Slot Machines

May 20, 2010

Online slot machines are much like the ones found in today’s brick and mortar casinos. You deposit money and then spin the reels, and depending on the alignment of symbols on the reels and how much you wagered, depending on the paylines you played you can win BIG.

Slot Machine Differences

Generally speaking there tends to be two main varieties of online slot machine, namely the 5 reel and 3 reel slot variant. As you can imagine a 5 reel slot machine has 5 reels or spinning drums, while a classic slot machine otherwise known as a 3 reel machine has just 3 drums that spin.

Paylines

Internet slot machines nowadays allows you, the player, to bet on several lines at once and can offer anywhere from one payline to bet 1, right up to 100 depending on the casino software, this of course will give you more opportunities to win.

It also goes without saying that the more a you wager on each bet, and then combine that with how many paylines you want to play; the amount of money that you can walk away with can be HUGE!

Progressive Jackpot Slot Machines

Progressive jackpots are offered by online casino’s to help increase the players winnings. This simply means that every time a deposit is made into an online slot machine, the casino adds a bit of it to the jackpot. The chances of winning at an online casino will vary per website and each machine has just as much chance of winning as another one does.

Payout Percentages

A reputable online casino tends to get audited by a third party auditor the purpose of these audits is to make sure that the gaming software is in fact randomly generating numbers correctly but more importantly is also to give the prospective player a gauge as to how well the casinos slot machines are paying out. This is known as payout percentages and what it means: the percentage of the money played through will be given back to the slot player over a long enough time period. You can even dig deeper and see what the payout percentage is for an individual slot game.

With that said it is entirely possible for a slot machine, indeed a casino as a whole to have 100+ payout percentage.

Slot Machines and Casino Bonuses

Some online casinos that have online slot machines offer bonuses to their players to give them an initial monetary boost when first starting to play at the casino.

Playing online slot machines for free is possible at some online casinos and usually comes in the form of the bonus known as free play, whereby you can play the casino games for a limited time (usually around 60 minutes), in what can only be described as a “test environment”, without having to deposit your cash into a real money account.

How Free play works is any credits you gain can be transferred to your real money account, unfortunately this tends to be capped at a certain amount and varies from casino to casino as to what that amount is.