Tricks On Winning Slots Machines

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!
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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!

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.

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.

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 is a huge accomplishment, for which you should be proud to have uncovered. But, don’t stop with finding it, even if it was with my help. Your next step is, as always, to work closer to accomplishing your gambling goals.

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.

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.

Slots Machine Strategy Survivors Stick to their Budget and Don’t Stray

Despite the fact that the online world is a mysterious place chock-full of slot machines many of which would be absolutely impossible to describe or even name adequately and properly, this does not mean that there are not a number of general tips and ideas on how to maximize the chance of you leaving your game with a win fit for a king (or queen). There are nuggets of advice you can take into account if you want to learn how to win slots machines.

Remember that age old idiom: “He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day”, well, when it comes to casino and slots strategy in particular this tried and tested advice holds pretty firm. If you want to last longer in the game, the easiest way to do so is to pick a slot machine which suits your bankroll and budget because inevitably, the higher bets you make in comparison to your budget, the sooner it will be time to call it a day and get off the slots stage.

Despite the fact that it should go without saying, many players get burnt out very early in the evening by getting cocky, complacent and by taking unnecessary risks. In the same way that you can’t by a Ferrari with FIAT budget, if you only have $100 to spend on your gambling session, you will need to play a much lower amount than you would if you had $2,000. The marvellous thing about online slots though is that the betting range on the virtual machines is always very, very wide which means that you can bet anything from a few cents per line up to a $100, thus, even if you start out with a small budget that you wouldn’t write home about, you’ll still be able to get a lot of playing time in.

The basic rule you need to stick to if you’re trying to play wise is: ALWAYS decide on how much you’re willing to lose BEFORE you start playing. The reality is that while this is not in itself a hard thing to do, the tricky part is actually managing to stick to the budget decided on which is something of tantamount necessity if you want prolonged play of Slots online.

Betting the Maximum Without Bankrupting Yourself

When it comes to betting in the online slots world, there are two main choices you have to make:

• How much each coin should be worth
• How many coins you should bet

Something important to keep in mind from the get-go when speaking about slots machine strategy is the fact that although betting one coin worth $1 may sound exactly like the same thing as betting four coins worth $0.25, the fact of the matter is that the latter option often gives you a better chance to get a big win as you’ve physically multiplied your chances.

How is this even possible?

Usually, a slot machine offers the same payout for one, two, and three coins and your win is simply multiplied by x1, x2, and x3 respectively. However, when you bet the maximum, your winnings are often multiplied by a higher number than the amount of coins wagered. Furthermore, more often than not, the big jackpots of both the progressive as well as the regular variety are only triggered when you’ve spun the reels for the full amount. On the whole, you play with slightly better odds if you bet max coins. Always make sure to read the information on the front of the machine and make sure you understand the payout schedule BEFORE YOU PLAY – there’s simply no use in crying over spilt milk or lost opportunities.

Tricks To Playing Slot Machine

Winning a Slots Machine - More Paylines, More Coins?

To fully take advantage of the melange of possibilities in slots machine strategy, you have to understand and embrace the concept of the payline. The payline is an important part of both live and online slots strategy as most multi-line/multi-coin (video) slots are straight multipliers which means that there's no bonus for playing more coins, thus, the number of coins you bet on a line and the number of lines you play do not always affect the long-term payback. That said, the more you spread out your bet over more paylines, the greater the chance you have of decreasing the volatility you'll experience because you have introduced more ways to win a portion of your bet. The more paylines you play, the lower the volatility and the greater the chance of winning a slot machine jackpot.

When it comes to machines offering paylines, some machines can have as much as 25 paylines and to be eligible for the max payout you usually have to bet max on all of them. If you play the maximum amount of coins on one payline out of 5, you will not win the largest payouts or the progressive jackpot for that matter. With progressive games such as Mega Moolah slot or slots with a large number of paylines like the Game of Thrones slot 243 ways-to-win, you need to be cautious of the amounts you bet. Indeed, in order for a big win slots machine, you must play not only maximum coins but also maximum paylines.

Slot Machine Tips And Tricks

However, playing this way does have an evident downside as it will obviously cost a lot more so you’ll have to adjust the coin nomination even further downwards. Rather than playing single coins on a $1 machine, the savvy player should play 4 coins and 5 lines on a 5c machine. Not only will this maximise your expected value, but let’s face it, is there any better feeling than seeing your entire screen full of paylines branching into each and every possible direction.

'Hot' and 'Cold' Machines: The Much Loved Myth

If you’re scratching your head thinking you haven’t read our title right, you won’t be the first and you certainly aren’t going to be the last. In plain English, a “cold” slot machine is a machine which hasn’t had a payout in long time whereas a “hot” machine is the opposite. Okay, but why should I care about when the last payout has happened I hear you ask. Well, the truth is you shouldn’t – you REALLY shouldn’t.

In the past, many a seasoned veteran who should have known far far better allowed himself to be carried away on the shaky seas of hope and in some cases, downright wishful thinking. Despite the fact that many a person has hedged his bets on the fact that a machine had just paid up in full or the opposite time and time again, the truth is the point at which a slots machine decides to shed its cash has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH THE LAST TIME IT PAID OUT.

