3 Pots of Venice Slot Review

Betsoft is putting out hold-and-win games at a furious pace right now. 3 Pots of Venice is their third hold-and-win game this month (right on the heels of Good Girl Bad Girl 2 and The Queen of Social Media). It's also the third game in their "3 Pots" series since August last year. When a studio turns out this many similar games in a few weeks, the question isn't really "is this a good game?" It's more like, "is this version actually worth my bankroll compared to the other ones?"

The most frustrating thing about this slot is what I like to call "fake money." As you spin, you'll constantly see rose symbols land with 1x, 2x, or 5x printed right on them. Don't get excited, none of that is real money.

Those roses are basically just lottery tickets. They only matter if one of the three colored pots sitting above the reels randomly decides to wake up. Until then, you're just staring at coins the base game never pays. It's a design that teases a lot more than it rewards.

Underneath this illusion, the base game is drier than toast. It's highly volatile with a 96.20% RTP, but you're only going to hit a win about 18% of the time. And when you do? It's usually small. Five top symbols pay a meager 10x your bet, and a standard three-of-a-kind hit pays just 0.2x. You are relying entirely on those pots to save your session.

There's no meter to fill up. A pot triggers randomly when a rose lands. When one finally pops, the base game vanishes, and you get a classic hold-and-win bonus on a 15-cell grid. You start with 3 respins, and every time a coin lands, the respins reset. Coins are worth 1x to 20x, there are a few smaller jackpots, and if you manage to fill all 15 spots, you win the 4,000x Grand Prize.

The twist is that the pots change the rules of the bonus:

• The Green Pot (Extra): Gives you 4 starting respins instead of 3.
• The Red Pot (Multi): Drops 2x to 10x multipliers onto random spots, stacking to 20x at most, to boost the coins that land there.
• The Blue Pot (Double): The holy grail. It splits the screen into two completely separate boards, each with their own respins.

You can skip the line and buy the bonus, 55x your bet for one guaranteed pot, or 110x for two. But here's the catch: the game picks the pots for you.

You might drop 55x, get the boring Green pot, land a bunch of low-value coins, and walk away with a 33x win while the 4,000x Grand Prize sits empty in the last square. Or worse, you pay 110x for two pots, get the Double and Multi modifiers, and watch both boards stall at about half full, which is how my 110x buy came back at 45x, less than half its price. It's a big gamble.

This game advertises a massive 10,000x max win, which sounds great (it's far above Lunar Wolf's 3,936x, though Olympus went further at 11,075x). But they make it incredibly hard to actually get there.

Why? Because a single full board tops out at 4,000x. To even get close to that 10,000x cap, you must hit the Blue pot to get the double board. And because the game refuses to let you choose your modifier in the bonus buy, you can't just pay for a direct shot at the big money.

If you like high-risk, high-reward hold-and-win games, it's a decent time-killer. Just know going in that the real money is locked behind a random draw you have absolutely zero control over.