OK, so you've been playing for a while, and you're sat drinking a (insert favorite drink) and maybe you're playing a casual $1.00 a spin and then you get the free spin feature. You automatically light up a cigarette before you hit the start-feature-button and then you just sit back and relax and let the money roll in baby. Sounds familiar? It's what you are there for. Living the dream baby.
What are the chances at that precise moment, that you could consider leaving? Probably almost zero? What about the chances of you cashing out after your free spins have finished? Also pretty close to zero I'd guess. Well, I don't blame you. I'm totally with you. Normally. You're there to gamble and this is exactly what gambling is. So why would you want to stop right at the peak of your pleasure?
Well, you have to. Or you have to at least start to think about it.
Let's consider your options: You're going to carry on. You're going to cash out then carry on. You're going to cash out and stop. I'm not going to suggest you stop right after each big win, but it's a definite consideration when you get to the ultimate level of slot-play skills. What I want you to do is just consider the benefit of cashing out after a decent win. You get one automatic benefit which I will call a DT - Delay Tactic. This gives you that moment you need to keep your sanity (or get your sanity back) in the middle (or at the end?) of a session. What you need to be able to do is take just about 2 seconds out of your current reality and THINK. Just ask yourself why are you there? To play, to win or to play until you lose all your money? If you want at least a chance of either playing for longer, or playing and winning, or possibly playing then winning and then actually leaving with winnings then you have to, you just have to, learn to introduce some Delay Tactics into your play. And every time you get a decent win this is what you have to do. Once you've gotten into a new habit of doing this, two things quickly happen: Firstly it'll become second nature - every time you win big you cash out. And secondly you'll see the financial benefits of doing it. You'll see these benefits VERY quickly. So quickly in fact that you'll love it, and look forward with incredulity at getting another decent win just so you can cash out.
What you want to do, at the night goes on, is end up with a pocket full of cash-out slips.
Now, it's easy to just end up putting them back in to the slot machine, be it the one you just won on, or another you end up moving to. So there are a couple of additional DT's I will share later on. But for now I will just say this: YOU MUST GO TO THE CASINO WITH A BIG PILE OF $20 BILLS. Do not go with $100 bills. You can hide a few of those inside your wallet if you like. But to get the confidence of hitting the cash-out button you have to KNOW you are going to immediately put in a fresh $20 from your pocket. Again, as your confidence in doing this grows you will learn to look forward to doing this. You have a different mind-set when you have $20 to play with and not the $448 you just cashed out. It tells your subconscious that if you lose this you'll move. And that is high up on the Delay Tactic skills I will get to in later blog entries.
But basically, for today's lesson - go in with a bank roll of $20 bills. Cash out after any and every win over $100 and don't put more than one $20 in THAT slot unless you get back to winning ways enough to cash out again. Sometimes you'll be able to stay on that slot for a good long time, gradually exchanging $20 bills for cash out slips. Sometimes it's one and done and move along. But get into this new habit and start to see the benefits of changing your slot play today!
Now, the title of this blog page is what happens at 4am when you run out of money. The answer should be GO HOME. The new answer should be go to the Ticket Redemption Machine and switch out all those cash-out slips for cash! And then RUN! Don't hit one last slot, or you'll never leave. But sometimes, you are going to lose without hitting anything big. You are going to have a disaster night. I've been when I haven't even hit a single frickin feature! Well, on those occasions you need to be able to remember that winning isn't guaranteed on any single visit. So whatever your bank roll is for that day or week, keep to it. Don't advance on next weeks. Don't use the profit from last weeks. Keep to the plan. Focus on the long game.
Mission number two is gaining credibility with your players card company, and that is based strictly on turnover. You want to do lots and lots of turnover, but you want to do it on their money, not on your own. Later on I'll give you some numbers that show you how much the house is willing to give you, once you've got to various tier levels, and the numbers are awesome. But you don't, in effect, want to just be paying for them out of your own money. I'll come back to that whole calculation later also, but the second take-away from this entry is learn to roll with the house money when the going is good. Have fun on their money, but keep your wallet tight. Stick to the plan and you'll be amazed at the results. Now, go get yourself a bundle of $20's and see how much fun cashing-out after a win can actually be.
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