https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/skill-based-slot-machines/ A Las Vegas Advisor Blog from the "Queen of Comps" Sat, 25 Apr 2020 20:14:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.4 https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/skill-based-slot-machines/comment-page-1/#comment-67000 Mon, 23 Nov 2015 21:51:16 +0000 https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/?p=4043#comment-67000 I wonder–has anyone figured out what the improvement in return is if you play the games perfectly? From my limited experience with previous iterations of such games, it seems that you can increase your bonuses by 20-40% with best play, which might increase a 92% game to 93-94%, depending on the frequency of the bonus.
It’s interesting to think of these games as a Darwinian kind of device, where the dumber people will go broke faster–but then I realized: smart people don’t play slots, so what you get is survival of the smartest of the dumb. This may prove counterproductive for the casinos, as there will be a sharp tapering off of the play on these machines as the people who aren’t smarter than a fifth-grader (or for that matter, a cocktail olive) go broke faster.

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