Betting Options in Online Slots

Published on: December 29, 2010 

In online slots players are required to make two or three decisions with respect to the wagers placed. Collectively these decisions are called betting options. In almost all slot games players are required to choose the number of paylines and the coin denomination. Some software providers ask players to select the number of coins per payline as well. Other software providers keep the number of coins fixed at one. Some online gaming software providers have standardized the betting options in their slots games. Others have some variation from game to game. Vegas Technology, Realtime Gaming and Rival Gaming have standardized betting options in their latest slots games and these are discussed in the article.

One of the betting options is the coin dimension and Vegas Technology provides a vast range in this starting from $0.01 and going to $10.00. The intermediate stops are $0.05, $0.25, $0.50, $1.00 and $5.00. Vegas Technology is one of those software providers that keep the number of coins per payline fixed at one. Therefore the maximum amount that can be wagered per payline is $10. This amount is used to determine the line payouts. The latest releases from Vegas Technology have 25 paylines. Therefore the maximum total bet per spin is $250. The total bet per spin is used to determine the scatter payouts and the bonus credit payouts.

The betting options structure in Realtime Gaming slots is very similar. The player can vary the coin denomination and the number of paylines but has to wager only one coin per payline. The coin denomination range is half that of the Vegas Technology slots. However there are 15 coin denomination options available as compared to only 7 in Vegas Technology slots. These are $0.01, $0.02, $0.03, $0.04, $0.05, $0.06, $0.07, $0.08, $0.09, $0.10, $0.25, $0.50, $1.00, $2.50 and $5.00. Realtime Gaming slots also have 25 paylines. The maximum amount that can be wagered per payline is $5 and the maximum total bet per spin is $125. The betting options structure determines the type of players who will patronize the slot game. High rollers will focus on Vegas Technology slots and avoid Realtime Gaming slots because of the higher maximum bets. Since Realtime Gaming slots offer more flexibility in the lower range, low rollers will prefer them.

Rival Gaming is another software provider that offers standardized betting options. The coin denominations available are $0.01, $0.05, $0.10 and $0.25. The big difference with Rival Gaming is that it allows players to wager up to 10 coins per payline. The result is that there are 30 line bet options after ignoring the overlaps. Rival Gaming slots have 20 paylines. The maximum amount that can be wagered per payline is $2.50 and the maximum total bet per spin is $50.  Therefore high rollers will tend to avoid Rival Gaming slots even more and low rollers will find even greater flexibility in these slot games.

No matter which software provider is patronized there are certain key strategies that should always be adopted. Always enable all the paylines because pay table combinations appearing on inactive paylines do not result in payouts. If this leads to a budget problem reduce the line bet by reducing the coin size or the number of coins per payline.

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