At first glance it seems online slot machines are a 100% game of chance. And they really are, at least in the terms of a single game round. However, that doesn’t mean that you can’t influence your chances by using the right betting strategy and choosing the right game to play. Here is a list of factors that define your slots betting strategy.
Introduction to Progressive Slot Machines
This article, Winning Strategy 2: Progressive Slot Machines, is next in a series about realistic winning strategies for slot machine casino gambling. This strategy is simple but perhaps not entirely easy, mostly due to the difficulties inherent to changing one’s own playing perspective. So, keep an open mind, be patient, and learn to win.
Lately, progressive slot machines have become quite popular, with their being up to 30% of the slot machines within a casino. Have you seen those new slot machines with Major and Minor jackpots that constantly grow? Even though they are not obviously labeled as such, those are progressive slot machines.
This relatively high level of popularity drives a real and urgent need to discuss ways to play and win at progressive slots.
So, I am meeting this real need of slots enthusiasts by explaining what is currently happening in the world of progressive slots. Here’s how.
This article has the following sections:
- Introduction
- What are Progressive Slot Machines?
- How Many Progressive Slot Machines Make a Progressive Jackpot?
- The Casino’s Business Case for Progressive Slot Machines
- Should You Play Progressive Slot Machines?
- Strategies for Winning on Progressive Slot Machines
- Long-Term Playing: A Cautionary Tale
- Summary
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What are Progressive Slot Machines?
A slot machine is considered progressive when a portion of the bets placed on it go towards increasing its maximum jackpot. When initialized, such as when first started or after the progressive jackpot has been won, a progressive slot machine is given an initial jackpot. This initial jackpot is not zero.
Starting with this initial jackpot, it “progressively” grows as the slot machine is played. The progressive jackpot increases by a percentage of whatever is bet. For example, a $1 may increase the progressive jackpot by $0.25.
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Progressive slot machines also have a maximum progressive jackpot, which they cannot exceed. That is to say, the progressive jackpot must be won before or when it equals this maximum amount.
Once reset after the progressive jackpot has been won, or when initially switched on, the amount of the next winning progressive jackpot is randomly chosen. This new winning progressive jackpot is randomly chosen to be between the initial and maximum amounts mentioned.
As bets are placed on the machine and the progressive jackpot increases, it approaches the amount of this new winning progressive jackpot. When a player’s bet increases the progressive jackpot to that randomly chosen amount, that player wins the progressive slot machine jackpot. Afterwards, the process begins anew.
How Many Progressive Slot Machines Make a Progressive Jackpot?
A common misconception is that progressive slot machines always include a group of slot machines with a shared jackpot. This is simply not the case. It is not uncommon for a progressive jackpot to be available only on a single slot machine.
It is also entirely possible for a group of progressive slot machines to be grouped, linked, or networked together. However, the physical extent of a network of machines included in a progressive jackpot can vary widely, including:
- Stand-Alone: A single slot machine which grows its own progressive jackpot only, is not networked to any other slot machines, and likely has the lowest maximum jackpot amount relative to networked progressive slot machines;
- In-House: Slot machines having the same slot machine game theme within the casino and more substantial, if not life-changing, maximum jackpots;
- In-Chain: Slot machines usually with the same slot machine game theme within all of the gaming venues owned by the same casino operator within states having gaming regulations that allow this;
- Wide-Area: Slot machines owned independently from the casinos they are located within, and:
- A maximum jackpot which is massively large, life-changing jackpot;
- Each casino gets a percentage of slot machines revenue;
- Having a payout return which is lowest of all other progressive slot machines due to the relatively high setup and administrative costs.
The Casino’s Business Case for Progressive Slot Machines
Casinos are always trying new ways to both make money as well as providing new ideas to their patrons. This includes the whole business idea of progressive slot machines.
Some aspects of progressive slots are great for the casino business, such as being alluring to many casino patrons. Other aspects are driving changes at casinos, such as the legal difficulties with paying multi-property and multi-state progressive jackpots.
Stand-alone progressive slot machines are currently on the rise at casino properties. It can sometime be difficult to know if players will like new styles of slot machine play, such as skill-based slots (which are not doing well). But, progressive slot machines are definitely very popular. So, casinos have these.
