'd imagine the ST still gets utilized for this very reason today if anything

C64's sound chipset was a cut above, its 3-channelled capabilities allowing the likes of Rob Hubbard to wrangle legendary sweeping scores from its hardware, of that there is no doubt!

Yet for 16-bit home computing, prior to the advent of the consoles' foray into the market, the Amiga was definitely a beast, especially graphically. Oh how I lamented not being able to play the likes of Monkey Island; cry at the cartoony greatness of North & South, or simply the acceptance that when perusing game boxes, that my C64 conversions would be laughably inferior to the arcade-perfect recreations of the Amigas and STs of this world

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Not true at all -

yes, the Amiga had better graphics compared to the ST, but the latter was renowned for its sound hardware capabilities, offering MIDI support favoured by music producers. In fact, I remember hawking mine to a sound engineer, and we're talking late '90s, I'd imagine the ST still gets utilized for this very reason today if anything

C64's sound chipset was a cut above, it's 3-channelled capabilities allowing the likes of Rob Hubbard to wrangle legendary sweeping scores from its hardware, of that there is no doubt!

Yet for 16-bit home computing, prior to the advent of the consoles' foray into the market, the Amiga was definitely a beast, especially graphically. Oh how I lamented not being able to play the likes of Monkey Island; cry at the cartoony greatness of North & South, or simply the acceptance that when perusing game boxes, that my C64 conversions would be laughably inferior to the arcade-perfect recreations of the Amigas and STs of this world

Woah Mr Goaty! I'm afraid I'm going to have to escalate things immediately to DEFCON NERD LEVEL 5 - I explicitly used the following phrase in my previous post for precisely this reason:

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this was released in 1988, no other computer in the world could knock music like this out using just its own internal sound hardware

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The ST's MIDI capabilities were (and still are!) legendary, but of little use to spotty teenaged oiks who were doing very well to even own a 16-bit computer, let alone the extravagant extra hardware that made the ST a music creation powerhouse for many years (decades!).

The ST's built-in sound chip was notoriously weak (and indeed was actually closely related to the sound chip used by the Spectrum 128 and Amstrad CPC), basically a cheap off the shelf part that was already long in the tooth when the ST was released -

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The Amiga on the other hand used a custom chipset designed specifically for the computer, with full digital and stereo audio capabilities, there's just no comparison, it absolutely knocked the AY chip in the ST into the proverbial cocked hat.

I agree completely that when combined with the appropriate MIDI hardware, the ST was an unparalleled machine for music creation (far more so than the Amiga), especially so given its price point and therefore accessibility, but all by itself, when relying just on its own hardware, its sound and music were some very weak sauce - and that's the use case I referenced, in my previous post. (i.e. Games, demos, crack screens etc.)

IN THE BLUE CORNER, the Atari ST version of Psygnosis' Obliterator, using its own internal sound hardware.



IN THE RED CORNER, the Amiga version of Psygnosis' Obliterator, using its own internal sound hardware.

 

[dunover]

Can I gain some gaming kudos for completing Abe's Odyssey, Abe's Exodus, South Park, some pirate one where you were a skeleton and Tomb Raider 1 (NO save gems!) on the PS1? Plus some good high scores on the arcade classics PS1 game with Missile Command and Asteroids etc. on it? Then 3 more Tomb Raiders on the PS2? Do I get in the club or is my pedigree lacking? I did play Pong as a kid back in 1977 too!

 

[goatwack]

Can I gain some gaming kudos for completing Abe's Odyssey, Abe's Exodus, South Park, some pirate one where you were a skeleton and Tomb Raider 1 (NO save gems!) on the PS1? Plus some good high scores on the arcade classics PS1 game with Missile Command and Asteroids etc. on it? Then 3 more Tomb Raiders on the PS2? Do I get in the club or is my pedigree lacking? I did play Pong as a kid back in 1977 too!

You're alright - the PS1 was revolutionary in itself, with the 'Golden Age' being not long after in the form of the 128-bit era.

Post- Playstation 2 gaming is not a patch on what went before, and you're not missing anything, bar the odd sleeper hit or indie title.

Good to see you liked the Abe games, I think our jaws hit the floor when seeing the animations on that back in the day ?

 

[TheAddict]

Had a bag of copied games too Chop, slapped on my lap when I was probably 9 years old. I'd already seen the girl show her butt at the end of Double Dragon 450 times in the arcade, but with 500 games at Christmas to play, after some careful consideration, I spent the day playing Double Dragon.
Was serial link'ing the amiga's on the pre Doom FPS games, was something like 5 fps framerate iirc lol. Such great times were to be had in the 90s

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Forgive me father for I have sinned! Decided to have a £100 deposit at VS yesterday evening, to run alongside trying to knock down some heroic missions in Warcraft Rumble (we'll discretely gloss over how much I've spent on that game.....). After months of absence from the world of online slots (no deposits since December 2023!), it was actually quite nice to have a little dabble again.

