The most popular reel type slot machines are IGT, Bally and Williams. The IGT S2000 reel type slot machines are the most common machine on the market. These slot machines are excellent for your home gameroom and offer multiple ways to win. Play Adults Only. You would find traditional five reels and twenty paylines, which are provided with most of slots of this category, in Adults Only slot machine. A quantity of active lines is selected on player’s discretion. The range of the bets per one line varies in range from one cent to one dollar. Having run many casinos, there are a few ways we see people make a living playing slots, although it is a generally a low income living. You can become a jackpot Hunter and only play machines when the progressive jackpot is so high that the machine has swung to a mathematical Player advantage.

In the not-too-distant past, slot-machine players were the second-class citizens of casino customers. Jackpots were small, payout percentages were horrendous, and slot players just weren't eligible for the kind of complimentary bonuses -- free rooms, shows, meals -- commonly given to table players. But in the last few decades the face of the casino industry has changed. Nowadays more than 70 percent of casino revenues comes from slot machines, and in many jurisdictions, that figure tops 80 percent.

About 80 percent of first-time visitors to casinos head for the slots. It's easy -- just drop coins into the slot and push the button or pull the handle. Newcomers can find the personal interaction with dealers or other players at the tables intimidating -- slot players avoid that. And besides, the biggest, most lifestyle-changing jackpots in the casino are offered on the slots.

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The following article will tell you everything you need to know about slots, from the basics to various strategies. We'll start at square one, with a primer on how playing slot machines works.

How to Play

The most popular slots are penny and nickel video games along with quarter and dollar reel-spinning games, though there are video games in 2-cent, 10-cent, quarter, and dollar denominations and reel spinners up to $100. Most reel spinners take up to two or three coins at a time while video slots can take 45, 90, and even 500 credits at a time.

Nearly all slot machines are fitted with currency acceptors -- slide a bill into the slot, and the equivalent amount of credits is displayed on a meter. On reel-spinning slots, push a button marked 'play one credit' until you've reached the number of coins you wish to play. Then hit the 'spin reels' button, or pull the handle on those few slots that still have handles, or hit a button marked 'play max credits,' which will play the maximum coins allowed on that machine.

On video slots, push one button for the number of paylines you want to activate, and a second button for the number of credits wagered per line. One common configuration has nine paylines on which you can bet 1 to 5 credits. Video slots are also available with 5, 15, 20, 25, even 50 paylines, accepting up to 25 coins per line.

Many reel-spinning machines have a single payout line painted across the center of the glass in front of the reels. Others have three payout lines, even five payout lines, each corresponding to a coin played. The symbols that stop on a payout line determine whether a player wins. A common set of symbols might be cherries, bars, double bars (two bars stacked atop one another), triple bars, and sevens.

A single cherry on the payout line, for example, might pay back two coins; the player might get 10 coins for three of any bars (a mixture of bars, double bars, and triple bars), 30 for three single bars, 60 for three double bars, 120 for three triple bars, and the jackpot for three sevens. However, many of the stops on each reel will be blanks, and a combination that includes blanks pays nothing. Likewise, a seven is not any bar, so a combination such as bar-seven-double bar pays nothing.

Video slots typically have representations of five reels spinning on a video screen. Paylines not only run straight across the reels but also run in V's, upside down V's, and zigs and zags across the screen. Nearly all have at least five paylines, and most have more -- up to 50 lines by the mid-2000s.

In addition, video slots usually feature bonus rounds and 'scatter pays.' Designated symbols trigger a scatter pay if two, three, or more of them appear on the screen, even if they're not on the same payline.

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Similarly, special symbols will trigger a bonus event. The bonus may take the form of a number of free spins, or the player may be presented with a 'second screen' bonus. An example of a second screen bonus comes in the long-popular WMS Gaming Slot 'Jackpot Party.' If three Party noisemakers appear on the video reels, the reels are replaced on the screen with a grid of packages in gift wrapping. The player touches the screen to open a package and collects a bonus payout. He or she may keep touching packages for more bonuses until one package finally reveals a 'pooper,' which ends the round. The popularity of such bonus rounds is why video slots have become the fastest growing casino game of the last decade.

