It’s an abomination of a slot, they’ve basically taken everything good away from the land based US version and watered it down to this dog shit.
It's on the front page on VS all of a sudden for some strange reason. Maybe a Chinese billionaire has been rowing it at 88.88 a spin?
The weird stakes are most likely to avoid showing the figure '4', as it sounds like 'death' in Chinese, and to show the figure '8' where possible, as that number is lucky for Chinese.
This is one of my favourite slots when I go to Vegas (the reel-based version is also good fun) but this online attempt is really disappointing. You don't even get the 'GOOD FORTUNE HAS ARRIVED' messages. Really disappointing effort.