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Why do you visit anonline or land-based casino? Do you go there to make money? Do yougamble just as a form of entertainment? Do you only gamble becauseyour friends are doing it? Irrespective of your reasons for visitinga casino, your goal will always be the same; to win. No one plans tolose in the casino no matter what. This is why you need to prepareyourself by learning as many tips and tricks as you can before youstart gambling. You should also be willing to make adjustments alongthe way. It’s true that gambling, especially slot machine gaming,depends significantly on chance but there are tricks you can employto bend the odds in your favor.
A typical slotmachine has a minimum of three spinning reels but some may have up to4 or 5 reels. All slot machines work the same way. Different symbolsare displayed on the reels and you play by spinning the reels. Youwill also need money to make the reels spin. When some of the symbolsmatch, you win a cash prize. Some sequences attract higher payoutsthan others. Your win or loss is determined by a chip inside themachine. If the machine has not tampered, it will pick the numbersrandomly using a random number generator software. The minute you hitstop, the machine stops at a random point and if you’re fortunate,you will win. Casinos are required to allow third-party organizationsto test their RNG software and make sure that they are not rigged.So, if the winning is random and each spin is independent, how do youincrease your chances of winning?
6 Tricks For WinningSlot Machine Games
1. Mind Where YouPlay
The first tip youneed if you want to make big wins is to mind where you play slotmachine games. There are many scam websites or dishonest casinoowners that rig the slot machines to reduce your chances of winning.If you play in these places, you will never hit the jackpot no matterhow many times you try. Apart from avoiding scam casinos, you alsoneed to make sure that you choose slot machines that are in strategiclocations if you’re in a landbased casino. Most casinos have roomsdedicated strictly to slot machines. Using a machine in a place withmany other slot machines is a good way to boost your chances ofwinning. This is because you can easily switch to another one whenyou’re losing on the first one. Playing on slot machines locatedoutside casinos may not be the best idea. It’s better to look formachines online than play on machines in unusual places like hotelreceptions, airports, or any other place with only one or twomachines.
2. Master the GameBy Playing For Free
Many casinos offerno deposit bonus codes to customers. With these bonuses, you don’tneed to deposit any money. All you have to do is use the codes toplay for free. If you’re interested in using online gaming slotmachines, consider looking for the machines that offer customers freespins. You will stand a chance to win without spending any money.When you’ve become used to slot machine games, you can start usingyour money to wager on different machines. Some machines offerbetween $5 to $25 free chips to people without requiring anydeposits. Some online casinos offer higher bonuses but require thatthe player deposits before they can make use of the bonus amount.
3. Make a ChoiceBetween Progressive And Random Jackpots
Slot machines withrandom jackpots are more likely to get you massive payouts but lesslikely to pay frequently. Most casinos have two models of slotmachines; progressive and fixed slot machines. As the name implies,the fixed slot machines don’t change the payout amount. The jackpotwill always be the same irrespective of the sequence you hit. On theother hand, progressive slot machines tend to change as people usethem more frequently. Keep in mind that the payout from a progressiveslot machine can also move lower. The difference between playing agame on a progressive machine and a fixed machine is that the chancesof hitting a major random jackpot are higher on progressive machines.However, it’s more difficult to hit the jackpot with these sorts ofmachines. With the fixed machine, the frequency of winning is usuallyhigher but the jackpot may not be high. If you’re a patient personwho is ready to take the chance, you should go for progressive slotmachines because your chances of winning will be similar to thechances of a lottery winner hitting the jackpot. Otherwise, youshould stick to fixed slot machines with higher payout frequency butlower jackpot amounts.
4. Always Check ThePay Tables
Before you startyour slot machine game, you must check the pay tables and pay lines.Payout rates vary from machine to machine and picking a machine withhigh payout rates increases your chances of winning. In the casinoworld, this high payout rate is called “return to player rate”.The setup of the machine is going to determine the payout rate and itis usually clearly stated on the machine. If you’re playing in anonline casino, check the rules menu for information about the payoutrates. Also, make sure you pick the machines with the most bonusfeatures and best pay lines.
