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in this video I visit the 2014 Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas
which is one of the world's largest trade shows for the casino gaming
industry
at this show which is held in late September each year
gaming manufacturers and suppliers from all over the world
spy their latest products and technologies a casino executives
it's a great show to attend because visitors can try out
often there was some machines before they're available to the general public
bus there are many celebrity appearances and other fun events
in this segment i speak with slot machine expert frankly gato
who is the editor of global gaming business magazine
he also writes about slot machines for casino player
as well as strictly slots and I ask frank why it is so hard for some players
to win on penny slot machines
frank you are one of the foremost experts on slot machines
and one question I wanted to ask you is why is it so hard four slot players away
in a penny slot machines
simple they are the highest holding in other words lowest pay that percentage
in the house in the casino by far
you take a dollar slot machine
it's probably 95 96 percent most
casinos yes you have to translate that
house edge ninety-five percent
passage 5 percent that's on the dollar
order games 92-93 7 any games giving up
11 percent sometimes
size 12-13 or higher some casinos or even
setting the lowest back
required state which exit
3 percent bad it's 75 percent what you're getting with the penny
slot machine is basically are gonna lose
your money now you say 75 percent is the minimum
and Nevada have you ever seen a game
set to return as low as 75 percent I
I haven't I not
not in to my knowledge
but you can tell she was what it said bashers
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each the casino
choose most casinos have a policy
most casinos in Nevada
most anywhere have a policy
pay-back nomination in Nevada find it
any games pay a little bit more ninety
ninety percent Sentinel ok a las vegas casinos
in Reno same way atlantic city you're talking
pennies
whole in other words giving away
12 percent house people
well why don't people played a machine that if there if there's such a low
papacristo why do they play because they want they wanna low by it they can pick
up a twenty dollar-billion
play for a while thing they they don't realize thing they don't realize is
if you play maximum credit
these games to get all the features qualified
aggressive jackpots so you might be spending
3 300 credits for for max bet that's three dollars that same as a dollar
machine so
if it's pay-back percentage ago or take that three dollars
dollar machine and you know give away three or four percent
if that's what you're going the public is
these games as an arcade experience
and lately people that
right are our magazine have been saying their money lasting
Association
bashers is doing a study right now
exactly
what this trend me people are playing less
going to casino slots
because back percent doing exhaustive study
their own sales records see what percentage programs
all these casinos by to see if to just a verified
back but anecdotal evidence you know it is pretty much verified
that people's money last
okay suffered many sa mission buyers reason they're losing is because they're
planning a chance to pay back to
the least amount of money in the casino I so what is your advice
for the people like to play penny slot machines for how they can be either
better their experience or make their money lasts longer
the game stalin penny machines can be found
in other denominations you just have to
after have a little bit more
bankroll to to play play them most to them
are a lot of them are available multi-denominational so look for the
mall
denomination units and go up couple go up to the neck
nomination died that's one way of doing it if you like those
those that style the other thing they can do is
play lovers Las Vegas casinos play in Reno play
places better-known to by the highest returning programs
for all their games that's that's where they are there
local a las vegas outside the strip and
they are you know just about anywhere in Reno one last question for a place on
the penny machines now you're saying before they're making maximum bets
to play our look at the pay table ants
side say well maybe I don't have to make the maximum vendela in order to be
eligible for these bonuses how would that work
that's what they're doing that's what they're doing there
there they're they're going on to these machines that's why they're popular
go take a 20 and just bed the
minimum required to activate all
Baylis which in most cases is is basically
the game but you're not getting as you want qualify for progressive jackpot
perhaps
or some other some other special bones
but they can still play them and they complain america's
free drinks in their they play a little bit
lose their money thing is
in recent years since the penny machines
explode popularity the casinos
are by more to the detriment nations they're buying these
and a as evidences
is showing its showing up
returns players alright frankly got
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