In video poker, the
“how” of playing is simply to play the
best possible strategy that you can handle for the
game you have selected. Select the right games,
play the right strategies for those games, should
be the mantra for all video poker players. Video
poker is a game of skill and chance, but in the
long run your skill is the determining factor in
your success. Slot players have no control of the
machine’s decisions whatsoever. Slots are pure
chance. Thus, how you manage your money at the slots
is the only variable in playing strategy. Do you
play one coin, two or three or more? Do you set
a win goal or a loss limit?
Savvy
slot players know that in the long run the casino’s
edge will win out, so the key to their playing strategy
is to s-t-r-e-t-c-h that long run to make it as long
as possible. They look for machines that have equal
distribution, meaning that each extra coin merely increases
the payout by that percentage (i.e., one coin = 100-coin
payout; two coins = 200-coin payout; three coins = 300-coin
payout). There is no added value or benefit to playing
more than one coin
in such machines. You are merely putting through
two or three times as much money for the house edge
to work against. Play one coin and you can stretch
your ability to last at the machines of this nature.
Now that you can stretch your money, what do you
do if you win some money? How do you know when it’s
time to quit? This isn’t easy to answer. If
you were to hit a nice jackpot on your very first
spin but you had planned an evening in the casino,
would you have gotten your full entertainment value
by heading for the door? Probably not. In cases
where you hit it big early, the best money-management
advice is to take part of your win and all of the
money you brought with you to play and lock all
of it away. You don’t have to literally lock
it away, but it should be put aside and not used
for the rest of the night. Instead, play with the
rest of the win and see if you can increase it.
If you do, great. You get to go home a big winner.
If you don’t, you’ve gotten your entertainment
value and you’ve managed to bring home some
money to boot. While no amount of money-management
or machine-selection advice can turn a negative
into a positive (the casino is going to have its
edge), the tighter and tougher you play, the better
will be your long term results. And that’s
a sane way to approach the machines!
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