I just plugged away at my old favourite Worms Reloaded (with JACKPOT KING!) as Worms is my favourite game on the Blueprint cabs in the pubs here, and the games are quite similar.

Playtime wise it was decent enough but honestly it was all very much one-way traffic until finally I got a wormhole to the Big Money round from the Jet Pack bonus, and I managed to skillfully (LOL) pick the 400x award, not bad really since the only two bigger than that are 500x and 1000x. (I think 1000x is basically the 'jackpot' on this game.)

That put me a bit into profit so I decided to see if I could land a bonus on Bonanza without my balance dipping back under £100, and it obliged, dropping G-O-L-D in under 200 spins. Alas it wasn't a great one and it did its usual trolling with the retrigger carts along the top track getting in the way, and all the reels managed to not line up into wins once the multiplier started to climb a bit, you old tinkers BTG! At least VS still have the 96% version.

All in all the session finished modestly in profit with £120 left from my starting point of £100, still haven't decided to withdraw it, or go again this evening.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

So I'm entering Session 3 of the grand Videoslots adventure with a balance of exactly £100. So far I have had playtime totaling eight hours and my collective RTP is precisely 100%.

High point was £160, low point so far has been £29. All spins have been at 20p except for the below.

I had a bit of a save last night, I was down to £60 and it was getting a bit late for a school night (6:30am start), so switched up to £1 spins on King Kong Cash Jackpot King, figuring it wouldn't take much luck to get back up £100. After a reasonable number of spins, and with only £29 left in the tank, I landed a feature and it stopped on the crappiest one, I was severely tempted to gamble it as the bottom feature can be so bad, but since I was on £1 stake and not needing a massive boost, decided to collect it.

Much to my surprise it gave the Big Money bonus round boost (first time I've seen it on this), which I can't complain about, although I felt slightly short-changed at 80x, but that was enough to put me back over £100. Played down to £100 and then called it a night.

So far I've been exclusively playing Jackpot King Blueprints, but this evening I will do Bonanza and record stats.

Screenshots below are from last night's Big Money save.

Let's see how Bonanza rolls this evening.....

 

[PMKFRUITPRO]

Oh to run like you…….

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Well that was slightly depressing, you can rely on Bonanza to bring an end to a party!

Below are the stats.

I have no idea why people give this slot so much of their time and money, when you catch it like this it's a thoroughly miserable experience.

In playtime terms it's not too bad I suppose, but in three hours I had one feature that paid 14x, and the basegame didn't hit 50x once.

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£100 starting balance
20p spins

100 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £96.58p left
200 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £87.56p left
300 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £84.39p left
400 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £73.23p left
500 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £62.29p left
600 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £56.35p left
700 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £51.30p left
800 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £58.50p left
900 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £53.07p left
1000 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £43.41p left
1057 spins - FEATURE - 14x - £41.79p left
1157 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £44.96p left
1257 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £40.20p left
1362 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £33.03p left
1462 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £23.87p left
1562 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £11.83p left
1662 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £10.61p left
1762 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £1.92p left
1782 spins - BUST

 

[PMKFRUITPRO]

See what I mean!! How do you run so well??!!

 

[dunover]

Well that was slightly depressing, you can rely on Bonanza to bring an end to a party!

Below are the stats.

I have no idea why people give this slot so much of their time and money, when you catch it like this it's a thoroughly miserable experience.

In playtime terms it's not too bad I suppose, but in three hours I had one feature that paid 14x, and the basegame didn't hit 50x once.

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£100 starting balance
20p spins

100 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £96.58p left
200 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £87.56p left
300 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £84.39p left
400 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £73.23p left
500 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £62.29p left
600 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £56.35p left
700 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £51.30p left
800 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £58.50p left
900 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £53.07p left
1000 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £43.41p left
1057 spins - FEATURE - 14x - £41.79p left
1157 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £44.96p left
1257 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £40.20p left
1362 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £33.03p left
1462 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £23.87p left
1562 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £11.83p left
1662 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £10.61p left
1762 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £1.92p left
1782 spins - BUST

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I think you get Bonanza but the bit you don't seem to realize is the sheer paucity of 50x base wins - I only ever play the bastard nowadays to exclusion of all other games as I love it. I suggest in future set the stop at the game's actual 'big win' bar of 25x +. I average one big win per session, usually this will be say a 24x of some 6OAK combo followed by a small tumble to take it over 25x. If not it will be 5OAK diamonds for bang on 25x, the next most common is 16 x 6OAK kings or aces which pays 28x. Your 50x + base game bar is a very rare hit, I see one maybe once every dozen sessions. In fact, it's more than most bastard features pay nowadays.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

