- Joined
- Mar 25, 2012
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- IOM
I've mentioned this slot before, BTG's Lucky Streak Mk2. I love this slot, the fruit machine theme is done perfectly, BTG have absolutely nailed the aesthetics and the sounds, the way lamps look 'burned in' as used to happen on real fruit machines, it has two features which can both (theoretically.....) pay well, it has a very 'fruit machine' style feature to pick the number of spins in the bonus round - for me, everything about this slot is perfect, and it has a single maths model of a solid 96.32% - EXCEPT - oh my good god the maths model and volatility.
I stuck at this slot for far longer than I should have done, and even on minimum stake spins of 20p, it can fairly chew through a balance. I also happened to have a decent withdrawal from 3Dice of (IIRC) about £800 back to EcoPayz (back when 3Dice still used it), so could deposit to Rizk and play the slot there. (I think it was Rizk anyway, one of the other casinos that took EcoPayz at the time anyway.)
Lucky Streak Mk2 had many hundreds of pounds off me on 20p spins, and it just wouldn't kick back, at all. If you look at the paytable you can see how it's massively skewed towards getting the stacked wilds on 5OAKS in the bonus round, all the other symbols pay pretty crap. (There is no multiplier like on Bonanza.) And I realised that unless I could get the 'dream spin' of hitting those stacked wilds in the very narrow window of opportunity of the bonus round (they're not stacked in the base game), I was never going to get anywhere close to RTP. How many spins was I expected to do to achieve that hit, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions?
In the end I just gave up and walked away, and took the loss, and I haven't played a penny through the game since, as much as I think it's a wonderful slot in so many ways, I just can't be doing with the maths model and volatility, and the fact that achieving RTP really does rely on a 'dream spin' in the bonus round (a bonus round that you can wait a long time for in the first place!).
If I had to have a guess at my RTP on that slot, (and I did a lot of spins on it), I'd guess somewhere around 85% or so, 10%+ off target, and the realisation it could stay like that for a massively extended period of time - it wasn't a commitment of funds I was prepared to make.
The point is of course, that a few extended runs on different slots along the lines of what I had on this game, could easily result in some pretty awful numbers in terms of deposits versus withdrawals.
I stuck at this slot for far longer than I should have done, and even on minimum stake spins of 20p, it can fairly chew through a balance. I also happened to have a decent withdrawal from 3Dice of (IIRC) about £800 back to EcoPayz (back when 3Dice still used it), so could deposit to Rizk and play the slot there. (I think it was Rizk anyway, one of the other casinos that took EcoPayz at the time anyway.)
Lucky Streak Mk2 had many hundreds of pounds off me on 20p spins, and it just wouldn't kick back, at all. If you look at the paytable you can see how it's massively skewed towards getting the stacked wilds on 5OAKS in the bonus round, all the other symbols pay pretty crap. (There is no multiplier like on Bonanza.) And I realised that unless I could get the 'dream spin' of hitting those stacked wilds in the very narrow window of opportunity of the bonus round (they're not stacked in the base game), I was never going to get anywhere close to RTP. How many spins was I expected to do to achieve that hit, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions?
In the end I just gave up and walked away, and took the loss, and I haven't played a penny through the game since, as much as I think it's a wonderful slot in so many ways, I just can't be doing with the maths model and volatility, and the fact that achieving RTP really does rely on a 'dream spin' in the bonus round (a bonus round that you can wait a long time for in the first place!).
If I had to have a guess at my RTP on that slot, (and I did a lot of spins on it), I'd guess somewhere around 85% or so, 10%+ off target, and the realisation it could stay like that for a massively extended period of time - it wasn't a commitment of funds I was prepared to make.
The point is of course, that a few extended runs on different slots along the lines of what I had on this game, could easily result in some pretty awful numbers in terms of deposits versus withdrawals.