Thursday 22 August 2013

Crime Pays – Bust The Bank Slot

Ask any banker if crime pays and he will throw his head back in raucous laughter, wave his extraordinary bonus in your face, and tell you to get your pathetic broke ass of his land.

You can get revenge. It’s best served hot, with 243 paylines, five reels, scatters, wilds, bonuses, and jackpots galore. If you want to collect a little bit of that bonus pay cheque action, it’s time to play BUST THE BANK online slot.

This slots game is a fun-filled romp with master thieves Larry and Bob. They've got dynamite, empty sacks, and a vault groaning with gold. All you have to do is spin the reels and help them make a withdrawal.

Bust the Bank is a five reel, American-style, online slot. It features a whopping 243 paylines, as well as scatters, wilds, bonuses, and free spins.

Grab it. Smash it. Take it to the bank. The new Bust The Bank online slot from the S188 is set to steal the show. Enjoy.

Wednesday 14 August 2013

How Bonuses make your Casino Experience more Enthralling

Indeed, bonuses in online casino games make for a heightened gaming experience. There is a myriad of boons that online casinos offer, all we need to do is to keep ourselves updated with these privileges, inspect for additional advantages, and grab them in the wisest, most efficient way possible.

Bonuses come in varying guises, and in different durations. Some are short-term; others live by the age of our ancestors (that’s a hyperbole, of course). A few may be sent via emails, while some are channelled through platforms such as social media, video advertisements, website forecasts, or press releases. Regardless of the way they reach us, it is important that we make ourselves available for critical understanding of how these bonuses could genuinely enrich out gaming experience.

While some of us may feel that we cannot fulfill the wagering requirements of certain online casino bonuses, it is wrong to immediately give up. Some casino service providers are professional enough to address our concerns. The “Terms & Conditions” section might serve as the loose basis for qualifying a bonus round, but we must always mull over the fact that there are still many other types of bonuses out there that are more fit to our needs and financial limits.

It would be wise to check casino websites’ bonus updates so that we could increase our potential to earn the maximum prizes. Remember that bonuses are not consistent to every game or every point in time. For example, a bonus might be given away in the casino’s anniversary. Surely, that privilege will only run for a short period of time. And if we are lucky enough to have ourselves updated about it, then our chance to earn large sums would no longer be a remote possibility.

Bonuses perhaps act as the life in every casino game, even the catalysts to earning high-caliber prizes. But we also need to be aware of when and how we can achieve them, because our stay in casinos is still a race of luck after all.

Monday 12 August 2013

How to Beat Slot Machines with a Low Budget

Slot machines are governed by an electronic random number generator. This means that there are algorithms going on behind the scenes that you most likely will never be able to predict. Much life surfing, the trick is to put you in a position to catch a wave at the right time. An overlooked piece of this, is staying afloat long enough for this to happen. Developing a strategy can be an effective way to win at slots, even online slots.

Reducing your odds…of losing.
Many slot player chase jackpots. That is, they realize how random winning really is, and they also realize that they do not have much in the way of control over what happens. They essentially reserve themselves to the fate that slot machines will payout however they were going to payout, and why not try for the mega-jackpot than trying for a few hundred bucks. Well, the answer is that slot machines are programmed to payout at a certain rate, and therefore are programmed to lose at a certain rate. The higher a single payout in a slot machine can be, the higher the loss rates. Therefore, playing slot machines with four or five reels may lead to a higher jackpot amount; they also lead to a worse performance and more losses. Instead, opt to play three reel machines and increase your odds of winning.

More bang for your buck
A penny saved, is a penny earned. Applying that logic to a night out playing slot machines could lead you to play smaller stakes, such as penny or nickel slots. You can play a long time on just one twenty dollar bill, and have just enough fun. Granted, your payout will not be anywhere near as high as on the higher stakes slots, but at least your losses will not be as high either waiting for the slot gods to reward you.

Keep track
If you really want to get a feel for which slots are paying out and with what consistency, try investing some time and stop jumping around. Each night, limit yourself to a few slots and keep track as to your performance. Get a feel for the slot machines that pay out with some consistency, even if they are smaller amounts. Learn where the machines are hot, and gravitate toward them.

Slot machines are random; there is no way around that. Therefore any attempts to develop a strategy will be inherently flawed by nature. That is fine, because any attempt to develop a strategy is still better than simply doing nothing and blindly feeding slot machine after slot machine. Taking some time to hone your skills at anticipating patterns of payouts and exhibiting money discipline is the key to success of any casino game, not just slot machines. If you don’t trust yourself inside of casino to do so, then try just playing through online slots.

Monday 5 August 2013

The Dumbest Casino Players In History

Recently I bought a condo for the summers in the Reno, Nevada area. I can no longer tolerate the humidity of the south Florida summers. For those of you that don't know Reno is nothing like Las Vegas, which is located in a bowl in the middle of the desert. Reno is in the high desert about 5,000 feet above sea level.

I have been traveling to Nevada for years and cannot help noticing a very strange decline in the sophistication of the average casino player. I can remember a time when the table games, roulette, blackjack and the crap tables earned 80%-90% of a casino's income and the slot machines earned the other 10%-20%. Today the whole process has been reversed. The slots are earning 80%-90% of the casino's income and the tables are earning whatever is left.

The implications of this transformation are huge if you understand the odds of casino games. Every casino table game has predictable odds that are set by law and custom. In short, it is possible to know the correct odds for every play at a casino table. The correct odds for a slot machine are only known to casino management and can be changed at will. There is only one restriction. By state law, the house edge in Nevada casinos cannot exceed 25%. As a practical matter, most casinos set the house edge in the high teens, 16%-18% being typical.

Contrast this horrific house edge with the house edge in the casino tables.

In blackjack the typical player will be giving the house an edge of somewhere between 5%-10%. A true crackerjack card counter in a one-deck game, which is hard to find today, could have a 2%-3% edge against the house. Just try pulling this off in the real world. As soon as the casino sees that you are winning you will be escorted out of the casino. In a multiple deck game which is the norm our crackerjack card counter is probably playing about dead even with the house.

For almost every bet on the roulette wheel, the house edge is a reasonable 5.26%.

In the old days when casino players actually knew what they were doing the unchallenged king of the casino tables were the crap tables. This is where the term high-roller came from. If you knew what you were, doing this is where you hung out. A shrewd better can reduce the house edge to as low as 1.41% and to below 1% depending on the house's odds policy.

Since I was now spending some of my summers in Reno I decided that the smart money move was to patronize the so-called local casinos that cater to the local population rather than the tourist casinos on the strip. The theory here being that the shrewd locals were receiving superior reward cards and a better over all deal than the stupid tourists who patronized the strip.

Boy was I wrong!

As I patronized the local casinos, I was stunned to see the same stupid behavior that I was seeing in the tourist casinos on the strip. The table games that gave you a fighting chance to win were almost deserted and the stupid slot machines were getting plenty of action.

What on earth was going on?

I struck up a conversation with a slot player who informed me that he had been living in Reno for the last 30 years. I asked this proven loser the $64,000 question. Why hadn't he graduated to the table games where he had a fighting chance to win? He told me that he really didn't understand the table games and it was too complicated to learn. I could not believe it. I know for a fact that there are least a half dozen sound books on casino gambling. I have read them.

Since I could not believe what I was hearing, I kept asking the locals the same question and kept getting the same answer.

If the old timers were, still around they would go nuts.