Casinos also have in-house progressive slot machines, within certain limitations. It turns out that casinos only have in-house progressive slot machines in groups or carousels of slot machines. They simply are not spread all across the casino. Instead, I have observed that they are grouped together in a row or circle.
It’s interesting that in-house, networked, progressive slot machines have this limitation. It doesn’t take much inductive reasoning to figure out why. It’s due to ease of installation and building infrastructure.
Yes, newer casinos physically connect all their slot machines to a central computer with its casino operating system. Older casinos physically connect the players interface to a computer database, and also maintain a limited connection to notify the slot attendant dispatcher of any slot machines showing wins.
So, the central computer operating systems used in newer casinos are apparently not yet sufficient to handle networked progressive slot machines, where I went to research this post on progressive slot machines.
Just like older casinos, newer casinos have to physically connect in-house progressive slot machines. And, running the necessary cables under floors, over ceilings, and behind walls makes life difficult for casinos. Simply put, it is more efficient and easier to place networked slot machines together.
In part, this increased efficiency is due to how often slot machines are replaced to keep up with appealing game themes. Slot machines get moved in and out of casinos a lot, and making it difficult to do so is not of interest to casinos. Difficult, and costly. For example, pulling up flooring would disrupt, well, making money on slots in the affected areas.
In-chain and wide-area networked progressive slot machines have their own issues for casinos, so these types are being seen less and less often. While life-changing progressive jackpots have traditionally been of interest to slots enthusiasts, this is somewhat a thing of the past. Nobody expects to win on them. It’s, well, too much of a long shot.
Also, actually being awarded a large progressive jackpot is a lengthy, nightmarish process. So, you just won a huge, multi-casino progressive jackpot. Now you have to wait for 6 hours to get it. Stand-alone progressive slot machines are owned by the casino, and payouts are just like any other slot machine.
But, there are also progressive slot machines which are networked together outside of a casino, potentially across state lines and in coordination with other casinos as part owners of the jackpot. From the casino perspective, winners are unhappy with having lengthy waits in a back office while this business is transacted with other casinos.
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When I was researching progressive slots machines, I was talking to a slots manager about the difficulties of progressive slot machines networked outside of a single casino property. What he said aligned well with statements within the Scientific Games and IGT annual financial reports. He said there are liability issues.
Basically, who owns the progressive jackpot being paid? Plain and simple, this is so, so difficult from a business perspective. Suffice to say, having liability issues with being able to pay out a progressive jackpot from a networked progressive slot machines is a loss of efficiency, the winner is never happy having to wait so long to be paid, and has become a no-go territory for casinos.
In other words, for the reasons given, casinos are getting out of the business of progressive slot machines networked across several properties. Casinos are currently making adjustments to increase their stand-alone and in-house progressive slot machines while reducing or entirely eliminating their out-of-house, networked progressive slot machines.
Should You Play Progressive Slot Machines?
There are effectively two strategies for winning at progressive slot machines:
- Treat the progressive slot machine like a non-progressive slot machine, and try to win the smaller, non-progressive jackpots; and
- Play progressive slot machines where the progressive jackpot is approaching its maximum value.
First, players can attempt to win jackpots of less than the maximum size on progressive slot machines using the winning strategies I have and will be discussing shortly for non-progressive style slot machines.
In the past, I have stated there is usually little to be gained by doing so. However, further research has helped correct this prior point-of-view. My prior reasoning has been that players of progressive slot machines are paying for the experience of playing that type of slot machine. I had assumed there is an associated price, a real monetary cost.
So, I had thought, the odds of winning non-progressive jackpots on a progressive slot machine were reduced to have the player pay some or all of this cost. This turns out to not quite be the actual case.
My prior view was incomplete, and not entirely proven out by real data. In fact, the opposite is clearly true for at least one state, and therefore reasonably true for all states. But, there is also some truth to what I had previously believed.
I had previously believed that all progressive slot machines had low payout returns. This is partially still true, but only for progressive slot machines with a truly massive wide-area network of machines. These are the progressive games having a multi-million dollar progressive jackpot.
