Machines - Austin Powers (a riot!), Price is Right (featuring Rod Roddy!), Battleship, Yatzee (the first version, not the new lame “mystery” version) and Neon Nights.
About twice a year I go to Jackpot, Nevada, which is just over the Idaho-Nevada line. I’m not a table player, so I just stick to slots and video poker. If I could afford it I’d play mostly quarter slots and poker, but to keep my bankroll from running out so soon I usually play the nickels and then, if I am feeling lucky I will move up to quarters and sometimes dollars if I am really feeling adventerous.
My favorite slots are the multi-line payout slots since they offer the most chances to win something, even if it’s only a couple of coins. I don’t care much for the “Buy-a-Pay” slots, the ones where one coin only pays on, say, cherries, two coins pay on most other combinations, and three coins makes you eligible for the jackpot payout. My sister screwed herself out of $50 on a nickel machine once because she didn’t play all the coins and it was one of these machines.
For video poker, just plain Jacks or Better is my favorite. I don’t play the Joker’s Wild (sometimes Dueces Wild) varieties since, while the additional cards allow for more payouts, the scale is stepped up so that jacks or better isn’t eligible for a payout, and two pair only returns the amount bet (it pays 2 to 1 on the Jacks or Better machines.)
Craps, some Craps, then maybe 10 minutes at the slots.
Then Craps.
One time I started at a table at 6:30, thinking I’d roll for an hour or so, then get some dinner. About six Jack Daniel’s later, and a couple cups of coffe, I looked at my watch.
When I first started going to Vegas I played Roulette, but soon realized I was losing too much. Then I dropped $100.00 in a single session on a craps table. Lately I’ve been sticking to video poker and the slots, mostly quarter.
I’ve had some luck with Haywire - there was a machine at the Aladdin that consistently tripled my money on one trip. My last trip I had a fantastic run - ended up about $300.00 ahead over three days, including one $150.00 payoff on a single quarter play (if I had played the 2-coin maximum I’d have won $400.00 :eek: )
I’m reading up on blackjack and video poker strategy in hopes of improving my play on those.
Blackjack only. Not good enough at poker to beat anyone except my relatives, and the machines are just a way to give away money. I have looked into the odds for roulette, but am not clear enough on them yet to give it a try.
Lok, don’t waste your money on roulette. Probably save you some time if you just handed the dealer your money and walked away. Not that most of the games are any better.
I always stick to the tables. Craps first and then Pai-Gow Poker usually. Then I go to the ATM machine and it politely asks if I have a gambling problem. Then I go to the bar
Video Poker at the bar. Cash in some money for quaters, get a “free” drink. Continue to drink for “free” while slowly gambling away that $10.
Once I’ve drunk as much as I’d like, I grab one more “free” drink and head over to Roulette, where I sit for the rest of the night. For some reason, Blackjack turns me into a stammering can’t-count idiot, and Craps intimidates me.
Roulette, you just kinda sit there–that’s more my speed!
Don’t know its real name, but it’s at casinos and church bazaars everywhere. You know, you bet on 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, joker, and if it comes up you win that amount.
I’m too cheap to play blackjack much but it probably is my favorite anyway.
Slots tip: always bet the maximum. There’s only so many times the winning combo is going to come up, and you want to make sure you cash in (sorry LurkMeister).
ElwoodCuse , you are so right. ALWAYS play the max coins!
If you don’t have enough, walk away. My cousin’s hubby could have had a progressive jackpot on video poker if he’d played 5 coins, but he only had a few coins in and got only a fraction of what he would have received.
And I put in two quarters, the max, on Double Diamonds a few weeks ago and got the top jackpot, $400.00, after only being there for a few minutes.
You never know when it’s gonna hit.
Yeah, now I’ve figured that out. :smack:
The annoying thing (besides missing out on the larger jackpot) was that it was only the third or fourth play on that machine; when I had played Haywire before, there seemed to be a cycle to its payoffs.* There would be no payoff on the first five or six plays, then there would be one or two small payoffs and then a Haywire; from that point on it would start paying off more regularly so I would start playing max coins.
*Yes, I know that every roll is random, and that slot betting systems are mostly BS.
