Even online, space is limited to some extent – not to mention time, particularly time that could be spent playing the fruit machinesonline. So for your (quick) perusal, Live Slots Direct presents a quick ten facts about the pub slot, internet version and otherwise.
• Playtech Ltd., considered one of the top two industry leaders inonline slot software design and production, joined the London Stock Exchange in June 2008. At the time, the company was valued at approximately $2.2 billion.
• As the Aussies know, the relationship between video poker and the pub fruity is close indeed. The first pub slot machine was not quite a pub slot machine, but a contraption with five decks of cards that would produce a randomly-drawn poker hand by which the player’s win was determined.
• In October 2009, the largest prize ever given to a single online slots tournament winner will be given to the top finalist in the final of Microgaming software’s “Grand Slam of Slots” tournament. Said prize in the contest is guaranteed to be €1 million.
• Despite the anti-online slots regulations in effect in America, slots software providers Rival, Top Game, RTG and Vegas Technology are still supplying online casino action for US players; none have reported any prosecution efforts made against them.
• Most online pub slots players know that the games can be played for free, but did you know that a free slots website is the USA’s favorite non-lottery gambling-themed page?
• About $10 billion a year is spent worldwide on online gambling and, as in “real-life” gambling, the intake from pub slots is thought to be about 80% of that amount (even despite the massive recent growth of online poker).
• After an absence of almost two years from online casinos, UK bingo and internet pub slots players can now use PayPal as a form of payment. This move by the world’s favorite purely online payment method is thought to be a precursor to general re-expansion of PayPal back into online casinos worldwide.
• Though online pub slots can pay out at a rate as low as 82%, the typical online slot at high-end internet casino outlets generally pay out at 95-98% averages.
• During the 2008 parliamentary session, the Irish government’s Casino Committee issued a proclamation which stated, in part, that “The recent United States prohibition of payment mechanisms for gambling online presents a window of opportunity for Ireland ... Should this opportunity be grasped within the appropriate timescale, Ireland, as a gaming friendly centre of excellence, can reasonably expect to attract a reasonable portion of this dynamic industry.”
• Online pub slots are known by those in the industry as the most volatile in the business, manifesting in real life as that thrilling rush on those winning streaks. The same volatility also results in the opposite outcome as well, of course.