ARMLESS BANDITS

 

Like a scene out of a seventies Sci-Fi flick geo-domes and monolithic towers glow like a fusion powered city on some far flung world. No it’s just Vegas.

 Powered by dollars there are winners and losers 24/7. Still your odds of hitting a $1.00 slot progressive big one are much better than the $1.BILL. LOTTO.

 

Back in the early days of Vegas they called them one armed bandits. You had to pull the handle to start the wheels to rolling.

 Now days you touch the screen and you don’t even get to hear your coins fill the tray. It’s a paper voucher and a recording of money falling into an imaginary cup.

 

The secret to winning at slot machines is knowing when to quit.

If you drop $50.00 in a slot machine and suddenly hit a 250.00 jackpot. Quit!

 You are not going to win more if you keep going. You will put it all back in and a lot more.

 Vegas is a town built on numbers. Every game is calculated to win more for the house than you. Just look at all the pretty lights out on the strip designed to lure you in. Somebody has to pay that light bill and it won't be the house.

 

Another way to win is to keep tabs on how much you lose. If you put a twenty in and play for 30 minutes and the bartender comps your $6.00 drink. Then you quite with $15.00 in hand. You got a dollar off your drink. WINNER!

 If by some miracle you actually do win a big one. Just keep in mind that a thousand before you have lost it all. You are just one of the lucky few to catch a break.

 And let’s not forget the IRS. They will be looking for their half.

 

If you play a progressive machine and drop a $1,000.00 and hit a $1,000,000.00. Run! All the way back to wherever you came from. If you stop to put even $1.00 back in, you might end up hitching back home with a trucker. Unless you cashed in your equity in which case you have no home.