The key to any casino player is his or her bankroll. Your desires, your hopes, your wants, your wishes, your needs are all unimportant if your bankroll shrivels and dies, which it will if you play above your personal economy. A $100 bankroll is a very, very (oh, go ahead, add some more verys) small bankroll indeed. If you want that money to last, you must play a small-denomination machine - such as a 5-Center. And you should play no more than three coins in it at any one spin. If you have a $1,000 bankroll for a session, you can play up to three quarters - and on up it goes as your bankroll grows.
In the long run, unless you have unfathomably good luck, you cannot beat the slot machines. That is a fact that the casinos take to the bank each and every day. The slots are their gravy train. Check out the slot charts in this issue and you can see what kind of edges you're playing against in the various venues around the country.
Just about all slot players know this fact - although some wish they didn't - the slots are unbeatable. But having a sufficient bankroll is attainable and can help you weather the bad storms that inevitably await the casino slot player.
Creating a sustainable slot bankroll is not that hard to do. You can start tomorrow in fact. Open a 401G account at your bank. Your 401G is an account that is used for gambling only. That's what the "G" stands for - gambling. If you are a salaried worker, take a small percentage of your pay each check and put it in the account. If you work for yourself, take a small amount each week and sock it into the 401G. If you are retired, you can also put a small amount each and every check into your 401G.
You never stop adding to the 401G. You want to build that account up so you never face those awful losing days where you say to yourself, "Gee I could have used that money for my heart operation." Steadily, consistently, you save money for your casino forays - indeed, it is possible that your 401G will build more quickly than your slot losses drain the account. You might find that you can go from a nickel to a quarter to a dollar machine as that 401G expands.
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