5. Focus on theLoosest Online Slot Machines
It’s not unusual forgamers to become attached to a single slot machine for any reason.However, you mustn’t add any sentiments to gambling. Even if you havea particular slot machine you prefer to others, you should make surethat you explore with different options. Loose slot machines payoutmore frequently than others. There is no need to keep wasting moneyon a slot machine that never pays you. Be willing to move on to thenext available option when you’re on a losing streak. Contrary topopular opinion, each spin is independent. The first one doesn’tinfluence the second and the second doesn’t influence the last. So,you should never believe the gambler’s fallacy that losing streaksmust be followed by winning streaks and vice versa. Changing machinesfrom time to time is also a good way to get more bonuses and freespins. You will increase your chances of hitting the jackpotsignificantly.
6. Work With aBudget
Make sure that youwork with a budget when you’re gambling. This is because gambling canbe fun but it can also be highly addictive. This is why you need toset and follow a budget. It takes a lot of self-control to stick toyour gambling budget but it’s the only way to avoid gambling debt andgambling addiction. You should know that you have a gambling problemif you can’t stop gambling even when you run out of money and have toborrow or take a loan. There is also a problem when you can’t stopgambling even when you have something important to do but you spendthe time on slot machines instead. The best way to handle this is tostop gambling entirely for the main time and make yourselfaccountable to someone. The person you are accountable for can beyour significant order, your friend or your parents. If you stillcan’t control yourself, you should consider seeking professional helpand joining a meeting for compulsive gamblers.
The bottom line isthat there are several tricks and tips you can implement to increasethe chances of winning when you play slot machine games. However,keep in mind that irrespective of the tricks above, a significantportion of the game still depends on chance. So, don’t be too hard onyourself if you don’t hit the jackpot despite your best efforts. Youcan also consider trying your hand with other casino games like tablegames and roulette. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have anyexperience playing these games. You can always start small andprogress slowly until you become a master. Most of these tables andcard games depend on strategies a lot. So, if you learn the rightstrategies, you’ll have a higher chance of winning in card games andtable games that depend on strategies compared to slot machine gamesthat depend on chance.
Introduction to High Roller Slots Tricks
This blog continues our journey of winning strategies for slot machine casino gambling. Here, I’ll be explaining to you three easy high roller slots tricks. Now, please understand I’m not trying to turn you into a full-time high-limit slot machine gambler! Not at all!
As I’ll explain, there are some very inexpensive slots winning strategies which can be applied to more than just low limit slots. They can also be rather cheaply used, with only a few bets, on a $1 to $5 denomination high limit slot machine.
The three tricks you should know about involve applying a few of the winning strategies I’ve already discussed, as well as a new slots strategy, winning strategy #6, I’ll be explaining in full momentarily. Here goes!
This article has the following sections:
- Introduction
- 1st Trick: Use Winning Strategy 1 in a High Limit Slots Area
- 2nd Trick: Combining Winning Strategies #1 and #7
- 3rd Trick: If a Slot Machine Shows a Win, BET ONCE
- How Long Does a Slot Machine Need to be Idle?
- Play High Limit Slot Machines When Appropriate – Carefully!
- Summary
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1st Trick: Use Winning Strategy #1 in a High Limit Slots Area
One interesting pattern I’d noticed at a relatively medium-sized casino had to do with a simple observation. At this local casino, I saw that I would win once when I first sit down, but not win again for some time.
This pattern recognition is a slots strategy I’ve mentioned before, explicitly Winning Strategy 1: Only Win Immediately and my Professor Slots podcast episode #23.
By using this approach, we can take advantage of a common practice found at many casinos, where they provide an initial winning taste.
The first dozen times I visited the high limit slots area at this small, local casino, I found it odd that I would win a jackpot during the first few pushes of the button. But, then, I would spend thousands of dollars without so much as another hit.
I don’t mean I wouldn’t have another taxable jackpot, but that I wouldn’t win anything whatsoever. It just seemed odd. Or, put another way, it was statistically unlikely to be randomly happening so consistently and often, visit after visit after visit.
As an aside, don’t worry too much about all the money I was spending. Unbeknownst to me at the time, each $100 spent these three months earned one more entry for the drawing of a car – which I would end up winning. I tell that story in:
As a second aside, the money I was spending was significant slots winnings from another local casino where I was consistently making quite a profit using Winning Strategy 7, the topic of my next blog article.
2nd Trick: Combining Winning Strategies #1 and #7
Let’s back to the story of what I learned and how I learned it. At the time, I even struck up a conversation with one of the slot operators. In that helpful interview, I asked them when were people winning jackpots and on which machines were they doing it?
This slot attendant helpfully told me about a slots player who had recently gone from one machine to another winning about eight total jackpots in a row in the high limit slots area.
