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The Top 10 Slot Secrets You Should Know     (4 of 8)

Gambling should always be fun, but it should more importantly be as profitable as you can manage to make it. A good way to identify the best slot machines on a casino floor is to look for those devices that have had a single player warming the seat for hours at a time, with at least one other person hovering nearby in the hopes of sniping their stool when they get up. If you can wait long enough, be sure to secure a seat and save your money for these games.

Secret Tip #5: Profits don’t always come out of the coin slot.

No matter how strategic and canny you are, playing the slot machines is a guaranteed losing battle in the long run. At the end of the day, no pokey is going to top a ninety-nine percent payoff. That doesn’t mean that your trips to spin the reels have to be a consistently losing proposition, however. You can actually come out WAY ahead, albeit not necessarily in currency, by signing up for the players’ club of whatever casinos you frequent on a regular basis. Generally, these memberships award freebies (“comps”) to players based on the total amount of money they put into play. Generally, these clubs give you perks for every thousand dollars you cumulatively spend. It could be a free night’s stay in the resort hotel (worth a few hundred bucks a night, depending on the location), gratis dinners (upwards of fifty dollars), promotional tickets to a show (again – could be quite pricey), and so on.

Continue to part 5 here.

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