#1 ad pogg --
Well, an interesting choice of resources you have indeed, by referring to an article dating back to 2012 on something that about 2.5 people on Earth found relevant --
Anyway, to give you some context, back in the day Mr. Pogg (perhaps a brilliant statistician, though still unable to spell our brand name right) had a serious beef against one of our games, particularly JacksOrBetterProgressive (formerly called JacksOrBetter), thinking it's a pure video poker although we at all times clearly stated it's not, e.g. by providing an explanation that it's a video game based on Jacks or Better poker game.
What in simple terms he was blaming us for, was that when hitting Royal Flush (typically a chance of 1 in 2,598,960 bets) while betting max, you could win a site progressive Jackpot instead of multiple of your bet as in regular VP card game (e.g. x4,000), so essentially by throwing in an incentive several fold higher. While the game acted as pure card game in ALL other 2.5M+ cases as openly stated in the game help, let me add:
Despicable us?! I personally didn't think so 10 years ago, I still don't think so now
#2 RTP-wise, that's another fancy case of an 'academic' topic overrated by many, rarely providing any meaningful insight into a behavior of a particular game. Why? To let you sneak peek behind the curtain: each game is being designed with certain RTP in mind. To avoid any 'short-term' hiccups, the percentage is usually being calculated on a number of spins in the ballpark anywhere between hundreds of thousands up to dozen millions. In our case, we usually stick with a few million --
But will the same 97% RTP game display the same pattern or behavior and pay out exactly $97 on every $100 of your bets over the next 10, 100, or 1,000 spin you make on it? Most definitely NOT. So the overall RTP figure doesn't really tell you much, perhaps apart from telling which game to completely avoid, e.g. the category of <94% RTP slots, a category to which incidentally almost all slots in landbased casinos happen to fall into, easily offering RTP in ugly low 70%'s. Completely irregardless of how popular they might be, go figure?!
Moving forward, instead any meaningful RTP figure is that over certain period of time, e.g. the past day, two weeks. But even if you get a more reasonable 'footprint' on how a game was performing, you don't have any guarantee it will share the very same pattern over the next day, or next two weeks. Similarly as the Nasdaq stock that made you 50% over the past year won't necessarily earn you that much over the next year. And we didn't touch the subject of Jackpots and other factors stepping in the game...
In other words, YES! You can loose every single penny even on a game said to have 99% RTP --
Maybe what you had in mind was high/low variance/volatility games?! With low volatility representing those frequently low paying games with no extra thrill, while high volatility games you may need to 'feed' first, and wait long enough to spit it all out, usually during some generous bonus round...
At any rate, if you have a particular game on mind, I'll be happy to check on its RTP for any given time range...
Hey. Did you at least manage making a few spins on any of our games during all this talking??
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