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Winning at online slots is a thrilling experience and it should not be reserved to the very few. Even if there are no proven strategies to beat slot machines there are ways to increase your odds of winning and keeping the profit. The reason most people never actually make a profit is because they never know when to stop playing. If players understand the way slot machines work then they have a better chance of playing smartly, i.e. playing to win and not to lose.

The mechanism behind slot machines is fairly simple. The slot games are configured to pay out a number of bets they receive. This pay out number is called a pay-back rate or percentage. It is best visualized as a percentage of the bets. If a slot receives $100 in bets (say 100 spins of $1 each) and in total payout out $90 throughout all those spins, the game is said to have a 90% payout. It paid back 90% of all the bets it received. The casino out of $100 bets made a $10 profit and the players that spun those reels distributed amongst themselves $90. Of course, the amount of bets and wagers on slots are not measured by the hundreds but rather by the tens or hundreds of thousands. The payback rate is the average amount of bets the slot will pay over a long period of time. The casino will always make a small 1% to 10% profit of all the wagers but as the bets go higher that amount grows too.

The player must remember that all the players that bet on a particular slot are depending on those payback amounts the slot is going to return from the bets. If the game suddenly pays big, it means it’s giving a significant lump of the payback. The player may be tempted to wager more in hopes of further winnings (which is perfectly possible) but in doing so is risking his or her profit and putting it in back into the machine. The more bets the slot takes in, the higher the profit for the casino, the greater the losses for the player.

Increasing your odds at slot machines is as simple as knowing when to stop playing and cashing out your winnings.

Not every slot player understands what a slot payback or payout rate is. We want to explain this so players are well informed when they see these numbers at gambling sites. The term payout rate or payback is used interchangeably but they normally mean the same thing. It is represented by a percentage usually below or above 100%.

The percentage is telling the player how well a game HAS paid in a certain period of time. This is something slot players must have very clear in their heads. The payback or payout rate does not predict how a game is going to pay in future wagers, it is retrospective, or in other words, it speaks only of past spins.

The payout percentage is very easy to understand. Let’s make a concrete example. If a casino advertizes a slot as having 98% payout rate, then imagine that if that slot has received $1,000 in spins (say 1000 spins of $1), it has paid out $980. If a slot has advertized 115% payout, then say it receives $100 in bets, it has paid out $115.

Here’s the secret though. The game is not paying uniformly to every player the announced payout rate. The game may be paying 80% to one player and 120% to another but the average of these two makes it 100%. Similarly it can payout at 20% to a player and this player feels the game is a cheat but to another (or several others) it paid out at a good rate over 100%. The average remains good even though not EVERY player receives the good results.

Payout rates are useful to know which slot games have a tendency to pay high but players should never take these numbers as a definite guide for winning. No matter the payout rate, slot machines remain random and it is a matter of chance if a player wins or not.

We hope you find this explanation for slot payout rates simple and easy to understand. We attempted to make it as straightforward so novice players can grasp the idea behind it.