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Slots clubs
The very first thing you should do when you get to
the casino is find the slots host and join the
slots club. When you do you will get a credit-card
sized card to use in the machines you play. This
lets the casino track your play, and reward you
with comps when you have played long enough. At
the end of your session or day (ensure you have
played for a couple of hours at very least) you
can go back to the slots host and ask them to let
you know if you have earned any comps.
Payout percentages
Payout percentages are the most commonly used form
of differentiating slot machines, and the most
often used form of advertising slots by the
casinos. Many casinos offer "98% payback
slots " or some other high number as their
payback percentage. This is most often thought of
as "98% of the total amount of money
deposited into the machine will be returned to the
player". People tend to think this means if
they play through $100, they should expect to have
$98 come back to them. This is a bit of a fallacy
however, because the return percentage is a
theoretical one based on an infinite timeline.
This means if you were to keep playing the slots
game forever, you would eventually have made back
98% of what you put in. Most people don't usually
play long enough to hit a big jackpot however, and
winning that jackpot is part of the calculated
98%. This means if you play and don't win big,
chances are you're actual return percentage will
be significantly lower.
Slots Traps
What do I mean by traps? I mean slot machines that
aren't entirely up front about what they offer
you. The biggest trap by far is the full coins
trap. There are many slot machines in Vegas that
advertise great payback percentages and amazing
jackpots, but they also advertise themselves as
'quarter slots ' or 'nickel slots ', which is a
little misleading. The majority of these machines
require you to play multiple coins in order to be
eligible for some or any of its available
jackpots. Many of them require that you are
playing the maximum number of coins possible on
the machine in order to be able to win the jackpot
that probably convinced you to play it in the
first place! So be very wary, you may find
yourself in front of a machine that has three cars
lined up in a row making you think you've won the
grand jackpot, but no lights will flash, no sounds
will erupt, if you only played one coin.
Slots placement
There are many, many myths around the Internet
trying to convince you that the casinos in Las
Vegas have masterminded the way they place their
slots , with loose slots more visible than tight
slots . You will undoubtedly read about how slot
machines near the isles, on raised carousels, or
near the entrances and exits pay out more and more
often than other slots in the casino. The logic is
based on the idea that the casino wants any winner
on a slot machine to be seen by as many people as
possible, convincing them to play too. While this
may be a fairly logical assumption, it seems as
though if it was true once in the past, it sadly
no longer is. Recently Michael Shackleford of the
wizard of odds has done some fairly systematic
tests of casinos around Vegas and found no
difference between the payouts on machines located
randomly, and those in previously though of
'loose' spots.
Progressives slots
Progressive jackpot machines are ones that are all
linked up together in one big network. As money is
played through any one of the machines on the
network, a small portion is added to the jackpot
total and displayed across all of the machines.
Depending on the number and use of the slot
machines on a progressive network, the jackpots
can be seen to grow right in front of your eyes, a
great trick to entice gamers.
If you prefer to play progressive slots there is
something you should keep in mind. Logically,
since we know that the progressive jackpots on
these machines are built and derived from a
percentage of the money fed through them, we know
the payout percentages for standard wins are on
average lower than a non-progressive slots game.
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