Some pay back less
than others. Some offer you millions-to-one long
shots at significant wins, but almost guarantee
that you will lose most times you go the casino.
Some others can’t change your life, even if
you hit for the biggest jackpot they offer, but
these do offer you the best chance to come home
with money more frequently, say, tonight. Some machines
are worth playing the maximum number of coins in
and some machines are best played with one coin.
So which are which
and what should you play?
Here it is up to you.
You have to decide what your priorities are, what
it is you want from your slot-playing adventures
in the casinos. If you are looking for that life-changing
event, then you must play giant progressive jackpots
such as Megabucks, Quartermania, and the like. But,
and this is important, you must play the maximum
number of coins to be eligible for that giant progressive.
Truthfully, we wouldn’t
be too optimistic about our chances of winning something
like Megabucks, for as John Robison showed in The
New Chance and Circumstance magazine, the odds of
hitting it are just a shade under 50 million to
one! Ouch! In addition, in order to generate such
massive jackpots, the giant progressives are notoriously
stingy, often paying back in the mid to high 80
percent range, making them tough to win at on a
regular basis.
My taste runs towards trying to eke out wins on
a more regular basis and leaving the life-altering
daydreams for other areas of my life. So I prefer
playing a single coin in machines that don’t
reward multiple-coin play. I call these machines
“equal-distribution” or "straight
multipliers" because the payoffs on various
lines are merely equal multiples of the first coin.
So, if one coin pays back 300 on the jackpot line
and two coins pay back 600 and three coins pay back
900, you are not getting any added incentive to
play more than one coin. You’re just risking
three times as much money in the same period of
time with no added inducement. Generally speaking,
“equal-distribution” machines are your
best bet for bringing home a win tonight, although
in the long run they are losers -- as are all slot
machines so programmed.
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