Good Night From II

If I am more than 40 or 60 ahead I quit.
That day was the most I have ever won in a single day, and it's happened only a couple times before.
My sister has won bigger and more often than me. She also places larger bets and comes with more money, so she is also in the hole more often.

Not too long ago I was sitting next to a guy that hit that same jackpot of 11 of 12. Those sure don't happen very often.

In the past year, overall, I think I may have lost around $300. But we go gambling once or twice a week.
Go out for a nice drive, do some gambling and go home. It is our main form of entertainment.
One casino is 10 miles away, Treasure Island is 45 miles, and the other two are about 100 miles.
The one going south into IA is a nice drive and they have very good food, but we seldom win there.

My strategy is simple.
Walk in with around $60, $20 each for a few machines at the minimum bet.
Hit or miss quick, and then out the door.

My reasoning is also simple.
Many machines will give some kind of payout shortly after you start playing just to keep you playing, unless they are in a suck-it-in mode.
That machine I won on won't be played by me for several months.

But you also need to play the machines enough to learn how they actually work. The ones I play can give 2-4 bonus rounds within a very short time, some with meager payouts and other big ones. Then they will start just taking it all back in again. All just chance on where you are in the cycle.
The payout I got was not in a bonus round, just a normal spin.

I worked in casino's for a few years in Las Vegas and Reno and watched how things worked. I watch now as well.
I'll see people get some big payouts only to try for ever more, feeding the same machine until everything is sucked back in.

Trying to get your money back almost never works, so I don't go in with much to start with.
My sister and I are addicted to gambling. The fun of the chase, beating the odds and all that.
But addiction does not have to mean being dumb about it.

 

I work to hard for my money to give it to a casino.