Slots Adventures

well, it’s been a couple of days since i’ve played any slots.  one of them i spent at the poker tables, and boy was it a ride!  in the end i was able to walk away pretty far ahead of where i started, and for that i’m glad. 

yesterday, no games at all.  i was a bit under the weather, and spent the day doing nothing at all.  but today!!!  today, i’m taking my shot at the Big Free II slots tournament that’s going on over at the Harbour and Superslots.

the Big Frees II is the $5,000 freeroll event that lasts from 9th until the 15th of january.  i’m coming in at the halfway point.

the prizes are split up in a unique manner this time out!

first, second and third each get a piece of all the cash money involved (20-15-10% respectively), and a good hunk of bonus money (1,00-500-$250), so there should be no complaints from the front line.

besides the top 3, there are 5 other layers of prize winners.  the next 10 players each get $100 in bonus money, and it says 30% of the cash, so i’m figuring they split it up between the players.  that’s the first time i think players at this level get cash money for their efforts.

the next level of prizes also includes cash, so it turns out the top 38 players get both bonus money, and real money prizes. the top 100 get bonus cash, so there’s a lot of prize money being given out, but, it’s also going to a lot of people.  that makes for a good tourney, in my mind.

well, must be in the minds of a lot of people, so far there are 14,000+ players in the event.

everyone starts with $500, and the leader turned it into a coll $100,000.  wow.

the machie being used for the tournament is the 5 reel Wheel of Chance machine, so i’m familiar with it.  i’ve put some pretty good time into playing this slot, and i like it!

well, after my first 20 spins, at $20 a spin, i’m up just a little and sitting in 300th place.  i’m going to keep the $20 spins going until i bust out, or make it up into the money spots!

one thing i just noticed about this slot is that there is no “suspense mode” like on the microgaming video slots (at least the newer ones).  i landed the scatter twice fast, on the first and second reels, and the game didn’t jerk into that slow-motion build the anticipation mode. 

also, even though there are 20 different paylines, they mustnot be the same as on the microgamings.  i’m looking waiting to get paid for a winner that’s on a payline on some machines, but not on this one.  hmm.  anyway, i’m still sitting in 300th spot, waiting to go up or down.

make that 273rd    - ta da - BONUS ROUND!!  now i’m 204th!

170th with that last win!

and from there, it was all downhill.  i’m busted.

well, my gaming is in for the day.  catch ya tomorrow.

well, while i’m feeling all bothered, i thought i’d take a couple of spins on the tunzamunni machine.

i set the auto-pilot control for 100 spins and decided to see where i land when they were done.  as it turns out, i landed at break-even, so i set it to go off for another 100 spins to see if they would make any difference.

200 spins on that machine (which incidentally has a jackpot of $83,000) would mean putting $50 into play, which isn’t a ground-breaking amount.  still, it’s a couple of hundred chances at landing a big one!

and here i sit at 200 spins for the night, and nothing to show for it.  while it’s certainly a good thing that i have money left in the account, i’m thinking i’m sitting pretty much in the same place where i started.  and that’s no different than when i woke up this morning.  so, why not give something new a try?

since i started with about $30 tonight, i thought i’d see if i can’t get in 500 spins on the quarter-spin tunzamunni game tonight.  that would be about $125 in wagers, which is not anything to write home about, so i’m hoping that the answer is going to be yes. 

still, if you start with $30, how much wagering can you expect to get out of a bankroll like that?

well, i guess that depends on simple things like “how much are you going to spend on each spin?”.  in this case, i’m hoping to put a quarter into play, so we are not talking big money.  but, if you’re looking to do anything 500 times, well that might change things a bit. 

i should be able to pull out a little bit of math and figure that out, but tonight i’m simply not in “math mode”.  i’d rather just play for the fun of playing.  and since i’m on spin number 450 or so, i’m thinking there’s no probelm getting to spin #500.  at least this time around.

well, you know, if a little is good, a little more is better.  so, since i’ve made it to 500 spins on $30, i thought i’d see if i could make it to 1,000 spins!!!

let’s see . . .

that’s right.  i managed to get in 1,000 spins on the Tunzamunni tonight.  despite having 1,000 chances at landing the jackpot, i’m still going to work on monday ( ) - but, on $30, i’m thinking that’s a good time.

