Nickel Slot Strategy and More

Nickel Slot Strategy

This is a super bonus tip for all you recreational players who like the themed nickel multi-line slot machines--Play the Newest Ones. Ignore The Older Ones.
There is fierce competition among the manufacturers to come out with appealing multi-lines, now that the casinos realize that a nickel player can be gradually turned into a quarter or even dollar player by encouraging multi-line play.
Therefore, the first few days after a given machine comes out and is installed are critical. The casinos measure these machines' success (or failure) by how popular they are; i.e., how much they get played, not, repeat, not how much money they make during this initial period, since the chip that is installed dictates this fixed payback percentage.

In order to inflate the play length and frequency, these machines are shipped with the most liberal chip (and usually installed that way), which may have payback percentages up to 99%. Result: people try the new machine, it's a big hit because of the high payback frequency, and then, they change the chip back to the standard 92% return.
I have observed this dozens of times. When they first came out, Scrabble, all the Monopoly games, Austin Powers, and most recently, Beach Party (which is so smarmy I can hardly stand to play it without throwing up) could be played at just about break even if you played maximum lines at one coin per line.

This is because the bonus games are where a critically high percentage of the payback occurs, and the difference between the most liberal chip and the others is that it allows more bonus games to occur.
The optimum way to exploit this is to maximize the frequency of the bonus game by playing maximum lines, while betting as little as possible overall (1 coin/line).
The life span of the more liberal chip seems to be 2-4 weeks. After that, you'll see one day every machine in the bank being ‘serviced’ at once, or at least that's what the slot tech will tell you. What is actually happening is that the ‘death chip’ is being installed.

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