Using Slot Hit
Frequency to Gauge Bankroll Strain
by Colby
Lewis, Strategy and Games
WriterFollowing our previous tip about using payback percentage
to help seek out advantageous online slot machines to gamble at,
we shall now go into detail about the hit frequency of
slot machines and how this can be used to gauge the
frequency of one's expected winnings playing slots in an
online casino.
In the simplest of terms, hit frequency is
the percentage of spins that give back winnings to the
player. This is dependent upon the amount of winning
combinations the slot machine Random Number Generator is
programmed to deliver. Slot machines with high hit
frequencies may likely deliver winning symbol combinations
every three or four spins, while a machine with a low hit
frequency may likely deliver winning symbol combinations
every nine or ten spins.
What this means to the player is
that machines with differing hit frequencies will have
differing short and long term effects on one's bankroll.
For example, low hit frequency machines pay out larger
winning sums, while machines with a high hit frequency pay
out smaller winning sums but with greater frequency.
Players often ask whether the hit frequency has a direct
effect on the online casinos payback percentage for a particular
slot machine, and the answer to this question is no. The
reason being is that a machine with a lower hit frequency
will still pay back the same amount of money over the same
period of time as a machine with a higher hit frequency.
The casino paybacks are fewer, however, they are of a
greater value than the more frequent paybacks of a machine
with a high hit frequency.
The importance of knowing a
machine's hit frequency is that it allows players to
deduce how much strain their bankroll may receive over a
particular period of time in the online casino. High hit machines will put less
immediate strain on a bankroll, while low hit machines may
put more prolonged strain on one's bankroll.
In order to
gauge a general idea about a slot machines hit frequency
at the online casinos, look at the paytable. Those with
more symbol combinations and smaller payouts (most video
slots are of this kind), will be of high hit frequency,
while those machines offering fewer winning symbol combos
and larger payouts for those that are offered, will likely
deliver a low hit frequency.
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