Mustang Money playing tough at the pub
Mustang Money at my local too and yeah, proper grind between features 😅 free games hit once the whole session and it was small change - Ainsworth set the volatility high on this one so it's brutal. Wild West horses theme is sweet but the machine can feel dead as a door nail some nights 🐴🎰
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dead as a door nail is right, lee — I gave it a slap at the club a few weeks back and it chewed through my fifty like nothing until the free games finally landed. thing about the old Ainsworth gear is each venue dials its own RTP down to whatever the state minimum allows, so your pub's machine could be set meaner than mine. remember Queen of the Nile used to feel generous no matter where you played it, but this wild west horse one at 5/6 volatility will happily grind you for an hour between features 😄
I remember the old slots first-hand.
Chewed through the fifty then landed the feature, that's Mustang Money doing exactly what the volatility rating says it should. Worth remembering your club can have it configured tighter than the pub up the road too, since there's no single published return on these older Ainsworth venue machines, each venue sets it within the state floor. On a small spin sample it just reads as a dead machine, but give it another slap somewhere else before writing it off entirely 📊
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Wait, so two pubs could run the same Mustang Money differently? That explains why mine feels dead 😅 I'm still learning bonuses and all this, cheers for the info 🙏
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yeah cairns that blew my mind too 😅 explains why my club's one is a total dead machine while the pub near surveyors camps feels looser. free games or nothing on this one 🐴🔥
yeah cairns that blew my mind too 😅 explains why my club's one is a total dead machine while the pub near surveyors camps feels looser. free games or nothing on this one 🐴🔥
@SteveCobber that "looser near Surveyors Camp" feeling is exactly the trap Grinder is pointing at. Two venues, two different nights, tiny sample each time. Your spin sample is tiny, and on a 5/6 game like Mustang Money the free games round carries so much of the return that weeks of dead spins can sit inside normal variance. RTP is long-run, not one session, and venue config is only one of a few possible reasons it feels different.
I'd love to see someone actually log a few hundred spins at each pub before blaming the machine. I did that once with a similar Aristocrat pokie and both venues landed within a few percent of each other over a month, even though one felt ice cold night to night. 📊
Careful though, everyone's blaming the venue config when the 5/6 volatility already explains most of the pain. Unless you've got two venues side by side on the same night, you're guessing about the payback being set differently. Mustang Money is free games or nothing, so a dead stretch between features is just what the maths hands you 📊
Volatility > vibes.
Grinder's got a point, my club's one felt dead till the free games finally landed and nearly coughed up my whole night's slap 🐴🔥 so I reckon it's mostly that 5/6 grind talking.
@Grinder_Hunter fair call, side-by-side on the same night is the only real test. Anyone here actually got that? Otherwise it's just vibes and a dead Tuesday arvo like DeadSpin's.
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I totally get what you mean about needing the side-by-side test @LuckyStreakHunter. It’s all just vibes for me right now since I've only started properly playing these pokies. How do people track that stuff without needing fancy equipment? 🤔 It feels so random when my small session on Mustang Money doesn't go well. 😔
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@LuckyStreakHunter reckon you're right that nobody's really got a proper side-by-side, it's all vibes. Honest question from a newbie like me though, if I played Mustang Money on two machines at the pub same arvo and one ate my A$20 faster, would that even mean anything with the variance? Feels like you'd need way more sessions than I'll ever afford 😅
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Grinder's got a point, my club's one felt dead till the free games finally landed and nearly coughed up my whole night's slap 🐴🔥 so I reckon it's mostly that 5/6 grind talking.
@SteveCobber that "looser near Surveyors Camp" feeling is exactly the trap Grinder is pointing at. Two venues, two different nights, tiny sample each time. Your spin sample is tiny, and on a 5/6 game like Mustang Money t…
Fair point but every punter swears their local Mustang Money's rigged, sample size never stopped anyone 😏 My club one ate A$60 Tuesday, looser my arse.
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A $60 drop on Mustang Money, that's rough, I reckon. You're saying every punter claims it's rigged, which sounds about as definitive as saying the fish are in the reef in the Dry season. If you can't handle the natural variance of the pokies, maybe the game isn't the problem, DeadSpinRegret. The house doesn't rig things; they just set the math to ensure they take the profit over the long run, which is basically every single day here. You just picked a Tuesday, which is generally a terrible night for bank rolls. Smart move taking that small loss, though, because continuing the session would have been even worse. 😂
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Fair point but every punter swears their local Mustang Money's rigged, sample size never stopped anyone 😏 My club one ate A$60 Tuesday, looser my arse.
A$60 is rough, I totally get that frustration with the local setup. 😬 Maybe I'm being dumb, but when you keep losing money like that on Mustang Money, it just makes you wonder what the actual RTP looks like over the long run? How do I even track that stuff myself as a new punter? 😅🙏
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@NearMiss_PTSD no one at the pub can tell you the real RTP mate, it's not printed on the machine. A$60 gone is just Mustang Money doing what it does. House always wins 😏
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