I meant to make a post with multiquotes and address a number of points.
But I chose to spend my afternoon drinking beer with my housemate. Ten dollars I will never see again, lol.
Still have $100 from my last $60 deposit meant to amuse me all afternoon.
And I find myself reluctant to lose it right now.
So without multiquotes and names, since I'm unwilling to go back and read everything, I'll address a couple of points from my point of view.
Yes, the slots play the the same at different denominations, with a few exceptions, mostly jackpot slots where you must either bet max lines or max bet to qualify. It was one of my earliest questions here at CM when I was pretty new to online. It's common in B&Ms for higher denomination slots to pay better. But unlike a landbased casino, you are not really taking a seat away from someone, which costs physical space. Internet bandwidth is cheap for casinos compared to physical rental space. Not so cheap that Videoslots did not choose to stagger their Weekend Booster or Race Winnings time so every player did not log at once and cause delays and conflicts. IMO a better solution that telling players to clear your cache and cookies when the servers are overloaded. I don't know this for a certain fact, but I rely on sources I consider reliable, coupled with knowledge of programs and servers.
Casinos love low rollers... kind of. Some love us more than others. The casino will make the exact same amount of money from 1000 players playing 20 cents a spin as one player playing 10 spins at $2. There are many more 20 cent players than $2 players.
Slot return to player are rarely just at one casino as far as an individual games goes, there are a few exclusive games at certain casinos.
Low rollers are more likely to take bonuses to extend playtime. Very few bonuses favour the player.
Casinos do not love every low roller. Processing transactions cost money. Some methods cost more than others. For some casinos that means a fee on deposits, on some others a fee on withdrawals, or one free a day/week. I've read far than five stories where low rollers were told by a casino that did not charge fees, that winning $20, withdrawing, and then depositing again within minutes, and then withdrawing, and deposting another ten was not acceptable to continue doing without a charge. It's actually one of the few legitimate reasons to have a pending period IMO (and it should not be lengthy). At a B&M I might cash out from a machine and put the slip in my purse, and use a fresh $20. Some casinos offer a funds in play or main wallet, very useful for players like that.
Casinos love high rollers. Why shouldn't they? If you deposit $100 a day instead of $20, you are 5x as valuable. If you deposit $100 a day betting twenty cents, you are a dream client. You have thousands in play.
The house does not make their money off your deposits, they make it off your bets. And they have many more bets placed than just yours, no matter how much or at what value you play.
Casino slots get close or more than the theorhetical number of spins. Math models are not perfect. About 7 years ago I spent many many hours reading and learning about Pseuodo Randon Number Generators, and spend hours compiling some kind of tutotorial and had a hard drive crash. I certainly did not entirely understand everything. I understood quite a bit about real RNGs having worked with Cryptology during the time of the Gulf War and computer encryption systems.
A million trials is not considered sufficient for a RNG with 10,000 possible outcomes, although should come within a certain range. Games like Thunderstruck have upwards of 5 million combinations, and some of the newer games, I can't do that kind of math.
If a casino wants to fleece their players, they are not doing it by cheating games and RNGs. They are doing it by delayed payouts to prey on gamblers' weaknesses, bonus offers that are flat out disadvangeous, or outright failure to pay.
Players encounter fees too that are not imposed by the casino. So if I'm facing a foreign wire charge of $14, I'm not cashing out $100. Which means I keep playing, and more than likely losing.
I can say with 100 percent certainty if all my bets since winning big last year were at $180 per spin, I'd be broke long before now.
Now that's an individual experience, your mileage may vary.
But I still maintain that once in a while you gotta push it. You planned on losing it in the first place.
If I looked through past records, I could probably tell how many 1000x bets I've had. Never had one 5000x, and I've played a lot for many years. No individual player, no matter how dedicated is going to achieve the TRTP over many millions of spins. And if they did, they are still losing.
I've not found another passtime where I'm likely to have my fun and come out with something once in a while than gambling however. I have no musical talent and can't go busk.
From a casino point of view, those of us betting $2-$5 a spin at times are not even high rollers.
I think we get a fair game to be honest, or I would not have been playing so many years. They provide a service and make money from it, and we pay for it. How much money we pay for it is down to us. But for the casino $100 in bets in the same, whether it is 20 cent bets or $100 bets.
If none of it made any sense to you, it kept me from playing for 2 hours, so I'm already ahead
I think that was very important thing to consider, even more so because new trend with releasing slots that have like 10-15% hit rate is a thing now.