I found this other slots player’s approach very intriguing, to say the least, and have since tried to employ my Winning Strategy 7 alongside playing each machine up to 5 times. By doing so, I’ve found that my annual return for this strategy alone resulted in a 150% profit over my original bankroll.
However, I’d only been using this strategy for four months since this casino opened, and felt I’d need to continue doing it for about a year to be convinced that it wasn’t either temporary or due to having limited data.
Today, I see this as an error on my part, and probably a severe loss of winnings. Winning slots strategies exist, and you can find them yourself – if you can believe your own eyes.
The area most people get stuck on is this: They don’t believe these strategies are possible, and it’s hard to try it yourself they do when you’ve already convinced yourself it’s impossible.
It doesn’t help that most winning strategies are relatively new, and based on the latest casino technologies that started being installed in new casinos since 2012.
Getting down off my usual soapbox, and back on topic, I have found this combination of winning strategies to be the cheapest approach yet to slot machine gambling, while resulting in the highest profit margin.
Using it at my local casino required only $500 per visit and $250 in return on most visits without a taxable jackpot. But then there are the taxable jackpots won, which are more than a few of the typical jackpot winnings on high limit slot machines.
As I’m sure you understand, a single $4,000 taxable jackpot pays for many subsequent visits.
Again, so far, this is all further storytelling about the experiences which resulted in my discovery of Winning Strategy 1 and how to best use it in conjunction with another winning strategy I knew. But, next, I learned a strategy I didn’t already know.
3rd Trick: If a Slot Machine Shows a Win, BET ONCE
By using these known strategies, yet another approach grew out of them. It’s easy, simple, and quite inexpensive. And, it’s completely counter-intuitive to what most slots players will tell you to do. But, because they feel this way is the reason why it works.
Slots players will tell you it is essential to check the machine’s last play. If it shows a winner then, in general, skip that machine. Don’t play it, is the general advice. I say phooey, but with a small caveat I’ll pull from Winning Strategy 1.
My third trick is this: If a slot machine is showing a win, BET ONCE. However, avoid that machine if it’s been played recently.
For this to work, if it is going to work, a slot machine showing a win needs to be idle for a while, and probably hasn’t been idle if its chair is still pulled out. That the chair is even pulled out is a beautiful clue it was used relatively recently.
Why does this work? At some casinos that set up their slot machines to offer an initial taste, the first push of the button of a high limit slot machine will win either a “small” nontaxable jackpot worth several hundred dollars or a more massive taxable jackpot over $1,200.
For example, I happened to be in the casino one Saturday evening, to take care of some tax paperwork having to do with winning a car the night before, and noticed that one of the $100 high limit slot machines was showing a $1,000 win. I didn’t think much of such a small jackpot, as it was not even taxable, but it was something I noticed.
When I went back to the casino the next morning, I noticed that that same machine had the identical winning reel combination showing on it. To me, this indicated that no one had played that machine for just over one day.
At first, I didn’t think much of it. But then, standing there looking at it, I got to thinking about my strategies. And, standing there thinking it through, I learned something.
Previously, my strategy was not to play any slot machine if it showed a win. But, I started to think, what if I was winning at one push of a button on machines that hadn’t been played for some time? Was this perhaps a refinement of a known strategy?
As usual, theory metaphorically in hand, I decided to test it. I walked over to the $100 machine showing the $1,000 win, placed my player’s card along with $100 in the machine, pressed the bet button, and immediately won a $5,000 taxable jackpot.
To date, this is the only time when I’ve won any taxable jackpot on a $100-denomination slot machine. Although, using this strategy at the same casino, shortly later I did win $500 with a single 1-credit bet on another $100 slot machine.
How Long Does a Slot Machine Need to be Idle?
One loose end with using this strategy is the question of how long does a slot machine need to be idle for it to turn into a winning slot machine via this strategy? The honest and straightforward answer is: I don’t know. But, consider my observations.
I’ve found more slot machines are winners with this strategy if I attend the casino on a Saturday morning (especially after a busy Friday night) or mid-afternoon on Sundays.
That’s because these are typically the most extended times when slot machines aren’t played, and being idle for some time matters. But, how long does it need to be inactive, you ask? I’m still piecing together clues about this.
Another clue comes from Eric Rosenthal, from whom I have second-hand information. He knows someone he trusts from within a slots manufacturer who told him that slot machines reset whenever a voucher is printed.