The reality is a very sad and simple one, however desperate you get and however many opinions you receive, do yourself and your wallet a favour and do not listen to those voices. They will be there; they will nag you and tell you to make just one more tiny real money bet but you must stand strong and ignore them. Ultimately (and tell your friends you heard it here first), the hot/cold theory is nothing more than a lie we tell ourselves to make sense out of the madness and chaos that tends to engulf us when we are losing money and seem unable to walk away.

Frankly, other than the stated payback (return to player rate) of the machine, there is no reason a slot machine should be more “hot” or “cold” than any other and unfortunately, a slot machine which has just paid out, or not paid out, has the same chances of paying out on your next spin because the machine is not governed by any form of pattern. As bleak and awful this information may seem to some, there’s a reason why slot machines are governed by random number generators, and it’s not because there’s some hidden code that people haven’t been able to decipher yet. Let’s face it guys, if people could tell whether a machine was about to burst or not just by looking at it, there’d be a lot of unemployed and very rich people schmoozing about on the strip wearing Dior and donning the latest Birkin. You simply can’t tell if a machine will burst by looking at when the last time it paid out was.

It’s random for a reason – so the game is fair and so it’s a game of pure chance and luck. A machine that has just paid out has the same percentage chance of paying out on the next spin as it always did regardless of whether or not you danced around its vacant lever three times whilst chanting the Chakras on a wet afternoon in your underwear. A machine that has gone many spins without a payoff is no more “due” on the next spin than any other machine with the same payback setting.

Odds of Winning Slots Machines

Let’s face it, you’d have to have lived under a pretty large rock to not have heard the popular phrase: “The house always wins.” In a game like blackjack, for example, a player can reduce the house edge to around one percent with correct basic strategy. In other words, a player can expect to lose fifty cents on average for every $100 wagered. However, in slots, there is no human component, which makes the game a little different. Despite the fact that all slot machines virtual or otherwise are now endowed with random number generators, the fact of the matter is that slot machines are constructed in such a way that in their overall life span, the casino will have an edge. When playing, one must keep in mind that it’s not just slots that have this “problem” but that ultimately, all casino games incorporate odds and the odds at which a player wins are shorter than the true odds of the win happening. The difference between these odds is the house edge. So how do you beat that? Indeed, the answer to this conundrum is deceptively simple - some machines are designed to pay out far more than others.

Looking for a 'loose' machine

Although no one puts up this information on a billboard for all to see, the universal reality of the slots machine is ultimately easy as pie to understand – while many machines are put together in such a way that players can look forward to lots of little wins but no big ones, other machines are manufactured in such a way that they will give out big wins but no little ones – it’s up to you to be able to learn the subtle and sometimes not so subtle differences between the two. Programmed machines pay a certain percentage of each dollar wagered. For example, a 90 percent payback machine will pay out 90 cents for every dollar it took in. This would represent a house edge of 10 percent, since the slot machine is collecting 10 cents out of every dollar on average. This does not mean you will immediately get back 90 cents if you put a dollar in a slot machine. Over time, the machine will end up keeping 10 cents on the dollar.

The first thing the player needs to do is get to know the return to player rate of a machine, this should be quite readily available and is usually on average about 90% to 97% - the higher the percentage, the greater your chances of the machine paying out. It really does pay for you to give extra attention to the pay table. When it comes down to brass tacks, how much and how frequently a slot machine pays out is subject to the variance or the volatility of the slot or “hit rate”). In order to remember how this works, it’s important to keep this sentence in mind when playing: “The higher the variance, the higher the risk BUT the higher the payout AND the lower the variance, the lower the risk BUT the lower the payout.

Since we are pretty much dedicated to NOT keeping you in the dark about anything, we at CasinoTop10 advise our players to start with very small bets and take note of how the machine reacts towards their input. Does the machine pay out frequently but not great amounts? Is it taking a lot of time to give you back money, but when it does, it makes up for it in the amount? The beauty of starting small is that you don’t seep unnecessary money and you also get to know more about your own comfort zones. When and if you are comfortable with the method of payment, increase your bet. This might sound like a lot of work but as any hardened gambler will tell you, your mantra for most casino games should be: Practice may make perfect, but patience will take you a long way.

Do Slots Machine Strategy Properly, Look for High Payback Games

The moral of the slots machine strategy story is not remotely complex: Look high and low before you pay and go. Despite the fact that we have repeated this time and time again, winning at casino games and slots in particular does depend on how well you know what you’re up against. You wouldn’t just sit down and play chess and expect to win from the get-go if you’re playing against a seasoned old-timer, so expecting to win against these gambling bad boys straight off the bat should be considered to be something improbable at best.

With all this information in hand, it should be clear to you that you need to start your slots master pilgrimage by looking at slot machines with the highest payback possible. Most good slots games should offer a payback of over 90 percent while tighter machines will inevitably offer a less generous payback. It’s important that you learn how to appreciate the differences between the two and work accordingly. As a closing note, always remember that the golden rule of being a slots machine strategy champion is the following: The better the listed payback – the better your chance to win and bring home the bacon.

How To Pick A Winning Slot Machine

Ultimately, making sure you know your odds of winning slots machines, and picking the best slot machine whether you’re playing online or in a live casino is the winning slots machine strategy that will have you laughing all the way to the bank. Of course, you can do online research to find out where the loosest slots, both at online casinos and live casinos, can be found but why go to all that trouble when we’ve done all the dirty work for you? Check out the toplist below and get ready to wow everyone around you with your unmatchable slots strategy prowess.