Attention! Free Games !
Almost all of the online casino websites offer to play their games free of charge, without having to wager real money. For start, they give $1000 in virtual coins and you can start spinning the reels. In general, you don’t win a million dollars, but you keep noticing that you are not loosing, but in fact keep winning more money. The most glaring example of the “winning” slots is superslots.com.
Superslots software as well as most of any other online casinos has an interesting feature: “autoplay”. They let you define several parameters like, how many times you wish to spins the reels, on which conditions to stop, etc.
So, I’ve decided to test the payout of the Superslots games. I set it for 3000 spins (4 sets of 500 spins) with a starting balance of $3000. And this is what I got:
After approximately 1000 spins the balance went down to $2710. On the 2000th spin, the balance went up to $3243, and the experiment finished with almost what I had at the start, $2975.
Why do they do things like that? There are usually two reasons. For once it is for the advertising purposes. While observing this trend playing a free game with a high payout rate, you may get tempted to deposit real money. Secondarily, casino software developers are not obliged to imitate the same playing conditions in free games.
A simple conclusion from the above is: It’s not a good idea to build one’s impression of an online casino by playing free games.