Tips Tombola slots have an 98.5% RTP

[ChopleyIOM]

Would have been happy to waste I mean "play" £50 for some playtime but if they gonna be an arse about a £5 NDB signup then no ta when you click a £5 free button and takes you to the signup page you expect it to be automatic for the £5 not have to hunt the net for a code!! pah!

This signup bonus is pretty good, £25 deposit gets a £50 bonus for a £75 bankroll and you only have to turn the bonus over once.

TBH with a £75 bankroll you'd probably die of old age before you managed to lose it all. You'd most likely never actually win anything either, but for a low-risk gambling session this place makes Starburst on minimum bets look like high-rolling at Las Vegas on $100 per spin slots.

 

[Reelsoffun]

Displaying admirable patience with things there Steve

AGENT - 'I'm sorry Steve, your bus has been delayed by five minutes'
STEVE - 'Destroy all buses across the entire globe IMMEDIATELY'

It wouldnt have made any difference how patient i was, the result was gonna be the same, i have no time for unclear terms, and from countless comments online Im not missing much

New players

Register at tombola
Enter your unique code when asked
A £5 FREE will be credited to your tombola account
Play tombola games for free

Not really clear that you needed to have a code beforehand.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Steve's response to being served a cheese pasty from Greggs that he felt was not at exactly the correct temperature.

 

[Jono777]

NEVER did I think I would see the day where clued up, seasoned slot players are discussing and seemingly enjoying A BLOODY BINGO SITE

 

[Gaz237]

This signup bonus is pretty good, £25 deposit gets a £50 bonus for a £75 bankroll and you only have to turn the bonus over once.[/B]

TBH with a £75 bankroll you'd probably die of old age before you managed to lose it all. You'd most likely never actually win anything either, but for a low-risk gambling session this place makes Starburst on minimum bets look like high-rolling at Las Vegas on $100 per spin slots.

I thought bonus money was not withdraw able?.

Surely It cant be that easy. Deposit £25, get £50 0n top. Wager £75, withdraw whats left.

 

[thr0b]

It is that easy. They’ve been around forever.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

TOO HOT FOR TV VIDEO REPORTAGE.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

It seems to be literally impossible to lose all your money here.

I've got £113 withdrawable from a £25 deposit yesterday, and I've been on £1 play the whole time, I quite like this Bubbles game, it's relaxing, the music is nice.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

I withdrew £135.80p, which isn't bad from a £25 deposit.

Hopefully I will get paid without issue.

If you've got a limited bankroll and you want some decent low-rolling playtime, you could do a lot worse than low variance games at 98.5% RTP.

EDIT TO ADD - And you know what they DON'T have at this place? A cancel withdrawal button.....

 

[Jono777]

You'll be paid no issues.

They're one of if not THE biggest bingo site here in UK, sponsor TV programmes the works.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

One other thing that occurred to me, is in that all the hours I was playing for I didn't encounter a single technical error of any description. No laggy spins, no disconnects, no game errors, nothing.

I guess it helps that they're entirely 'in house', so they write their own software, run their own servers, do their own support and so on.

Thinking further into it, that's probably why they can run all their games at 98.5% RTP and still turn a profit. They're not paying to license the Megaways ™ engine, they're not paying to license any intellectual property, they're not having to pay a cut to a software supplier etc etc.

Don't get me wrong here, I suspect I'll only play at this place occasionally, but I'm certainly not ruling out further deposits and sessions there, particularly if they can smarten up their game selection a bit.

Finally, there's 'talking the talk' when it comes to RG, and 'walking the walk', and Tombola certainly fall into the latter category. You start off with a mandatory £250 per week deposit limit which you have to give notice of wanting to change, there is no turbo play, only rudimentary autoplay (and only on the slot games), all the games actually run pretty slowly by modern standards which means you simply can't burn through your money that fast, and I saw the live chat reps suggest to a few folks in chat that they take a break and try again another day, £1 stake limit, once a withdrawal request is made it can't be reversed, and so on. Oh and of course the elephant in the room being that they're running their games with a house edge of just 1.5%.

Food for thought, if nothing else.

EDIT TO ADD - And of course we've recently seen VS drop RTPs for UK players to protect profit margins, for example we've seen PnG slots drop from 96% to 94%.

 

[paul7388]

It is a tough choice.

Play somewhere like VS where some slots have lower RTP and have some fun while money lasts. Or play a few basic slots slowly with higher RTP having as much fun as watching paint dry.

Now what one should i choose lol

 

[JGslots]

Excellent video as always @ChopleyIOM I’m afraid I kind of agree with the majority here... there just isn’t enough excitement with their range of slots to maintain a regular number of sessions there.

I think it would be interesting to see if Videoslots would make some ‘inhouse’ Slots with higher RTP’s.

Wasn’t it Starspins who offer regular RTP’s on their slot range and add the progressive game on top of that? Making it close to 99% RTP?

Rob

 

[Jono777]

Please, on bended knee, no more in house slots!

