Choy Sun Doa at the club, is it worth a slap these days?
Choy Sun Doa still gets a slap from me at the club, but yeah the swings are no joke - that 5/6 volatility is real. Free Games with the choice of multipliers is where it all happens; miss the feature and you're just bleeding your bankroll at 243 ways. Worth noting the RTP varies pub to pub since each venue sets it, so one machine can play dead while another pays. 💸
That multiplier choice in the free games is the whole decision tree with Choy Sun Doa, and most punters get it wrong. Higher multiplier option looks juicy, but on a 5/6 volatility machine you're stacking variance on variance - I've had features where the safer pick kept the session alive and the greedy pick returned diddly squat.
Worth adding the venue angle too: because the RTP is set per venue within the state minimum, the same cabinet can play noticeably different at your club versus the pub up the road. My notes from a few slaps around Newcastle suggest it pays to test with a small spin sample before committing serious money, if twenty bucks vanishes with barely a feature sniff, I walk. Dead machine at one venue might be fine at another. EV is still negative wherever you play it, mind, so treat the choice of multipliers as damage management rather than a strategy. 📊
Do the EV, then spin.
That RTP point from the analyst fella is worth chewing on, because I've reckoned for years that Choy Sun Doa plays different from club to club. Turned a lazy A$50 into nearly a grand on one at a Salisbury club years back, then copped dead session after dead session on what looked like the same machine at a pub over the other side of town. Same cabinet, same free games, totally different pulse. Whether that's the venue setting or just the pokie mood on the day, who knows, but I stopped blaming myself for it.
I'm with Wollongong on the bleeding part though. 243 ways sounds generous until you're three features short in a row and every spin's nibbling twenty cents off a two-dollar bet. The multiplier choice in the feature is where I differ from most blokes, I nearly always take the safer option, learned that habit the hard way chasing the big ones on Queen of the Nile back when. On a machine this swingy, keeping the session alive beats one hero spin every time.
I remember the old slots first-hand.
FreoDad's right, same machine can be set differently venue to venue. Choy Sun Doa on 5/6 vol will batter you either way - I've had dead features at two different clubs.
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Same experience here, Choy Sun Doa at my local near the city plays like a tax machine until the feature lands, and even then the multiplier choice decides whether you walk or limp out. The club-to-club setup thing is real, so dead runs at one venue mean nothing about the next. I'd want to see someone actually paid before calling it a good slap.
Been flat staking it myself lately - bet small per spin on Choy Sun Doa and treat the free games as the only reason to be on the machine, because everything before the feature is just feed. Servo's spot on about venue to venue: a dead run at one club says nothing, next one might be set friendlier. Worth a slap if you can cop the 5/6 swings, walk when the feature doesn't come. 🎰
Bankroll discipline wins 💸
Choy Sun Doa still gets my Friday arvo slap at the local, and yeah the venue thing is dead real, the one near the pub strip here has paid me two golden choices in a month while the club version up the road just eats my twenty. I only care about the free games, everything before the feature is just feeding the dragon tbh 🐉🎰 dead runs at one joint don't scare me off the next one!
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Choy Sun Doa still gets my Friday arvo slap at the local, and yeah the venue thing is dead real, the one near the pub strip here has paid me two golden choices in a month while the club version up the road just eats my t…
@FreeSpinsKing same experience here, two venues in Adelaide could not be more different on Choy Sun Doa. The one near my work pays the free games every second visit, the club one took A$40 off me in twenty minutes last month without even teasing a golden choice.
These days I only sit down at the friendly one and flat bet small until the feature hits. Anything beyond A$50 before the free games and I walk, no chasing. If the golden choice lands it usually covers the feed, and once it actually banked me enough to cash out before payday, which is the whole point. 🎰 The club version can keep my twenty, plenty of other pokies in there that at least give a run.
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@MaxWinLord funny how the "every second visit" one always gets remembered and the A$40 vacuum never does 🤔 that's how the house hooks everyone, one free games hit buys a month of silence. Did you even withdraw off the good machine or did it all go back in? Choy Sun Doa on club denominations is just a slow donation either way 😏
@Neon_Addict two machines running different like that is so true, same game two vibes 😅 My local in Bendigo has a Choy Sun Doa near the entrance that's been a heartbreaker all year, but the one tucked down the back paid …
@JackpotGirlCasino spot on, the free games win does the marketing for the club better than any sign could. I've seen mates cash out maybe twice off Choy Sun Doa in years of watching it eat fifties. Happy to believe a good session when someone posts the withdrawal receipt, until then it's just a story the pokie told them.
Licence first, deposit after.
Same here, the venue near the beach has been kind to me on Choy Sun Doa but the club one just swallowed my A$20 last Friday 😭 still keep going back tho...
Same here, the venue near the beach has been kind to me on Choy Sun Doa but the club one just swallowed my A$20 last Friday 😭 still keep going back tho...
@SteveCobber mate the club one ate my last A$20 last month too, bank's gone lol. Still line up there every Friday like a sucker 🤣😂
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Same here, the venue near the beach has been kind to me on Choy Sun Doa but the club one just swallowed my A$20 last Friday 😭 still keep going back tho...
@SteveCobber lol I only tried Choy Sun Doa twice at my local club and it ate my A$20 too 😅 is the free games thing rare on this pokie or am I just unlucky?
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Nah you aren't unlucky mate, sometimes the pokie just decides to take what's on offer! Choy Sun Doa is a solid one, and you just gotta keep hunting until it hits that huge win ngl. I had a session once where it absolutely CRUSHED me with free games but it was worth the absolute FIRE feeling 🔥💰. Don't give up on it just yet! 🤑🎰
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@SteveCobber mate the club one ate my last A$20 last month too, bank's gone lol. Still line up there every Friday like a sucker 🤣😂
@GrampsKnows mate we're all lining up like suckers together 🤣 I copped the same on Choy Sun Doa at the club, A$20 gone and not even a whiff of the golden choice... but the one at my local's been decent to me on the free games a few times. Depends on the machine I reckon, some of them just run dead. Ah well, back Friday anyway 🎰🔥
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Royals77 nailed it, some Choy Sun Doa machines just run dead. The one at my club near the bistro is colder than a Novocastrian winter but the second floor unit paid me the free games three visits in a row once, best A$50 session I've had on it in ages 🤑🎰 Keep your A$20 for the other machine mate 🔥
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Royals77 nailed it, some Choy Sun Doa machines just run dead. The one at my club near the bistro is colder than a Novocastrian winter but the second floor unit paid me the free games three visits in a row once, best A$50…
@Neon_Addict two machines running different like that is so true, same game two vibes 😅 My local in Bendigo has a Choy Sun Doa near the entrance that's been a heartbreaker all year, but the one tucked down the back paid me the free games twice in one night and I was up maybe A$80, walked out grinning for once 🔥💰
Spinning reels dawn to dusk.
JackpotGirl asked the fair question there, how much of that A$50 session ever made it out the door 😄 Choy Sun Doa's been that way since the Aristocrat days, one golden choice can flip a dead hour in a heartbeat. I've seen bigger hits than that on it and still walked out flat, so hunt the machine by all means but set your limit before the free games do it for you.
I remember the old slots first-hand.
Choy Sun Doa free games hit different, one golden pick can flip everything 🔥🎰 Mine near the bar smacked me a huge win ngl, worth every A$20 I fed it before. Ah well 😄
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