Typical Payout Percentage Of Online Slot Machines

There is a considerable variation between the percentage payouts of different online slot machines, and between online slot machines and those found at real casinos and gaming clubs. In all cases the minimum payouts are subject to legislation as laid down by the Gaming Act, but in general online slots offer better payouts than real slot machines.

First we will define exactly what we mean when we refer to a percentage payout. This is the statistical average payout of a machine given a very large number of spins. For instance, if a machine claims to have a 98% payout, then on average for every £100 that is bet on it, it returns £98. Note that this is based on a very large number of spins and total bets of many thousands of pounds. Another way of looking at this is that the casino has a house edge on that machine of just 2%.

If you looked at a website such as ME Arcade, which specialises in slots and offers a large variety of alternative slot machine games, from simple 1 line slots right up to quite complicated 20 line slot games, you will find that there is a variation between both the percentage payout of the various games and also the average winnings. You will also find that the slots with higher percentage payouts and higher winnings typically have higher limits; conversely low limits slots tend to have lower percentage payouts.

In most cases you will find that average percentage payouts vary from around 96% through to 98.5%.

Now the temptation is to just play on slot machine games that offer the higher payout percentages but, as we have already pointed out, these also tend to have higher limits than the games that have lower payout percentages. Although you should take account of these figures, proper money management is more important. You should divide up your available bankroll by the number of bets that you would like to make in order to decide the bet size and use this as an additional guide to selecting your best game.