Slot machine question

Hello, going to Vegas tomorrow. I am planning on pooling some cash with a friend and dropping it into a $5.00 or larger slot machine. I am looking for some suggestions on what and where to play? I suppose a $1.00 machine with a $5.00 or higher spin will work also. Please let me know where you would spend the $ and on what type of machine. Total to be spent is around $600.00. Thanks!

If you are a video poker player, that is the way to go.
If not, I would play a slot downtown - anywhere except Golden Nugget. Slots are usually looser downtown.

For reel slots, the Blazing Sevens machines. They have relatively low progressive jackpots (a little over $1000) but seem to hit fairly often. I don't play slots much, but I see people hit the minor jackpots ($200-500) fairly often. But, they are usually $1 machines, 2 or 3 coins for full play, so they may not meet your criteria.

Or, Wild Cherries machines (Double, Triple) pay for Cherries in any reel position. Or any machine that pays for a symbol in any position.

Otherwise, I agree with tonyrob-video poker, single line $1 (which costs $5 per spin).

Don't forget to set down, preferably on paper, the terms of distribution before you start: How is any money won going to be distributed? 50/50 per every spin that results in a win? 50/50 on the total after the $600? Will you tell if you win and he isn't there? LOL.

Good luck - hope you hit something big but leave some for me as I will be there 4 weeks time.

Palms would be my choice here.

Pick a machine with lots of paytables on the upper and lower glass... instead of just a few pay combinations. The little hits will make you money last.

Seeing things like cherries, all blanks, all the same color symbols, etc on the bottom paytable are good ones.

Wild Cherry is a good one to play too.

How about Megabucks? In limited play I always used to get a good percentage back in frequent small pays. Which is surprising, considering the huge top prize. Can't use your player's card in them though, as I recall.

River, some casinos like the Silverton and Sam's town allow you to get full points on MegaBucks.

The "MGM Lion's Share" progressive slot is due for a hit. Do some googling on this slot maching to see its history. Likely it will just suck down your $100 like a sinkhole in Florida...but if you hit it you would be an instant celebrity.

I have always used a Players card anywhere I played Megabucks.