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Introduction to Louisiana Slot Machine Casino Gambling in 2020

Louisiana slot machine casino gambling consists of 24 casinos including 16 commercial casinos, four tribal casinos, four pari-mutuel racetracks with slot machines, and numerous small businesses across Louisiana.

Theoretical payout limits exist and monthly return statistics are available for non-tribal sites.

This post continues my weekly State-By-State Slot Machine Casino Gambling Series, an online resource dedicated to guiding slot machine casino gambler to success. Now in its third year, each weekly post reviews slots gambling in a single U.S. state, territory, or federal district.

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Relevant Legal Statutes on Gambling in Louisiana*

The minimum legal gambling age in Louisiana depends upon the gambling activity:

• Land-Based Casinos: 21
• Poker Rooms: 21
• Bingo: 18
• Lottery: 21
• Pari-Mutuel Wagering: 18

Louisiana has had a long history of illegal casinos, with the state alternating between raiding illegal casino operations and ignoring them. Eventually, pari-mutuel wagering received state-approval in the 1920s. The collapse of the state’s oil-based industry in the 1980s led to the extended presence of legalized gambling.

Louisiana was the fourth U.S. state to legalize riverboat casinos, approved by the state in 1991 along with the return of the state lottery. In 1992, an added provision allowed a land-based casino in New Orleans.

Negotiations began in 1993 for state-tribal compacts with Louisiana’s three federally-recognized American Indian tribes. A fourth American Indian tribe, federally-recognized in 2002, also negotiated a state-tribal compact. Each tribe opened their own tribal casino.

In 1997, efforts by the three pari-mutuel racetracks to add slot machines to their facilities were successful. Later, a fourth track received similar approval.

The gaming industry has become an important part of Louisiana’s culture and economy. Video bingo is the primary type of electronic gaming machine available.

However, the wording used in some parts of the state gaming regulations is ambiguous. For example, a loose definition for “truck stops” has allowed the addition and spread of video poker machines at many businesses across the state.

*The purpose of this section is to inform the public of state gambling laws and how the laws might apply to various forms of gaming. It is not legal advice.

Slot Machine Private Ownership in Louisiana

In Louisiana, it is legal to own a slot machine privately if it is 25 years old or older.

Gaming Control Board in Louisiana

The Louisiana Gaming Control Board regulates the gaming industry in Louisiana. The LGCB works closely with the Gaming Enforcement Division within the Louisiana State Police.

Casinos in Louisiana

There are 20 non-tribal casinos, four American Indian tribal casinos, four pari-mutuel racetracks, and 12,903 video poker machines at 1,634 retail businesses in Louisiana.

The largest casino in Louisiana is Coushatta Casino Resort with 2,800 gaming machines and 70 table games.

The second-largest casino is Paragon Casino Resort with 2,200 gaming machines and 44 table games.

Commercial Casinos in Louisiana

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The 20 commercial casinos in Louisiana including 15 riverboat casinos, four pari-mutuel sites with slot machines, and one land-based casino:

1. Amelia Belle Casino in Amelia located 79 miles west of New Orleans.
2. Belle of Baton Rouge Casino Hotel in Baton Rouge located 81 miles northwest of New Orleans.
3. Boomtown Bossier City located 216 miles west of Jackson, MS.
4. Boomtown New Orleans in Harvey located 11 miles south of New Orleans.
5. Delta Downs Racetrack Casino Hotel in Vinton located 140 miles northeast of Galveston, TX.
6. DiamondJacks Casino Hotel Bossier City located 216 miles west of Jackson, MS.
7. Eldorado Resort Casino Shreveport located 217 miles west of Jackson, MS.
8. Evangeline Downs Racetrack Casino Hotel in Opelousas located 137 miles northwest of New Orleans.
9. Fair Grounds Racecourse & Slots in New Orleans.
10. Golden Nugget Lake Charles located 162 miles northeast of Galveston, Texas.
11. Harrah’s Louisiana Downs in Bossier City located 210 miles west of Jackson, Mississippi.
12. Harrah’s New Orleans Casino & Hotel.
13. Hollywood Casino Baton Rouge located 83 miles northwest of New Orleans.
14. Horseshoe Bossier City located 216 miles west of Jackson, MS.
15. Isle of Capri Casino Hotel Lake Charles located 163 miles northeast of Galveston, Texas.
16. L’auberge Casino Hotel Baton Rouge located 75 miles northwest of New Orleans.
17. L’auberge Casino Resort Lake Charles located 163 miles northeast of Galveston, Texas.
18. Margaritaville Resort Casino Bossier City located 216 miles west of Jackson, Mississippi.
19. Sam’s Town Hotel & Casino Shreveport located 216 miles west of Jackson, Mississippi.
20. Treasure Chest Casino in Kenner located 15 miles northwest of New Orleans.