That’s interesting. If true, it means idle means no time at all. So, that information alone may be enough to tell you how long idle is – but I don’t think so.
Why? Because I’ve seen 30 minutes work when an immediate next player did not. Other times, I’ve seen it work after it’s been idle for hours only. Another area of uncertainty is maybe, more like probably, different casinos are set up differently.
But, I have put some effort into trying to figure this out. After some thought, one week later I went back to the casino and took handwritten notes of all the current spin reels showing on all the high limit slot machines at that casino.
Slightly over a day later, I went back to that casino with the intent of executing the usual strategy but brought extra cash with which to push the button once on any high limit slot machine still showing the same reel spin from the previous day.
Unfortunately, that day was a beautiful day in January with moderately high temperatures not seen in months. Somehow, for this reason, the casino and high limit slot machine room were incredibly busy.
I mention this because, when checking the reel spins on each slot machine, I found that ALL slot machines had been played. I then went ahead playing my usual strategy and, to my slight dismay, I didn’t win a single time despite four immediately prior visits where I made 50-60% over the bankroll I’d brought.
What I learned from this confirmation, such as it was, was that it was the wins I had seen when using my unrefined strategy of 5 pulls then stop was occurring on slot machines which had not been played for a while. That is to say, I had been winning on idle slot machines.
So, during busy periods in the high limit slot room which, by the way, isn’t necessarily the same times when the overall casino itself is active, I learned that I shouldn’t use this strategy. Not then, anyway.
All I can say is, where casinos have set up this winning strategy, winning slot machines need to be idle for a while. This bit of information may not seem like much – but it’s something once considered impossible which evidence now suggests isn’t any longer.
And, being the savvy slots enthusiast I know you are, I expect you’ll make the most out of it.
Play High Limit Slot Machines When Appropriate – Carefully!
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So, let’s continue to talk about getting the most out of my winning strategies. The whole point of these specific strategies is that they don’t require much money to try out. Not to be too blunt about it, why wouldn’t you try out inexpensive strategies in the high limit slots area?
I suppose I first noticed this myself at Seminole Brighton Casino in Florida in October 2019 and earlier at Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut in April 2018.
Only afterward did I think, while I’m here why don’t I try out the winning strategies I’ve just figured out in the high limit slots area?
Unfortunately, this idea came to me only after I left both places. But, here it is for you. If you have figured out a winning slots strategy that appears to work at a casino, consider trying it in the high limit slots area.
This suggestion is especially valid if the specific slots strategy you’ve found to work outside of the high limit area doesn’t require much bankroll to win. If only a small bankroll is needed, or if you’re willing to risk a larger bankroll if it doesn’t, consider one way to optimize your strategy – by bringing it into the high limit slots area. Carefully, of course.
For those who have read my blog article Seminole Brighton Casino Florida Trip Report, these follow up thoughts for using a working strategy on high limit slots should work quite well there.
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However, for those who have read my blog article Easily Win a Little at Slots at Foxwoods Casino Connecticut, I’d caution against this approach there.
As Dr. Mike from the You Can Bet on That podcast very well knows (I was sitting near him at the time), you can win a couple of hundred dollars on a high limit slot machine there within the first few bets.
But, the problem is, you can do the same thing on a low limit slot machines. So, use the winning strategy I described outside of the high limit area to bet less for corresponding winnings. Your profit will be more substantial.
Summary of High Roller Slots Tricks
In review, I’ve pointed out the easy application of two past winning slots strategies, along with a new winning strategy, which would require only a few bets on a high limit slot machine.
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From a high level, the three easy high roller slots tricks I’ve outlined are merely pointing out that the winning strategies you worked hard to uncover at the casino you frequent can be leveraged, perhaps even optimized, in the high limit slots area with relatively little risk.
Because, finding that a winning strategy which works
If your gambling goal is entertainment, as with more slots enthusiasts, then getting a W-2G for having won a taxable jackpot would be exciting. I know my first W-2G was very exciting and, quite honestly, you never really get tired of winning them.
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If your gambling goal is earning comps, then you’ll undoubtedly earn players clubs point by making bets on high limit slot machines. But, more importantly, some or all of winnings received in the high limit slots area can be spent on low limit slots.
Finally, is winning take-home money your gambling goal? Well, you’ll earn that money with little cash spent. If, as always, the casino you’re at has been set up by their operator such that one or more of these approaches will work.
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