Introduction to Choosing Slot Machines
Once a specific casino has been determined to currently be the best of any available, choosing slot machines becomes the next step towards making a profit at slots.
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Have a Plan
Why don’t more slots enthusiasts have a plan? Because too many think it’s all about luck. Therefore, don’t bother trying? What?!
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And if you pick wrong, “Well,” they say, “better luck next time.” Remember, casino employees are trained to say things like that. If you’d won a jackpot instead, you can believe they would have said, “You’re lucky! I’ll see you later when you win another jackpot!”
Slot attendants have a job to do, and it most certainly isn’t to get you to leave when you should. And it’s difficult to not to influenced by such comments. But try not to be.
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Two Separate Odds of Winning
The odds of winning for a slot machine is a limited number of settings from the manufacturer. Besides understanding limited settings are available, it may help to understand that slot machines have two odds of winning to determine:
- If a player will or will not win anything
- How much that win will be, i.e., the jackpot amount
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Why is understanding these two types of odds significant when choosing slot machines? Because winning slot machines come in all jackpot sizes. You’re still winning if you’re getting enough small jackpots that your bankroll isn’t shrinking. Even if it is slowly depleting, the bankroll can last quite a bit longer, so that’s also a winning slot machine.
Winning many jackpots this way is bankroll cycling. It may not seem very satisfactory, but whether it does or not depends entirely on what your gambling goals are. One type of gambling goal, earning maximum complimentary gifts, is most often achieved via bankroll cycling.
Another point about setting slot machine odds is, how often they change? In my experience, at any moment but on the hour and half-hour are most likely. This is, if the casinos decided in advance the odds needed to be changed according to their schedule.
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Matching Bankrolls to Denomination/Credits
Only you can decide how much bankroll you want to risk gambling. I highly recommend bringing only as much money you can safely afford to comfortably lose.
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Bankrolls quite literally determine which slot machines you can play. But there’s more to it than understanding a $100 bankroll lets you play a 1-credit, $100-denomination exactly once, with very little chance of winning. Whatever bankroll you have limits which slot machines can be played and how much it can be played.
Slot machines have denominations ($0.01, $0.25, $1, $5, $10, etc.) along with the minimum and maximum credits that can be placed in a single bet. Slot machines typically must run for a while before wins become more likely. Yes, wins can occur at the first press of a button.
They can also happen within the first few bets, where casinos offer a taste. But usually, you need to give them a chance. But not too much of a chance!
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About 100-120 bets is the right amount to be prepared to play to determine if you’re sitting at a winning (or breakeven) slot machine. Yes, be careful initially, perhaps making as few as 20 bets, to determine if it happens to be a “bad” machine. Trust your instincts!
If it is a poorly performing machine, a “tight” slot machine, it won’t pay out anything at all. Quick decisions are necessary here, yet limited betting gives a clue to its performance while still leaves enough to gamble with on another machine if it isn’t. Assuming you stop playing it as soon as you notice it’s not performing well enough.
Again, YOU determine how much bankroll you can afford to spend. Now, take that number and divide it by 120 bets. If your bankroll is $60, then that’s 50 cents per bet. In such a way, the right choice is a 2-credit, quarter-denomination slot machine. Or, a 50-credit, penny-denomination slot machine.
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Your casino may not have a 2-maximum-credit quarter or 50-maximum-credit penny machines. But perhaps they have a 1-maximum-credit quarter or less-than-50-maximum-credits penny machines. Such slot machines would provide more than 120 bets of play, which is going in the right direction!
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A Slot Machine Assessment Tool
My 5-spin method is a winning slots strategy at 1-in-4 casinos that give out tastes. But it’s so much more than that. It’s also a slot machine assessment tool to choose candidate winning slot machine.
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Newbies use this method to win at their casino. But it takes a hot minute to realize its extreme versatility. Using it, make minimum bets on twenty machines and you’ll see what I mean.
You’ll find yourself pausing on a slots machine you’d just won on. Should you continue to play the rest of the machines? Or play this candidate winning slot machine longer?
What do you think? Yes, play it! Not a lot, but just enough to learn if it is more than a candidate winner, but an actual winning slot machine.
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Summary of Choosing Slot Machines
Choosing slot machines becomes the next step towards making a profit at slots. What it comes down to is, don’t randomly pick which slot machine to play. Meaning, have a plan!
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