Tribal Casinos in Louisiana

There are four tribal casinos in Louisiana:

1. Coushatta Casino Resort in Kinder located 199 miles west of New Orleans.
2. Cypress Bayou Casino Hotel in Charenton located 117 miles west of New Orleans.
3. Jena Choctaw Pines Casino in Dry Prong located 201 miles northwest of New Orleans.
4. Paragon Casino Resort in Marksville located 163 miles northwest of New Orleans.

Other Gambling Establishments

As an alternative to enjoying Louisiana slot machine casino gambling, consider exploring casino options in a nearby state. Bordering Louisiana is:

1. North: Arkansas Slots
2. East: Mississippi Slots
3. South: Gulf of Mexico
4. West: Texas Slots

Each of the links above will take you to my blog for that neighboring U.S. state to Louisiana.

Our Louisiana Slots Facebook Group

Are you interested in sharing and learning with other slots enthusiasts in Louisiana? If so, join our new Louisiana slots community on Facebook. All you’ll need is a Facebook profile to join this closed Facebook Group freely.

There, you’ll be able to privately share your slots experiences as well as chat with players about slots gambling in Louisiana. Join us!

Payout Returns in Louisiana

Theoretical payout limits are:

• 80% to 99.9% at non-tribal casinos.
• 80% to 94% for video poker machines at retail locations.
• Not available for tribal casinos.

Monthly return statistics are within Louisiana’s Gaming Enforcement Division Gaming Board’s Revenue Reports. Further, these reports offer return statistics for each slot machine denomination.

However, statistics are reported for non-tribal casinos statewide as well as within only four state regions with casinos sorted by region as follows:

• Baton Rouge Region: Belle of Baton Rouge, Evangeline Downs, Hollywood, and L’auberge Baton Rouge.
• Lake Charles Region: Delta Downs, Golden Nugget, Isle of Capri, and L’Auberge Lake Charles.
• New Orleans Region: Amelia Belle, Boomtown New Orleans, Fair Grounds, Harrah’s, and Treasure Chest.
• Shreveport/Bossier Region: Boomtown Bossier, DiamondJacks, Eldorado, Harrah’s LA Downs, Horseshoe, Margaritaville, and Sam’s Town.

The October 2019 report shows a state-wide return of 90.3% for all commercial casinos. Each region had the following player’s win percentages:

• Baton Rouge Region: 90.2%
• Lake Charles Region: 90.6%
• New Orleans Region: 90.1%
• Shreveport/Bossier Region: 90.3%
• State-wide: 90.3%

The slot machine denomination with the highest and second-highest win percentages for each region were:

• Baton Rouge Region: 50-cent at 97.9% and $2 at 92.6%.
• Lake Charles Region: $100 at 95.1% and both 5-cent and $10 at 93.1%.
• New Orleans Region: $500 at 120.8%, $50 at 101.6%, and 5-cent at 93.8%.
• Shreveport/Bossier Region: $25 at 93.2% and 2-cent at 92.89%.
• State-wide: $500 at 120.8% and 50-cent at 92.9%.

