gday007 pokies: pick the guide for the question you have

Pokies at gday007, answered up front

gday007 has thousands of casino games, and pokies make up most of the lobby. They come from 42 studios, and they range from five-line pub classics to 6×5 grids that pay anywhere and fishing games you aim at. You can open almost any of them on practice credits once you are logged in, and when you want to play for money, a deposit starts at AU$7.

This page is the map. It explains how the lobby is organised, what separates one kind of pokie from another, and which gday007 guide to open for the question you have right now. Each guide does one job, so you can skip straight to the one you need.

Which guide answers what

New to pokies? Read them in this order: online pokies, then free pokies, then real money pokies. That way you know what a game does before you try it, and you have tried it before you spend anything on it.

The lobby in five families

A pokie's theme tells you very little. How it forms a win tells you a lot: whether wins arrive in small, regular amounts or mostly inside a bonus round, how busy the screen is, and how long the base game tends to feel between features. Nearly every game at gday007 fits one of these five families.

Hold and Win

Coin symbols lock in place and you get a few respins to land more. Fixed jackpots usually sit inside that round. Example: Power Sun XXL from 3 Oaks, with up to five collector suns and four fixed jackpots.

Pays anywhere and clusters

No paylines. Eight or more matching symbols anywhere on the grid pay, or a touching group does in a cluster game, and wins clear to let new symbols fall. Example: Starlight Princess from Pragmatic Play, where multipliers add together after each tumble.

Ways and Megaways

Matching symbols on neighbouring reels count in any row. Megaways games reshape the reels every spin, so the number of ways keeps changing. Example: Great Rhino Megaways, with over 200,000 ways on six reels.

Classic lines

Set paths across three or five reels, read left to right. The easiest to follow. Example: Big Red from Aristocrat, a five-line game with a kangaroo wild.

Fishing games

You aim and fire at moving targets instead of spinning reels, and each hit pays the target's multiplier. Example: Kirin Storm VIP from VPower, with score rewards up to 800x.

The online pokies guide takes each family in turn, with more titles and a comparison table.

Three figures that describe any pokie

Studios publish three numbers for most games, and gday007's guides quote them wherever they exist. When a figure is missing from a guide, open the game and check its information panel.

• RTP is the share of all money staked that a game is built to return across a very large number of spins. Big Red is listed at 97.04%, Queen of the Nile at 94.88%.
• Volatility describes how wins are spread out. A low rating means smaller, more regular returns; a high rating means long quiet stretches and bigger features.
• Max win is the most one round can pay, as a multiple of the bet. Starlight Princess lists 5,000x; Great Rhino Megaways lists 20,000x.

Not one of the three predicts a session. They describe a game's design, which helps you choose one that fits your budget and the kind of evening you want.

The studios behind the games

Forty-two studios supply the gday007 lobby. Eleven of the best known have their own guide on this site, each listing their titles with whatever figures the studio publishes. This is roughly what each one is known for at gday007:

If you already know you like a studio's style, filter the lobby by that provider. It is quicker than scrolling through thousands of tiles.

Try first, pay later

Every game in the guides can be played in demo mode once you log in to your gday007 account. A demo uses practice credits, so nothing you win or lose there touches your balance. It is the cheapest way to answer the questions a paytable cannot: how long the bonus round takes to show up, whether you enjoy the pace, and how big a normal win looks next to the bet.

A practical rule: give a new game 100 or so demo spins before you play it for money. If the feature has not appeared by then, you know a real-money session at that bet will need a bigger budget to see it. The demo guide shows where the demo option sits in the lobby.

The money side in four lines

The AU$7 entry point is the lowest part of the picture. The withdrawal minimum is AU$30, so a small deposit needs to grow before it can come back out. Plan with both numbers in mind.

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Pokies on your phone

gday007 runs in the browser on a phone or tablet, so there is nothing to install. Grid games and fishing games suit a portrait screen. Wide five-reel line games are easier to read if you turn the phone sideways. The figures and rules are the same on every screen size.

Keep pokies fun

Every spin is random, and no guide on this site can tell you when a game will pay. What the guides can do is show the published figures, explain what a feature does and help you pick a game that suits the session you want. Decide your budget before you deposit, stop when it is gone, and take a break if you notice yourself chasing a loss. gday007 live chat is open 24/7 if you want a deposit limit on your account, and free support services are listed on the gambling support page.

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