Wicked Winnings at the local pub feels like a dead machine lately
Nah mate you're not imagining it, Wicked Winnings has been ice cold at my local too 😅 Had a slap on it last Friday arvo, fed it a lazy fifty and never even sniffed the free games. Reckon the pub just runs it tight, cause I've heard the same machine plays way looser at other venues... Aristocrat sets the RTP per venue so yours could honestly be tighter than the one across town 🤷♂️
Still love it though, when the feature DOES land it's magic, hits like nothing else on the floor 🔥 Might have to go hunt down a friendlier one lol...
SteveCobber's onto something there. With Wicked Winnings being an Aristocrat venue machine, the pub or club sets the RTP themselves within the state minimum, so the one at your local can genuinely be tighter than the one across town. I've had the same feeling with the old girl at my club, free games just refuse to land some months. Worth a slap at a different venue before you write it off. Ah well, we grind on 😄
Steve's fifty with no feature tracks with mine, same at my RSL. Sam's right that each venue sets the RTP within the state minimum, so two Wicked Winnings across town can play nothing alike.
Do the EV, then spin.
Oh that actually explains a lot 😅 I only started having a slap on Wicked Winnings recently and figured the free games landing was just luck, didn't realise each pub sets its own tightness. Might have to try the one across town and compare, cheers for that 🙏
Asking dumb bonus questions — that's the job.
Same story at my club, went three or four sessions on Wicked Winnings without seeing the free games once, then had a slap on the one at the pub down the road and the feature landed inside twenty bucks. That's the venue-set RTP doing its thing, same cabinet, different mood. Old Queen of the Nile used to be like that too, two machines side by side playing like different games 😄
I remember the old slots first-hand.
FreoDad that matches my experience exactly 😅 maybe I'm being dumb but I reckoned the machine at my local was broken, went weeks without a single free games hit. 👍
Asking dumb bonus questions — that's the job.
Gave the Wicked Winnings at my club A$40 yesterday, feature never landed, walked away before I tilted. Might try the pub down the road and see if it's the venue setting 💸
500x one day, zero the next. Classic.
Yeah nah it's the venue setting alright, FreoDad nailed it 😅 I've had the same at my club, weeks of nothing on the free games, then the pub two suburbs over handed me the feature on my first slap in ages. Same Aristocrat cabinet, completely different mood, kinda wild when you think about it.
Wicked Winnings is still my go-to when the right machine's paying, that classic feel just hits different imo. Might do a bit of a pub crawl myself and find the loose one 🔥 ah well, good luck out there fellas 🍀
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Same story at my club, went three or four sessions on Wicked Winnings without seeing the free games once, then had a slap on the one at the pub down the road and the feature landed inside twenty bucks. That's the venue-s…
@DiamondGG1999 same here mate, the cabinet's identical but the mood is chalk and cheese. I keep a mental note of which venues pay me and which ones rob me blind, my local near the city has eaten easily A$200 of Wicked Winnings spins this month without a single free games trigger, so I stopped feeding it and just walk past it now. pub two suburbs over owes me nothing though, cleared a decent feature off about A$30 in there and banked the lot instead of chasing. honestly that's half the game, knowing which machine to slap and when to cash out in time 💸
@Gramps_AllDay A$200 without one free games hit is rough mate, I felt that pain on Wicked Winnings myself a few weeks back 😅 my club one went cold all month then spat the retrigger feature at me last Friday night and I nearly fell off the stool lol. reckon the machine is never "dead", it just owes nobody nothing until it decides to pay 🎰🔥
@DiamondGG1999 same here mate, the cabinet's identical but the mood is chalk and cheese. I keep a mental note of which venues pay me and which ones rob me blind, my local near the city has eaten easily A$200 of Wicked Wi…
@ChrisSpins a cold month then one Friday feature and you're back on the stool like nothing happened, that's exactly how these things hook you. You got a cashout screenshot of that night? One retrigger feature means nothing, variance swings both ways. Long-run every Wicked Winnings cab is still chewing punter money at whatever RTP it's set to.
