What do you wish every player knew?
RTP is important but not everything. It's the margin that over the long term will be taken from the total that is put through a slot by everyone who plays it. 96% just means 4% is going to the provider/casino and 96% is like a pool of money that is distributed back to the players at random.
Always felt to me like the casinos and providers made a genius move by making these the standard metrics they have to provide because they seem to have completely distracted from the fact there are a lot of useful metrics for the players to know in terms of how a slot will play on average session to session.
Bonus frequency/win odds, base/bonus rtp split, paytable odds etc. would all be more useful to me. Base/bonus rtp split would tell you the rtp anyway.
I don't mean knowing a slot is 94% or 96% isn't important but just that there are a lot of other useful things to know about a slot as well unless you plan to spin it a hell of a lot so the slot RTP is almost your personal RTP.
What's a mistake you made early on that you'd never make now?
Not withdrawing my deposit if i doubled it or more.
I would just leave my winnings on the account but it was always too easy to play on and on and think I've still got enough play another tenner, another fiver then hit zero and think that was a really dumb thing to do.
Once I started withdrawing winnings and only ever leaving the original deposit value or less to play on with it makes it a lot easier to manage and is still a free or winning evening if I hit zero with whatever I left on there.
If you play on decent casinos the withdrawal doesn't take long so you always have the option to redeposit or take a break and think about it.
Also wasting money on random slots. I just play the ones I like now or will give a slot a go because I want to not because I saw someone else's epic win screenshot on here and think I can hit that too, the slot is on some hot/new/recommended list or a review says it's a 10 out of 10 slot etc.
What's a belief about slots or casinos that turned out to be nonsense?
- Probably all 'conspiracy' ones. Spent long enough reading old 'rigged' threads on here, initially out of interest and then because they are really entertaining and have a lot of information on how slots work. No I don't think they are rigged.
- Slots only bonus after a certain point. I've hit plenty of first spin bonuses or early ones and barely play compared to others.
- Casinos are controlling the slots at a personal level. At most they probably profile players in order to make sure they can keep you on their site by offering products that match what you like and know your patterns of play for similar reasons. I'd be really surprised if they would risk their margin and massive fines to screw over a particular player because they won. 'Turn the rtp down on the slot 2Slots is playing, he's on a hot streak' just doesn't seem likely.
- If you make a withdrawal you will then lose. See mistakes question. They've played the same if not better since I started doing that and I've even made three or four withdrawals in a session because the slots kept playing well after the first one.
- Casinos are out to get you. Like any business they want your money but the decent ones aren't forcing you to do anything or trying to screw you over. Even some of the complaints on here about getting banned from a casino always read to me like 'this dummy complained about how a slot played and probably got flagged as a potential problem gambler but they think the casino is out to get them'. It's more likely they don't want to keep you as a customer as your complaint reads like a potential gambling problem that they don't want to have to deal with and potentially get fined over if they let you carry on playing. Decent casinos will deal with valid complaints like any other business would but moaning about a slot because you played and lost is probably not a good idea.
What's the sneakiest thing you've seen buried in terms or a bonus?
Min stake to take part in this offer is 0.20. Any free spins awarded are worth 0.10.
Is there anything you know now that you're surprised isn't common knowledge?
How slots actually work. I don't think a lot of people realise how much of an effect themes/sounds/gimmicks/teasers and maths models have over a player.
Of course the providers are going to market the slots in the best terms possible. They aren't going to market the slots using words like 'hypnotize' or 'addictive' because that would be dumb over using 'entertaining', 'engaging', 'fun' etc.
Players should learn enough about slots that they have a good idea about how they are designed and then play the ones they do actually find 'entertaining', 'engaging', 'fun' instead of playing ones they don't like but are 'hypnotized' or 'addicted' to and then think something is off. I find the slots I play entertaining and fun even if though they can play like crap too.
There are a lot of crap slots out there so find the ones you like not the ones that everyone else does. Even the ones you like are probably considered crap by other people.
You have no control over the winning part, you can only have some control over the losing aspect.
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pick whichever one speaks to you, or answer them all if you're feeling generous 
