Razor Shark - Gamdom Casino

Razor Shark itself is in the slots lobby; these are other pokies and table games from the same lobby if you want a change of pace.

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Push Gaming released Razor Shark on 3 September 2019 as a deep-sea themed slot, and lists it as a Push Original. It plays on a 5x4 grid with 20 paylines. There are no ways-to-win, so the paylines are the only way a normal win is counted.

• 5Reels
• 4Rows
• 20Paylines
• HighVolatility

What a normal spin looks like

You choose a bet per spin and press spin. Five reels with four rows each stop, and any winning combination along one of the 20 paylines is paid at the multiple shown in the game's paytable. That much is the same as in any classic video pokie.

What sets Razor Shark apart is what can happen in the middle of a spin. Stacks of mystery symbols can land anywhere on the reels, a golden shark can turn them into small reels that pay on the spot, and three or more scatters open a free games round in which multipliers climb. The next section takes each of these in turn.

What Push does not publish

Push's game page gives the layout, the volatility and the features, but not the symbol values, the bet range, a hit rate or the max win. The symbol values sit in the paytable inside the game, and the bet range sits in the info panel that Gamdom shows for every slot. Gamdom also states a US$1,000 maximum slot bet, which is a site-wide cap and not a figure for this game.

Everything on this page that comes from Push is marked as Push's wording, and where there is no published figure the page says so instead of filling the gap. You can read the studio's own page at pushgaming.com.

RTP, return to player, is the share of all money staked that a slot pays back on average over a very large number of spins. The rest is the house edge. Push's Razor Shark page shows two figures, 96.70% and 94.06%, without labelling them, and adds that RTPs may vary per casino and that the RTP can be found in the user panel and on the game loading screen.

Which of the two Gamdom runs is not published, and Push does not list any other version on that page. So treat the table below as the maths for either version, not as a statement of what Gamdom's game does.

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The calculator shows the average over many spins, not a prediction of one session. Say you bet US$0.50 for 300 spins: that is US$150 staked, and the average cost is about US$4.95 at 96.70% against about US$8.91 at 94.06%. A real session of 300 spins on a high volatility game can end far above or far below that average, and a single big hit can swamp the maths for a night.

The gap between the versions is 2.64 percentage points, which is US$2.64 more on average for every US$100 staked. It sounds small, but it adds up quickly if you play a lot of spins, and it is the difference between a game worth a long session and one to keep short.

How to read the RTP in the game

• Open Razor Shark from the Gamdom slots lobby and wait for the game to load. Push says the RTP also appears on the loading screen.
• Open the info panel. Gamdom says that for any slot its RTP, volatility and bet range sit there before you spin.
• Compare the figure with the table. If it reads 96.70% or 94.06% you know which version you have; if it shows something else, trust the panel over this page.
• Check again in each mode: whether the demo runs the same version as the real-money game is not published.

Volatility and Gamdom's Increased RTP section

Push lists Razor Shark's volatility as High. In plain terms: expect more spins without a win and a wider spread between a quiet session and a big one. Push does not publish a hit rate, so there is no figure for how often it pays.

Gamdom also has an Increased RTP Games section, which it describes as titles with a boosted RTP above the usual industry rate, running as high as 99%. There is no list of titles in the sources behind this page, so whether Razor Shark is in it is not published. The info panel is again the place to look.

Gamdom's own texts say most slots offer a demo mode with play money, so you can try the reels and bonus features before staking anything real. One line elsewhere says all titles have it, which sits oddly with the other two, so the careful reading is "most". Live dealer games have no demo.

Whether the Razor Shark tile shows the demo switch is not published, because the game page only loads in a browser. Here is how to check in under a minute.

1. Open the game

   Find Razor Shark in the slots lobby and open it. Wait for the loading screen to finish.

2. Look for the switch

   Gamdom's labels are Demo Mode, or just Demo, for play money and Real mode for the real balance. If you see the switch, you can try Razor Shark for free.

3. Open the info panel

   Note the RTP, the volatility and the bet range, then change mode and look again, since the demo version is not stated to match the real one.

4. No switch? Ask

   If the tile has no demo, ask live chat. It runs 24/7 and can tell you what the account in front of it shows.

A demo is for learning the features: how Mystery Stacks land, what Razor Reveal pays, how the free games round builds. It does not tell you how a real session will go, and you cannot draw conclusions about RTP from a few dozen play-money spins. That is also why the figures on this page come from published sources and not from spins; the about page explains how each page is checked.

A high volatility pokie rewards patience and punishes chasing. Gamdom is for players 18 and over, and its settings and responsible gambling page give you tools that are worth setting before the first spin.

• Deposit limits

  Daily, weekly or monthly caps on what you can add to the account.

• Loss and wager limits

  A ceiling on what you lose or stake in a period, with an auto-stop in games.

• Session reminders

  Cooling-off prompts that tell you how long you have been playing.

• Self-exclusion

  1, 5 or 8 days in Settings, longer by contacting support, and binding once set.

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