Gayle Mitchell - Easy Casino Gambling: Winning Strategies for the Beginner

1. There are three types of slot machines: basic slots, progressives, and bonus slots, which include multi-lines and reels.
2. Basic Slots, or flat-tops, have a constant top jackpot payout.
3. Strategy: Look for single-payline and two-coin-maximum play to stretch your gambling bankroll.
4. Double or triple the payout with certain combinationsfor example, Double or Triple Diamonds, or Blazing 7s.
5. Hit and Run: Five maximum spins for a return. In addition, take a maximum of five spins after a large jackpot win.
6. Progressives offer increasing jackpot payouts, dependent upon the amount of monies played through the linked bank or carousel of slots.
7. There are two levels of progressive jackpots, primary and secondary, with many graduated jackpots and pay-symbol possibilities.
8. A primary jackpot, displayed in large neon, is the top prize offered for a specific win combination.
9. Secondary jackpots are displayed on smaller screens and are hit more often, albeit lower payouts.
10. Progressives, online and off, are found in one casino or several participating casinos. After a progressive jackpot is hit, the meter automatically resets to the base jackpot amount.
11. Strategy: Before playing any single group of progressives, check out the primary and secondary jackpots, and then compare other progressives online and off for the best payouts relative to their starting amounts.
12. Look for progressive jackpots that are paid instantly.
13. Bonus slots: Multi-lines offer a second-chance video bonus screen round. Wild X Multipliers are bonus reel slots.
14. Bonus multilines: the screen shows at least twenty-five graphic symbols or characters, more than other slots. At least five or nine paylines and up to as many as fifty paylines may be played.
15. Bonus slots are available in penny to dollar denominations and up, online and off. They offer frequent payouts, usually every two to three spins.
16. Scatter-pay wild symbols pay anywhere on screens crisscrossing pay lines.
17. Use the Help menu to determine the grid of various paylines and payouts for matching symbols.
18. Bonus Reel Slots or Wild X Multipliers feature multipliers, free spins, and possibly a fourth reel or top box. These bonus slots are popular with people who like to play traditional slots.

Strategy

• You do not have to play the maximum number of coins all the time, unlike with basic and progressive slots.
• Play one or two coins per line, activating all paylines, until you build some credits.Then the occasional maximum-coin spin is not a high risk.
• Play new bonus slot versions offered online and off whenever a new product has better payouts.

• Learn how to read pay schedules to understand the difference between full-pay and short-pay VP versions.
• Learn optimum strategy for each VP version before you play.
• Here are the top ten VP versions with the highest payout percentages, based on players preferences and availability.

1. 10 or 4 Loose Deuces: 100.97 percent
2. 9/5 Deuces Wild: 100.76 percent
3. 7/5 Jokers Wild: 100.64 percent. Five of a kind pays 1,000. Quad pays 100. Kings + is the minimum payout.
4. 9/6 Double Double Jackpot Poker, also known as Aces and Faces: 100.35 percent
5. 10/7 Double Bonus: Two pair pays one coin = 100.17 percent
6. Pick Em Poker: 99.95 percent
7. 11/7 Triple Bonus Poker; the Kings+ minimum payout is 99.94 percent.
8. 9/6 Jacks+: two pair pays two coins = 99.54 percent
9. 8/5 Jacks+ Bonus: Two pair pays two coins = 99.17 percent.
10. 9/6 Double Double Bonus: 98.98 percent

The first two numbers reflect the payouts for a full house and flush as per a one-coin payout. For example, a 10/7 Bonus VP would pay ten coins for a full house and seven coins for a flush on a one-coin bet. The exceptions are Deuces Wild games; reflect the payouts for a straight flush and four of a kind as per a one-coin payout. These percentages are maintained with the maximum number of coins, full-pay schedules, and perfect strategy in play.

Strategy for three of the most popular VP versions:

Jacks or Better (Jacks+)

• A maximum-coin bet pays the winning hands multiplied by a factor of five, except the royal flush (4, 000), which is an incentive to always play the maximum number of coins for each hand.
• 20 percent of hands dealt will be paying hands.
• 3 percent of the time, you will toss all five cards.
• The 6/5 VP payout is 72 percent. Theres a big difference between full pay and this short-pay schedule.
• Keep a five-card winning hand unless one-card draw can make a straight or a royal flush.
• The ace is not the most important card; the king, queen, and jack are significant also, as they return your bet.
• Dont keep a kicker with a high pair.

Deuces Wild

• Strategy includes the prize for a secondary jackpot of four deuces.
• Approximately every 5,000 hands will be four deuces.
• Dont hold two pair, as the minimum payout is for three of a kind.
• Only one pair should be held.
• Almost 20 percent of the time, you will throw away all five cards.
• Never hold one card only, except a deuce.
• Never hold two cards unless theyre a pair or a two-card royal draw, but not ace and king.
• Never hold just one other card with one, two, or three deuces.
• If there are no deuces, draw to an inside royal or straight flush because of the wild-card possibility.
• Jack to 7 offers the best straight potential.
• Play Double or Loose Deuces versions, where the secondary jackpot of four deuces pays double. Strategy change: Hold three deuces alone.
• Deuces Wild is a roller-coaster ride of a game. Bankroll fluctuations are expected.

Jokers Wild

• Uses a fifty-three-card deck to include one joker.
• Go for a straight flush when possible for the higher return with a wild card.
• Break up three of a kind for any four-card straight flush.
• Hold a lower pair instead of trying for an inside straight.
• Although this is a wild-card game, the pay for straights has been reduced from four to three coins.

1. Blackjack: Play Dealer Must Draw to 16 and Stand on All 17s tables.
2. Best: Single-deck tables, no double-down restrictions, resplitting and surrender allowed.
3. You only have to beat the dealer; you can win with a 13 or 14 hand and a dealer bust.
4. Master the hit and stand strategies and the true-count system for card counting.
5. Snag the third-base seat to survey all the cards on the table before your decision.
6. Watch for dealer tells. These signs can give away hands.
7. Dont take insurance.
8. Dont play blackjack at a table where the players blackjack pays 6 to 5 or even money. Stick with the standard 3-to-2 payout.
9. Pass up blackjack tables that utilize a continuous-shuffling machine, where cards are returned to the shuffler after each round.
10. Quick-Tip Blackjack Strategy: Your Hand Against Dealer Upcard (D)

12 to 16: D stands on 2 to 6, hits on 7 to ace