Da Vinci Diamonds at the club feels like a dead machine to me
Happy someone brought this up because I thought it was just me 😅 I only started playing pokies a few months back and Da Vinci Diamonds at my local club was one of the first I tried. Loved the tumbling thing at first, gems dropping away and new ones falling in, felt like every slap had a bit of action. Lately though the reels just sit there. One tumble maybe, then nothing. And the free spins feature? Might as well be a myth on that machine the way my sessions go.
I read somewhere it's an IGT game and the payback is around the mid nineties, so it's supposed to be a middle of the road machine, not a real tight one. Doesn't feel that way when I'm on it though. Do the club machines run a different setup to the online version, or am I just copping a bad run every time? 🤔
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Don't sell yourself short, mate, you're not imagining it. I've been giving the Da Vinci Diamonds cabinet at my club a slap now and then and the tumbling reels just refuse to chain up like they did back in the day. Two tumbles and done, no gems falling into place, nothing. Free games barely a whisper. It's an IGT machine with volatility sitting at 3 out of 6, so on paper it should be middle of the road, neither a heart attack nor a snooze. My sessions reckon otherwise lately.
Had a go at the online version a while back for comparison, funnily enough it felt a bit livelier than the one down at the club, though that could be mood as much as maths. Rtp on the thing is 94.94%, which tells you it'll grind you down slowly rather than eat your wallet in one hit. I turned 50 into 5k on one of the old IGT queens once, so I know these machines can wake up. This one just sulks. Ah well, we grind on 😄
Good to know I'm in the same boat 😅 dumb question maybe, when you say tumbling reels chaining up, do you mean the gems keep falling after one win? I thought two tumbles counted as a chain 🤔
Nah, a proper chain is when the tumblers keep going three, four, five wins in a row, gems dropping in one after the other. Two tumbles then it resets is just a normal win with a follow-up, nothing special. On the old Da Vinci Diamonds you'd cop a run of five or six and the screen would go mad, that's when the session paid for itself. These days at my club you watch two fall and the thing goes quiet as a Thursday arvo 😄
I remember the old slots first-hand.
Right, that clears it up for me, thanks FreoDad 🙏 I've only had a few slaps on the Da Vinci Diamonds machine at the club near Ballarat and nearly every session ended the same way, a couple of tumbles then dead silence, free games never in sight 😅 I read it's meant to be mid volatility so a chain every so often should happen, unless the machine just runs cold for weeks?
Confirmation bias, most likely. You remember the dead sessions, forget the decent ones. On a small spin sample that's expected 📊
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Maybe I'm being dumb here but I reckon the analyst bloke has a point, my memory does the same trick 😅 Still feels sus how quiet that machine's been for me lately though.
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Maybe I'm being dumb here but I reckon the analyst bloke has a point, my memory does the same trick 😅 Still feels sus how quiet that machine's been for me lately though.
@MaxBetLifeMode You're not dumb, memory plays tricks on everyone. But club pokies in Victoria can run gimped RTP configs, so "quiet lately" might not just be variance. Anyone got a session log or cashout screenshot?
Cashout screenshot or it didn't happen.
Or the machine's just eating everyone's bankroll like it did mine 😂 Every Da Vinci Diamonds session at my local ends the same, the house always wins 🤡💸
It's pretty grim if every Da Vinci Diamonds session ends the same for a punter. @ChrisGold, I guess maybe I'm being dumb here but when I play, I feel like the variance is just super flat. Is that just how these machines are always programmed to feel, or am I missing something about how the payouts actually work? 🙏
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It's pretty grim if every Da Vinci Diamonds session ends the same for a punter. @ChrisGold, I guess maybe I'm being dumb here but when I play, I feel like the variance is just super flat. Is that just how these machines …
@Multiplier_Master you're not dumb, some sessions just go flat like that. Give it a few more Fridays, Da Vinci Diamonds pays when it wants 🔥
Feels like the flat variance you're experiencing at Da Vinci Diamonds is precisely what they want you to believe is normal until you leave the club. They programme these things to appear random, which is exactly why some folks like Parra hit massive wins while others feel completely stonewalled.
It's not just about poor programming; it's built into the mechanics of modern pokies to manage player expectations over the long run. When you see a big hit, you think you found a 'hot machine' or a break in the cycle, but that big win doesn't change the underlying math. Every session is just another moment where the house is fulfilling its statistical expectation. If you are genuinely getting huge wins, I'd need to see the proof and the session details, not just hear vague positive anecdotes from people who just got lucky once.
Licence first, deposit after.
Da Vinci Diamonds is the best provider hands down! Hit a massive win ngl last night, absolute fire! 💰🎰🔥