Many online casinos give you bonus money when you deposit funds into your account to play. The amounts vary, but 10% per deposit is not unusual. If you just want to sit back and play in a relaxed manner, many of the casinos have a nickel bet on their slots. Online slots are designed to pay off at rates between 85% to 97%. To say casino gambling is a lucrative business would be an understatement. In 2018, commercial casino gaming revenue amounted to about $41.7 billion. This was a new record for the U.S.

Not only do casinos take money out of your pocket, they expect you to help pay their employees so they don’t have to, in the form of tips. “When you make money I make money,” they say, as if it is a project you are working on together. When you win big, they want a share of the riches. The payback percentage for a slot machine is the amount of money a casino expects you to win per spin over the long run. Here’s an example: You’re playing a slot machine with a 96.71% payback percentage. You’re wagering 25 cents per spin, and you make 600 spins per hour. For every 25 cents you bet, the casino expects you to win 24.18 cents.

Greater than 50%	1 vote (3.84%)
40% to 49%	No votes (0%)
30% to 39%	1 vote (3.84%)
20% to 29%	6 votes (23.07%)
10% to 19%	7 votes (26.92%)
5% to 9%	3 votes (11.53%)
Less than 5%	8 votes (30.76%)

26 members have voted

gambler

Two questions for the forum:
1. Poll Question: What percentage of people who come to Las Vegas will leave for home positive with regards to gambling. Please note that I am only referring to the money that they had specifically set aside for gambling. If they were up $100 in gambling, but spent $1000 on their trip on hotel rooms, food, and non-gambling entertainment, consider them winners. Also, if they were up $100 in gambling, but spent it all on a $200 victory dinner, please still consider them to be winners.
2. Personal Question to Members: Of all the times you have gone to Vegas, how often have you left a winner with regards to gambling? Is your answer different from what you predict the general public to be? If so, why the difference?

seviay

1. What do we do with the % of people who come to Vegas and break even? There are those who gamble and have a net of $0 in terms of gambling money (which would still be a 'win' as long as you get some comps) and those who do not gamble at all. Of those who gamble, I might say 10% leave as winners. Plenty of people have wins, but not that many people are disciplined enough to know when to walk away..or they simply don't care about winning, so they don't want to walk away and love the fact that their win(s) allowed them to play that much longer. Obviously, the old adage that Vegas wasn't built on people winning holds true. On a long enough timeline, everyone should lose; however, as many have pointed out elsewhere, it might take a million trials to actually get a reasonable expectation. Most people who go to Vegas have neither the time, nor the discipline, to play that many hands and/or become advantage players (i.e., card counting / varying their bets when the game is in their favor).
2. I imagine many people on the board have better results than the public, based on the simple fact that they're on this board to begin with. That means they likely care enough to discuss gaming to find an advantage or at least reduce the disadvantage(s), and from my experience on the board, most here are of above-average intelligence. I think about 50% of my trips are in the positive. My favorite trips are the ones where I come out ahead even after paying for everything -- and the most I seem to get comped is a buffet and a breakfast (trying to save up express comps for now). Spending a lot of time at the tables can actually save me money! Who would have thought..

odiousgambit

1] maybe 5%, more than that I would be surprised, and my guess is less than 5%.
2] 'Of all the times you have gone to Vegas, how often have you left a winner?' 100% sir!
Yep, I have only been there once and did win. Out of all trips to casinos, which isn't all that many either, it's 16.7% of the time. Quite easy for me to be exact here.

the next time Dame Fortune toys with your heart, your soul and your wallet, raise your glass and praise her thus: “Thanks for nothing, you cold-hearted, evil, damnable, nefarious, low-life, malicious monster from Hell!” She is, after all, stone deaf. .. Arnold Snyder

FleaStiff

Isn't this the same as one spin of a roulette wheel?
The casino takes money from the losers and pays it to the winners.. and makes 0.26 on every 5.00 bet even though it never either pays out or receives 0.26.
So instead of looking at the Red/Black bets and One Spin of the Wheel, you are now looking at Visitors Leaving Vegas. Okay. Same thing. Some are up, some are down. Each heard the saying 'Las Vegas: A Town Built By Losers'. Which of course is more precisely stated as a town built by casino owners with the money from the losers. The trouble is that winners built Vegas too. Just as the wheel sometimes is Red and sometimes is Black, the Visitor sometimes leaves 'Up' and sometimes leaves 'Down'.
If he is a gambler, he will be back He will be back with 'the casino's money' if he is leaving town 'Up' this trip. He will be back with more of his own money if he is leaving town 'Down' this trip.
Its what every madam in a brothel learns best: The customer will always be back as long as he gets a little variety and a drink every now and then.
Gamblers leave Vegas either up or down but they leave. Then they come back. Each time they come back, the house gets its twenty-six cents and more. If the visitor is a 'tight' player, the house gets its twenty-six cents. If the visitor is 'loose', he makes wild bets, plays high house edge games, gets plastered, pigs out, and gives the house far more than twenty-six cents. Either way, the house provides the games, the booze and the broads. And the money keeps flowing. A slot spews out a jackpot? Thats why you have a staff photographer available! That gigantic check for umpteen million is for the photograph for the papers. Paying out the jackpot means nothing. Its the publicity about it that brings in visitors who dream it will happen to them too.
The money flows to the pushers. Heroin, cocaine, oxycontin, sugar, gambling .. it makes no difference. The tight gamblers nick the casino just a bit, the loose gamblers bring in money far faster. Yet always, the wheel keeps spinning at 5.26 percent.
So you ask about one particular trip? Visitors who leave Vegas after one trip have a smile on their face and dreams on their mind. Dreams of this time or dreams of next time, but dreams. Either way, they will be back.
People on this board are generally more likely to be sharpies than rubes. Some people pay tee-off fees, some people pay for free drinks, but in the end, everyone pays.

iwannaiguana

Hey I've left a winner 100% of the time in Vegas too! I'm also 20% on casinos as a whole..
I originally thought somewhere between 20-30% leave winners. If you are a smart gambler playing the good table games I think you probably have a close to 40% chance of walking away a winner. If you're using the martingale system you could easily have 95%+ chance of walking away a winner (yes, I know they'll still

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