This is clearly seen in payout return statistics of Las Vegas’s Strip area. There, according to state gaming commission, the highest payout return is the $1 denomination, non-Megabucks slot machines. The lowest payout returns are the Megabucks progressive slot machines with a $1 denomination.
But, the refinement to my previous understanding relates to the consistently relatively high actual payout returns for progressive slot machines with relatively small networks and therefore non-huge progressive jackpots. These are simply the facts.
These available facts are from, naturally, publicly available payout return statistics from a U.S. state government. Take a look at the actual payout return statistics for Mississippi.
The Mississippi Gaming Commission separates out monthly payout returns by slot machine denominations. Several states do this, as reported in Benefits of Slot Machine Payout Returns.
However, what is special about the Mississippi Gaming Commission monthly Win Percentage Report is, not only do they separate out payout returns by slot machine denomination, they also separate them out by whether or not the slot machine is progressive.
Here’s what’s interesting: The average payout return for progressive slot machines of a particular denomination are significantly better than non-progressive machines of the same denomination.
This is shown in the January 2018 report for all denominations having progressive slot machines, separately shown across all 3 gaming regions of Mississippi.
Let me repeat that. In Mississippi, all actual payout returns within all three regions as well as all denomination for progressive slots are higher than non-progressive slots. That’s pretty convincing data.
Given this single state-wide example, I am now willing to revise my previously low opinion of progressive slot machines. I now say it is reasonable to assume all progressive machines have better payout returns than non-progressive slot machines.
As I have previously discussed, improved payout returns come from several sources, and starting with the highest baseline amount is accomplished by careful selection of both casino and slot machine.
A progressive slot machine should be considered to have a relatively higher payout return relative to slot machines of the same denomination.
Simply put, based on Mississippi stats, and all other considerations and strategies aside, playing a progressive slot machine is likely to add 1% to 2% of payout return percentage to your baseline odds of winning.
Just, remember to avoid progressive slot machines with truly large, even life-changing, progressive jackpots. Those typically have the lowest odds of winning.
Strategies for Winning on Progressive Slot Machines
Now, let us consider a strategy specific for winning on progressive slot machines, rather than just if they should be played at all. In general, winning the maximum jackpot on a slot machine is a truly rare event.
Unless a specific strategy is being employed, a slots player should more-or-less ignore this possibility as nothing other than a once-in-a-lifetime event.
But, the key here is “unless a specific strategy is being employed.” Earlier, I stated:
“As bets are placed on the machine and the progressive jackpot increases, it approaches the amount of this new winning progressive jackpot. When a player’s bet increases the progressive jackpot to that randomly chosen amount, that player wins the progressive slot machine jackpot.”
This is the key to winning the progressive jackpot on a progressive slot machine: Play it when it approaches the maximum progressive jackpot allowed, when it must pay out.
Advantage players makes sure they are playing a progressive slot machine as it approaches the set maximum limit, pushing it towards and over to win.
There’s really only one problem with this strategy. What’s the maximum limit? For stand-alone progressive slot machines, it’s fairly easy to figure out. Simply look at the progressive jackpot amounts on progressive slot machines at your casino.
How much do they never go under? How much do they never go over? Those are the initial and maximum progressive jackpot amounts, respectively. Based on observations at my local casinos, a quarter machine might reset at $1,000 and reach its maximum at $1,200.
You can observe progressive slot machines yourself, and should if you want to make the most of this strategy. What you want to watch for is someone winning a progressive jackpot on what I describe elsewhere as a candidate slot machine.
That’s how you determine the reset or initial progressive jackpot. This initial jackpot provides a useful clue to the maximum progressive jackpot.
Further observations of players winning progressive jackpots on your candidate slot machines will also help you determine how large the maximum progressive jackpot might be. Eventually, you’ll have a reasonable guess for the maximum jackpot.
Once you do have that reasonable guess, only play that progressive slot machine when it is closest to its best-guess maximum jackpot and furthest from the initial jackpot.
Remember, the progressive jackpot can be won anywhere between the initial and maximum jackpots, but it is “due for a win” when it gets closer to the maximum jackpot. That’s your advantage play.
This strategy can also be applied to non-stand-alone progressive slot machines. However, doing so will require a team of 2 or more people. Networked progressive slot machines located within a casino are currently being grouped together by casinos, as discussed, so having someone at each is quite possible.
