Glad you enjoyed it!
I’ve only played Pots O’ Luck a couple of times and didn’t get footage, which is why I don’t have it on the site. This is a good reminder to add it, which I will when I get back home later this week. I actually have this on the site currently: “There’s also an Irish-themed version I’ve seen at a couple of casinos, but I can’t even remember the name let alone produce an original photo.”
So here’s the thing: From what I’m seeing online, there are two versions of Pots O’ Luck:
Version 1
Version 2
The first video, from TheBigPayback (a popular slots YouTuber), shows game play that is a bit confusing. The reels appear to trigger at random intervals and not always when you gather three coins. This version seems harder to advantage-play, though as you can see at 7:35 in that video, sometimes the reels do lock in place as you’d expect.
The second version, from RandomSlots (another popular slots YouTuber), shows the version I’m remembering. From what I am seeing elsewhere online, this is the more common version of Pots O’ Luck and likely the one you are playing, though I can’t say it definitively without footage from yours. This one plays like all the others from AGS under the Ultimate Choice Jackpots umbrella of games: Captain Riches, Tiki Fortune, and Mine Blast—along with the less common Happy Blossoms and Happy Blessings.
If you check out those two YouTube clips, you should be able to tell which one you’re looking at after a few spins. Assuming you have the more common version, I’d play it as I would all those others: At least three multipliers and four coins in the second and third columns (better to have 3x than 2x coins). The fourth column doesn’t matter a whole lot. Also, if there’s an active wild in columns two or three, play until it’s gone.
So you mentioned, “a wild column with a coin active.” I’d play that too, as long as it’s not only in the fourth reel. That by itself wouldn’t be enough. Even the common version has some volatility to it, and some pros play it a little tighter than I’m recommending, but let’s first make sure you’re playing that version. The photo you attached would not be good enough to play because the coins don’t have multipliers and there are no wild reels.
Let me know if this makes sense. I know I’m throwing a lot at you.
Ben Rosenthal
