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The 5-Spin Method is So Very Much More Than That

May 17, 2023 By Jon Friedl - Professor Slots

Introduction to the 5 Spin Method

My 5 Spin Method has over 1.5 million views on YouTube. And it’s more than just a way to win at slots. It’s also a slot machine and casino assessment tool you can use to succeed during your casino visit.

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A Hot Minute Later…

The 5 Spin Method is deceptively simple to explain. But what this winning slot strategy accomplishes for you is sophisticated. But first, what is it?

Here’s what to do. Sit down at a slot machine and make up to five bets. But stop playing if you win anything, even if it’s less than how much you bet. This win is called a taste.

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Next, move to another slot machine and repeat. What you are doing is collecting tastes. Do this on slot machine after slot machine.

When you do this, after about a hot minute, you’ll stop being a newbie slots player. What’ll happen is you’ll start asking questions. As well you should, because that’s what advanced players do.

Four stopwatches in a row [5 Spin Method]
Four stopwatches in a row [5 Spin Method]

But What If You Win a Lot?

As you move from slot machine to slot machine, you’ll eventually find a slot machine on which you’ll win a lot and not want to leave. So, what do you do? At Peppermill Casino in Reno earlier today, I won $188 on my first 88-cent minimum bet.

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If you are a newbie slots player, stick with the 5 Spin Method and keep collecting tastes from other slot machines. But a moment of thought leads to other ideas. Maybe this slot machine would continue to be a winner if you continued to play?

Maybe. Perhaps the casino set that slot machine to have winning odds at that time and that day. But the newbie sticks to the 5 Spin Method while the advanced user a minute later does what, exactly?

Eight U.S. $100 bills on a table [5 Spin Method]
Eight U.S. $100 bills on a table [5 Spin Method]

Tough Love!

The advanced player uses another plan: my Tough Love Approach. They pause my 5 Spin Method and further evaluate that candidate slot machine to check if it is a winner. That’s what winners do.

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Unfortunately, continuing to play that slot machine looks like an out-of-control slots player would do. Because many, many slots players who use my winning slots strategies to win suddenly find out something about themselves. They want to return their winnings to the casino and leave with nothing.

Which type of slots player are you? The player with a plan, even two? Or will you give it all back like so many others?

Whichever happens, I make no judgments. It can be fun to blow your winnings. Which among us hasn’t done that?

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But maybe you want to get some or all those winnings home. And that means yet another plan or two. Your big-picture plans!

Portrait of an unsmiling woman [5 Spin Method]
Portrait of an unsmiling woman [5 Spin Method]

Slot Machine Assessment Tool

The 5 Spin Method is an assessment tool. Of what, you ask? First, use it to assess slot machines.

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When I visit new-to-me casinos in my casino reviews, I use my 5 Spin Method to “find” winning slot machines. You can watch this in my 5 Spin Method demonstration videos on YouTube. Play twenty, fifty, or more slot machines at your casino to “find” candidate winning slots.

It may take several visits, but it won’t be long before you know which slot machines to play and which to avoid. Soon, you’ll “learn your casino.” Learn it well to win at slots, in this way and others as you travel on your slots journey.

An assortment of useful hand tools [5 Spin Method]
An assortment of useful hand tools [5 Spin Method]

Casino Assessment Tool

Second, use my 5 Spin Method to assess your casino during your visit. Yes, other ways to assess your casino don’t require spending money. But that’s another winning slots strategy, Casino Observations.

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Slot machine manufacturers do more than make slot machines. They also make central servers for casinos that control the odds of slot machines within legal limits. These operating systems arrived in 2012, and casinos were so excited that all casinos which could have them got them.

What’s going on can be hard to understand, but that’s usually because players have been misled or don’t want to know. I’m so sorry about the misleading information from 2009 by a table game expert thinking odds on slots were like the odds of a card game. And if you don’t want to know, I’ll see you later as others are more important because they want my help.

Every casino has lots of player marketing data. They know when people arrive on sunny days, rainy days, in the fall, when spring arrives, and so much else. They know what to do on each day of the week and hour of the day.

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Casinos don’t adjust the odds of winning because you sit down at a slot machine. Not unless you’re Brian Christopher and scheduled your visit a few weeks ago. If you are BC, let me say: Big fan, sir, and well done!

Use my 5 Spin Method with minimum bets to assess your casino when you arrive. If your wins are few and far between, take a break and find something else to do. Because you’re looking for that day and time when the casino scheduled wins on a few slot machines weeks ago.

Checking if your casino is on the level [5 Spin Method]
Checking if your casino is on the level [5 Spin Method]

Built-In Bankroll Management Techniques

Part of the sophistication of my 5 Spin Method, as if what I’ve already mentioned wasn’t enough, is that it has built-in loss limit and preserving gains slots bankroll management techniques.

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Loss limits are just like it sounds. You’re only making up to five bets at each slot machine. That will limit your losses which, all by itself at casinos that don’t have tastes, will help you play longer.

Preserving gains is also just like it sounds. With my 5 Spin Method, you walk away with whatever you’ve won. You get to keep your winnings.

A $100 bill money management jigsaw puzzle [5 Spin Method]
A $100 bill money management jigsaw puzzle [5 Spin Method]

Probability Distributions: Scary, Scary!

My apologies. I didn’t mean to scare you with calculus. I mean, the branch of mathematics called statistics.

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If you like slots, then knowing something about statistics helps. But what if you don’t know statistics? Well, let me try explaining without using words you don’t understand.

If you roll a six-sided die, it will land on a side. And there is an equal chance it will land on one of those sides. This type of random behavior is called a uniform distribution.

And slot machines are random, but they don’t have an equal chance for every possible outcome of a bet. Why not? Because then the top jackpot would be just as likely as a zero win.

And casinos most certainly don’t want that. So, they made their six-sided die out of clay and then deformed it. Now, some sides are smaller and less likely to be landed on, while others are bigger and more likely to be landed upon.

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The size of each side determines the random distribution. And slot machine outcomes are similarly varied. Slot machine manufacturers provide many random distributions from which casinos can select as desired.

The casino’s central server applies the desired random distribution at any scheduled time. I’m sorry if this statistical principle blows the lid off how you thought slot machines worked. It’s just computer engineering.

Four six-sided dice with equal sides [5 Spin Method]
Four six-sided dice with equal sides [5 Spin Method]

Tip of the Iceberg

There’s much more to tell you about using my 5 Spin Method. There’s using it in a high-limit slot machine room. And whether you should use eight spins instead of five at your casino for better results.

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And don’t forget to optimize WHICH slot machines you play by choosing them carefully. Highly Visible Locations are so helpful. And then there’s WHEN to use my 5 Spin Method, like at 4 a.m. after a Holiday Celebration.

In the future, I’ll expand on many other ways to use my 5 Spin Method at your casino. Both where it works and where it doesn’t work. I’m looking at you, Washington State, although the built-in money management techniques make it seem like it does.

A blue iceberg in Antarctica with hidden depths [5 Spin Method]
A blue iceberg in Antarctica with hidden depths [5 Spin Method]

Summary of the 5 Spin Method

If you’re a beginner slots enthusiast, use my 5 Spin Method at your casino to win more often at slots. But remember, it won’t take a hot minute before you become an advanced user. Good luck!

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