The winning line

Demon Pots runs through the centre cell, where the Demon Wild hoovers up Coins. The proper upside is in Free Spins. Sticky Wild stacks on reels 4 and 5 can shove those collections to ×3 or ×6. Honestly, all three entry routes sit near the same 96% EV: grind at 1 in 118, use Ante Bet, or stump up for the 100× buy. Pick what the bankroll can actually carry. Bank any round past 100×.

Step 1 — Check which Demon Pots build your casino runs

Pragmatic ships this pokie in three certified builds: 96.01%, 95.02% and 94.02% (per Pragmatic Play’s certified builds). Every number below assumes the default. On the 94.02% build the cut jumps from A$3.99 to A$5.98 per A$100 wagered.

Action: Open the in game info screen before the first punt and read the RTP line. Takes thirty seconds. Costs nothing.
Watch for: anything other than 96.01%.
Decision branches:

If 96.01% → play on; the Ante and buy figures below hold.

If 95.02% or 94.02% → find an AU facing casino carrying the default build. On a 35.59% hit rate pokie this grindy, that extra cut keeps biting spin after spin.

If the info screen won’t show a figure → frankly, treat it as a low build and move on.

Step 2 — Pick your lane: grind, Ante Bet, or the 100× buy

There are three ways into the pots and, to be fair, none gets a discount on expectation. Grinding lands Free Spins about once in 117.72 spins at 96.01%. Ante Bet charges 50% more per spin for 96.02%. The Bonus Buy is 100× at 96.01%. No lane has some hidden maths edge here. It comes down to bankroll shape.

Action: Size the lane to the bet before you start. At A$2, grinding wants roughly 236 bets, or A$472, which covers two average waits between natural triggers. Ante runs those spins at A$3, so call it A$708. Buying is A$200 a press, with three presses making A$600 the sensible floor.
Watch for: the size of your stash against those figures. Not how confident you feel.
Decision branches:

If the stash sits under A$472 at A$2 → cut the bet, not the lane. The A$1 grind needs A$236, while the A$0.40 floor comes in under A$95.

If the stash clears A$600 and you can’t stand the dry base → sure, use the buy lane. Cap the number of presses from the start by dividing the stash by A$200.

If you want the pots showing up more often without fronting 100× → use Ante Bet. You’re buying frequency, not extra value.

Step 3 — Price Win Spins in Coin values, not in the guarantee

Win Spins pins the Demon Wild in the centre cell for 6 respins. Every respin must cough up something, whether that’s a line win or a Coin. Another pot can fire as well. Sounds generous, mind you, until the Coin floor enters the maths. Coins start at 0.2× bet, so six floor hits add up to only 1.2×. On a A$2 bet, that’s A$2.40 back.

Action: Hold the bet flat when Win Spins activates and let the counter run. Nothing inside the respins is yours to steer; the decision comes after.
Watch for: a retrigger (6 more respins) and pot activations landing mid-feature, since both stretch the round.
Decision branches:, If the round closes small, under about 6× → it ran to type; resume your lane at the same bet, no bump., If it chains into the Free Spins pot → go to Step 4 with the round still open.

Step 4 — Hunt the reel 4 and 5 Wild stacks inside Free Spins

Free Spins is where the payout actually lives. The Demon Wild locks centre for 6 spins, every pot can unlock on every spin, and fully stacked Wilds landing on reels 4 or 5 stay sticky to the end. A reel 5 stack multiplies Coin collections ×3; reels 4 and 5 together push ×6, and the 6,000× cap only comes into view on that board.

Action: Watch the sticky stacks, not the running win. Plain Coin collections of 0.2× to 2× are scraps, while the Super Coins pot runs 0.4× to 2×. Once ×6 is live, a single 2× Super Coin becomes 12×, which is A$24 at A$2. Fill enough of the screen and the thing can turn into a motser.
Watch for: reel 5 sticking first for ×3. Reel 4 joining it completes ×6. Also watch Win Spins firing inside the feature because the multipliers stay active.
Decision branches:

If both stacks stick with spins left or a retrigger lands → let it run and start thinking exit. Anything past 100× goes to Step 5.

If the feature dies bare, under the 100× entry benchmark → back to the same lane at the same bet. The next round doesn’t owe you cheaper entry.