The strategy here is to have someone sitting at each of these networked slot machines when the maximum progressive jackpot is being approached, then play those machines until the progressive jackpot is driven over the maximum jackpot.
There are a couple of logistics concerns to watch out for, of course. First, these should be people you both trust and have an agreement with to share the jackpot. Who is going to pay the taxes on the jackpot, assuming it is over $1,200?
In other words, whose name will be on the W-2G? Keep in mind, agreement or not, the actual winner doesn’t legally have to share any winnings unless they choose to do so.
Second, you could just have a single person playing one of the networked slot machines, while everyone else at the other machines are not playing.
But, this will look suspicious to the casino, and should be avoided, given the lengthy time it will take for one person to add enough money to sufficiently drive up the progressive jackpot.
Third, the highest value progressive jackpots are on the greatest number of networked progressive slot machines. Winning a $4 million progressive jackpot would mean having a very large team located at several casinos, probably across several states.
Given the inherent difficulties, such as large cash investment and team management as well as travel costs, it is perhaps more reasonable to try this strategy on a smaller bank of networked progressive slot machines.
If you don’t have a team available, or your team is fewer than the progressive machines networked together, try being the only people playing them. You’ll still win if the other machines are sitting idle. However, this may require visiting the casino at odd hours when attendance is at a minimum.
Even then, a stranger could still swoop in at near the last moment to potentially win and take your investment of time and money. On the other hand, maybe you’re the stranger doing the swooping? Either way, it is something to watch for, or plan to implement or avoid, with this strategy.
Long-Term Playing: A Cautionary Tale
I was recently told a story by an entertainment slots gambler about his brother-in-law winning a top progressive jackpot for $375,000 after 15 years of playing that and similar high limit progressive slot machines.
I was initially impressed, perhaps because of the fervor with which he told the story. But then, I got to thinking about the math.
If $375,000 was a total gross salary for 15 years of work for a job, it’d be an annual gross pay of $24,000. That would be a full-time job at a rate of $12.50 per hour, which at this time is more than any U.S. state’s minimum hourly wage.
While I didn’t get a chance to ask this during the conversation itself, later I wondered how much this brother-in-law spent on gambling per year. As a reminder for both of us, an upcoming post will be about how to and the value of keeping good gambling records.
How much did this individual with the $375,000 progressive jackpot spend gambling on the progressive slot machine each year? If he lost $25,000 per year in gambling losses, he only broke even over 15 years. Of course, this does not include any income taxes on his progressive jackpot.
Let’s say his overall tax rate was 25%, and his gambling losses in the year of the progressive jackpot was insignificant compared to $375,000. In this case, his winnings after paying income taxes was just over $280,000. Over 15 years, that is $18,750
Was this “winner” either breaking even over the long run, or losing money? How much profit, annual revenue minus annual gambling losses, had he actually gotten? One hopes that he at least broke even after 15 years of effort.
Summary of Winning Strategy 2: Progressive Slot Machines
In summary, Winning Strategy 2: Progressive Slot Machines provides the necessary background understanding to subsequently apply the provided realistic strategy for winning on progressive slots.
I first identified what a progressive slot machine is, then helped you to identify networked progressive slot machines.
This was followed by the usual question always to be asked about slot machines, which was to identify what is known about actual payout returns for this type of slot machine. Mississippi’s Gaming Commission was very helpful with this.
I next went over the strategy for winning at progressive slot machines, making use of the advantage play available due to progressive slots having a minimum jackpot at reset as well as maximum progressive jackpot which it cannot exceed.
I also talked about how to best go about teaming up to apply this strategy on small networks of progressive slot machines.
I concluded with a cautionary tale about winning a big progressive jackpot after many years of attempting to do so, and how the annual cost may well exceed, in total, what might eventually be won with a single large jackpot.
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Introduction to Win Immediately
As I’ve been mentioning for some time, winning strategies exist for slot machines at newer-style casinos. Beginning with this post on Winning Strategy 1 – Only Win Immediately, I’ll start explaining those winning strategies my gambling research has uncovered can happen at a few of the newer casinos. Recall that I’ve identified newer casinos as any gambling facility built or heavily renovated since about 2012.
