Playing with an Edge in Slot Tournaments: $1,8M in 14 Months. Part 3

The next chapter in our race for an edge

Previous parts: Part 1 | Part 2

The Sixth Race: Uncertainty

After the fifth race, we were on an emotional high. Emerald King Rainbow Road had brought us over $200,000. But I knew it wouldn’t last. The casino had clearly noticed that all top wins were coming from the same slot.

And that’s exactly what happened. At the end of January they announced the sixth race. I immediately opened the list of eligible games, scanning for familiar titles. Emerald King was gone. As before, we had one week to prepare.

I opened our Google Sheets file to mark which slots had been removed and to add the new ones. Meanwhile, the data-parsing process was crawling. Most of my time went not into analysis, but into managing programmers. The results were often messy or irrelevant. Things kept breaking. Some people didn’t want to work on it anymore, and we constantly had to look for replacements and verify every output by hand.

We tested around twenty slots—nothing clicked. Low volatility, small wins, nothing that came close to Emerald King or Dead or Alive 2.

Eventually we narrowed it down to two candidates. The first was Star Joker by Play’n GO, with a max win of 5,000х every 180,000 spins. Good math, but not enough to get near the top ten.