- Well, slots have a pre-determined pool of outcomes, too (there are finitely many combinations of reel stops). The difference is that, with slots, the drawing is done with replacement, and with VLTs it is done without replacement and occasional refreshing of the pool. I'm not sure how I feel about the VLT system.
- The Differences Between Slots and VLTs While VLTs and slot machines both look and play similar, they’re actually part of two different classes. VLTs have grouped under Class II games and favoured at Native American casinos while slot machines have been classed as Class III games.
What’s the difference between VLTs and slot machines?
Dec 28, 2014 VLTs resemble “casino” slot machines. The fundamental difference is that the results of each play on a VLT are determined by a central computer located at a Lottery facility to which all VLTs. A In a traditional Class III slot machine (the type used in Nevada), the RNG plays the game with virtual reels that spin conceptually. These reels can contain hundreds of stops and create millions of combinations. The results of the virtual game are displayed on the machine's physical reels. In contrast, a VLT plays a virtual lottery game.
VLTs and slot machines are both considered electronic gaming devices. In Saskatchewan, VLTs are located in licensed bars and restaurants with a lounge endorsement and are ‘coin in, ticket out’ devices. Revenues from VLTs are split between government (85 per cent) and the site contractors (15 per cent). Slot machines are located at the provinces six SIGA casinos as well as Casinos Moose Jaw and Regina. Revenues from slot machines go to Saskatchewan First Nations, the government’s General Revenue Fund and to help support charitable causes.
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aceofspades
State Senate approves VLT's for NY airports. (I like how the article states 'Video Lottery Terminals a.k.a slots' lol )
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BleedingChipsSlowly
Quite different:What Is the Difference between Video Lottery Terminals and Slot Machines?
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tringlomane
Unless NY law changes for the airport, you would much rather play in NY airports than McCarran at least, NY mandates a 90% long-term payout, the highest I have ever heard of. What's annoying about New York is that video poker also is predetermined so strategies and probabilities of video poker do not apply on their VLT machines.
Nareed
I thought this was about gates and landing slots...
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hook3670
Not all VLT's are class II. Maryland calls their slots VLT's(Delaware may also) and they are regular class III slots and video poker. They did it to help the referendum pass.
AcesAndEights
Can someone explain to me the disdain for VLTs, outside of the context of Video Poker?From the VP angle, I totally get it. The game may look like Video Poker, but it's not dealt from a real deck, it's impossible to figure out the return percentage, there's no real strategy (the fairy comes and fixes your hand if you throw away a winner), etc. etc.
But compared to a regular slot machine, nothing about the VLT mechanism vs. an independent RNG machine inherently hurts or harms the players, as far as I can tell. A VLT game could be structured such that the RTP (return to player) of an average bet is 99% just as easily as an RNG machine could be programmed with an RTP of 80%. I understand that with the VLT approach, depending on specific implementation, the percentage might vary and not be constant from one hand to the next, depending on the pool of remaining 'tickets.' But that doesn't seem to be a negative on its face...in fact it might even be a positive, since VLTs might actually be 'due' in the ploppy-understood sense, unlike a traditional slot.
Is it just that VLTs tend to be programmed with lower returns in general?
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BleedingChipsSlowly
Difference Between Slots And Vlts Play
Perhaps variance plays a role in why states prefer Class II VLT's. An RNG CLass III slot might have a 'bad day' as far as the state is concerned and award too much in returns. As I understand it, the state is guaranteed their pound of flesh with Class II VLT operations. That is, the state isn't gambling on their returns!Difference Between Slots And Vlts Full
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Lemieux66
Can someone explain to me the disdain for VLTs, outside of the context of Video Poker?
From the VP angle, I totally get it. The game may look like Video Poker, but it's not dealt from a real deck, it's impossible to figure out the return percentage, there's no real strategy (the fairy comes and fixes your hand if you throw away a winner), etc. etc.
But compared to a regular slot machine, nothing about the VLT mechanism vs. an independent RNG machine inherently hurts or harms the players, as far as I can tell. A VLT game could be structured such that the RTP (return to player) of an average bet is 99% just as easily as an RNG machine could be programmed with an RTP of 80%. I understand that with the VLT approach, depending on specific implementation, the percentage might vary and not be constant from one hand to the next, depending on the pool of remaining 'tickets.' But that doesn't seem to be a negative on its face...in fact it might even be a positive, since VLTs might actually be 'due' in the ploppy-understood sense, unlike a traditional slot.
Is it just that VLTs tend to be programmed with lower returns in general?
From the VP angle, I totally get it. The game may look like Video Poker, but it's not dealt from a real deck, it's impossible to figure out the return percentage, there's no real strategy (the fairy comes and fixes your hand if you throw away a winner), etc. etc.
But compared to a regular slot machine, nothing about the VLT mechanism vs. an independent RNG machine inherently hurts or harms the players, as far as I can tell. A VLT game could be structured such that the RTP (return to player) of an average bet is 99% just as easily as an RNG machine could be programmed with an RTP of 80%. I understand that with the VLT approach, depending on specific implementation, the percentage might vary and not be constant from one hand to the next, depending on the pool of remaining 'tickets.' But that doesn't seem to be a negative on its face...in fact it might even be a positive, since VLTs might actually be 'due' in the ploppy-understood sense, unlike a traditional slot.
Is it just that VLTs tend to be programmed with lower returns in general?
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Nareed
But compared to a regular slot machine, nothing about the VLT mechanism vs. an independent RNG machine inherently hurts or harms the players, as far as I can tell.
It might.
I don't know how they work, so maybe I'm all wrong. But in some lotteries there is a set number of prizes of varying amounts (think scratch cards, for example). If VLT slots operate that way, it means there is just one jackpot, say, per period of time, ten second prizes, and so on. Whereas on a regular, random slot machine in Vegas, the odds of hitting a jackpot are the same for every pull.
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MathExtremist
Perhaps variance plays a role in why states prefer Class II VLT's. An RNG CLass III slot might have a 'bad day' as far as the state is concerned and award too much in returns. As I understand it, the state is guaranteed their pound of flesh with Class II VLT operations. That is, the state isn't gambling on their returns!
Edit: Added closing comment.
Edit: Added closing comment.
FYI, electronic pull-tab VLTs are not Class II. They are Class III, but that's only relevant when a tribal gaming operation runs them anyway because IGRA only applies to tribal gaming. In New York, the VLTs are regulated by the state, and the state can make whatever rules it wants.
Edit: I just read that article about the purported difference between slots and VLTs. It is very wrong.
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