Cashout screenshot or it didn't happen.
It’s exactly how these systems are designed to keep punters hooked, that's for sure. Variance swings hard, yeah, but that just covers up the fact that the RTP gets gimped long-run regardless of a lucky Friday feature. If you want to talk about real luck, show the cashout screenshot and pin down the operating licence first.
Cashout screenshot or it didn't happen.
@ChrisSpins a cold month then one Friday feature and you're back on the stool like nothing happened, that's exactly how these things hook you. You got a cashout screenshot of that night? One retrigger feature means nothi…
@Brizzie_Mate you gotta try Wicked Winnings yourself, the rush is unmatched, best provider hands down! 💰🎰
Spinning reels dawn to dusk.
All this talk of "mood" on the same cabinet... those who know, know 😏
Worked rooms long enough to tell you the floor never runs the same everywhere, and Wicked Winnings feels it more than most. Denomination, hold choices, how busy the room is that night - none of it shows on the glass but all of it lands in your pocket. My contact at a certain club won't say much, just smiles when that game comes up 🤫
Gramps, A$200 dead is rough but don't swear off the game entirely. Sometimes the smart play is walking two suburbs like TiltSurvivor said, no shame in it.
Those who know, know.
Kev reckon "those who know know" but never actually says anything lol, classic floor-speak 😏 Anyone can claim the mood's different, so where's the profit? Everyone in this thread's describing losing sessions on Wicked Winnings and calling it a mystery. The mood of every pokie is guaranteed minus long-run 🤡 Chops, if you need a Friday retrigger to feel alive again, that's the machine working exactly as designed 💸
Show me the withdrawal first 😏
Kev reckon "those who know know" but never actually says anything lol, classic floor-speak 😏 Anyone can claim the mood's different, so where's the profit? Everyone in this thread's describing losing sessions on Wicked Wi…
@SpinToWin247 losing sessions don't mean much on a pokie this volatile mate, Wicked Winnings swings hard either way. Last arvo at my local mine ate A$80 then paid it all back plus extras 😤🎰
The hit is close, I can feel it.
CasinoGrinder pretty much summed it up. A$80 back with extras? Screenshot or it didn't happen, and even then one arvo proves nothing about the machine.
Licence first, deposit after.
Pub pokies are the worst case for this exact debate, because nobody can verify anything. No published RTP per machine you can actually check, venue can run whatever configuration the state allows, and the "mine paid back A$80 plus extras last arvo" story has no receipt attached. DaveWins is right, screenshot or it's just a pub tale.
For what it's worth, every Wicked Winnings I've sat near lately on the Coast plays the same way, eats steadily with the rare teaser feature that pays a fraction of what the old ones did. Could be variance, could be the configuration, but I stopped believing "dead machine" versus "hot machine" years ago. The machine is exactly as dead as it was built to be. Ask the venue what RTP they're running and watch them look at you like you've asked for the secret menu.
Cashout screenshot or it didn't happen.
It’s exactly how these systems are designed to keep punters hooked, that's for sure. Variance swings hard, yeah, but that just covers up the fact that the RTP gets gimped long-run regardless of a lucky Friday feature. If…
@CasinoGrinder half right, but I'd push back on one bit. Variance doesn't "cover up" the RTP, it just dominates anything you'll ever see in a session. Your spin sample is tiny next to the millions of spins the long-run figure needs. That said, you're spot on that a pub machine can feel dead for weeks and be perfectly fine on paper.
Where I'd steer you is the config point. Land-based pokies here are regulated state by state, and venues can often pick between approved RTP ranges for the same cabinet. So two Wicked Winnings machines two suburbs apart can genuinely run different settings. Nobody publishes which one their local has, which is why every "this one's dead" thread ends up unresolvable. I keep notes on the ones I play and honestly the cold stretches on Wicked Winnings usually just look like high volatility doing its thing. 📊
RTP is a long-run number.