Does Fu Dai Lian Lian feel stingier at certain clubs or is it just me?
Just had a slap on Fu Dai Lian Lian at my local club last week and it played dead the whole session too, barely sniffed the Free Games. Maybe I'm being dumb but I read somewhere the venue can set the return themselves, so is the pub version actually tighter than the club one? 😅 keen to know before I feed it more
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Not dumb at all, mate, you've read it right. Fu Dai Lian Lian is an Aristocrat and there's no single published return; each venue sets it within their state minimum, so the pub down the road can absolutely be running it tighter than your club. I've had the same at my local. Dead for arvo after arvo, then a Friday it coughs up the free games and a decent chunk of the progressive. Ah well, we grind on 😉
SamJackpot said the state minimum thing and now I'm confused 😅 does "state minimum" mean the venue can legally go all the way down to that number? Because if so no wonder my Fu Dai Lian Lian session felt dead. Total noob here, still learning this stuff 🙏
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good question mate, no shame in asking. it basically means each state sets a floor, a lowest return a machine's allowed to be set at, and the venue can pick anywhere from that floor up. so the pokie itself is the same cabinet, same Aristocrat game, but the venue chooses how tight it runs within the legal range.
how it plays out on Fu Dai Lian Lian: the club up the road from me has it sitting loose enough that the Free Games come around every few sessions, while the pub version near the depot has been a dead machine for me for months, chews your fiver, no jackpot tease, nothing. same game, two different feels. no venue ever tells you what they've set it at either, so all you can do is note which ones treat you fairer and give your money to those ones. 😉
I remember the old slots first-hand.
Back in the day every Queen of the Nile cabinet hit the same, you knew what you were getting, but now with Fu Dai Lian Lian the venue picks the setting off the menu themselves, so two machines side by side in different rooms can play like different games entirely. I had one at the club go through a dead stretch for weeks then drop the jackpot feature on a lazy Tuesday arvo 😄 so sometimes it's the setting, sometimes it's just the grind.
It's all hit and busted before, folks.
@MissFortuneWin99 spot on. My club has two Fu Dai Lian Lian cabinets, one near the bar hits way harder than the one by the bistro 😅 been saying this for ages!
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@PaulSlots13 same at my local, the bistro one is a pure vampire, had it eat A$60 in no time one Friday 😅 grabbed the bar-side cabinet straight after and it actually paid. reckon the venue settings thing is spot on, Lightning Link used to feel the same everywhere but these ones? no chance
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That explains a lot, thanks FreoDad and SamJackpot for clearing it up 🙏 so the venue basically picks the stingy setting and us punters just cop it. I gave the Fu Dai Lian Lian cabinet near the bistro a slap last month and never saw the free games or even sniffed a jackpot. Might try the other machine at the local club and see if it plays any looser 😅
@MissFortuneWin99 spot on. My club has two Fu Dai Lian Lian cabinets, one near the bar hits way harder than the one by the bistro 😅 been saying this for ages!
@PaulSlots13 same at my local, the Fu Dai Lian Lian near the entrance hits way harder than the one tucked in the corner 😅 hit big on that one last Friday actually, the bistro one's eaten plenty of my A$ ah well
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That explains a lot, thanks FreoDad and SamJackpot for clearing it up 🙏 so the venue basically picks the stingy setting and us punters just cop it. I gave the Fu Dai Lian Lian cabinet near the bistro a slap last month an…
@FreoBlue mate don't give up on it just coz you copped a bad one near the bistro 😅 honestly half these cabinets are set different and it shows. The Fu Dai Lian Lian at my club, the one by the bar has paid me a few decent hits where the one near the entrance has done nothing but eat my A$. Last Friday I put twenty in the good cabinet and got the free games twice, haven't felt that rush on a pokie in ages!! 🎰🔥
Might be worth having a slap on the other cabinet if your club has more than one, sometimes it's literally just picking the lucky side of the room 🤷
@FreoBlue mate don't give up on it just coz you copped a bad one near the bistro 😅 honestly half these cabinets are set different and it shows. The Fu Dai Lian Lian at my club, the one by the bar has paid me a few decent…
@ChrisSpins nah you're onto it mate, same deal at my club. The Fu Dai Lian Lian near the TAB desk paid me a monster jackpot once, the other one just eats my A$ all arvo 🤑🎰
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@ChrisSpins nah you're onto it mate, same deal at my club. The Fu Dai Lian Lian near the TAB desk paid me a monster jackpot once, the other one just eats my A$ all arvo 🤑🎰
@Lee_Brekkie yeah the TAB desk one, that tracks 😏 word is cabinets get moved around after servicing too, so the "good" one at your club might not be the same machine next month. SlotQueen wants screenshots, she should camp the one near the bar on a Friday arvo. You know the rest 🤫
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Half of you are describing the same cabinet and calling it venue settings. Fu Dai Lian Lian felt identical to me everywhere. Show me a cashout screenshot and I'll believe the "hot one by the bar".
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SlotQueen, mate, I don't need screenshots, I've got eyes and a contact at one of the clubs. He reckons the same cabinet plays different after it comes back from servicing, no details on why. You know the rest 😏 Fu Dai Lian Lian's one of those where word gets around fast which machine's heating up. Whether it's real or just punters piling onto the "hot" one and making it look that way, eh, hard to say. I've put my A$ in both machines at my local within the same hour and only one of them wanted to talk 🤫