Early each winter, after the manufacturers unveil their new machines for the coming year at the Las Vegas gaming convention, these innovative slots start finding their way into our favorite casinos. They all beckon to us with lights, and music, and promises of fun and fortune to be won. Don’t you wish you had enough entertainment money in your budget to play them all?
Better still, don’t you wish there was a way to view them all in action, to learn how they work and what they pay, to find your favorites - all without having to spend ANY money to do so? Well, there is.
Most of the casinos I visit have around 2000 machines for me to choose from. Maybe two hundred or so of them each season are new games I have never played before. In the past I have spent far too much money trying out these unfamiliar games just to see how they work. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stayed too long with a tight, uncooperative, losing game just because I wanted to see what happens in the bonus feature. With minor variations, the base games on a machine are all somewhat the same. We really play the base games so we can win a chance to play the bonus ones. (That’s not entirely true. We also play to win some money!) The bonus games are where you find the fun features, however - the clever gimmicks and surprises, the opportunities to win the big jackpots. It’s where you get your entertainment.
“How can you learn how a particular game works without spending money to play it?” you ask. There are two ways you can do this. One way is to play vicariously by watching other people at the casino spinning the reels hoping to win. They probably won’t appreciate your watching over their shoulders, however, and will likely move to another game before very long.
If voyeurism makes you uncomfortable, a better way to learn what these games have in store is by watching the films posted on YouTube by other players. I have frequently seen the new releases on these blogs before I have seen the actual games in my Southern California tribal casinos. You can learn a lot from these films. Players like Casinomannj or DProxima have posted hundreds of winning games on their web sites. Sometimes they film their entire game to show how long it took to get the bonus. Sometimes they only film the bonus itself. Sometimes they edit their films to show only the winning bonus spins. You can sometimes tell they are hiding from casino security guards so they won’t be caught filming the games. Usually they are playing max bets so their jackpots will be as large as possible and exciting enough to attract many viewers. Besides seeing how large the wins can be, you can also see on their sites how many spins it takes to bring up the bonus, and how often or how infrequently those bonus spins hit. These players do a good job narrating and editing their films, and I would recommend their sites to anyone wanting to view what the casinos have to offer. You can search YouTube by the player’s name or by the name of the game you want to see. If you subscribe to your favorite player’s site, you can post a comment or ask a question as well.
Here's a sample of Casinomannj:
If voyeurism makes you uncomfortable, a better way to learn what these games have in store is by watching the films posted on YouTube by other players. I have frequently seen the new releases on these blogs before I have seen the actual games in my Southern California tribal casinos. You can learn a lot from these films. Players like Casinomannj or DProxima have posted hundreds of winning games on their web sites. Sometimes they film their entire game to show how long it took to get the bonus. Sometimes they only film the bonus itself. Sometimes they edit their films to show only the winning bonus spins. You can sometimes tell they are hiding from casino security guards so they won’t be caught filming the games. Usually they are playing max bets so their jackpots will be as large as possible and exciting enough to attract many viewers. Besides seeing how large the wins can be, you can also see on their sites how many spins it takes to bring up the bonus, and how often or how infrequently those bonus spins hit. These players do a good job narrating and editing their films, and I would recommend their sites to anyone wanting to view what the casinos have to offer. You can search YouTube by the player’s name or by the name of the game you want to see. If you subscribe to your favorite player’s site, you can post a comment or ask a question as well.
Here's a sample of Casinomannj:
You might not want to spend a lot of time doing this. You’ll be anxious to play and try to duplicate their success yourself. After all, there’s no money to be won watching a game on YouTube. Viewing these videos can be informative, however, and you can get some idea of what to expect if you decide to play the game yourself. What you see watching someone else’s game will be more realistic than what you see playing free casino-type games on the internet sites or on computer casino software. Those games are set to pay off large amounts of pretend credits to encourage you to try them for real money.
The slot manufacturer WMS has a section on its web site with statistics on Today’s Active Gambler. Watching it I learned that there are over 5,000 channels of slot films on YouTube that together total nearly 300,000 film clips. Some have a few thousand hits: some have over a hundred thousand. You won’t be alone in learning to play your favorite game by watching it on YouTube. Hopefully the experience will help you choose wisely and pick a game that is fun, and it may let you take home a little more money when you play for real.
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