When you hit a winning combination, winnings will be added to the credit meter. If you wish to collect the coins showing on the meter, hit the button marked 'Cash Out,' and on most machines, a bar-coded ticket will be printed out that can be redeemed for cash. In a few older machines, coins still drop into a tray.

Etiquette

Many slot players pump money into two or more adjacent machines at a time, but if the casino is crowded and others are having difficulty finding places to play, limit yourself to one machine. As a practical matter, even in a light crowd, it's wise not to play more machines than you can watch over easily. Play too many and you could find yourself in the situation faced by the woman who was working up and down a row of six slots. She was dropping coins into machine number six while number one, on the aisle, was paying a jackpot. There was nothing she could do as a passerby scooped a handful of coins out of the first tray.

Sometimes players taking a break for the rest room will tip a chair against the machine, leave a coat on the chair, or leave some other sign that they'll be back. Take heed of these signs. A nasty confrontation could follow if you play a machine that has already been thus staked out.

Payouts

Payout percentages have risen since the casinos figured out it's more profitable to hold 5 percent of a dollar than 8 percent of a quarter or 10 percent of a nickel. In most of the country, slot players can figure on about a 93 percent payout percentage, though payouts in Nevada run higher. Las Vegas casinos usually offer the highest average payouts of all -- better than 95 percent. Keep in mind that these are long-term averages that will hold up over a sample of 100,000 to 300,000 pulls.

In the short term, anything can happen. It's not unusual to go 20 or 50 or more pulls without a single payout on a reel-spinning slot, though payouts are more frequent on video slots. Nor is it unusual for a machine to pay back 150 percent or more for several dozen pulls. But in the long run, the programmed percentages will hold up.

The change in slots has come in the computer age, with the development of the microprocessor. Earlier slot machines were mechanical, and if you knew the number of stops -- symbols or blank spaces that could stop on the payout line--on each reel, you could calculate the odds on hitting the top jackpot. If a machine had three reels, each with ten stops, and one symbol on each reel was for the jackpot, then three jackpot symbols would line up, on the average, once every 10310310 pulls, or 1,000 pulls.

On those machines, the big payoffs were $50 or $100--nothing like the big numbers slot players expect today. On systems that electronically link machines in several casinos, progressive jackpots reach millions of dollars.

The microprocessors driving today's machines are programmed with random-number generators that govern winning combinations. It no longer matters how many stops are on each reel. If we fitted that old three-reel, ten-stop machine with a microprocessor, we could put ten jackpot symbols on the first reel, ten on the second, and nine on the third, and still program the random-number generator so that three jackpot symbols lined up only once every 1,000 times, or 10,000 times. And on video slots, reel strips can be programmed to be as long as needed to make the odds of the game hit at a desired percentage. They are not constrained by a physical reel.

Each possible combination is assigned a number, or numbers. When the random-number generator receives a signal -- anything from a coin being dropped in to the handle being pulled -- it sets a number, and the reels stop on the corresponding combination.

Between signals, the random-number generator operates continuously, running through dozens of numbers per second. This has two practical effects for slot players. First, if you leave a machine, then see someone else hit a jackpot shortly thereafter, don't fret. To hit the same jackpot, you would have needed the same split-second timing as the winner. The odds are overwhelming that if you had stayed at the machine, you would not have hit the same combination.

Second, because the combinations are random, or as close to random as is possible to set the program, the odds of hitting any particular combination are the same on every pull. If a machine is programmed to pay out its top jackpot, on the average, once every 10,000 pulls, your chances of hitting it are one in 10,000 on any given pull. If you've been standing there for days and have played 10,000 times, the odds on the next pull will still be one in 10,000. Those odds are long-term averages. In the short term, the machine could go 100,000 pulls without letting loose of the big one, or it could pay it out twice in a row.

So, is there a way to ensure that you hit it big on a slot machine? Not really, but despite the overriding elements of chance, there are some strategies you can employ. We'll cover these in the next section.

