Avoid ladbrokes and coral both are scams! Your never fet a withdraw! I would know I've been a member for a while and put several 100s into it and got nothing back! Just bow I had a bonus on fishing frenzy and had 12 spins, didn't get a single fisherman! In 12 spins my bonus was £0 collected!!! AVOID LADBROCKS! bunch of scammers
Ladbrokes & Coral - Disappointing Bonus Rounds Occurred
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Welcome to Casinomeister. Normally it is forum etiquette to start a fresh brand new thread, rather than resurrecting an old one which is over a year old ;-)
As for your comment regards Ladbrokes and your personal situation. That is the nature of slots I am afraid, there have been several occasions whereby free spin features have returned little to nothing, when I have played online.
This does not mean the casino is a scam, this is just the nature of playing slots.
As for your comment regards Ladbrokes and your personal situation. That is the nature of slots I am afraid, there have been several occasions whereby free spin features have returned little to nothing, when I have played online.
This does not mean the casino is a scam, this is just the nature of playing slots.
AVOID these sites at all costs, there scams I've been a member for a while now and never actually made a withdraw as I never win! I had a bonus 5 mins ago on fishing frenzy and got 12 spins due to 2 upgrades . I ended up getting no fisherman in 12 spins so my bonus was £0. I've put alot of money in these sites only to get scammed!!
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Not understanding how high variance slot games work and how that affects the resulting returns from many of the features, well that's the issue here. Make your expectations realistic. That game will do that at every online casino that offers it, at times. No scam. Nothing unfair.
P.S. moved your posts to your own new thread and added to the title to reflect your 'issue'.
That's not true! If u get a bonus on any slot game your expecting something... 10p £1 but giving actually zero payout... yeh that's a scam. They also lie about mass payouts!! And lie about the number of people playing there games.
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And you know this....how?
So no comment about winning something on a bonus? The fact it didn't even come up bonus complete..... and as for there player count it doesn't move on there slots, one slot game as over 229k ppl, it's been like that for 4 days in a row. Your telling me 229k ppl have been playing your slot for 4 days in a row. Without breaks?? The number just doesnt move.
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It's not unusual to get 0 in a bonus round! It happens from time to time and you have to expect that in some games.
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I would like to see a screenshot or a link to where they state they have 229k currently playing at their casino at the same time. I don't think so somehow...
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Yes, especially true of high variance games. It does suck, but yes, it happens!
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You are mistaken by that number of 217k implying there are currently that many active users on the casino.
Ladbrokes afaik are still based in Europort in Gibraltar, where I worked in person for five years. Their comms room may have grown somewhat, but I can assure you, it does not have the capacity to host anywhere near that number of active players at any one time
That number is probably implying the total number of players on the casinos books, possibly. Your best bet is to get on to live chat and enquire what it relates to.
They would need infrastructure approaching that of googles otherwise
Ladbrokes afaik are still based in Europort in Gibraltar, where I worked in person for five years. Their comms room may have grown somewhat, but I can assure you, it does not have the capacity to host anywhere near that number of active players at any one time
That number is probably implying the total number of players on the casinos books, possibly. Your best bet is to get on to live chat and enquire what it relates to.
They would need infrastructure approaching that of googles otherwise
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Possibly the number of people that have contributed towards the progressive jackpot pool then. As that would be across ALL operators, not just Ladbrokes.
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Oh and FYI, I am not defending Ladbrokes or Corals, per se. Yes I used to work for them out in Gibraltar. But FYI just in case you were unaware, their status here at Casinomeister, sees them in the Rogue Pit.
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I just do not think what you have encountered is the casino being a scam. As others have said, it is very possible to get zero return on a feature playing a slot. Yes it sucks, but it does happen. Nothing untoward going on.
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I just do not think what you have encountered is the casino being a scam. As others have said, it is very possible to get zero return on a feature playing a slot. Yes it sucks, but it does happen. Nothing untoward going on.
Really lol that number is the amount of people playing the slot on ladbrokes only. and no that number of people isn't from different casinos playing the same game. If I log on midnight casino and join that game there isn't 217k playing.
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Very low, I would imagine, but possible and yes, it has happened to me before, more than once.
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I've gotten it many times but then the next bonus round in the same game has been able to give a big win !
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The odds of getting a zero bonus must be reasonable as I’ve got several of them in my relatively short slotting hobby. Sure, we can have a little cry about getting shafted by a zero bonus. But then we realise this is gambling and it can happen, then we move on.
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I've often had Zero paying bonuses, especially on certain games. eg Play Zues vs Hades, many of the bonuses are 0x on all sites. I've also had 0 pays on the 'Fishin Frenzy' series before, its not at all uncommon for certain games.
I also had my biggest ever win on Ladbrokes, nearly £11k on DOA2, and they paid it out in a couple of hours.
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It's not just for a particular game. It's also the version of the game being played. 96% RTP version shows a different number of players to the 94% version
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Just for some contrast to what your saying about ladbrookes, I used to play at dream vegas but could never win there so closed it, ladbrookes I did win at so it’s just a classic case of it’s just an unlucky site for you.