These reports helpfully include the number of slot machines with each denomination. For instance, there are only eight $2-denomination machines in the Baton Rouge Region where their average player win% is the second-highest for that region. So few $2 slot machines improves the likelihood of locating and playing these high-odds machines.

Less helpful are the limited monthly return statistics available from the Louisiana Gaming Board’s Revenue Reports separated by casino type. Unfortunately, these return statistics reports have insufficient information to calculate player’s win percentages:

Summary of Louisiana Slot Machine Casino Gambling in 2020

Louisiana slot machine casino gambling consists of 24 casinos including sixteen riverboat casinos, four tribal casinos and four pari-mutuel racetracks with slot machines. Further, there are 12,903 legal video poker machines at 1,634 retail locations across the state.

Minimum and maximum theoretical payout limits exist for the non-tribal gaming locations. Return statistics exist for commercial casinos in four state regions, including for each slot machine denomination. Louisiana’s tribal casinos do not have theoretical payout limits nor do they offer return statistics.

Annual Progress in Louisiana Slot Machine Casino Gambling

In the last year, Harrah’s New Orleans went from second-largest casino to seventh place when they more than halved their slot machines from 3,800 to 1,500.

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How to find loose slots? Here we will give main guidelines and tips on how to find the loosest slots in any online casino.

The knowledge on how to find loose slots have always been the Holy Grail of casino players. There are a lot of myths surrounding that topic, especially regarding land casinos: near the entrance, in the end of the line, etc, and although there is no buffet in online casinos, there are still certain guideline you can follow in order to find loose slots and avoid the tight ones.

Online the situation is a bit more simple since many slot developers publish the expected return on their machines. Below you can see a list of best paying slots by software and then updated overall rating.

Loose Slots by Type & Country

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Unfortunately, not all providers publish these details. In this article we will go over the key rules on how to find loose slots in any online casino. For specific slots and more info on how online slots work, how they differ from land slot machines, feel free to click through to the relevant pages.

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What is a loose slot machine?

There are endless speculations regarding loose slots. It’s natural, since finding a loose slot is the Holy Grail of every casino player. Before we go into that, we need to be clear: there is ONLY one sure way to know if the slot is loose or tight and that is to check the RTP (Return to Player).

RTP of a slot machine is the single number that defines what is the average return the player will get. The higher the RTP – the looser that particular slot. Luckily, many of online slots developers are forced to publish the RTP of every slot they make, so you have no reason to search for various signs and follow ridiculous beliefs. All you need to do is check the number and that’s it. As simple as that.

Generally speaking, when it comes to internet slots, 97% and higher is considered loose. 95%-96% is average. Below 94% the slot should be considered tight.

Which Slots Tend to be Tight

It’s hard to give general guidelines as each slot is different and the best solution is just to check the official RTP, it is published. However, here are two general rules:

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Progressive Slots

Stay away from Progressive Slots. Progressive slots sound like fun- Who wouldn’t like to win $1,000,000 in one spin, but the chances of hitting the jackpot on a progressive slot are similar to winning in lottery. The casinos promote them and their huge jackpots in order to attract players, but for every player that hits the jackpot, 1,000,000 players loose all their bankroll. Our first advice: stay away. If you must, limit yourself to 10% of your bankroll or lower.

Online Slots by Land Based Manufactures

There are exceptions, but in general land based focused manufacturers, such as Amaya, SG, Bally, Aristocrat, tend to have lower RTPs than online focused developers (NetEnt, Microgaming, Rival, BetSoft, Thunderkick, etc). It’s not precise on individual slot bases but more as a general rule.

The main reason for that is that monsters like Bally or Amaya are aware that their slots are played in all brick and mortar casinos across the globe, and they assume that players will stick to the familiar titles. Even then, the online versions have higher returns – for example Cleopatra slot online can offer 95% return while in land based casinos the returns are usually below 90%.

