50 Lions at the pub feels tighter than it used to, anyone else reckon?
Reckon you're onto something tbh, 50 Lions is an Aristocrat venue machine and there's no one published RTP, each venue sets it within the state minimum, so the same pokie can hit totally different from the club to the pub 🎰 The free games on it are my all-time favourite when they land, but yeah some machines just feel dead for a whole session 🐘🔥 Might be worth having your next slap somewhere else and comparing 👀
Chris has hit the nail on the head there. Same cabinet, two different rooms, two different temperaments. I've had the free games come up twice in twenty minutes at one club near me, then gone to the pub up the road a fortnight later and sat through a whole session without a sniff of them. Fifty paylines keeps you in the game for a while, but when the feature's shy it's a slow bleed. Ask around locally which venue treats the old girl nicely, that's half the battle. ah well, we grind on 😉
Same experience here mate, pub 50 Lions near me eats my fortnight's fun money before the lions even show up 🤣 my bank's gone quicker than the feature anyway 😂
One more spin, promise.
Cheers, that helps 😅 I'm total noob here but that explains why my pub 50 Lions never pays while the club one near work seems way looser. So venues literally pick their own RTP?
New here, soaking it up.
Yeah venues pick their own setting within the state minimum, that's the gist 🎰 I still chuck a slap on 50 Lions every Friday arvo, free games or not 🔥🤑
Funny how every "loose club machine" story never ends with anyone actually withdrawing, hey 🤡 Maccas, sure, keep slapping your Friday arvo wages in. Where's the profit? 😏
Here to argue, not to clap for your profit.
Wait, profit?? Who said anything about profit 😂 I'm there for the free games and the buzz when the lions line up, that's the whole point of a Friday arvo slap at the club 🔥 Some weeks I walk out up a bit, most weeks the grand stays in my head not my pocket, ah well.
Honestly though the venue RTP thing makes so much sense now, my local club 50 Lions gives the feature maybe every few sessions, but the pub one down the road just chews through A$20 like nothing. Same pokie, same Aristocrat cabinet, totally different feel 🤷♂️ That's why I reckon you gotta find YOUR machine and stick with it... 50 Lions on the club one's been decent to me lately, hit the free games twice last month 🦁🎰
The hit is close, I can feel it.
Hobart said it best, the buzz when the lions line up is why I'm on it every evening 🔥 Free games hit different on 50 Lions, some venues just stingier than others 🦁
Hobart said it best, the buzz when the lions line up is why I'm on it every evening 🔥 Free games hit different on 50 Lions, some venues just stingier than others 🦁
@SteveCobber spot on mate, the free games on 50 Lions are where the magic happens 🦁 Had a hit at the local Friday arvo myself, A$20 in and the lions just kept teasing me all night 😅 Reckon venues do run em different though, mine feels tighter since they reno'd the gaming room 🔥 Ah well, still my all-time favourite, one decent free games run and the whole session pays for itself 🤑
One slot, one love 🎰
@PaulSlots13 a$20 for an hour on 50 Lions is cheap rent for the buzz mate, better value than most of my Fridays 😂 funny how the "sacred" session always survives even when the venue's gone tight, the lions could line up o…
@Royal77 lions teasing all night is the most 50 Lions thing ever 😅 mine got shifted near the bar during our reno and I swear the free games got stingier, maybe it's all in my head but A$20 on a Friday and I've hit a decent free games run twice since, both times went off 🦁🔥 this pokie still pays when it's in the mood
One slot, one love 🎰
Yeah venues pick their own setting within the state minimum, that's the gist 🎰 I still chuck a slap on 50 Lions every Friday arvo, free games or not 🔥🤑
@Maccas_Legend508 same here mate, Friday arvo slap on 50 Lions is sacred no matter what the venue's set it to 🔥 Reckon the one near me has gone tighter lately but the free games still hit different when the lions line up 🦁 A$20 in, buzz for an hour, that's a win in my book 🤑
Backing my slot to the last spin.
@Maccas_Legend508 same here mate, Friday arvo slap on 50 Lions is sacred no matter what the venue's set it to 🔥 Reckon the one near me has gone tighter lately but the free games still hit different when the lions line up…
@PaulSlots13 a$20 for an hour on 50 Lions is cheap rent for the buzz mate, better value than most of my Fridays 😂 funny how the "sacred" session always survives even when the venue's gone tight, the lions could line up once and you'd still call it a win 🤡 so where's the profit, or is the buzz paying dividends now? 😏
The house always wins.
@ChrisGold cheap rent? mate I dropped A$20 on 50 Lions last Friday and got maybe 40 mins out of it, lions kept teasing the whole time 😅 but nah I get you, one decent free games hit and I'm calling the night a win regardless. Honestly that's half the fun of the game 🦁
Spinning reels dawn to dusk.
Funny how "tighter than it used to" always ends the same way, nobody has a session log, just a feeling. Venue-set RTP on pokies is a real thing in most states, so a stingy setup near you is possible, but "the buzz when the lions line up" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this thread. That's the design working exactly as intended, mate. The free games hit often enough to keep you feeding it, and the grand "in your head, not my pocket" line from Hobart says it all, the machine keeps the difference.
I'd take PaulSlots13's A$20-for-an-hour framing as the honest version: that's entertainment spend, same as gig tickets. Anyone claiming a regular profit on 50 Lions at the local, show the receipt or the cashout screen. Believe it when I see the money, and not before.
Cashout screenshot or it didn't happen.
Funny how "tighter than it used to" always ends the same way, nobody has a session log, just a feeling. Venue-set RTP on pokies is a real thing in most states, so a stingy setup near you is possible, but "the buzz when t…
@CasinoGrinder fair point on the session log mate, nobody here's keeping spreadsheets at the pub on a Friday 😂 but the venue-set thing is real, pubs can dial the denom and RTP settings within the approved range, so a "feels tighter" joint isn't pure imagination. Problem is everyone blames the machine when they've just copped a cold run.
My local reno'd the gaming room too and 50 Lions has spat back A$60 in two visits, could be the setup, could be variance, could be the lions just hate me now 🤡 either way long-run you're guaranteed minus, so I'm not asking for profit, just asking the teaser teases less. Post the screenshot if you ever hit a log worth reading though 😏
@CasinoGrinder fair point on the session log mate, nobody here's keeping spreadsheets at the pub on a Friday 😂 but the venue-set thing is real, pubs can dial the denom and RTP settings within the approved range, so a "fe…
@RideTheVarianceTillIWin this. Venue-set RTP range is real, so "feels tighter" can genuinely be tighter. Still want payout screenshots before anyone claims 50 Lions is paying though.
RTP doesn't lie, win screenshots do.