Playing slots at your local gaming hall, casino or online casino is a unique form of entertainment.
Different players choose to play different casino games and each has their own reason why they find gambling so exciting. But few will deny that going to a casino is a great adventure.
Let’s take a look at five reasons why casino games are so entertaining. Are any of these reasons why you play slots?
Variety
Many players have their favourite casino games.
Some always play one game, while others choose to play a different casino game from time to time.
Other players prefer to change the slot machine or the games it offers every ten minutes and do not spend more than one hour at any one slot machine.
There is no right or wrong way to play any of these games, but the good thing is that casinos offer so many slots and casino games that everyone can find their favourite way to spend time in the casino.
You can win money
Do you think anyone would still be gambling if they couldn’t win?
I think most people would quickly start avoiding gambling if they never won anything.
If that were the case, the gambling halls on the streets would not be called ‘winning’, but ‘losing’, and that would hardly persuade people to try their luck in that establishment.
Casino games offer different risk-reward ratios. To win big, you will also have to take more risks, but if you are lucky, the winnings can be very large.
Playing slots with progressive jackpots gives you the chance to win big, sometimes even millions. Of course, your chances of winning it are not very high, but people win these jackpots and will continue to do so. I have not won one, but I have seen pictures of lucky winners.
Even if you play a machine with a progressive jackpot for a euro or two per spin, your payout to win the big-winner is high. On average, slot machines have a 93% payout return. Knowing that you can make many hundreds of spins in an hour, you can quickly run into big losses.
On the other hand, you can play games like blackjack. This game has a much smaller house edge, but on the other hand you can win just a few times your original bet.
When you are in a casino, you will have to choose how much you are willing to risk. But in both cases, you have a chance to win money. And if you’re very lucky, you can win every time you enter the casino.
Strategy
You can find games that offer you the chance to change your strategy based on how you play. In video poker and blackjack, players need the right strategy to increase their chances of winning.
You can reduce your house edge by 200-300% with the right strategy. The games will be on the house side anyway, but if the house edge is 1% using strategy and 3% without strategy, you will definitely win more often using the right strategy.
If you visit online poker rooms and try your luck at Texas Holdem, 7 Card Stud Poker or Omaha, you will be able to use these strategies all the time. By improving your skills and practising regularly, you can become a long-term profitable poker player.
Strategy and playing skills are most useful in table games – poker, roulette, blackjack, baccarat, etc. In slots, strategy is usually irrelevant, as everything is decided by chance.
Even using a little strategy when choosing which casino game to play will increase your chances of winning.
No strategy
It is a bit amusing that the section on strategy is followed by a section on playing without strategy. But not all casino players want to go in and use strategies. After all, casino games are a form of entertainment.
If you want to disconnect a little from everyday thoughts, casino games can give you that option.
Slots are the first thing that comes to mind when it comes to playing without any tactics or strategies. You simply drop in coins or paper money, lay down the lines you want, choose the spin price and press a button. Over and over again, hoping for a big win.
Or you can sit at the roulette table and bet on random numbers all the time. You can bet only on the black squares, hoping that the ball will fall on them more often today.
Finding games that don’t require much thought is easy in casinos. In fact, that’s exactly what the casino wants you to do – not think too much, but just put your money on the line. Casinos know that the more you play and the less you think, the more they will earn.
It’s a game of luck
You can control many things in a casino, but the final outcome will definitely be determined by chance or “luck”. You can choose casino games with the lowest house edge and you can play with the best strategies, but still, your odds of winning will be about 47/53 in the casino’s favour.
Even if you find a slot machine that pays out more than 100% of the money wagered, this does not mean that you will win. Maybe you’ll get tired of waiting and give up, but the next person who sits down at that slot machine will win big money at the first touch.
That’s why casino slots and table games are so exciting, you never know. You may get lucky and you may not. But everyone is always waiting for luck to smile on them.
Even if a slot machine only returns 60%, that doesn’t mean you can’t get lucky!
Summary
I play slots for fun now and then. But I try to limit this entertainment as it can quickly become an unnecessary addiction.
The best way to make casinos fun is to go into them with a certain amount of money that you are willing to lose. For example, €100. Once that money is lost, walk away and consider it as the price of that entertainment.
Of course, sometimes you will get lucky and go home with maybe even €500. But this should certainly not be taken as a sign that you can now make money this way.