Play the lowest denomination machine you’re comfortable with.

Even though lower-stakes machines have worse odds, you’ll still lose less money on them. A 90% 5-coin nickel machine loses $18.75/hr. on average, while a 98% 2-coin dollar machine loses $30/hr. (The disparity in payouts between different denominations usually isn’t that extreme, but I’m just showing that even when the difference is extreme you’ll still lose less money by playing the lower denomination machines.)

Play machines which are advertised as paying back a specific high percentage.

Most casinos won’t tell you how much their slots pay back, but some do. On the Vegas Strip Riviera has 98% dollar slots, and Circus Circus has 97.4% dollar slots. Fitzgeralds in Reno has a section of about 50 dollar slots whose average payback is 97.4%..Ignore claims such as “Loosest Slots” or “High Payback”. Those terms are meaningless since they’re not specific. Also ignore specific numbers married to vagueness, such as “up to 9

Filed under: Gambling strategies by Date 26 February, 2008