Winning Slot Machines Online. As promised, Iâll take a moment to touch on the topic of online slot machines, too. These games are different in some ways, so itâs not the same as picking the right slot machine at a live casino. The big difference is that internet casinos donât have massive bills to pay each month. How to Pick Out the Right Slot Machine and Increase Your Winnings Go for a Winning Slot with the Highest Payout. When playing slots online, you have to know which slot machines are the. Ascertain the Slotâs Volatility. The volatility of the slot game is another critical factor that needs to be.
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.
Remember, statistics supplied to state gaming commissions show that the odds of winning are, on average, somewhere around 90%. By assessing all available casinos, then selecting the best possible, youâve already improved your odds of winning â perhaps by several percentage points.
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Whatever your gambling goals are, weâll talk about those in the next step Identifying Gambling Goals. For now, we need to consider choosing slot machines that will most likely improve our overall odds even more.
So, weâve walked into our best casino to choose slot machines with the highest odds of winning we can find. How do we select a good slot machine? Most people donât â they dive right in without much of a plan. Well, we have a plan.
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Why? Because everybody says itâs all about luck. If you pick wrong, âWell,â they say, âbetter luck next time.â Remember, casino employees are trained to say things like that. If youâd won a jackpot instead, you can believe they would have said, âYouâre lucky! Iâll see you later when you win another jackpot!â
Slot attendants have a job to do, and it most certainly isnât to get you to leave when you should. And, itâs difficult to not to influenced by such comments. But, try not to be.
In the following sections, Iâll briefly explain the following aspects of choosing slot machines:
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:
Why is understanding these two types of odds significant when choosing slot machines? Because winning slot machines come in all jackpot sizes. Youâre still winning if youâre getting enough small jackpots that your bankroll isnât shrinking. Even if it is slowly depleting, the bankroll can last quite a bit longer, so thatâs 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? Of course, it depends on the age of the casino, as discussed in the previous step Assessing Casinos for Success, or if itâs been renovated lately.
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In my experience, older-style casinos change their slot machine odds every 7-10 days. Newer-style casinos can change their slot machine odds whenever the machine has been idle for 15 minutes or more, without a players club card inserted or the machine temporarily locked by a slot attendant.
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 lose comfortably.
Bankrolls quite literally determine which slot machines you can play. But, thereâs more to it than understanding a $100 bankroll lets you play a 1-credit, $100-denomination exactly once, with very, 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.) and the 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, they need to run for a while.
About 100-120 bets is the right amount to be prepared to play to determine if youâre 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 âbadâ machine. Trust your instincts!
If it is a poorly performing machine, a âtightâ slot machine, it wonât pay out anything at all. Quick decisions are necessary here, so limited betting gives a clue to its performance, yet still leaves enough to gamble with on another machine if it isnât â assuming you stop playing it as soon as you notice itâs not performing well enough.
So, 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 thatâs 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.
Always remember to play maximum credits for the highest odds of winning. Meaning, 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!
Reading a Slot Machineâs Paytable
When choosing a slot machine to play, a crucial aspect of winning is to review its paytable before playing. Frankly, the casino industry gains an advantage over players that donât read slot machine paytables.
Located somewhere on a slot machine is one or more tables showing the number of credits won if specific combinations of reel symbols appear in the pay line after the player makes a bet. Below is a relatively generic example of a paytable.
How To Pick Slot Machines That Will Pay
The figure shows reel combinations along with their jackpot depending on the number of credits bet. Paytables donât typically explain how much credits are worth. In general, the top row is the maximum jackpot of the machine.
Not every reel combination and its associated jackpot are usually shown in a paytable. Other reel combinations not shown in the top rows are also presented in the paytable area. Slot machines with WILD symbols can represent it with a myriad of other possible reel symbols.
A final element of paytable example provided is specific information on winning reel combinations, which can include an indication of how the slot machine operates during play. The bottom row of symbol explains that that slot machine has reel symbols which will move after the reels stop momentarily.
Such additional features may not activate until the maximum credits are bet. It can sometimes be difficult, or impossible, to determine this. Most slot machines with bonus rounds will provide at least some information about it within its paytable.
Developing a habit of reviewing and studying a slot machineâs paytable can help improve your ability to judge the financial risks involved with playing that slot machine.
How To Pick Slot MachinesHow to Avoid the Worst Slot Machines
The best way to improve the odds of winning via slot machine gambling is to stop making âsucker betsâ. In less colorful language, avoid playing slot machines with terrible odds of winning.
First and foremost, understand when choosing slot machines that there are indeed terrible slot machines at a casino. By merely avoiding them whenever possible, on average, your long-term gambling return will improve. Each time we raise our odds like this, weâre pushing closer to achieving our gambling goals. So, letâs make sure we do that, shall we?
Calculate this âGoodness Ratioâ as follows:
How To Pick Winning Slot Machines
This âGoodness Ratioâ tells us how worthwhile a specific slot machine is to play relative to others. By using this approach, any slot machine can be compared to any other slot machine.
How To Pick Slot Machines That Pay
Example: In the paytable above, the maximum jackpot is 2,400 credits with three maximum credits. Therefore, its Goodness Ratio is 2,400 / 3 = 800.
Repeat this calculation for slot machines of interest. While this Goodness Ratio will be similar for many slot machines, it can be startling to find âsucker betâ slot machines that might not otherwise be avoided.
Summary for Choosing Slot Machines
After a casino has been chosen, itâs time to select candidate slot machines most likely to result in a relatively high-value win. The size of your available bankroll, whatever it is, is an essential factor in this selection process. The bankroll size needs to be matched to the slot machineâs denomination and the number of maximum credits.
Here, weâve also discussed how slot machines calculated odds twice: once to determine if youâve won, and again to determine how much youâve won. Another critical aspect discussed to improve a playerâs performance was the basics of reading a slot machineâs paytable.
Finally, we talked about the âgoodnessâ ratio to help select candidate slot machines and, perhaps critically important when improving our odds of winning, knowing precisely which slot machines must be avoided.
Next Steps
The next step on your journey to improving slots performance is Identifying Gambling Goals. Enjoy!
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