The actual reported payout percentages vary considerably from month to month. The slot machines are programmed to payout their specified percentages over a long period of time (say 1,000,000 spins). Before you run to AC with your paycheck in the hopes of striking it rich, be aware that Atlantic City, NJ actually has the LOWEST average payback percentages (91.6%) of any State in the US. Downtown Las Vegas is the best with 95.7% at last count. Individual Casinos within Atlantic City vary in their average payback percentages by on a couple tenths of a percentage. It is true that the higher denomination machines payout better than the lower ones. Let's hope that stiffer competition will coerce some of the Casinos to give back better payouts. The current trend seems to be build a bigger, glitzier casino (Borgata) and maybe patrons won't notice they are being robbed.