There are enough developers around already doing a poor job, lets not compound our misery further.

 

[goatwack]

Normally I'd shun in-house spesh games like the clap, but having played a few at King Jackpot I believe, I think they can be just as engrossing.

It's amazing how quickly we'll embrace games that pay well, in this case I believe it was 'Jungle Fever'. A few other clones that played much the same but provided just enough variation

I know I'd likely enjoy Tombola's 'range', as it sounds like a lowroller's wet dream. Much more preferable to playing branded shite like Agent Jane Blonde 2 or watching my money fall into the BTG Pit for 7 minutes

 

[pinnit2014]

I thought, after my earlier dismissal of playing there, to have a 25 quid punt. End result was a 100 quid odd profit.

Did i enjoy it?At one point i was wishing my balance away but, it kept creeping up tenners, to my horror

I didn't not enjoy playing some of the 'slots' - one thing i would say is that in the dynamite slot when i saw the 50 quid cart i got genuinely excited in getting it (which i did) - was only 55x in total but, for some reason, was more satisfying than some of the 'normal' slots i play.

Would i play there every day? Nah - but, if i want a reasonable chance at 100 profit again, yes.

Perfect antidote to your 50 quid gone in minutes on BTG to be fair, so I'll backtrack on my earlier statement a tad

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Did i enjoy it?At one point i was wishing my balance away but, it kept creeping up tenners, to my horror

Ha! I was exactly the same at one point yesterday afternoon, thinking to myself, 'I wish I could just bust out here and be done with it', IIRC I was down to my last £20 or so at one point. But as I say in the video, you can't do 'suicide spins' at Tombola, because you're capped at £1 per play. Quite often what I'll do at normal casinos is if I've been playing a while, and my balance is down to the last £40 to £50 or so, I'll just fire up Immortal Romance and quickspin on £3 play, to see if I can get my balance back up quickly, needless to say this doesn't usually work (But it does occasionally.)

I'd have done the same at Tombola, if I could have played that Bubbles game at £5 per play or similar, I would have done, but you've just got to stay at a max of £1, you can't turboplay, you can't autoplay (except for 10 spins at a time on the slots), you've just got to let things move at their own pace, and when you're playing low variance games at 98.5% RTP, that means there's every chance of a recovery.

And so it was that I found myself with a balance of over £150 this morning, I had to forefeit about £18 of bonus funds from that balance to make a withdrawal but it was still a profit of over £110, and I'd had a serious amount of playtime too.

Moreover, once you accept that the place just runs at its own pace and in its own way, I didn't even mind clicking on the button every time to start a round of Bubbles, I think we're so conditioned now to think that games have to be FAST and LOUD and HIGH RISK and VOLATILE, that in the final analysis I found it rather pleasant to just be chilling out, and getting excited when I managed to fill the £20 jar up

 

[ChopleyIOM]

It's amazing how quickly we'll embrace games that pay well

This is the thing for me, I'll forgive a lot in terms of game quality when the casino is only taking 1.5% of my bets off me instead of 3-4%, or 6% in the case of PnG at VS now for UK players, for example.

It's worth thinking about IMO, the house edge on Book of Dead at VS is QUADRUPLED from the house edge at Tombola. And you don't even need to faff about checking the help files, 'cause everything runs at 98.5%.

 

[thr0b]

The thing with a lot of the games is you can speed them up. Scratch/Glow/Bubbles - you can click on the symbols quickly in succession - you don’t need to wait for the animation to finish. Even if you click “reveal all”, you can still do individual clicks as well.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

The thing with a lot of the games is you can speed them up. Scratch/Glow/Bubbles - you can click on the symbols quickly in succession - you don’t need to wait for the animation to finish. Even if you click “reveal all”, you can still do individual clicks as well.

That's still a long way removed from whacking a modern slot into turboplay, engaging autoplay, and watching it rattle through hundreds of spins all by itself with no player interaction whatsoever, in the hope of getting a bonus round.

With Bubbles, you've got to click on the button every single time you want to start a game round, and to speed it up requires further interaction on the player's part.

 

[philderby]

On Friday Im due to receive a monthly Universal Credit payment, and I Think Il invest £25 of it on tombola arcade for a little session on 50p bubble spins. Whats the worst that could happen?

 

[paul7388]

On Friday Im due to receive a monthly Universal Credit payment, and I Think Il invest £25 of it on tombola arcade for a little session on 50p bubble spins. Whats the worst that could happen?

You lose £25 or die from boredom.

 

[philderby]

You lose £25 or die from boredom.

Good one!

 

[Jono777]

On Friday Im due to receive a monthly Universal Credit payment, and I Think Il invest £25 of it on tombola arcade for a little session on 50p bubble spins. Whats the worst that could happen?

They ask for a SoW on withdraw request and refuse your payout due to receiving a benefit

 

[goatwack]

What are the KYC/ SoW requirements for Tombola anyway? Is it straightforward UK verification or will I have to send superfluous semen samples to Malta