USE THE Power OF SLOTS
There’s strength in numbers
By Frank Scoblete
I’m just a slot player,” some slot players will say as table-game players look at them with pity, concern, contempt.
Slot players at times really feel that they are significantly less-valued casino players than other casino players. How do I know this?
I’ve asked them as soon as they have warmed up to speaking about their play. Speaking to a writer will often put players off simply because they think that writers have a tendency to be snooty and condescending.(Perhaps some writers are.)
Slot players must understand that with no them the casino market across the country and across the planet would not exist. You’d have some venues such as Las Vegas and Atlantic City (possibly a couple of casinos) and here and there across the world but the income country-wide and planet-wide would be reduce way brief.
Slot machine revenues make up 60 to 90 percent of several casinos’ income—and that is a lot. But, when you have thousands of casinos all more than Earth, there are not sufficient players to keep them all afloat.
If we all of a sudden stopped all casinos from employing slot machines to generate revenue, effectively, most casinos would fold quickly.
Take this to heart: Slot players rule they are the royalty of casino play. Period. Without these players, the machines would be useless. Even the thriving slot machine business on the Net would crumble and we would be left with silly games about candy and creatures no one particular with any intellect can stand. You’d devote a lot of time playing against teenagers and college students searching to whilst their study time away.
If you are a slot player, and I would guess you are if you are reading this, then take the fact that you are royalty to the casinos’ hierarchy as a provided.
 
TAKE Advantage OF YOUR STATUS
Slot players like to be comped. In fact, just about all casino players like to be comped, but at times slot players undervalue their comp power. They subscribe to the laptop-generated ratings of the value of their play. These ratings, in my opinion, are somewhat skimpy.
LEVELS OF COMPS
You are a 25-cent slot player, not a heavy hitter like those 5, ten, twenty and hundred-dollar bruisers, some of which require an attendant to record the amounts they gamble that are over 10 thousand dollars.
Most 25-cent slot players do not think of how significantly money they place by means of the machines in the four- to six- to eight-hour stretches they play, which is the typical time for such players.
Let’s take a look at the amount of income that might go by way of the former one particular-armed bandits.
[Please note: I nonetheless like using the ancient title “one-armed bandits” despite the reality that virtually no one uses that term anymore. It accurately described these early slot machines. I give tribute to them. They began the slot machine revolution that has come to fruition nowadays.]
Let us take a basic machine—the traditional one particular with 3 symbols that spend us if they hit. You can prorate the new machines you might play to the 3- symbol winners that permit you to put in considerably more money/credits than the conventional 3.
The newer machines can take a lot much more funds from you, as can the progressive machines, which have higher home edges. Your comps ought to be a lot more if you play the newer machines.
The average residence edge on the 25-cent ma- chines is about ten percent.  A player may face 12 choices an hour. That is 75 cents (full coin) that comes to $9. That’s almost as significantly as the $ten table-game wagers. The residence edge on table games is typically properly under ten percent—more like a higher of two to five %. (The exceptions would be some bets on craps that can go sky high, even larger than the 75-cent slot-machine take.) A six-hour slot player at the traditional machine will place through $540 per hour and $3,240 in six hours. That player will be expected over time to drop $340 per day. Table-game players can expect to get about 30 to 50 percent of their expected losses in the form of comps.
Now, spend Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the casino and that $3,240 rises to $9,720.The expected loss would be $1,020.
[Please note: You can make this any 3 days. You can make this as several days as you go to the casinos in a month or year. It is the total quantity of anticipated losses that the casino requirements to figure out what you are worth to them. Midweek players are worth much more to the casino than weekend players. I am not specifically sure what the percentages are in this case.]
Let us take 30 to 50 % of the expected losses. The 30 % return would be $306, whilst the 50 percent return would be $510. Mid- week casinos will frequently give even low-level slot players totally free or significantly reduced rooms and restaurant reservations (you can get really, really fat at the buffets!).
Yes, a lot of casinos will supply gifts. Some players have so numerous steak knives that they would have to purchase a ranch. Some casinos give them bottles of cost-free wine.
Exactly where ARE YOU?
If you are a dollar player or a five-dollar player just figure what the casino must give you as a reward for your anticipated losses. And get a host. Often hosts will get you more!
All the very best in and out of the casinos! D
Frank Scoblete’s internet site is www.frankscoblete.com.His books are offered from Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Kindle,  e-books,  libraries and bookstores.
