Advice to Slot Players
If you are going to play the slot machines you need to know one thing, in the long run you will lose to the slot machine. People certainly win money, it happens all the time. However you cannot and should not except that playing a slot machine day in and day out will net you a killing.As surprising as it may seem, those playing the table games like roulette, craps, and blackjack stand a better chance of winning money then slot players. This has little to do with a percentage taken by the slot machine for every dollar played. It has to do with the fact that you cannot increase your wager if your feeling lucky like you can at a table game. The minimum wager at the slot machine might be 5 cents, the max is 40 cents. That is not a lot of room to work at when you consider a table game may have a minimum wager of $5 and a maximum bet of $500.
If you were playing a table game like Blackjack and the maximum wager you could make was $8, you would quickly realize that you cannot make very much money at that game and you would move on. The same applies for slots. You won't make a lot of money but would could lose a lot of money.
There is a popular story highlighting this that's been told more than a few times. A slot player has just finished playing her favorite machine and got only a few coins back. This player proceeds to find their casino host and complain to them about the slot machines. "How can the casino operate machines that never payout?" The Casino host simply answered her client by stating that "the machines do payout and they payout a lot. The slot machines pay for the electricity, the water, the salaries, the rent, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits each year.
Now there is nothing wrong with playing the slots, they are a lot of fun. Sometimes it's nice to sit back, insert your players card and pull that handle and not have to worry about counting cards or rolling dice or the thousand other decisions you make when playing a table game. Slots are fun and as long as you play them for fun you run no risk of losing your savings trying to beat the one armed bandits.