But, what if you don’t gamble at newer casino? Well then, make sure to check out my descriptions of the only way I know how to win at older style casinos a How to Win at Slots in Older Casinos or take a listen to Professor Slots Podcast Episode #21: Winning on Slots at Older Casinos-Kentucky Slots 2018.
My prior posts and podcast episodes have provided slots basics as well as stories of my slot machine gambling experiences. These have laid the foundation for a more detailed analysis and explanations on how to improve the odds of winning when playing slot machines.
As mentioned, I’ve already covered the single approach that can be taken with less modern gaming technologies.
Beginning with this post, I’ll begin providing systematic yet straightforward analytical explanations to what can be, and indeed was, learned from my gambling experiences at modern, newer casinos. These systematic analytical explanations might alternatively be called winning strategies.
This post has the following sub-sections:
- Introduction
- Not All Winning Strategies Will Work at Your Casino
- Seven Winning Strategies at Newer Casinos
- Getting Started with Winning Strategy 1: Only Win Immediately
- My Personal Bias Towards High Limit Slots
- How I Learned Winning Strategy 1: Only Win Immediately
- Some Disadvantages
- Several Big Advantages
- Its Impact on Gambling Goals
- Thoughts on Optimizing This Winning Strategy
- Summary
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Not All Winning Strategies Will Work at Your Casino
These strategies can help players to win. People work hard to succeed at their regular jobs every day. Why should success at gambling be any different? Players need to learn the skills necessary to get ahead, to do better, even if it is to get just a little ahead. If a player’s goal with slots gambling is to make money, then that is what they need to figure out how to do.
Also, I need to make clear to you that these strategies don’t always work. Why? Because the patterns they are taking advantage of may or may not exist at the casino you visit. Why might these winning patterns not exist? Because these winning patterns are man-made. Whether they work or not depends entirely upon the specific casino being visited.
Because of this, you’ll need to become an experimenter. That is to say, you’ll need to get used to checking a casino for winning patterns to take advantage of. I’ll explain the patterns I’ve found. And, I’ll explain how to make the most out of them. Your job is to try to find them yourself, wherever you are. To do that, you’ll likely need to experiment.
Whether or not you also try to make the most out of the winning patterns I’ll be identifying is entirely your financial decision. Once again, please remember the number one rule of casino gambling: The only money you should take to a casino is money you can afford to comfortably lose.
Seven Winning Strategies at Newer Casinos
I’ve already previously explained how to improve the odds of winning at older-style slot machines which have not renovated to the latest in gaming technologies, including how to recognize older-style slots from newer-style slots found at new and renovated casino venues.
I’ve already further described the technological differences between these two types of slot machines, and why they are important to understand when applying techniques that try to improve the odds of winning.
Having already made these descriptions, the bulk of the content I’ll be presenting next describes strategies that can be used to improve the odds of winning at slot machine gambling at newer casinos.
Anyone can apply these strategies to their own gambling goals and player styles. While I’ve already discussed Choosing Gambling Goals, I’ve yet to do the same for the player styles I’ve also identified.
I’ll explain these six different player styles at a later time, including how to develop an overall approach, or even an individualized campaign, to improve their odds of winning at slot machine gambling.
The seven strategies I’ve so far identified are:
- Win Immediately at a Slot Machine, Then Nothing (A Cheap Way to Win);
- Advantage Plays with Progressive Slot Machines;
- Complimentary Gifts as Compensation;
- Winning Advantages of Special Events;
- The Most Reliable Holiday Patterns;
- Playing a Slot Machine Showing a Win; and
- Win a Jackpot, then Return Later.
As I discuss each of these strategies in upcoming posts and podcast episodes, I’ll also include the advantages and disadvantages of each strategy. I’ll also discuss how best to combine them to optimize performance for maximum profits.
The strategies to follow are meant to improve your odds of winning so that, overall, you are making money, i.e., getting a greater than 100% return or payout percentage on your bankroll, rather than losing the average 90% to 95% expected loss per bankroll cycle.
During playing seasons when casinos have systematically reduced the overall odds of winning, for whatever economic reason they might have for doing so, these strategies will again improve the odds of winning.
