I’ve been thinking about this for a while. Whenever I try parlays in sports betting, I sometimes hit that x10 multiplier, but honestly it’s extremely tough even when I study the games carefully and apply everything I know.
On the other hand, in slots, hitting x10 doesn’t feel that rare. It comes more often than you’d expect, yet when it happens we don’t really feel the same satisfaction. It’s almost like the brain treats the two multipliers differently.
So my question is:
(1) Is there a logical reason behind why slots make x10 feel easier to achieve?
(2) Or maybe it’s just a psychological trick because slots are designed to keep giving “small wins” to make us feel engaged?
Curious what others think, especially from people who play both slots and sports betting.
This is something I myself have thought about some time in the past, but in the end, I resolved that it's probably because winning and making profit is actually more easier with sports betting than slot games.
Slot games are fast game where you can play up to 5, 10 spins under a minute, before you get a x10 win from slot game, you must have spent and lost maybe x30 to x40 or more when compared to the amount you won, you realize that even with the x10 win you got, you are still in a massive lose especially when luck isn't on your side, and after this first x10, before you get another x10 win again, you must have lost another x30 to x40 or more, and all of this happens so fast that it's sometimes very hard to notice.
Meanwhile in sports betting, if you know and understand the game you are betting on very well, it's possible to make x10 profit while on a winning streak, that is, you are x10 or more up in profit.