Casino players are always looking for an advantage. For the most part, there isn’t one to find. Here’s an example:
Is it better to put a bunch of bills “feed the machine” or a single bill or ticket? Does it make a difference in winning?
Misty H.
Any method will be fine, so it’s really up to you. Whether it’s cash, a ticket or free play, small bills or large bills, or even the new cashless gaming systems casinos are slowly rolling out over time, slots don’t handle any of these options any differently. Over the long run, it will all roughly fall to around the same payback percentage.
Casinos get to choose the payback of each slot on their casino floor, but there’s only one setting per denomination per game – there’s no individual settings for tickets, cash or free play. That means regardless of how you add money, the slot will have the same payback as any other method.
That’s good news for us as players, simply because you can rest easier knowing it won’t make a difference, similar to how using your players card or not doesn’t make a difference.
More important to the experience will be what type of player you are. If you’re a bigger bettor, maybe using bigger bills or getting larger tickets is just easier than navigating the feeding of 20s into a slot. Conversely, smaller bettors may purposely want to use smaller bills, just so they can avoid putting too much cash into one machine and hopefully not overstay their welcome on a machine that’s not being too generous.
But those decisions are more around budget management and not so much your chances of winning, which won’t be affected regardless of decision. So you can take the direction that makes the most sense for you, and can focus on enjoying the slot game itself and not have to worry about whether you made the right decision.
I am a low roller and my “entertainment” budget for a casino visit is $300. I usually take my $300 in $20 bills to pace out my gambling ( and to make my visit last 3 or 4 hours) I have begun wondering tho, if I took $100 of that budget in $1 bills, and single fed a buck a spin( most of my bets are in the $1 range) if my play would pay out better, or improve the casino offers. ( and from a frustrated session standpoint, at least it would make the casino have to empty the bill accepter sooner lol) As fast as you can spin thru $20 on today’s slots, I thought the $1 trick might bring the cost to play experience more like the way it was in the 90’s when coins were the norm.
You won’t see any difference in payouts or casino offers based on how you put money in (because at the end of the day the amount of money put in, and presumably the amount of gambling done with it, would be similar), but the action of feeding in more small bills vs. one larger one will stretch out the spending simply from the time invested in feeding those bills. So it’s certainly worth a consideration.