However, gaming economics and casino financial projections being relatively unknown to players, these strategies may or may not result in a greater than 100% return even if they do provide an optimal playing performance: Put another way, the house really, really wants to win.
Again, the strategies to be discussed may not apply at the casino or casinos you frequent. Additionally, be wary of applying them at Indian or tribal casinos, as the rules of operation at those casinos are based on their unique business contracts with the state rather than effectively generic state gambling laws as applied to non-tribal commercial casinos.
Getting Started with Winning Strategy 1: Only Win Immediately
After over a dozen visits within three months at a secondary pari-mutual racino, I identified a clear pattern to winning I’d not seen before. Once I proceeded to use it, I won six taxable jackpots over the next two months. As you should be asking yourself at this point, did I make a profit? Yes, I did. The beauty of this powerful strategy is that nearly all of the revenue won is profit.
The pattern I discovered was simply this: Every taxable jackpot I won occurred within the first few plays or bets on the machine. After that first jackpot, either large and taxable or small and not taxable, I wouldn’t win another jackpot for what seemed like, in my experience, a very long time. I saw this behavior again and again, from all of the slot machines I played at that particular pari-mutual racino.
As per usual when I first visited, I’d engaged in conversations with slot attendants and floor managers about recent jackpot winners. They told me about slot machine gamblers who had won quite a few taxable jackpots when moving from machine to machine, one taxable jackpot after another.
Obviously, these newly renovated casino had set up the slot machines to perform in this matter as a way to control their profits. Unfortunately for a casino employing this type of setup, this setup can be heavily leveraged by the savvy player that spots this easy-to-see pattern.
My Personal Bias Towards High Limit Slots
So, going forward, I decided to play only high limit slot machines for 5 spins or until I won any sort of jackpot, whichever occurred first. Next, I made a not unreasonable assumption that this pattern applied to every machine in the high limits slot room. Combining this with my general approach, I applied this approach only to those slot machines I’d previously assessed as worthy of playing.
Meaning, I played only the slot machines that I decided fit my winning slot machine criteria: having multipliers, high limits, usually with bonus spins available.
Finally, and this is something I really thought was interesting, I realized that this pattern didn’t require much money to be successful. I decided I’d try using it with a relatively small bankroll of $500 within that casino’s high limit slot machines area.
As an aside, I recently received an email response pointing out how I usually only talk about high limit slots. In other words, I have a player style that tends towards high limit slots.
This is a personal choice on my part, and does not impact whether or not any of these winning strategies can be used. They are equally applicable to any denomination or credits bet, not just so-called high limit slots.
How I Learned Winning Strategy 1: Only Win Immediately
Let’s get back to my story about how I learned of this winning strategy. I carefully made my desired bankroll in overtime pay, waited for payday, withdrew the bankroll from my bank account, and went back to this casino intent on using this and only this strategy to assess its relative level of success.
I’d sit at one machine, put the whole bankroll into it, and played maximum bets until I’d placed 5 bets or won anything. Then I’d move to the next slot machine, and repeat the process.
I did this again and again, on machine after machine, right down one row of machines, then up another row. In all, at that time for that casino, I’d usually win a jackpot before spending 25% of my bankroll on an individual slot machine.
During the visit that I first deliberately tried this strategy, I won 3 taxable jackpots on three different machines in 25 minutes, each jackpot occurring about 6-7 minutes apart.
Thankfully, the slot operators at this new casino were highly efficient, using smart devices on their arms to communicate with each other and the cashier cage.
Nevertheless, each time I won a taxable jackpot it took about 5 minutes for the slot operator to come, take my government issued I.D., complete the paperwork, clear the machine, then go off to retrieve hand payout for the jackpot I’d just won.
It was at this point that I’d cash out of the slot machine I was on and move to the next machine, where I’d proceed to again win a jackpot within only a couple of plays. Once again, the slot operators would arrive to complete the hand payout requirements.
For this second taxable jackpot, won so soon after the first, I could not offer them my I.D.: It was still in the hands of the first slot operator!
I did still have my player card, though. Thankfully, they seemed to understand and accept that circumstance. So, they proceeded to complete the paperwork, clear the machine, and go away to retrieve that particular jackpot. I repeated this process yet a third time on the next machine in the row of slot machines.