There are many seasoned players here that will confirm that some sites are just unlucky for people, as for bonuses paying 0, again many here will totally agree they happen, definitely more so on certain games than others. So to have never had a 0 bonus before shows just how lucky you been up to now, and sorry to be the bearer of bad news but clearly your luck has turned, so you might want to lower your expectations a little.
Did you have upgrades? I did... more fisherman & fish and +2 spins.
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With experience you will find some sites lucky and others not.
As for zero-paying bonus rounds, they are quite common and we've all had many of them over the years.
Especially on volatile slots. Think about it: A high-variance game with possible bonus round results in the range of say 0 to 10,000x bet will have far more zero outcomes in the pool than multi-thousand-times outcomes. This why some games have bonus guarantees OR give a small win for the scatters before the bonus begins, counting the scatter win in the total.
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I assume you are familiar with the concept of RTP (return to player)? If so, what is the RTP of the Fishing Frenzy slot you were playing on Ladbrokes compared to the RTP for the same game on the casinos that you do win on?
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I don't think that's necessarily relevant here, the reduced RTP version will pay the same amount of zero bonuses as the higher one, the 'skim' on the RTP will come from the medium-higher end of the pays in order to keep base game win frequency and feature frequency the same, otherwise it would be too obvious to the player that they were being shafted.
Think of 'stealth taxes' because the same principle tends to apply on casino slot RTP.
OR think of my 'Maltesers example' on the @ChopleyIOM thread - they take two Maltesers from the packet of 48 to make them 46 in quantity (equivalent to 96 down to 92% RTP) but keep the packet the same size of course so the empty spaces aren't obvious. Then you'll likely never notice you're being bent over the railing.
The RTP on fishing frenzy even bigger fish is 95% on ladbrocks. Keep in mind I had 2 upgrades more fish & fisherman
I played e.g gonnies on midnight casino which RTP is 96% I've never got a zero bonus on gonnies or midnight casino ever. There's no upgrades to get on gonnies.
I played e.g gonnies on midnight casino which RTP is 96% I've never got a zero bonus on gonnies or midnight casino ever. There's no upgrades to get on gonnies.
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Yeah I’m coming more from the angle that the OP might see this game as overall worse on Ladbrokes vs their “other casinos”. I’d be surprised if it was only one zero bonus that triggered all of this.
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Sadly it does happen, and more often than you realise. It seems 100 times worse when the game gives you the illusion that you’ve progressed far into it only to return nothing.
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No offence but if you have played slots for 10 years you should by now have a better idea off how slots work.
Fishing Frenzy is a Blueprint slot. They regularly pay 0 bonuses.
Especially eyes of horus lol. Had several 0 bonuses on Fishing frenzy and others in the series. Don't even mention the Kong slots.
As for keeping going on about upgrades. The upgrades on these Bluepeint slots do not mean better bonuses. In fact i would actually say more upgrades the worse they seem to pay.
And give us a break saying that Ladbrokes and Coral are scam sites because you never won. Played at Ladbrokes online for about 30 years. Definitely not a scam site.
Although admittedly it's not my main site anymore. But that's all because my balance was minus £120 or so for a couple years. Wasn't going to deposit to get it in credit so just used their freebies till I got balance back in credit. Then made small deposit and withdrawal lol to make sure no problems. And reason it was overdrawn was because they were pissing me about with couple unsettled bets then they settled them wrong so I went sod this and took it out in cash from shop before they resettled them correctly.
Fishing Frenzy is a Blueprint slot. They regularly pay 0 bonuses.
Especially eyes of horus lol. Had several 0 bonuses on Fishing frenzy and others in the series. Don't even mention the Kong slots.
As for keeping going on about upgrades. The upgrades on these Bluepeint slots do not mean better bonuses. In fact i would actually say more upgrades the worse they seem to pay.
And give us a break saying that Ladbrokes and Coral are scam sites because you never won. Played at Ladbrokes online for about 30 years. Definitely not a scam site.
Although admittedly it's not my main site anymore. But that's all because my balance was minus £120 or so for a couple years. Wasn't going to deposit to get it in credit so just used their freebies till I got balance back in credit. Then made small deposit and withdrawal lol to make sure no problems. And reason it was overdrawn was because they were pissing me about with couple unsettled bets then they settled them wrong so I went sod this and took it out in cash from shop before they resettled them correctly.
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Irrelevant - why do you think (if you heard of it before) I used to refer to 4-scatter triggers on some slots like Rhino and Evolution as the 'trigger of doom'..?
More spins for more scatters, it's going to be BIG right? Was it hell. The enhanced triggers often produced awful results.
Like the 5-scatter Bonanza trigger mostly does.
Listen to The Bandit when he playes the beardy games like you refer to - moans like hell when he gets start at level 2, or extra wheels etc. Because he knows how invariably disappointing the outcome will be. It's just eye-candy mostly unless you are playing a game like Dead or Alive that gives you good pays for 4 scatters and a monster one for all five.
Disagree
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No surprise there lol.
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