Never bet money you can’t afford to lose. But if they’d stretch your budget, it’s better to stay low.
If higher-denomination games fit within your entertainment budget, they can maximize payback and give you a better shot to win. If the 1-cent slot returns 87 percent and the 5-cent game returns 90 percent, then your loss per 20-coin wager is 2.6 cents on the 1-cent game, and 10 cents on the 5-cent game. Although in Mississippi the 25-cent and 50-cent games provide nearly equal returns, and the difference is narrower than usual between 25-cent and $1 games, you still can see a pattern where $5 games pay more than $1 games, which pay more than 25-cent games. The 25-cent-and-up slots are mostly games with mechanical reels.
But the normal pattern holds in that the higher denomination slots pay a greater percentage back to players than the lower denomination games. On video slots, Mississippi casinos pay far above the national average on both penny non-progressives and on five-cent games.