In this way, while clearly using this strategy, I won 3 taxable jackpots within 25 minutes with an actual playing time of about 10-15 minutes. Total profit was $6,100 for a 1,200% return on a $500 bankroll.
Some Disadvantages
There are, as with most winning strategies, downsides when using this pattern that savvy players should be aware of. First, it’s a highly obvious pattern. Not only is it relatively easy to figure out, it is easy to notice when someone else is doing it.
Second, if a player sits down at the next machine and notices that the last spin was a win, then they may need to skip that particular slot machine.
More precisely, all slot machines should be skipped if they’ve been played recently. It can be difficult to visit casinos during those times of the day when slot machines have not been played for at least a few hours.
As a consequence, even in a high limit slots area, most slot machines are actively played within a given 24 hours or so.
Consequently, this strategy works best if playing slot machines at odd hours, when at least a few of them haven’t been played fairly recently. It can be inconvenient to play very early in the morning, say at 5 a.m.
However, I’ve found between Noon and 2 p.m. on Sundays to be nearly as good a time as any, and far more convenient than some.
Here are a couple of corollaries to this approach which should be mentioned as they can make a positive difference. First, consider 1-credit, $100 denomination slot machines. I don’t often play $100 bet machines, but I’ve found this approach to be quite favorable for to doing so.
Several Big Advantages
In my experience, using this strategy is the only method I’ve found that sometimes can result in a jackpot from a $100 denomination slot machine. I must confide that I find it quite exciting to win any amount of jackpot on a $100 bet machine, where even the smallest jackpots can go over the $1,200 taxable limit.
Second, sometimes playing a slot machine already showing a jackpot is actually a very good idea. Often, players will avoid a slot machine showing a big win. Sometimes they will avoid it for days.
So, if this winning pattern is in effect by the casino, that becomes the machine to play simply because it has not been played for so long.
Once, I went to this casino one Friday evening for reconnaissance purposes, and saw a 1-credit, $100 denomination showing a large jackpot win. It was still there the next evening, when I again visited for research purposes.
Finally, when I returned the following early afternoon at my usual time for playing, I saw that the same large jackpot was still showing! It was still showing the same jackpot! I then consciously realized that I knew that it hadn’t been played in over 2 days!
I immediately hurried over, but $100 into the machine, and on the first button push won a $5,000 jackpot. For me, that experience provided substantial validation for this winning strategy.
I now had direct evidence that a machine hadn’t been played, had predicted a jackpot would be won quickly, and then proceeded to do just that.
It is worth pointing out that playing to this pattern can be highly disruptive to employing other winning patterns, strategies, or approaches. Why? Because it’s such a cheap way to win at slots!
When taking a relatively small bankroll is more than enough money to win with, with even less probably being enough, why bother trying another approach that requires a larger bankroll, takes more time and energy to succeed, and still has the potential to lose that larger bankroll when unsuccessful?
Its Impact on Gambling Goals
This is a winning pattern that is disruptive to gambling, because it hardly seems like gambling. It either works, or doesn’t, and either way the experience is over quickly.
It also has the consequence of not being conducive to accumulating points in players rewards club systems, resulting in the subsequent loss of those comps.
Perhaps these consequences matter to individual players, but perhaps they do not. It depends on each player’s style of gambling.
Specifically, whether this winning strategy as a positive or negative impact on your gambling goals depends on what your gambling goals are.
Thoughts on Optimizing This Winning Strategy
To optimize this winning strategy, each week a player could make many, many short visits to a casino for relatively very little cost and a high likelihood of financial profit – if that casino has set up its jackpots this way. So many trips may increase the total amount of miles on your vehicle, of course.
If a player finds a casino presenting this kind of pattern, the absolute best way of maximizing payout would involve making a decision about how often to visit.
A decision will be needed to determine how often a prior visit and win doesn’t interfere with the player’s current visit and possible wins. Should a player visit every morning during the week before the casino gets busy? Or, should they visit every other day?
I’ve found that every day was too often, but every other day was about right. However, it was not entirely consistent, likely due to every day at the casino being somewhat different in terms of how busy they get. Some days have special events, like it’s a race day, or perhaps it’s some sort of holiday.
