Shyguy
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- Joined
- Mar 30, 2010
- Location
- Earth...unfortunately.
It has been a busy month boys and girls.
Firstly my thanks to all that have sent in their stats, whilst it is still not nearly enough to give a completely accurate portayal of online slots it is very useful and those collected look to be on the increase. I realise players cannot be arsed to write down their stats or send in details and I totally respect that decision, I know as I have also been bored to death writing the figures down!
Secondly thanks must go to Enzo and KasinoKing for their input during the last post. Their input was informative and constructive. Whilst I was working on this they did bring up some important facts that I have used as a sounding board to push this project a little further. The maths on "free spins" and "bonus games" per 100 spins may look poor but I can confirm they are correct.
Many players can play for hours and numerous hundreds of spins without winning a bonus game or set of free spins. We also need to take into account that "free spins" are still spins and they are included in our analysis. There is also the point that many slots offer different amounts of free spins ranging from anything from 5 up in most cases. How many of us have had to spend $200 without getting so much as 5 free spins?
On a very important note we received about 20 false slot sessions which came from an IP address from a certain area where an online casino exists. These were ignored and always will be! I am very happy to state that the online casino (I will not be giving out the name) is NOT one of CM's accredited casinos. If you want to send fake stats then at least make them realistic! Those we were sent had spins taken from numerous slot machines with the same PID, Sessionid and date/time. All that was different was the balance (Which increased exactly every 7-20 spins!) I cannot prove something like this by ip alone and am therefore declaring the matter closed.
From the 1692 sessions we collected we were able to ascertain that small fluctuations between the RTP's from May were evident. Nothing major or minor, with TopGame showing the largest increase up to 81.26% from 73.38%. The largest decline was that of RTG and Microgaming both dropping a small 2% appx.
Over the month of June we did not collect any stats for Boss Media at all.
Free Spins and Bonus games per 100 have increased on the whole with Cryptologic and RTG showing as providing at least 1 free spin per 100.
Another interesting aspect of the stats collected was that of players using a higher stake. We found no evidence to suggest a higher stake will give you more chance of getting more free spins. In fact it is almost 50/50 as to whether you win free spins on less than a dollars stake or more than a dollar. Those starting off on small stakes recieved roughly the same amount of freebies as they did when they increased the stake. I think this just shows to go with your gut instinct, if you think its time to raise the bar then do so.
Below are the tables that I shall be posting every month. Please remember I am not here to slate online casinos, players, reps or anyone else, I am merely showing you what I have received over the month as I believe it will be of interest to you.
On another point I will no longer be collecting stats on the most popular slots and we purely collect on the below three for the time being. If I notice something worth telling everyone I shall point it out but reading all these spreadsheets is one of the most boring tasks I have completed and believe RTP is of more interest than that of which slot machine is played the most. At the end of the day no one gives a shit which machine is more popular as long as you win something hey!
Will be back next month.
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Firstly my thanks to all that have sent in their stats, whilst it is still not nearly enough to give a completely accurate portayal of online slots it is very useful and those collected look to be on the increase. I realise players cannot be arsed to write down their stats or send in details and I totally respect that decision, I know as I have also been bored to death writing the figures down!
Secondly thanks must go to Enzo and KasinoKing for their input during the last post. Their input was informative and constructive. Whilst I was working on this they did bring up some important facts that I have used as a sounding board to push this project a little further. The maths on "free spins" and "bonus games" per 100 spins may look poor but I can confirm they are correct.
Many players can play for hours and numerous hundreds of spins without winning a bonus game or set of free spins. We also need to take into account that "free spins" are still spins and they are included in our analysis. There is also the point that many slots offer different amounts of free spins ranging from anything from 5 up in most cases. How many of us have had to spend $200 without getting so much as 5 free spins?
On a very important note we received about 20 false slot sessions which came from an IP address from a certain area where an online casino exists. These were ignored and always will be! I am very happy to state that the online casino (I will not be giving out the name) is NOT one of CM's accredited casinos. If you want to send fake stats then at least make them realistic! Those we were sent had spins taken from numerous slot machines with the same PID, Sessionid and date/time. All that was different was the balance (Which increased exactly every 7-20 spins!) I cannot prove something like this by ip alone and am therefore declaring the matter closed.
From the 1692 sessions we collected we were able to ascertain that small fluctuations between the RTP's from May were evident. Nothing major or minor, with TopGame showing the largest increase up to 81.26% from 73.38%. The largest decline was that of RTG and Microgaming both dropping a small 2% appx.
Over the month of June we did not collect any stats for Boss Media at all.
Free Spins and Bonus games per 100 have increased on the whole with Cryptologic and RTG showing as providing at least 1 free spin per 100.
Another interesting aspect of the stats collected was that of players using a higher stake. We found no evidence to suggest a higher stake will give you more chance of getting more free spins. In fact it is almost 50/50 as to whether you win free spins on less than a dollars stake or more than a dollar. Those starting off on small stakes recieved roughly the same amount of freebies as they did when they increased the stake. I think this just shows to go with your gut instinct, if you think its time to raise the bar then do so.
Below are the tables that I shall be posting every month. Please remember I am not here to slate online casinos, players, reps or anyone else, I am merely showing you what I have received over the month as I believe it will be of interest to you.
On another point I will no longer be collecting stats on the most popular slots and we purely collect on the below three for the time being. If I notice something worth telling everyone I shall point it out but reading all these spreadsheets is one of the most boring tasks I have completed and believe RTP is of more interest than that of which slot machine is played the most. At the end of the day no one gives a shit which machine is more popular as long as you win something hey!
Will be back next month.
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Thats why I think what you are doing has value because it might make some casinos realise that speculation will be rife until the figures are published, and invariably that speculation is likely to be on the negative side of realism IMO. 
