Slot Machine Odds

The odds of winning playing on the very first mechanical slot machines were largely dictated by the number of wheels or reels within the machine and symbols contained on each wheel. With the new generation online slot machines, computers control and coordinate the odds using random number generation (RNG).

This means that online slot machines offer players potential returns of anything between 85 and 100 percent, according to the casino and the game being played. It is accepted that the casino heads up is around 9 percent of every dollar paid, meaning that over time an online slot machine will pay out 91c out of each dollar gambled.

Of course players do not play online slots so that they can win back 91c of every dollar, that would be preposterous. Instead they play for the big pay-outs and jackpots, and it is this goal that makes playing slots the exciting pastime that it is.

The more cynical out there might say that the 'cards are slightly stacked' against slot machine players but slots gaming makes up around 70 percent of all the casino games played, a pretty impressive indication of how passionate people are about slots.

While, compared to the mechanical slot machines of yester year, today's online slot casinos provide players with slightly reduced odds of winning, they more then make up for it with every their high dollar pay-outs and jackpots!