Playing slots is rather popular entertainment both in live and online casinos due to the fact it demands no special skills or talents to win.
An outstanding feature and possibly the reason for slots popularity is contained in a huge variety of their types. Therefore, in order to learn how to gamble slots the first thing that players need to do is to choose which kind of slots they wish to play. Although the difference of playing rules is not so significant among different types, but there are some pitfalls that you should know to take a delight in gambling slots.
Common rules
In mortar and brick casinos players place their bets in one of two ways:
- either they put special bills in slots machines;
- or they use some currency vouchers which should be printed in advance.
In online casinos players usually put some deposit funds on their account and then use them for any selected slot machine. There is a decent amount of gambling software providers in internet, so players could easily download casino slots. For the purpose of comfortable handling player's deposit is divided into several parts according to the wager of slot machine. Thus, the amount which you get as a result of such division is you total number of credits.
The next step is to define the quantity of credits that players are going to bet for each spin. There are machines that provide only 1 or 3 paylines (lines of certain symbols in the center of slot machine), while other machines could allow betting on 100 lines and even more. The sense is that the more paylines you bet, the more chances you have to win.
Once gamblers have made their bet, they just need to push the start button, which causes reels spin. When the reels stop spinning gamblers check the payline whether there is a combination, which is described at pay table, or not. If the first is the case - congratulations! - you have just won.
Generally, pay table provides information about different types of winning symbols combinations and their corresponding payoffs. You should be careful in order not to mix these characteristics, because various slot machines offer their own inherent pay table lists.
Slot machines variety
Besides Classic slots which usually offer just from 1 to 3 paylines and jackpots of slots here are settled fixed, there are also more advanced types of slot machines that could provide players with more possibilities to bet. The latter group is called Progressive slots and their main distinctive feature is flexible jackpot. This means that players' potential winnings are increasing with more reels' spins. The amount of jackpot could either rise till certain upper limit settled by casino or till the moment when some lucky gambler wins it. In the latter case jackpot value decreases to its minimum again.