Maybe it’s the end of the fiscal month, or the end of the financial quarter. Or game day, whatever the specific sport is. Even the weather, and season of the year, can have an effect on casino attendance. All of these kinds of events can disrupt the best frequency of visits for this winning pattern.
Once again, remember that expecting to win is unrealistic. A player’s goal is to improve their odds so that they win more often than not, so they make some amount of money rather than lose some amount of money. And, it all adds up!
Also, remember that confirmation of success only comes from the spreadsheet recording your stake, wins, and net return per casino visit. In a later post, I’ll go over several useful recordkeeping methods for determining if you are indeed coming out ahead, or if it only seems like you are.
Again, when using this strategy, watch for slot machines that show wins, especially taxable jackpots. Other players will assume that that slot machine should be avoided, by assuming that it has just paid out. This is more likely to happen with taxable jackpots.
However, as previously discussed, that machine could actually have been sitting idle for an extensive period of time and, if this strategy is in effect, is quite likely to provide another jackpot.
What is important here is, how long has it been since an idle machine has been played? I’ve even gone so far as to record the displayed reel symbols on slot machines, then returned a day later to play only those machines still showing the same reel combination.
I still think this is a fine approach, if rather time consuming, except that what I learned was that absolutely none of the reel combinations were the same between one weekday to the next!
In other words, all the slot machines were used by at least one player over the twenty-four hours I was away, even though it was a weekday, which I had assumed would be a slow day for the casino.
There are some possibilities here for finding an efficient way to note which slot machines have or have not been played. And, there may be different times of the year when this works better than others.
Winning Strategies For Slot Machines
The lesson I learned here was that 24 hours was too long of a period to wait for a slot machine to be idle. If none are idle that long, then a shorter idle period is needed.
A good assumption is that evenings see the most player activity. So, an improved strategy would be to visit the casino in the morning to record the reel combinations, then again just before the players started arriving at, say, 4 p.m. on a weekday.
The inconvenience of this optimized approach is, in a word, tedium. It requires enduring repeated daily visits to a casino as well as accurately recording reel combinations on up to 50 high limit slot machines.
Personally, I tried the 24-hour idle approach for about a week when I was living within 20 minutes of the casino where this strategy was working well.
Then, not long after, I moved to 60 miles away from that casino, so never felt that I had a good the opportunity to try the 8-hour idle approach. Nor did I ever get truly efficient at noting the reel combinations shown on all those slot machines.
Keep in mind that these two personal inconveniences are only that: personal inconveniences. It’s not like I didn’t make a substantial profit by using this approach.
The $5,000 taxable jackpot that I won after one push of the button on a $100, 1-credit slot machine that I’d originally noticed had been showing the same jackpot for two days has more than financially compensated for the gas and mileage of daily visits to that casino well into the future. So, there is that.
Summary to Winning Strategy 1: Only Win Immediately
In summary, winning strategies exist. The first such I’ll be presenting that I’ve discovered at newer-style casinos is Winning Strategy 1 – Only Win Immediately.
Prior content on slots basics alongside my slot machine gambling experiences has provided a foundation. This foundation of ideas and perspective now allows more detailed and analytical explanations which is where winning strategies reside.
First, I warned how not all winning strategies will work at casinos you visit. Not only do they need to be modern casinos, but it would be best to mentally prepare yourself that winning at slots is a thinking person’s game. There’s quite a bit more to it than simply pushing a button.
Next, I mention that Winning Strategy 1 – Only Win Immediately is only first in a series of winning strategies on which I’ll be discussing in the near future. This was followed by an brief introduction to Winning Strategy 1 – Only Win Immediately.
After that, I confessed my own bias towards high limit slots, which in no way is a requirement for successfully using any of these winning strategies. As usual, remember to only take to the casino money you can afford to comfortably lose.
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Further, I provided the story of how exactly I personally learned this winning strategy. Then, I proceeded to go over both its advantages, disadvantages, and its mostly likely impact on the most common gambling goals.
Finally, I provided my thoughts on how to best optimize using Winning Strategy 1 – Only Win Immediately, followed by a summary conclusion.
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