Any new ADVANTAGEOUS Slot Machines ??

I will generally "walk the casino floor" looking for "advantageous slots". Here in beautiful South Florida, there are a few still around.

One casino I frequent has the S & H Green Stamps machine (x2). Penny denomination. It has been over 25 "visits" since I've found a play on those, and the hold is so high on them, I'm not really certain what level is needed to make those true advantageous machines.

I'm ahead on that model, but if my time spent walking to find it and check it out is counted, my win may be only pennies per hour. LOL

Not like the good ole days where there were 20, 30, or more different machines on a casino floor, and finding plays was a daily occurence.

There is also another game that appears to offer an advantage, but the advantage disappears if the machine sits idle more than 10-15 minutes of so.

Not certain that is "legal", since it would lower the payback on the game significantly, perhaps to less than the "legal limit" of 75% in Florida. Hmmmm...... But if I speak with the casino, I'd be recognized and watched, and if I speak with "gaming control", the casino would probably just take them out.

Those are a long walk from the Poker Room, so I only check them coming and going.

Seems like in the past year, I've "found" more money/credits/tito's/chips than earned by playing slots. LOL

The Good Old Days -

Going back to 2000-2002

I used to hang around in a number of casinos but one in particular in Canada:

out of about 2000 total slot machines there were:

5 $1 BOOM Machines

10 .25 BOOM Machines

19 $1 Big Bang Piggy Bankin' Machines

102 .25 Big Bang Piggy Bankin' Machines

To make matters even better - the casino closed at 3 am every day and re-opened originally at 11 am and later at 9 am - what a great opportunity to find good machines !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Used to love my yearly trip to Vegas too !!!!!!!!

YES THOSE WERE THE GOOD OLD DAYS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last time I was in Vegas there was ONE Big Band Piggy Bankin' Machine left in the entire city!!!!!!!!!!!


In the beginning I wouldn't touch a BOOM machine unless there were 23 firecrackers - by the end I was playing them as low as 9 and I still think that was positive.

I have my own slut. Get your own!

Has anyone studied when the MAX MIN machines go positive?

I spent some time "clocking" some at the casino where I usually play poker. Found plenty of times where I thought the min was high, within $10 -$15 of the guranteed payoff.

But, the increase was ridiculously slow.

Once I found one that was $3.50 cents away! The max was far away, maybe half way. I decided to play through $200. (Coin In. Watched my points until they reached the $200 coin in amount) Cashed out with a $40.00 FSP loss.

Don't recall how much it built for that amount of coin in, but it was real minimal. Exasperated, I accepted my loss and left. Fortunately, I'd had $50.00 FSP from poker promotion so figure I only lost $20 - $25 "cash".

Don't know where it eventually hit. I feel I gave it a fair and reasonable try.

I was surprised the minimum had gotten that high.

Advantageous is pretty broad.

To some 99% payback might be advantageous.

Most slot players don't have a clue.

You will find the CASHMAN machines to be one of the few that you can play to win the major and minor jackpots for only 30 cents. Most machines require max play to win the big jackpots. Look around the casino many regular players play CASHMAN as a result of it being one of the better machines for them to play.

Good luck!

This is getting a bit off topic but I just saw that the MRB's are delayed at the printer.

This doesn't affect me as I am not going to Vegas till Feb 4-14, but really I can't figure for the life of me why the 2012 books have to be released on Jan 1 - everyone else releases the book well before the new year (American Casino Guide as an example) and there is never an issue.

Of course in years past when the MRB's were worth 3-400 dollars I guess I would have been a bit upset if I was going the first week of January and couldn't use the book.

Of course now that the $40.50 I spend on the book is worth only maybe $60 or $70 to me I would not be so upset (lol).

I used to center my trips around the MRB's - no more (lol).

Like I've said before - anything that is too good to be true doesn't last.

Such a creature as an "advantageous" slot machine does not exist.

No one knows more about LV odds than Jean Scott, and she avoids them (ALL OF THEM) like the plague.

At least, that's what she fesses up to. She might be a huge Ghostbusters fan and wear a groucho glasses/ nose

Actually Jean Scott does discuss Advantageous slot machines briefly in her first `Frugal Gambler book but she says she PREFERS advantageous VP machines as those are ALWAYS advantageous, you don`t have to fight with others for access and don`t have to go hunting - nonetheless I think she did make the occasional `piggy run`referring to Piggy Bankin machines back in the day when they existed.