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PS 23: Winning Strategy 1, Maine Slots 2018 Winning Strategy I, Maine Slot Machine Casino Gambling PS 23: Winning Strategy 1, Maine Slots 2018 320-Character Description: Winning Strategy 1-Maine Slots 2018. One of several winning strategies I've discovered for newer-style casinos, presented after having laid a foundation of 22 episodes. Slots is a thinking person's game, and not just about pushing a button. Plus, Maine slot machine casino gambling. Opening Hello! Today’s episode #23 of the Professor Slots podcast discusses Winning Strategy I: Only Win Immediately. Plus, slot machine casino gambling in the U.S. state of Maine. Thank you for joining me for the Professor Slots podcast show. I’m Jon Friedl and this is the podcast about slot machine casino gambling. It is where I provide the knowledge, insights, and tools for helping you improve your slot machine gambling performance. Show notes are available within most podcast Apps or at professorslots.com/e23. “Jon Friedl from The Professor Slots Blog reveals all of his tips and tricks for thriving in the casino environment. Discover how to assess casinos to pick the best near you, choose winning slot machines, and identify your gambling goals: being entertained, earning comps, winning take-home cash, or combine them. Jon has won 90 taxable jackpots and a luxury car in 9 months of slots play - and made a profit at slots gambling since 2013.” On Last Week’s Episode… In case you missed it, on last week’s episode I went over Who Sets Winning Odds, specifically that casinos with control over slots like to tinker with the odds of winning to improve financial performance, which just so happens to generate winning patterns to be exploited.. Also last week, I reviewed Louisiana slot machine casino gambling, including how the gaming industry has become an important part of Louisiana’s culture and economy, including the spread of video poker across loosely-defined truck stops. I hope you enjoyed listening to my last episode as much as I enjoyed making it for you. Call To Action #1 Professor Slots Podcast: Episode ## Copyright 2018 Jon Friedl, LLC Page 1 of 14 Winning Strategy I, Maine Slot Machine Casino Gambling Remember to visit professorslots.com/subscribe to get my Free Report Revealing … The top 7 online resources for improving your gambling performance, including the one I’ve used as a top-tier slot machine casino gambler. Let’s get started with the first segment of the show: Winning Strategy I: Only Win Immediately Introduction to Winning Strategy 1 Only Win Immediately As I’ve been mentioning for some time, winning strategies exist for slot machines at newer-style casinos. Beginning with this episode on Winning Strategy 1: Only Win Immediately, I’ll start explaining those winning strategies my gambling research has uncovered can happen at a few of the newer casinos. Recall that I’ve identified newer casinos as any gambling facility built or heavily renovated since about 2012. But, what if you don’t gamble at newer casino? Well then, make sure to check out my descriptions of the only way I know how to win at older style casinos by taking a listen to Professor Slots Podcast Episode #21: Winning on Slots at Older Casinos-Kentucky Slots 2018. My podcast episodes have provided slots basics as well as stories of my slot machine gambling experiences. These have laid the foundation for a more detailed analysis and explanations on how to improve the odds of winning when playing slot machines. As mentioned, I’ve already covered the single approach that can be taken with less modern gaming technologies. Beginning with this post, I’ll begin providing systematic yet straightforward analytical explanations to what can be, and indeed was, learned from my gambling experiences at modern, newer casinos. These systematic analytical explanations might alternatively be called winning strategies. This segment has the following sub-sections: 1. An Introduction; 2. Not All Winning Strategies Will Work at Your Casino; 3. Seven Winning Strategies at Newer Casinos; 4. Getting Started with This Strategy; 5. My Personal Bias Towards High Limit Slots; 6. How I Learned this Strategy; 7. Some Disadvantages; 8. Several Big Advantages; 9. Its Impact on Gambling Goals; 10. Thoughts on Optimizing This Strategy; and 11. a Summary. Professor Slots Podcast: Episode ## Copyright 2018 Jon Friedl, LLC Page 2 of 14 Winning Strategy I, Maine Slot Machine Casino Gambling Not All Winning Strategies Will Work at Your Casino These strategies can help players to win. People work hard to succeed at their regular jobs every day. Why should success at gambling be any different? Players need to learn the skills necessary to get ahead, to do better, even if it is to get just a little ahead. If a player's