WHAT’S THE BIG ATTRACTION OF ONLINE SLOTS?

Since we already know that the house edge for table games is of lower odds than slots, why to play them?

There are many reasons why people often prefer to play slots online to the table games with the bettor odds. Really only one main reason stands out and that is that in slots of all online casino games there is the chance that a small bet can change your life. Since the table games such as craps or roulette do not offer progressive jackpots, they also do not offer you the opportunity to win a large jackpot with one single bet. When do you hear about someone winning a million dollars while playing blackjack? On the other hand, there have been many millionaires made while playing slots online, and even more have become millionaires while playing at brick and mortar land based casinos. So now tell me why people keep playing various types of slot machines even when they know that there is a lower chance at winning against the house odds.

For example, will take the case of a $500,000 progressive jackpot that someone could actually win with only a $1 bet. If this particular games is offering a payout of 90%, that means the house edge is 10%. Now in this example will says that of each bet, 1% goes toward the progressive jackpot. The actual odds at winning the jackpot are set at 50,000,000 to 1, with the jackpot itself representing one hundredth of the payback. That means if on the average the machine is played about 1 million times a year, there is the expectation on the part of the casino of having a jackpot come up about once every six months.

Now let's take the case of blackjack where the house edge is around 0.5%. If the average player were to purchase say $100 in chips and bet $5 at a time, for him to by lucky enough to win a half a million dollars would probably take several years of play. However, the actual odds against his achieving this would still be approximately 10,000 to 1, and this represents better odds than those that are available in the example of playing slots given above. But the reality of the blackjack example happening is that it never does, while in the case of slots people do hit jackpots even with the odds being worse.

Because there are so many people playing slots online you have more frequent slots winners. So if more people are playing, more will be winners.

This means in reality that the average individual has the option of playing slots and of winning $500,000 with a $1 wager, but if you are in fact the luckiest blackjack player around you will still need to make thousands of winning hands even if the odds are better, to match the chance of winning the half million. So you are faced with bad odds along with the low probability of actually having winning hands for a long enough period as to win a huge amount. In the case of blackjack, you would have to spend many hours playing online, and you would not be allowed to stop when say you are $5000 up, but you would have to keep on playing. If you have ever played blackjack you know what I am saying.

Another reason for the increased popularity of slot machine games over table games is the chance at instant gratification. For many people they prefer to reels spinning, the sounds being emitted and the metered wins to playing table games.

And remember that the bottom line is that when you play at progressive jackpot slot machines one bet can be a life changer.