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[tigerboytony11]

Is it me or has anyone noticed the value of Streaks on all the new machines have changed, and not for the better either? I was in Meridian Leisure in Leicester today, and they have the arcade section with £5 Jackpot machines, and then behind that, the adult bar, with 5 £70 Jackpot machines. One of them was Deal Or No Deal East and West Wing. Took about £4 on 25p stake, and completed the fruit ladder at the bottom, and got Super Start. I stopped it on the entire board opening, and went round it, and was really filling it up, though nothing much over £5. Lit 3 boxes, and the Streaks flashed, and stopped it on normal Streak. Carried on, and landed on mystery. Wasn't going to risk losing entirely, so collected the Streak.

Now on the older machines, the Streaks used to more or less pay out as follows (am using £35 Jackpot machines)

Streak - From about £5 to £12 (possible rollover)
Super Streak - From about £9 to £20 (possible rollover)
Mega Streak - Jackpot (possible rollover)

Yet on DOND East & West Wing today, the Streak was only a miserly £6. Now why on a machine with a much bigger Jackpot, would it pay possibly less than what it is worth on a £35 Jackpot machine. Maybe I just caught it at a bad time, but I own a DOND Power 5 on a £35 Jackpot, and if I collect a Streak on it, it usually always pays out between £10 and £15.

Like I say, is it just me, or has anyone else noticed the levels of Streaks (all Streaks) paying out lower on the new machines, than their older brothers?

Edited by tigerboytony11, 11 September 2012 - 08:36 PM.

[royal exchange]

I think your right there mate. Everywhere you go it's always Deal or no Deals. They take a ton of money to get a mega streak which is the only one worth taking and it usually pays out what the jackpot is worth if you lucky you might get a £140. { based on a £70 jackie}. I think it's because some of the features now can pay out quite a few quid, ie win steppa on dond can give £40, twice as much as what a super streak can pay out. and all new barcrest machines are very tight when it comes to mega streaks only giving £70 and then it kills the machine dead not much comfort if you've put over £100 in. I wish they had kept the £35 jacko's much more generous.

[fruitsnappa]

Lucky to get £6 quite often it's only £4.

[jundlemaker]

Lucky to get £6 quite often it's only £4.

Tell me about it, i took a streak on one of these today, £4... Fortunatly £20 later it was a JP box but wasn't planning on playing it for a lot as took streak for a quick raise only to be disapointed.

[tigerboytony11]

And to add insult to injury, I also own a Beat The Banker on a £5 Jackpot, and I had a few go's on it this morning before work, and lit up Streak on it, collected it, and got £2, then it rolled twice, so ended up with £6. The same £6 I got the other day. So got a £6 Streak on a £5 Jackpot Beat The Banker, and a £6 Streak on a £70 East and West Wing. I think there's something wrong somewhere.

[tigerboytony11]

Royal Exchange, I think you are right to a degree there too. You can potentially get a lot of money from one of the features that light up, but two things come into play there. Number 1, it depends on the individual person playing the machine. I have seen people light up nearly every feature or cash value on the machine, but keep going thinking Mega Streak, Mega Streak, Mega Streak. I have seen values up to £50 lit up, then land on the mystery square, and zap, its Game Over. So if you play for fun, then you will win a good sum of money, the serious player will keep going thinking Jackpot all the time, and lose. Number 2, is the stake you choose to play. If you play the low stake, you will be lucky to land between £6-£8 on the cash board, and whatever the equivalent feature next to the value is, plus they are harder to turn red. Play the middle stake, it gets easier to turn features red, and can get anything between £10-£35 (if you choose to collect of course). Play the higher stake and everything is red already so can get a good sum of money, £30-£70. I think Number 1 plays a bigger part in choosing what sum of money you leave the machine with though.

[royal exchange]

Your right there mate. A friend of mine goes round the pubs to play dond and he only plays on the 50p stake, but he will only play for a mega streak any othere wins and he will just transfer to credits and it just prolongs the streak coming out. But since bell fruit rechipped a few of their dond they have got so tight. I can't remember what dond it was but me and me pal were going halfs we only put in about a tenner each and we thought our birthday and christmas had come at once as it gave us a GATW but it turned out to be a fake one was a bit gutted there. Sorry going of topic a bit. Playing a £ stake will get things done a bit quicker not really about amounts it will pay out though it really just depends if the machine is backing and it's in a happy mood.

[tigerboytony11]

Royal exchange, at last, someone who actually agrees with me. I had a massive debate on here the other week about stakes where I tried to say exactly the same thing as you have just said, where playing the higher stakes will get things done a bit quicker, eg getting into feature quicker, turning features and cash red quicker, but won't really make a difference to payouts. Like you said if the machine is backing and in a happy mood then it will payout regardless of what stake you are playing on. Everyone thought I was talking rubbish, but my attitude to that was fair enough, think that if you wish. I wasn't going to waste time arguing with them. I own 4 machines all on multiple stake, and find it makes no difference what stake you play on, to payouts. If the machine is going to drop, it will, regardless of what stake you play.

The only DOND I can put that fake GATW down to, is Beat The Banker, that one was, and still is, prone to giving out fake GATW's. It was one of the first ones that came out, and something with the gameplay goes wrong, sometimes, when the machine flashes up GATW. The DOND game doesn't always spin in Mega Streak, as got one of these myselfs, therefore although it is flashing, something else spins into the box. Doesn't happen all the time, I grant, but sometimes it does. I've played the majority of DOND's and haven't noticed any fake GATW's on any of the others, so thats the only one I can pin that too.

[tigerboytony11]

But in reply to my original post about the DOND East & West Wing at Leicester Meridian Leisure, I went back there yesterday afternoon before work, and they have had 2 new DOND £5 Jackpot machines put in. One is DOND Make Or Break, and the other is DOND Bankers Bonus, so had a few quid with me, put £1 into Make Or Break, and spun in 3 phones on winline, GATW came straight up, so got a £5 Mega Streak, spun again, 3 phones in view, played the game, landed on Streak box, lit up all 3 boxes and landed on Mega Streak, so got £10 in the space of 2 minutes. Came off, and moved to Bankers Bonus. £2 in, and played the game, GATW flashed up, both boards opened up, played DOND, got Mega Streak, flat £5, spun again, and back in, GATW again, both boards, played DOND, got DOUBLE Mega Streak (ie, MS rolled), so £15 in another 2 minutes. £25 profit in roughly 5 minutes. Would have carried on, but was going to be late for work, so probably some other lucky punter got more out of it.

[royal exchange]

Nice little win that mate. That never happens on the £70 jackies does it. The fake gatw could of been on any one mate I lost count of how many dond there are out there.