Playing, gambling and betting can, for a lot of us, just be a simple leisure activity that we enjoy. A quick bet here, a night in the casino to unwind, a few spins on an online slots game. It can be fun and relaxing, and winning or losing often just an afterthought. At the same time, many of us approach playing in casinos with every ounce of strategizing we can muster. For either kind of player, though, there are some fundamentals which can often be tricky to understand.
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One of the most important things to get your head round when playing in casinos is the RTP—or rate of Return To Player. It’s fairly straightforward once you’ve sussed it out, so let’s look what it means and how to use it.
RTP, simplified
因此，让我们分解该术语的基础知识。返回球员意味着他们可以在老虎机游戏中获得的奖金，这是其总股份的百分比。因此，如果您玩一个小时的老虎机游戏，并且在该小时的RTP中，您将在80％的RTP中赚取100英镑，那么您期望在一小时结束时平均获得80英镑。
Slots are often the simplest way to explain the concept of RTP, but they apply to all games in more or less the same way. The RTP naturally becomes more complex for different games, and thus harder to calculate for you.
In most table games, like blackjack, RTP is much more about strategy than simply something you have to live with. You can’t do much to influence the RTP of a slots machine or a lottery, but you can with something like blackjack.
Let’s look at which are the best games to play for their RTP.
Picking good games on RTP
The key thing to understand when entering a casino with RTP in mind is that it isn’t always out of your control. Part of the reason themodern gambling industryhas been forced to display RTPs on online slots specifically is because those games tend to encourage chasing losses, and they easily become repetitive and addicting. By understanding your RTP, you can have a better sense of your chances of winning.
If you’re looking to really strategize, though, then my advice would be to look beyond the slots. Whereas the majority of slots games have, at best, 95-96% RTP, with a good strategy, blackjack can be as high as 99.6%. This is about as high as you can get with any game, with various kinds of poker sitting around 97%.
If it is slots games you want to play, you should still be equally discerning in which one you play. Some of the best online slots games boast RTPs as high as blackjack, but you’re not going to stumble across these games. You’ll have to know what you’re looking for.
You can start by looking for reviews of different machines, and finding the one with the best RTP according to user reviews. Then, you can look for those machines in the casinos.
您可能还想尝试自己计算RTP。让我们看看如何做到这一点。
Calculating RTP yourself
Depending on the game type, RTP is calculated either via a simulated or theoretical model. For example, with a slot machine, you might simulate every possible combination to calculate theoretical RTP.
当涉及插槽时，自然要计算理论RTP是非常困难的。但是，您可以做的是在一段时间内跟踪您的奖金和股份，并以这种方式进行计算。但是，这只会显示一种可能的RTP，而不是机器本身将显示的总体理论RTP。
While there is some benefit to looking at your own calculations for RTP, overall, it isn’t really necessary anymore. You should absolutely have a good understanding of it and know the RTP of any game you intend to play a lot, but it’s not really all that important to work it on your own any more. Always check the feedback of other users when choosing games and slot machines to play, as this is how you will find the machines with the highest RTP.
RTP is not as complex as it might first seem, then. It’s simply a way of determining how much of your stake over a longer period that you can expect to get returned to you. Playing slots, whether online or in a physical casino, is going to involve calculating the RTP if you expect to play for a long period of time. Typically, at least online, slots games are required to present the RTP for you. But if you are going to a brick-and-mortar casino that isn’t yet bound by this requirement, you may need to calculate it yourself.
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