Antique Slot machines

Setting up a Bankroll

If you want to play slots, you have got to have the money to do it. Your slots bankroll is the amount of money you bring with you for slots play. This money is strictly for gambling purposes. Notice I said the amount of money for gambling. It is not the total amount of money in your pocket. You've got to have money for cab fares, meals, tips and so on, which is separate from your gambling bankroll.

Your slot bankroll is the money you take with you only for slots play. The size of your bankroll governs how you will play. If you have a $100 bankroll, you are not going to play on $1 or $5 slots. With a bankroll this size you will be limited to quarter slots play or even forced to play nickel slots.

With a $500 bankroll, you may want to play some $1 slots, but you are better off sticking with quarter slots. But you won't need to play nickel slots. With a $1,000 bankroll, you can play quarter, half dollar or dollar slots.

If you are willing to bring $2,000 or more, you can play strictly dollar slots. I don't recommend playing $5 or $100 or $500 slot machines. These machines will suck up large amounts of money at a prodigious rate, and if you want to play at these levels, you are better off learning how to play craps, blackjack or roulette.

And even playing quarter slots is better than playing dollar slots. Quarter slots offer as high payback percentages as dollar slots in the better paying locales. There is nothing to be gained by moving up to dollar slots in terms of improving your prospects of winning. And, quite frankly, at this level of play, several of the casino table games offer better prospects.

Some hard facts, that if you've only got fifty bucks for playing slots, you are less likely to win $500 than if you play with a $1,000 bankroll. Another one of life's injustices just reared its ugly head. It takes money to make money. The rich get richer and the poor get children. The size of your bankroll determines which machines you can play on. If you have a midget bankroll of $100, you would be foolish to play on dollar machines. If you do, and fifteen minutes after arriving you have lost $50, you will be sweating bullets wondering what you are going to do with remaining six hours you planned on staying.

The gambler who plays on dollar machines with only a hundred dollar poke is just asking to be wiped out. So your bankroll is going to determine not only which machines you play on, but to a large extent, your winnings. If you want to win big, you've got to bring more money. If you want to play on dollar machines, you've got to bring a large enough bankroll for these machines.

The first thing you will do before you hit the slot machines is to divide your slot bankroll into smaller bankrolls. These are called Session Bankrolls. The idea behind a session bankroll is similar to dividing an army into various components, with some divisions always held in reserve. You want to hit the enemy as effectively as possible, but you can't afford losing all of your men and materials in one massive strike because there is always the possibility that something will go wrong. Being a prudent commander means always considering all the things that can go wrong before ever beginning to envision the fruits of victory.

The casino has many advantages over you. It has an almost unlimited amount of money compared to the amount you bring. It has infinite patience. And it has probability on its side. Be careful.