We’ve talked about how the size of the pots don’t indicate whether a bonus is “due,” or approaching, but we know they still encourage players to play, and questions like this help illustrate why:
I do know and seen the bonus in one pot go off and then again immediately so obviously it hasn’t grown at all. But doesn’t then any BIG pots or big fish big etc mean a lot of money has been put into it? I do realize it has the same hit potential as the small one, but that one clearly has a lot more money into it?
Alysha J.
The size of the pots indicate how long it’s been since a bonus has hit. So to your point, it could be (not necessarily though) that more money was put into it. That requires a lot of presumptions – how much was the person betting as the pots grew, for instance, since the pots often grow at the same rate regardless of bet, and don’t change in size when you change your bet.
But the more important thing is that slots are a long game. The distance between bonuses and how much has been played through a slot has nothing to do with when or whether most slots will bonus. Slots are a long game – they will reach their intended target over time, and that includes what they’ll pay out, not just what they’ll take in.
So the distance between bonuses isn’t helpful, because there’s randomness involved, and the odds of a bonus happening on any particular spin is the same, regardless of what’s transpired in the past.
The two data points are simply unrelated to each other in that the size of the pots or how much a slot has been played has nothing to do with the chances of getting a bonus. Slots aren’t more likely to bonus because it’s been played more.
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