Among online casino games, slots are exceptionally popular, attracting a large player base ranging from complete beginners to seasoned professionals.
Because slots are heavily luck-based, common betting strategies like the Martingale or Monte Carlo methods don’t apply. As a result, the probability of losing tends to be relatively high.
In addition, due to the sheer number of players, the chances of winning for any individual are naturally quite low.
Still, as someone spinning the reels, it’s only natural to hope for payouts. And when wins are too few and far between, it’s understandable to suspect whether the game might be manipulated behind the scenes. Since players can adjust their bet amount per spin in slots, it’s often debated whether higher bets increase the chances of winning.
In fact, some slot games—especially those with progressive jackpots—require max bets to qualify, so it’s not entirely wrong to say that higher bets can influence your chances of hitting big wins.
However, if you truly want to win at slots, it’s important to consider not just the bet amount, but also the balance between your bet size and your bankroll.
To understand this better, let’s first review how slot betting systems work—specifically how bet amounts per spin can be adjusted.
Online slots typically allow players to change the bet amount per spin within a preset range, or adjust it based on the number of paylines selected.
For example, in a slot with 10 paylines, you can set both your bet amount and the number of active paylines. If you set your bet to $1 and activate 5 paylines, your total bet per spin becomes $1 × 5 lines = $5.
On the other hand, in slots without adjustable paylines, the amount you bet is applied directly as the total per spin.
This brings us to the main question: Does increasing your bet per spin actually affect your chances of winning?
To explore this, we’ll use one of the most popular online slots—Starburst—for our test.
Starburst features a 5×3 reel layout with 10 fixed paylines. You can adjust the coin value and level, which together determine your total bet. The configuration ranges are as follows:
Coin Value: $0.01 to $2.00
Level: 1 to 10 (level represents the multiplier per line)
Note: While paylines were adjustable in earlier versions of Starburst, at the time of writing this article, they are fixed.
The formula to calculate your total bet per spin in Starburst is:
Coin Value × Level × Number of Paylines
Using this formula:
- The minimum bet per spin is $0.01 × Level 1 × 10 lines = $0.10
- The maximum bet per spin is $2.00 × Level 10 × 10 lines = $200
Based on these figures, we’ll now run a test to see how changing the bet amount per spin may affect the probability of winning in Starburst.
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