Lightning Link: Best Bet is doing my head in at the local
Best Bet is my all-time favourite on Lightning Link tbh, the horse racing theme just hits different for me 😍 Had a huge slap on it a while back at the club when the Hold & Spin landed on like my third spin of the arvo, went home up and still smug about it lol 🔥
But yeah the per-venue RTP thing is real. No published figure anywhere, each venue sets it within the state minimum, so the same machine can play dead tight at the pub and way kinder down the road. I've felt that myself, the one at my local makes you work for the feature while the club one seems to cough up free games every second session. Don't chase it at a cold machine, just find the one that's treating punters right 👌
ChrisSpins got the good end of the stick that arvo, three spins in and the Hold & Spin landing? some fellas are born lucky I reckon 😄
Best Bet's been good to me more than once, the horse racing theme sits well with an old track follower. But the OP is dead right about machines playing different venue to venue. There's no single published return on Lightning Link, each pub or club sets it within the state minimum, so the one at your local can run tight while the club down the road gives you a fair shake on the same cabinet. I learned that years back chasing a feature on the old Queen of the Nile, same game, two venues, night and day difference. So if Best Bet's frozen up on you at the pub Saturday, don't write the game off, try the club next time and give it another slap. Ah well, we grind on.
SamJackpot summed it up, born lucky 🤣 My Saturday on Best Bet at the local was 45 minutes of the Hold & Spin dodging me like I owed it money. Bank's gone, walked home watching replays of that horse theme in my head lol. Swear the same game plays like two different pokies depending on which pub you plant yourself in 😂
One more spin, promise.
My mate says the same, pub machines seem tighter than the club's. Maybe I'm being dumb but the per-venue setup on Best Bet makes sense now 😅 thanks fellas
@RideTheVariance_Everyday96 not dumb at all mate, every pub sets its own config. My local Lightning Link has eaten more of my pay than my ex did 🤣
@RideTheVariance_Everyday96 not dumb at all mate, every pub sets its own config. My local Lightning Link has eaten more of my pay than my ex did 🤣
😂 lmao mate, Best Bet at my club does the same, eats my A$50 then booms a Hold & Spin out of nowhere. keeps me coming back every Friday ngl
@RideTheVariance_Everyday96 not dumb at all mate, every pub sets its own config. My local Lightning Link has eaten more of my pay than my ex did 🤣
@HitRateGuy 😂 nah every club's different for sure, reckon the lightning link near me seems to pay the old fellas who sit on it all arvo and eats everyone else alive. Best Bet ghosts me for weeks then hits big last Friday, A$180 off a A$20 slap, so it keeps me coming back 🤷♂️🎰
Same thing clicked for me on Best Bet at my local 😅 though I reckon luck swings day to day too, my Hold & Spin hit once midweek after nothing for ages. How do you even tell which venue runs looser? 🤔
Learning to clear wagering, go easy 🙏
remember that time i was sitting on some old coin op, one of them reel machines back before digital everything, and i spent nearly three hours just getting through the paylines on a few low-value hits? felt like chipping away at concrete, but then it swung completely and suddenly you’ve got a proper stack? that’s the difference between a slog and a session. what you’re hitting with Best Bet is definitely a proper variance game, especially when that Hold & Spin feature kicks in.
it’s funny how people focus on the odds, but honestly, the feel of these Aristocrat venue pokies is the big difference. the machine at the local can absolutely feel like it’s determined to run dry, even if the club down the road is tuned differently. the whole idea that the return setting changes based on where you plug in makes perfect sense now when you hear about your mate’s awful run on Saturday. you just gotta learn to spot those shifts, that old-
I remember the old slots first-hand.
Best Bet is the one I'm on every Friday at the club, brutal when the Hold & Spin ghosts you but when it lands 🤑 had a slap a few months back that paid for my carton twice over. Brizzie I just go off feel, if a machine's bleeding me dry for half an arvo I move to the next one down the row, no point marrying a dead pokie no matter how good the horse theme is 🔥🎰
Backing my slot to the last spin.
Best Bet is the one I'm on every Friday at the club, brutal when the Hold & Spin ghosts you but when it lands 🤑 had a slap a few months back that paid for my carton twice over. Brizzie I just go off feel, if a machine's …
@Lee_Brekkie that carton-paying slap is the dream run eh. I split my punting between Lightning Link and the footy multis, and Best Bet at my local's the same story. I cap it at A$40 a session, 2 a spin, and if the Hold & Spin hasn't teaser'd me by the half-hour mark I'm up and out. Ghosted three Fridays in a row once, then the fourth week it dropped a decent minor and suddenly the machine's my best mate again 🎰
reckon the trick is deciding before you sit down what counts as a win. Hit and cash, no chasing the grand feature that never comes. Does yours tease you with two orbs constantly or does it just flat bleed you?
Bonus taken, wagering cleared.
@CasinoLadyLuck same discipline here, A$40 cap on Best Bet and walk if the Hold & Spin won't show. Cashed out in time is everything with these pokies 🎰