Slot Machine Strategy: Winning Methods for Hitting the Jackpot [Paperback]

MacIntyre Symms (Author)

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Product Description

A professional gambler offers tips to make even a beginner more successful at beating the one-armed bandit.

From the Back Cover

Slot machines are the heartbeat of a casino. Enter any big house of chance and the first thing you’ll hear is the humming, clanging, ringing, and jingling of those dispensers of luck known as “one-armed bandits.”
Slot Machine Strategy is a concise and easy-to-understand guide to the wonderful, exciting, and potentially lucrative world of the casino slot machine. MacIntyre Symms offers important lessons, including:

• From the tens of thousands of slot machines in the casinos of Las Vegas and Atlantic City, how can you choose the one with the best chance of paying off?
• How do you decide whether to stick with the machine you are playing or move to a new machine?
• How is slot machine strategy affected by casino innovations such as the progressive jackpot and multiple-coin machines?

Along with helpful tips on how to win and win big, Symms also offers a brief history of the slot machine, a quick course in how to manage your money, and some of the wacky things you can expect should you win the big jackpot.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Lyons Press; 1st edition (April 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592283721
• ISBN-13: 978-1592283729
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #778,013 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable easy read, May 24, 2002

By	Timothy Brennan (Colorado Springs, CO United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Slot Machine Strategy: Winning Methods for Hitting the Jackpot (Paperback)

I personally enjoyed this book, which I borrowed from the library. The part that I enjoyed the most, were the case studies near the end of the book, which described several types of slot players, and the common mistakes that they made, and how they overcame them. One case study was about a guy who won 2 million dollars playing 10 dollar slots, and continued to play after he had won. That was really interesting. There might not be much new in this book, as another reviewer mentioned, but playing slots is not as complicated as other casino games. This book is to the point, and drills home good ideas and strategies like the title suggests.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting but Contradictory in Parts, January 28, 2008

By	A. Kramer - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Slot Machine Strategy: Winning Methods for Hitting the Jackpot (Paperback)

This book was an interesting read for the history of slot machines, the experiences in slots from the author and captivating ideas of how casinos strategize to keep the bucks rolling into their pockets. Beyond that, it really didn't explain a strategy for beating the odds of slots in a casino. The strategy outlined is gambling common sense (e.g. set an absolute loss per visit), ways to minimize loss to the casino by getting better return rates from different machines, and some theories on how to find the "best" (or the least worst) slots by thinking like the casino business. There are no surefire strategies for beating the odds, and this book does not sell that. Unfortunately, the case study section of the book gives the stories of winners that paints a portrait of those beating the odds by following the outlined strategies. There are false statements in the stories that the author does not correct, which creates a contradictory reading experience.

9 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars same old stuff, March 21, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Slot Machine Strategy: Winning Methods for Hitting the Jackpot (Paperback)

There's nothing new in this book that hasn't already been written about playing slots.