goal with slots gambling is to make money, then that is what they need to figure out how to do. Also, I need to make clear to you that these strategies don’t always work. Why? Because the patterns they are taking advantage of may or may not exist at the casino you visit. Why might these winning patterns not exist? Because these winning patterns are man- made. Whether they work or not depends entirely upon the specific casino being visited. Because of this, you’ll need to become an experimenter. That is to say, you’ll need to get used to checking a casino for winning patterns to take advantage of. I’ll explain the patterns I’ve found. And, I’ll explain how to make the most out of them. Your job is to try to find them yourself, wherever you are. To do that, you’ll likely need to experiment. Whether or not you also try to make the most out of the winning patterns I’ll be identifying is entirely your financial decision. Once again, please remember the number one rule of casino gambling: The only money you should take to a casino is money you can afford to comfortably lose. Seven Winning Strategies at Newer Casinos I’ve already previously explained how to improve the odds of winning at older-style slot machines which have not renovated to the latest in gaming technologies, including how to recognize older-style slots from newer-style slots found at new and renovated casino venues. I've already further described the technological differences between these two types of slot machines, and why they are important to understand when applying techniques that try to improve the odds of winning. Having already made these descriptions, the bulk of the content I’ll be presenting next describes strategies that can be used to improve the odds of winning at slot machine gambling at newer casinos. Anyone can apply these strategies to their own gambling goals and player styles. While I’ve already discussed Choosing Gambling Goals, I’ve yet to do the same for the player styles I’ve also identified. Professor Slots Podcast: Episode ## Copyright 2018 Jon Friedl, LLC Page 3 of 14 Winning Strategy I, Maine Slot Machine Casino Gambling I’ll explain these six different player styles at a later time, including how to develop an overall approach, or even an individualized campaign, to improve their odds of winning at slot machine gambling. The seven strategies I've so far identified are: 1. Win Immediately at a Slot Machine, Then Nothing (A Cheap Way to Win); 2. Advantage Plays with Progressive Slot Machines; 3. Complimentary Gifts as Compensation; 4. Winning Advantages of Special Events; 5. The Most Reliable Holiday Patterns; 6. Playing a Slot Machine Showing a Win; and 7. Win a Jackpot, then Return Later. As I discuss each of these strategies in upcoming posts and podcast episodes, I’ll also include the advantages and disadvantages of each strategy. I’ll also discuss how best to combine them to optimize performance for maximum profits. The strategies to follow are meant to improve your odds of winning so that, overall, you are making money, i.e., getting a greater than 100% return or payout percentage on your bankroll, rather than losing the average 90% to 95% expected loss per bankroll cycle. During playing seasons when casinos have systematically reduced the overall odds of winning, for whatever economic reason they might have for doing so, these strategies will again improve the odds of winning. However, gaming economics and casino financial projections being relatively unknown to players, these strategies may or may not result in a greater than 100% return even if they do provide an optimal playing performance: Put another way, the house really, really wants to win. Again, the strategies to be discussed may not apply at the casino or casinos you frequent. Additionally, be wary of applying them at Indian or tribal casinos, as the rules of operation at those casinos are based on their unique business contracts with the state rather than effectively generic state gambling laws as applied to non-tribal commercial casinos. Getting Started with Winning Strategy 1: Only Win Immediately After over a dozen visits within three months at a secondary pari-mutual racino, I identified a clear pattern to winning I'd not seen before. Once I proceeded to use it, I won six taxable jackpots over the next two months. As you should be asking yourself at Professor Slots Podcast: Episode ## Copyright 2018 Jon Friedl, LLC Page 4 of 14 Winning Strategy I, Maine Slot Machine Casino Gambling this point, did I make a profit? Yes, I did. The beauty of this powerful strategy is that nearly all of the revenue won is profit. The pattern I discovered was simply this: Every taxable jackpot I won occurred within the first few plays or bets on the machine.
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