S&S Losses this year as compared to 2019?

[Skippy888]

Darren 

 

Firstly followed you for a while and greatly look forward each day to 4:00 PM 

I was slightly concerned about the losses. Some have been dramatic and I'm sure your highest rated videos are not the big loss ones. We all want the feelgood factor. 

I can only think of two reasons for the losses;

1) Thieving gaming providers dropping RTP%. Does going from 94% to 88 or 90% really make a big difference? Any statisticians amongst us? For me they seem to have doubled their take since lockdown. A storm is coming their way and they are filling their pockets whilst they can.

2) Your choice of slots. Are you playing more volatile games in search of the big hits? You could play the 'soft' games and loose less, but also stand much smaller chance of a biggie?

 

Any thoughts anyone? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[BlindHaze]

I honestly don’t know whether 2020 was worse or better than 2019 but it’s worth remembering that although online slots have a higher percentage, they are more volatile than FOBTs as they don’t have the £500 limit. Due to COVID, a greater proportion of the videos last year have been online. So StopandStep may get a monster hit of 1000x online, which would be the equivalent of 4 jackpots on a FOBT. As the percentage over millions of spins averages around 95%, the RNG had a lot dead spins programmed into it to allow the bigger hits to be available.

Each spin is independent, but the higher potential leads to higher volatility. 

[Skippy888]

All true. But even online some some games are easier to bonus than others. I think Darren is going for more of the Donuts, Fat Rabbit big win games than he used to, when he used to pay more of the Ted/Goonies. There was the strange situation a while back where he got a handful of bonuses on a hunt where each seem to cost several hundred. 

[Pete Tranter's Sister]

When the £2 limit was introduced to FOBTS 2 years ago the Government increased the tax levy to the gambling industry to recover the losses.  So at a traditional land-based casino for which the odds and therefore income at Blackjack, Roulette etc. cannot be changed apart from adding silly side bets the only method for the casino to recover the additional tax loss is to reduce the RTP on the machines.  We can expect to see the old 94% and even 96% machines turned down to 92% or even 90%, if they haven't been already.  So if you play Blackjack or Roulette in a land-based casino you will not be affected but you can expect to see increased losses if you regularly play the machines.  As for non-land based casinos, since they are all based offshore I don't expect that we will see any difference there.

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