Where's the Gold is a solid venue machine, what do you reckon?
Another Gold Mining Aristocrat pokie making the rounds in the Sydney clubs. I've seen enough of these venue machines to know they're probably designed to bleed your cash out slowly, regardless of what the marketing suggests about the features. Most of these Free Games and Scatter Pays setups end up being rigged anyway, so tell me what the volatility is actually like when the big paylines aren't dropping.
Hype isn't a payout.
JackTrueBlue, every venue machine is set per club within the state minimum, so the RTP on your local Where's the Gold could be well under the one at mine across the border, and that alone can explain why it feels like a slow bleed for you. The volatility is real when the feature lands though, those Free Games with the miner picking symbols can swing a session hard, but on a small spin sample the hit rate between Scatters can stretch out cruelly. Worth asking the club floor what their return setting is, some will actually tell you.
RTP is a long-run number.
That whole thing about the RTP being set per club sounds so confusing 😳. If the percentage changes for every single place you go, does that mean I could actually be playing a really good version of Where's the Gold sometimes? Thanks for the breakdown, ChrisFortune! 🙏 Is there any way to tell if the machine is set for low or high volatility before I start a session? 😊
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Yeah basically mate, each club gets to set the machine's payout setting somewhere above whatever the state says is the floor, so your local RSL's Where's the Gold might be a bit tighter than the one in a pub across the border. Doesn't mean it's night and day, just that the same game can feel stingy in one joint and friendlier in the next. I've had sessions where the free games fell in twice in twenty minutes, other arvos I'd have got more joy talking to the wall 😄
Busted more than you've deposited 😉
Yeah that explains why my local club's Where's the Gold feels tighter than the one I had a slap on at a pub near the border 😅. Does the Free Games hit rate change with the setting too?
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Reckon Brizzie_True is onto something. Never had a feature on the tighter local machines, the pub one up the road seems looser. Nobody's posted a photo of a decent hit on Where's the Gold yet either.
Licence first, deposit after.