Loose Slots Myths

Of course, there is also endless number of myths surrounding slot machines. Many of them are completely false while some cannot be truly verified. The main problem is that these beliefs can be very misleading, give players false sense of security and cost them more money than what they intended to risk.

We will go over a few, but for example look at this article at WikiHow. Here are the things they recommend players to do:

1. “Play the maximum number of coins” – true but only for specific slots. There are some slots that offer higher payout for maximum number of coins. However, on the other 99% of slot machines, it won’t help you at all and can just cause you to loose more money by increasing your bet per spin.
2. “Test the payout of your machine” – that’s simply bulls**t.Even you if you spent the last 10 years playing slots in Vegas, you cannot make a few spins and understand if it’s loose or not. Each machine has different variance and settings. In reality, you need to make 10000 spins to be able to analyze the RTP.
3. “Play multiple machines at once” – not true or false. That’s something that varies between casinos and cannot be verified.
4. “Don’t play multiple payline slots” – false. There are plenty multiple line slots that offer much higher returns. Maybe it was true 30 years ago when multiple line slots just entered the market but it’s not correct now.
5. “Gamble in casinos”– true. It’s better to play in casinos and not in airports for example.

Old Slots vs New Slots

The theory is that old slots tend to be more loose than the new ones. The reason behind this rule is simple: most of the players that visit the “New Slots” section of the casino are the regular players, the loyal customers that are checking the new game. The casinos are aware of that. They know that new slots is what the regular players are looking for and it’s very unlikely for them to abandon the casino after few bad sessions on the “exiting- one of the kind- special-new” slot machine and take advantage of that.

Boring is Good

Another theory is boring slots. In most cases they are more loose than the exciting ones with special graphics and effects. The reason behind it is that the casinos like to post that their payout is up to 97%/98%/99%/etc. Of course it doesn’t mean that all slots pay 99%, but still there are one or few that do have that payout. The highest chances to find those slots are between the “forgotten” slots, the ones the almost no one plays. It takes some time and some testing, but if you go over few slots and you are patient, you will find it.

FAQ

So, can I make money by playing loosest slots?

In general the answer is no. However, there are exceptions that allow you to get a small edge over the house. The main one is a combination of favorable bonus + highest payout slot. In some cases we checked you can get even to +10% over the house, but it’s limited as the maximum bonus amount is $100. So we would say it’s not a way to make money but a way to increase your winning odds while playing online.

Are high limit slots have higher odds?

Not necessarily. When it comes to online casinos, 95% of the slots offer the same payouts for all range of bets. However there are exceptions. For clearest example are some of Barcrest slots where you get much higher return on Big Bets. Monopoly Bring the House Down is a good example where the regular RTP is 94.1% but it goes to 98.1% on big bets. Bottom line: read the rules before you play.

Can I trust the published RTP?

Yes, you can. The reason why many providers list the RTP data is due to UK Gambling Commission Regulations. Those RTP’s are being tested intensively and they will suffer enormous fines if they post misleading information.

Is there a way to tell when a slot machine will hit?

No. There is not. As simple as that.

Do online slot have different return than land based slots?

Yes, they are. The average return on online slots is much higher than in land based casinos. The average return in brick and mortar establishments varies based on specific country and state rules but on average stands on 85% while in online casinos it is 10% higher – 95%.

Does a slot machines pays the same in all casinos?

In most cases yes, but there are few exceptions. There are few software providers, the most familiar are RTG and Play’n Go, which have three different settings for their slots – loose, medium and tight. And each casino can define which of these settings they use.

Can a casino change the payout percentage?

No, they cannot. The exception is the software providers we listed in the previous question, but even here they cannot alter the slots, but choose different setting from those allowed by the software developer.

Will I improve my odds by redeeming a bonus?

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Not always. It depends fully on the bonus terms. In general only cashable bonuses will increase your winning odds. Plus they should have low wagering requirements and no maximum cashout. The last part is extremely important so make sure the bonuses you redeem don’t have this term.