Online slots have an advantage over most real life
casino's
one-armed bandits that in my opinion is huge. You can change credit values at any
time, meaning you can increase your bet at any time without leaving the machine
you are playing. Reflect upon how many times in the past at a land casino you were
playing the slots and started hitting some nice wins and found yourself in a
quandary, do I leave this game for one at higher stakes and chance leaving a hot
machine or do I move to something with higher stakes and hope it's me that is
hot and not the machine?
Allowance for slots credit values to be changed opens the door
for a "betting strategy" in respect to your bank roll that has never
existed before the advantage of online slots. In other words you can
increase your bets (slots credit values) when winning and decrease them when losing. To put this
in perspective of importance, consider that If
not for this allowance in the game of blackjack, the card counters would never
have an edge over the house. That is quite a statement and
worth re-reading if necessary. Online slots have given us an advantage, or more
accurately said, THE advantage which makes card counting a profitable edge in
blackjack.
I realize we as slot players will not have the advantage of
knowing when to increase our bets ... which is why you'll never see anybody
claiming to earn a living grinding it out at the slot machines on line ... but
it still provides an opportunity which did not exist before online gambling
became a reality.
Luck seems to run in streaks and if you
view the
jackpot wins
I've had you will note that the majority of them happened when my slots credit values were above, or very far
above, what the minimum possible slots credit value could have been. Contrary to
what logic would dictate, I do not play at those stakes on a consistent basis. I
move up my credit values when I am winning or when I feel a win coming on, and take advantage of online slots
play that I could never do anywhere else.
That said, perhaps by the time you read this the land casinos
will have made the switch to machines that allow a large change in credit values
as the online games now allow. Currently the best you'll
find in terms of a land-based casino slot machine that allows you to change credit values is one that
jumps from twenty-five cents to fifty cents. Unimpressive when compared to the
advantage of online slots that literally allow you to change from twenty-five
cents to as much as five dollars or more per credit value. A considerable
difference.
