I just got a copy of Gambling 102 by Michael Shackleford. He did some research a few years ago about which casinos offered the best payout percentages for their slot machine games. He was only looking at the payout percentage for nickel games, but chances are if the payback is high on those games, it's high on the other games too. Keep in mind too that higher denomination games will almost always offer a higher percentage return. Anyway, here's a list of the top 10 payouts by casino in Vegas according to that appendix.

1. The Palms - 93.42%
2. The Gold Coast - 92.84%
3. The Sahara - 92.81%
4. Bourbon Street - 92.63%
5. Imperial Palace - 92.63%
6. Slots a Fun - 92.63%
7. Western - 92.5%
8. Circus Circus - 92.56%
9. El Cortez - 92.56%
10. Ellis Island - 92.56%

I left out one casino that was showing as closed on the list. Anyway, it's a great book if you're interested in gambling, and it covers a lot more than just slot payout percentages in Vegas. I'd estimate that if you're playing the $25 a spin slots that you could safely add about 5% to those numbers above and have a pretty good ballpark on the payout percentage for those machines too, with the other denominations progressively getting larger as you move from the nickel slots up to the quarter slots then to the dollar slots and so on.

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Very useful info, Slotty. Thanks for sharing that with us!

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