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Bet Does Not Affect Outcome

You have undoubtedly heard that you should max out your bet on any land-based or online slot machine for the best results. It’s good advice. While dropping one penny or nickel after another into the slot game of your choice is a great strategy to stretch your bankroll and allow you to gamble for as long as possible, it’s far from the ideal if you are serious about trying to win that pie-in-the-sky jackpot.

The MAX BET button exists for a reason. If there was no incentive to bet more than the minimum on a one-armed bandit, would anyone ever be anything but a “onesie?” We’re guessing not. You play the maximum credits on a slot machine because the game’s top prizes are set aside for those who have placed the highest bets. Even if you should happen to land all the symbols for a jackpot, you will not win big money if you have only played a coin or two.

Yet, despite this fact, you are still no more likely to reap a jackpot if you have bet low. There is a persistent, yet incorrect belief among slots fans (a superstitious bunch overall) that a machine will “taunt” you into betting the max by showing up frequent jackpot or big win combinations when you have bet low, as if to convince you that you really should bid more next time. This, like so many other myths attached to that mysterious one-armed bandit, is a bunch of baloney. Hitting a jackpot combination when you have placed less than the maximum bet is nothing but terrible luck. You will not score the top jackpot, and you have really blown a big chance – because we all know that jackpots don’t just come waltzing down the proverbial street.

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