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I’d like to make a forum here for us Australian Players to chat and speak to. I noticed alot of the forums mentioning Australian players are outdated or if you’re viewing on mobile and click on a forum that says it had a post today, it comes up with post back from 2012-2013 and you have to skip over 3,000 comments to get to the latest ones. If you think it’s time to freshen the forum up with some new updates, news and all topics about online pokies then comment with your experiences, winnings, best and worst, most payout slots, screenshots of your winnings etc. ALL AUSTRALIAN ONLINE POKIE PLAYERS COMMENT.

Ins and outs of slots, mathematics and psychology behind them.

In Australia we have Poker Machines at every pub. Overseas I believe you call them Slot Machines. Nearly every pub has them. Max bet is generally $10 and min is 1 cent. We have those lightning machines too and they're a lot of fun. Anyway, so the way these slot machines work, or at least what I've been told, is that they have a payout percentage. They have to pay out a certain percentage over their lie with an element of luck to it. So many people will frequent a single machine and it would tick higher and lower as it takes deposits and pays out. I've had good pays. but nothing compared to online slot pays. They dwarf by comparison. Online slots though are sessions loaded on a single virtual machine. You are the only one that has access to that session. There is no memory of the previous spin or your previous session. How do they regulate the payout percentages so that the RNG does not send the casino broke on a single lucky/unlucky session? I've always wondered.

My name is Charlie McKeith and I am currently undertaking an honours year in Psychology at the University of New England, NSW, Australia under the supervision of Dr Adam Rock and Dr Gavin Clark. As part of the honours year, we have decided to do a project on slot machine gambling behaviour in order to hopefully improve exposure therapies for gamblers.The survey is completely anonymous and has been approved by the ethics committee at the University of New England. We are looking for people that have played slot machines an average of twice a month in the last 12 months We would be really grateful if you could participate, as the study will hopefully lead to increased funding for gambling research as well as increased knowledge surrounding exposure therapies for gamblers. The survey should only take 15 minutes to complete and can be viewed here: http://unebcss.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_bHP2YiQ88pF9ns9 Kind regards, Charlie McKeith