Return to Player (RTP) and Hit Frequency: What Are These Signify? RETURN to the PLAYER (RTP) Return to Player (RTP) is the term used by casinos to define the proportion of bets a VLT slot machine returns to players over time. If you place 100 $1 bets on a machine with a RTP of 90%, you can expect to win approximately $90 in winnings. However, both house advantage and RTP are typically calculated over the long term. It's possible for almost anything to happen over the short term (see Short term volatility and Long Term Predictability), so it is important that you only bet with money you're willing to risk. RTP is the other side of the house advantage as you could have observed. A machine with a 20% advantage in house will have an RTP average of 80%. This means it will get 20% of the money it bets and then return the remaining percent to players who win. Hit Frequency Hit frequency is the amount of times a machine will stop when it finds a winning combination. A hit frequency of 8% indicates that the machine will cease when it is able to hit an winning combination around 88% of the time. It's important to know that many slots and VLTs allow players to bet on multiple lines on each spin. This means that a player is able to win one or two winning combinations as well as many losing combinations within the course of a single spin. The player may think that the player has more winnings, but, as with all things, over time, the losing combinations will outnumber those winning ones. There's a large spectrum of hit frequency between slot machines and VLTs. Winslots.org can come with a hit frequency at 3% or less, while other games, such as video poker with a hit frequency of almost 45 percent. While the hit rate of video poker could sound appealing but keep in mind that the majority of hits result in the player regaining his original wager. Although a video poker machine with an average hit rate of 3% may not sound appealing, it could provide players with the opportunity to win a substantial jackpot. (Machines that offer large progressive jackpots typically have lower hit rates, but offer larger jackpots.) Games with low hit rates are frequently regarded by players as tight due to the fact that the wins can be so far apart, while games with an extremely high frequency of hits can be viewed as loose because there are so many tiny wins. Remember hit frequency is how often (on average) the winning combination will come up. Return-to-player is the percentage or amount of money that a machine returns over time.
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