Of course graduating paybacks is legal. Think VP - you have a better royal
pay on 5 coins than on 1 coin, right? Hence a better payback %.
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:27 PM, George <wxmen@sonic.net> wrote:
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> After 2 1/2 years of bad luck playing VP, I decided to try the slots. I
> recently came upon a new IGT penny machine at the Reno Peppermill. What
> caught my eye was signage that said something to the effect that higher bets
> have higher payback percentages. There are 5 buttons, allowing for 50, 100,
> 150, 200, and 250 credit bets. The 100, 150, and 200 buttons say "higher
> payback" and the 250 says "highest payback." I thought it was illegal (at
> leaast in NV) to change the payback for different bet amounts but apparently
> not. I'm wondering if anyone has heard of graduating paybacks and what the
> range might be from lowest to highest. The IGT web site says that this game
> has paybacks from 85% to 98% but is that the range from the 50 credit bet to
> the 250 credit bet? I don't see how this machine could advertise a specific
> payback percentage since they don't know what the average size bet would be.
> BTW, the machine was "The Little Shop of Horrors" and I won $630 on a $2.50
> bet, more than I've won with larger bets on VP in 2 1/2 years. It took 20
> minutes for the bonus to playout. Needless to say, I'm even less inclined to
> play VP now.
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> Comments please.
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> George
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