Jackpot Capital continues to grow year by year. Much of this growth can be attributed to our commitment to keeping return-to-player rates in all of our games relatively high.
Many players at the big and famous land-based casino, in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and the Mississippi coast have noticed in the last few years that the return to player rates in games like blackjack and video poker have gone down.
In fact, the return to player rates in slots have also gone down at land-based casinos.
How did this happen; why did this happen; and how is Jackpot Capital holding the line in favor of standard and classic return to player rates?
Online Casinos Can Accommodate Many More Gamers Than Land-based Casinos Can
It is a simple fact of geometry: online casinos have no walls while land-based casinos do have walls. The walls at land-based casinos constrain them more than most players know.
Starting with Blackjack
Blackjack tables take up a lot of floor space and they can accommodate only up to 7 players at one time. So, land-based casinos can offer perhaps three different blackjack tables. The games may be the same at all of these tables. A smaller land-based casino may have only one blackjack table.
Jackpot Capital can accommodate thousands of blackjack players at the same time and we offer many variations of blackjack.
These casinos have to find a way to squeeze as much revenue as they can out of the limited space for blackjack. Now, when a gamer plays blackjack here at Jackpot Capital, the return to player rate is about 99.5% if the gamer plays correctly on every hand.
Fortunately, we live in the computer age and high-powered computers have analyzed millions of poker hands so we know what the best play is from the strategic point of view on every hand.
Land-based Casinos and Soft 17
When you learned how to play blackjack, you learned that the dealer stands on 17 or more points. But, NO! These days, there are blackjack games that have the dealer hit on soft 17. This gives the house an advantage since if the dealer is taking cards at all, the player often has a good point count. 17 points would very often lose the hand for the dealer, which means for the house.
So, by having the dealer hit on soft 17, the house is adding to its advantage ever so slightly.
Does the Table Offer Surrender?
There are many hands where the player would surrender if that option were offered. Truth to tell, many online casinos also do not offer surrender on every game but we all offer many more blackjack variations. A gamer who wants to play a game that offers surrender can find one online.
Increasingly, land-based casinos do not offer surrender in blackjack. By eliminating surrender, the casino raises its edge once again.
Now The Biggest Change in Blackjack Payouts
Many land-based casinos, in search of higher revenues to offset their high operating costs, have started to pay only 6-5 for a blackjack instead of the traditional 3-2. This change also raises the house edge to the point where a player has to have extremely good luck to finish a session in the win column.
Here we will hold the line! Jackpot Capital pays 3-2 for a blackjack, as we should. Here at Jackpot Capital, a blackjack gamer can still get a 99.5% return to player rate!
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Slots Pay Better at Jackpot Capital
There are two elements to consider regarding slots. First, is how the random number generator is calibrated in terms of the return to player rate. Second, is the volatility of the game.
Both volatility and the calibration of the random number generator apply only to slots. The RNG can be calibrated by the game provider. We ask SpinLogic, our exclusive game provider, to calibrate the game to return 96-97% of all money wagered back to gamers, as we should.
By calibrating the RNG lower, land-based casinos can have a return-to-player rate in slots as low as 90%.
What is Volatility?
This is how all winning spins are distributed among players. A game with high volatility will have generally fewer winning spins but they will pay out relatively big amounts. In contrast, a slot with low volatility has many winning spins that generally pay out less.
The upshot is that for gamers on a budget, and we are all (well, almost all) on a budget. So, low volatility means that we have a much better chance to earn that 96-97% return-to-player and with a little luck, we can end a session in the black.
The two slots in question may have the same return to player rate but the game with low volatility gives gamers better chances to win overall. So, slots with low volatility are increasingly hard to find at land-based casinos. Jackpot Capital carries many slots with low volatility, as we should.
Video Poker Pays Off at Jackpot Capital
Just as in blackjack, if a gamer makes the best decision on every hand, the return to player rate is about 99.5%. Of course, video poker has also been analyzed by computers so gamers know what the best strategy is on every hand. The 99.5% payout applies only if the casino pays 9-6, meaning 9 coins for a full house and 6 coins for a flush.
Increasingly, land-based casinos pay out only 8-5 or even 7-5! Jackpot capital pays out 9-6 as we should!
European Roulette is Better for Gamers
That is why it is next to impossible to find a European Roulette table at an American land-based casino. The house edge in American Roulette is double the house edge in European Roulette. Jackpot Capital carries European Roulette, as we should.
About Alcohol
This last set of examples is not exactly how land-based casinos pay out less but it does refer to how these casinos get players to lose more. Alcohol causes cognitive loss, even in small amounts. This cognitive loss doesn’t really matter if you are at a party or a baseball game as long as you are not the designated driver and you don’t drink ridiculously too much.
Land-based casinos offer free alcohol because they know that even a small amount of alcohol will increase the number of poor decisions players make. They also know that players will stay on the casino floor for much longer than they would if they were playing at an online casino which is open to them every day.
Here at Jackpot Capital, we encourage frequent short sessions so that it is easy for gamers to delay drinking until after the gaming is over.
About Buffet Meals
Land-based casinos also offer vouchers for free buffet meals. One thing about a buffet: people tend to eat too much. Eating causes people to get tired as our bodies devote more energy to digestion. Eating a lot at a single meal will tire most people out.
This leads them to make poor decisions. Land-based casinos also know that players will come back to the casino floor rather than lie down since they have spent so much money getting to and staying at the casino.
Jackpot Capital does not discourage gamers from snacking while playing but we do say that snacking should be a very secondary activity, not equal to the gaming, itself. If a gamer plays in short sessions, there will be plenty of time not only to eat a full meal later but to prepare it as well!
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We offer hundreds of games and many variations of blackjack and video poker. Gamers can play all of our games over time. This makes gaming at Jackpot Capital exceptionally fun, entertaining, and rewarding.
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