I think you get Bonanza but the bit you don't seem to realize is the sheer paucity of 50x base wins - I only ever play the bastard nowadays to exclusion of all other games as I love it. I suggest in future set the stop at the game's actual 'big win' bar of 25x +. I average one big win per session, usually this will be say a 24x of some 6OAK combo followed by a small tumble to take it over 25x. If not it will be 5OAK diamonds for bang on 25x, the next most common is 16 x 6OAK kings or aces which pays 28x. Your 50x + base game bar is a very rare hit, I see one maybe once every dozen sessions. In fact, it's more than most bastard features pay nowadays.

Yeah I know what I'm letting myself in for, once you drop below the expected feature frequency on Bonanza it's basically just a slow death of microwins. The fact that 50x wins are so rare in the basegame really does highlight how critical the feature is for any real chance of a raise.

Generally speaking I don't bother with it at all, but since I'd had a really good run on the Blueprints I figured I'd finish with a flourish (LOL....) on Bonanza.

TBH I'd rather just buy features on it.

That said, just checked my lifetime stats at VS on the game and I'm at 96.28%, albeit on a small spin sample (20K).

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Nothing says 'Let's get the weekend started' like returning to the scene of a previous slaughter for some more futile plugging away at Bonanza.

Hopefully it won't be as awful as last time!

I have £104.55p because I received my Weekend Booster on top of my £100 deposit.

To even out those dull patches of FIVE MILLION YEARS between features, I'll have Warcraft Rumble on my tablet. £100 buys a lot of stuff in Warcraft Rumble!

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Diamonds in the base game, not something you see a lot of.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Ahhh yes this is far more like it, that famous Bonanza compensation kicking in.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

First feature took a while to come in (1146 spins), nice multiplier, reasonable pay at 206x.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Next feature didn't take long to come in (162 spins since the last one), 159x.

Clearly I have picked the good version of Bonanza for this session.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Really can't complain about Bonanza's performance this evening. Semi-interestingly, this feature was the very first spin after a sever error and I had to reload the game.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Well that folks is what you call a hot run on Bonanza, with my balance now nicely over £200 I think it might be time for a withdrawal.

Feature frequency is ahead of the curve (1/398), but most notably average feature pay is way over the top, at 166x.

Add in one basegame stop over 50x, and two over 100x, in just 1600 spins, and those are some nice stats. Chalk and cheese compared to last misery-fest!

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£104.55p starting balance
20p spins

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100 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £106.56p left
200 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £102.56p left
300 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £90.86p left
340 spins, 101x win - £109.06p left
436 spins, 170x win - £139.08p left
536 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £129.89p left
636 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £124.41p left
736 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £118.54p left
836 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £123.53p left
936 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £117.10p left
1036 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £102.39p left
1136 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £95.23p left
1146 spins - *** FEATURE *** - 206x - £135.80p left
1246 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £133.17p left
1262 spins - 60x win - £142.70p left
1308 spins - *** FEATURE *** - 159x - £168.23p left
1408 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £167.01p left
1479 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £161.96p left - SERVER ERROR RELOAD GAME
1480 spins - *** FEATURE *** - 115x - £184.79p left
1580 spins, no feature or 50x stop trigger - £179.39p left
1592 spins - *** FEATURE *** - 182x - £216.80p left

 

[PMKFRUITPRO]

Back to the usual spawn.

 

[Lemon]

 

[ChopleyIOM]

I'll see your Simpsons, and raise you a Simpsons.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Back to the usual spawn.

My lifetime stats at VS (and I've had an account there since the early days) show that I'm basically bang on long term expected T-RTP - they've had a chunk of cash out of me

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Withdrawals are for wimps.

Currently still up from where I finished last night, although Big Bonus played really hard work for a well..... big bonus. Fortunately a four scatters trigger and the top 100x pick led to a much welcomed save from a downward trajectory. (The way the bonus works on Big Bonus is you have infinite free spins with sticky wilds until you hit a single win that tops the threshold picked at the start of the bonus, so 100x is a really nice pick and one I've never had before.)

Round finished at 454x which is a nice result.

If you've never tried Big Bonus I'd recommend it, I covered it on my old channel. Nice game. Do be aware it can be hard to hit the bonus though, and sometimes they can pay wanky if you get the 20x threshold pick.

And The Finer Reels Of Life is still around as well, albeit in sub-standard HTML5 form, but it's still the same game.