The Odds with Loose Vegas Slots

Being a game of luck by chancing upon the winning randomly generated numbers at the right time, Vegas slots are often played for periods before hitting a win. So what's the best strategy to have here?

Many would attempt to accurately predict the win combination that would come up with a pull of the lever. Some would try to formulate win patterns and even how fast or slow the play must be. With the way numbers are randomly generated every second, we'll be left with mostly luck to win the game.

But many say that the best strategy for slots is to maximize the bankroll to have a prolonged play and just enjoy the whole game session. The enjoyment factor here could also be the determining factor of whether we have had enough slotting. When pulling the lever becomes a burden for us, this tells us we have had enough slotting for the day.

Most Vegas slots are programmed to cash out some 80 to 98 percent of the coin amount we place for the machine operation. This is understandable because if slot machines paid out 100 or more percent of what we put in the casino would be losing its business. The 80 to 98 percent payout is reasonable enough. When the payout is 75 or less percent, we have less winnings than we should and the odds are not good.

Remember that most casinos rely on their slotting area for most of their revenues. Thus, this would be the most promoted area. That's why they put loose machines that would issue out more jackpots and attract gamblers with them. But we must remember that machines with regular jackpot hits have lesser money to release—that's lesser profitability for us in the long run. If the jackpot release is 100 percent and there are 50 people sharing that win percentage, that would be a 2 percent win per winner.

A two percent win would most likely just end up being re-wagered back to the machine and be lost eventually back to the same. So the catch here is that these loose machines are there just to hype up our betting appetites, not really to make our play profitable.

Loose slot machines are more in use in ordinary casinos than in high-end ones. Grand casinos wouldn't want cheap slotting for their moneyed clients, and they have higher overhead expenses to deal with which their slotting areas have to shoulder mostly. Thus, they would have to opt for tighter Vegas slots.