According to LetsPlaySlots.com Vegas slots section when you walk into any Las Vegas based casino you are going to be faced with thousands of different slot machines, and each of them will of course be offering you something different.

You may be the type of player who wants bells and whistles when playing slots, and wants to have the chance of triggering all manner of bonus games and bonus features, or you may prefer the much more basic playing slots such as classic slots and three reel slots.

No matter what type of slot machines you are eager to play, you are guaranteed to find them in Vegas and in very large numbers, too!

What I want to do today is to give you an insight into which are the best slots to play in Vegas and which slot games have proven to be the most played slots, too, so if you are planning a trip to Las Vegas then read on for a few pointers as to just which slot machines to track down and play!

Best Progressive Slots in Vegas

One thing that will become very apparent when playing progressive slot machines is that the jackpots on some of them can be life changing. However, the slot machines such as the Mega Bucks slots are not renowned for awarding their jackpots regularly.

As such if you are something of an avid slot player who always does tend to make a beeline to play progressive jackpot awarding slots, you may be much better off playing slots that offer more than one progressive jackpot, as they will award their jackpots much more frequently than others.

However, I would steer you towards playing any of the Konami designed slots on which there are two progressive jackpots that are guaranteed to hit before they reach a certain value. By playing those slots when their guaranteed hit by jackpots are not far off their guaranteed hit values, you have a much greater chance of winning one of them, so do keep that in mind!

Most Popular High Variance Vegas Slots

There are plenty of slot machines offering different playing structures in Vegas, and when it comes to having a chance of winning a huge valued winning pay-out, but without the need to play progressive jackpot awarding slots, you will be much better off giving high variance slots some play time.

Now there are going to be risks associated with playing high variance slot machines, for they have been designed in such a way that you tend not to spin in lots of low valued winning pay-outs, instead these types of slots give you the chance of being awarded a much higher yet much rarer high valued winning pay-out, either by their base games or their bonus games.

Some of the very best high variance slots that you will come across in every single casino in Las Vegas are the Aristocrat designed Buffalo series of slots. When playing these slots it is via the free spins bonus game which comes with wild multiplier symbols that you have the very best chance of winning a huge pay-out.

If there is just one tip I can pass onto you for playing those slots it is to keep the stake levels low in value, as they can swallow up your bankroll extremely quickly if you do set about playing them for too high a stake level.

More Popular Themed Slots in Vegas

Whilst the vast majority of slot machines in Vegas will come with a fairly basic type of theme, there are some slots that are themed around celebrities, pop and rock bands and even TV game shows.

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If you are looking to play such familiar looking slots then boy are you going to have plenty of them available to you! Some of the most played and most popular themed slots include the Walking Dead series of slots and also the Titanic themed slot machines too.

However, do also keep your eyes peeled for the Britney Spears slot which has been a popular one with players for a couple of years now, and also track down and play the Elvira slot, for it is bound to put a smile on its face as you are playing it.

Best Slots to Keep You Playing for Longer

It is going to be the pay-out percentages on any slot machines that will ultimately determine when you are going to have plenty of winning spins and will be able to play slot machines for much longer than you normally would.

Therefore it is vital that you play only those slots which have been designed with the very highest pay-out percentages, as by doing so you will then get more of your stakes returned to you as winning pay-outs, and will therefore get to recycle your bankroll more times than you ever would playing a low paying slot.

What you should void therefore doing is playing slot machines in Vegas that usually, due to their location, have slightly lower pay-out percentages than slots found in other locations.

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I would completely avoid playing slot machines in Vegas in places such as McCarran Airport, and also avoid playing slot machines in the Las Vegas Strip casinos too, for the slot machines found in those two locations tend to have lower pay-out percentages than slots found in other locations.

If you want to have access to slot machines that do boast much higher pay-out percentages then head to places such as the Downtown casinos, and also be aware that it is the coin denomination you are playing for that will often result in some much high pay-out percentage being offered to players.

The slots that tend to have the very lowest RTP’s are one cent slots, so if you can afford to do so try and play slots with a higher denomination, as by doing so you will be playing slots that do boast some much higher pay-out percentages.

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