If you’re buying and two straight bought rounds finish under 50× → honestly, half the entry twice. No third press this session.

Step 5 — Bank the 100× round and shut the tab

The exit mark comes straight from the buy cost. Whichever route got you there, a round paying 100× or better has covered one full entry. At A$2, that’s A$200 from a single feature. Simple.

Action: Once a feature clears 100×, hit the lobby. Do it before the balance gets dragged back into the grind.
Watch for: the urge to keep pressing because a ×6 board somehow “proved the pots are hot”. Honestly, they did no such thing. Pots reset with the rest of the reels.
Decision branches:

If a round prints 100× to 200× on the buy lane → you’re square to ahead. Pack it in.

If a ×6 collection round lands bigger → that’s the tail hit this pokie is built around. Bank it. The 6,000× ceiling runs about 1 in 1,000,000.

The maths across the three lanes

The lanes converge because Pragmatic priced them flat: 96.01% grinding, 96.02% with Ante Bet, 96.01% buying (per Pragmatic Play’s published game stats). Per A$100 through the machine the house keeps A$3.99 on any of them; the Ante toggle trims that to A$3.98. Its real product is variance, since more of the stake resolves through pot activations instead of the paytable.

The paytable is not carrying a session here. Five gold items, which are the top symbol, pay 10× across the 40-line 5×3 board. Royals cough up 1×. With a 35.59% hit rate, the base game keeps dripping little line wins while the worthwhile return waits for the centre-cell Demon Wild to show Coins. No Wild for a stretch and, frankly, the board is close to dead.

At A$2, grinding to a feature averages 117.72 spins per natural trigger, so about A$235 gets wagered. The cut chews roughly A$9.40 of that, while base hits feed some of the rest back before the trigger arrives. A buy skips all that waiting and costs an expected 3.99× per press, or A$7.98, while handing you the full feature package straight away. Neither route is better. You’re just swapping waiting time for concentrated variance.

The tail is skinny and there is a lid on it. The 6,000× event lands about once in 1,000,000 spins, carrying roughly 0.6 percentage points of the total return. One tracked 200-spin community session found a single feature worth 38×, with the rest of the run slowly bleeding away. To be fair, that’s a decent picture of what the median hour on this pokie looks like. On the 94.02% build, the same A$235 trigger wait wears about A$14 of expected drain instead of A$9.40, so the whole setup gets uglier again.

What breaks the pot plan

1. Running Ante Bet as an “RTP play”. Sure, the toggle buys 0.01 of a percentage point. It also costs 50% more per spin, which at A$2 base means another A$1 every spin for basically a rounding error. This is a variance choice, not some clever RTP angle.
2. Taking the Win Spins guarantee at face value. Six guaranteed respins can still spit out six 0.2× Coins. That’s the bit to remember. Bumping A$2 to A$5 because the pot finally showed up only lifts the drain 150%, while the odds stay exactly the same.
3. Tilt buying at 100× on a downswing. Every press gives up about 4× stake in expectation. Mind you, the 6,000× cap also puts a hard roof on the recovery dream. Three cooked buys at A$2 means A$600 gone trying to force back what the machine already took.
4. Skipping the build check. The 94.02% version pushes the cut from A$3.99 to A$5.98 per A$100. Well, that’s a nasty enough jump on its own, and the punter is paying it on a title already reviewed as tedious to grind.
5. Chasing the dry base to “unlock the pots eventually”. Reviews line up with the one tracked session: without the centre Wild, you’re grinding a 10× ceiling paytable that goes nowhere fast. Stretching a cooked session because the pots feel “due” is exactly the loss chasing trap this pokie sets.

The cut-off

• Feature drought: well, if Free Spins or Win Spins still haven’t shown by spin 236, that’s double the average wait. Kill the lane for the day.
• Buy-streak gate: two bought rounds in a row under 50× means no third press. Honestly, buys stay capped at stash divided by the A$200 press price.
• Banked exit: any round landing 100× or better has paid the entry. Out.
• Stash floor: look, once any lane chews through 60% of the session stash, you’re done. No switching lanes to chase it back.

Strategy by Dave Holloway , Floor Veteran. Last updated: 07 Aug 2026.
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