Size of Wager Selection (Part II)
Among video slots, this selection principle is more complicated. First, you must learn the details. Once you have done this, and now understand exactly what this machine is, and how it plays and pays, then you can decide how many coins you intend to play. Your first decision should involve the number of available paylines. If the machine has five lines, then the absolute minimum must be 5 coins. If it has nine lines, then this is 9 coins. And so on. This should be automatic for any such video reel slot machine. None of these should be played with any less than the minimum 1 coin per payline. At least. Without this absolutely minimum action, you will be a loser no matter what you have learned. If you even think about playing such video reel slots for any less than this absolute minimum, then you have not learned very much. Yet. But you will. You will learn this two ways. One is the easy way, and that is to follow this advice, from the information gained here. The other is to play this way and realize that you have won, but didn’t get paid because you didn’t play at least that minimum of 1 coin per payline. Once you do this, you won’t ever forget it, and it will haunt you the rest of your life.
Not so long ago a woman was playing a nickel slot machine, which happened to have a jackpot of $500,000. It was a 3-coin machine, but she insisted on playing only 1 coin. Well, you guessed it classic slot games. She hit the Big One. Oh, but she only bet 5cent. She won $50. For that extra 10cent, she would have had half a million dollars. Stories like this are many. Is it sad? Well, no. That player was just plain ignorant. There’s no excuse for this, or anything like this, particularly with these multi-line video reel slots, where playing anything less than the minimum bet which activates all the paylines is equally ill-advised as was that woman who only played the nickel and didn’t get the big pay when she hit it.
To be continued…