and, considering i’m ahead of the game, even after putting it all into play one-thousand times, that’s better yet!

well, football be damned, it turned out to be a fun night after all. 

i’ll probably catch up with everyone on monday.  have a great weekend folks!

well, tonight was the night.  and i knew it was going to happen, but it not only happened, it did so in a dramatic fashion. 

football season ended with the cowboy’s loss to the seattle seahawks.  when their quarterback tony romo, who holds on kick attempts, dropped the snap and pissed away a chance at a field goal most high schoolers could make to go ahead in the final minute of the playoff game, i ended my emotional investment in sports for at least the next 8 months.

it’s certainly disappointing in one way, but nearly uplifting in another.  penn state won their bowl game (i listened on the radio because i was travelling, and managed to tivo it, so i caught the video of it later).  that was the climax for the game of football.  woo-hoo.

while the dallas game may not have been a wrap up if they had made the field goal, they did indeed manage to snatch defeat out of thin air to insure the end of the season.  heh, why prolong things to see if you could hang on to the lead if you can end the suspense by blowing the game while you have the chance?

i would say i’m disgusted, but that wouldn’t be true.  i expected them to lose, i just thought they’d come up short.  instead, they found a way to lose.  how very entertaining.

well, what can you do?  there’s a couple of more games to watch, although i could not care less who wins any of them.  including the superbowl.  although we do have a nice party for that, and the food is absolutely amazing at that gathering, so it’s always a good time.  still, the game itself is meaningless.

the flyers have almost taken the concept of losing to new heights.  i was almost rooting for them to make it through the month of december without a win.  because if you’re going to be a loser, you may as well do it right. but, they did eek out a win.  actually two, i think.

now, they’re just the worst team in the league instead of having a romance of incompetency about them.  but, what can you do?  you can’t say “if you already stink worse than everyone else in the league, you may as well go for the pity vote”.

long story short, i guess i’ll be renting more movies than usual until at least August.

oh, what does this have to do with slots?  nothing.  it’s just a rant.  i’ll get back to the slots soon enough, hehe

it’s late afternoon on friday, and i haven’t been to the casinos for what seems like a couple of days now.  things have been pretty busy, but it’s been fun, and i’m not missing the slots or anything.  i just remembered that the $5,000 freeroll is going on at english harbour, on the what’s your sign machine, and i know i won’t be getting any spins in over the weekend so i thought i’d try to take my spins this afternoon.

 because i’m in a bit of a rush, i have the chance to honestly go big or go home, without any worries.  so, my plan in this slot tournament is to crank up the coin sizes, and hope for the absolute best!  i will be trying to get through the warm-up (or “qualifying”) spins first though, just to see where i stand on the leaderboard.

right now, there are, get this . . . 16,961 players in the tournament.  that, is a ton.

we all start out with $500 in credits on the “What’s Your Sign?” video slot.  there are over 100 players that will receive prize money, so that’s a lot.  and surpringly, the top players do not have $100,000+ in credits.  in fact, the top three players all have between $10k and $16,400, which is not a lot at all compared to the other big tournaments i’ve seen.

the What’s Your Sign? game is a 12 payline machine, so i’m starting off at $1 coins, spending $12 per spin for these first 20 spins.

at the end of 20 spins, i have $476, and i’m in 238th place.  not bad considering the size of the field, but this is my day to win, or lose trying, so i’m cranking the coin size up a notch and going for broke!

hehe, at $60 a spin, it doesn’t take too long to find yourself out of credits.  but, i tried to win this one!

well, i might not make it back to the games until next week, but they’ll have a new freeroll waiting for me when i return so i gotta say thumbs up to English Harbour.

well, today is a good day, and i had time to look up the free slot tournaments schedule for the month of January for English Harbour and Superslots casinos. 

they’ll be running the regular daily slot tournaments with the nominal buy-ins (like the $5 one i played the other day, where i won my $5 prize, hehe).  but, they also have a set of big money events like they ran in December.  those events include:

Jan 1 -Jan 8  What’s Your Sign FREE   $5,000 + %
Jan 9 - Jan 15  5 reel Wheel Of Chance FREE   $5,000 + %
Jan 16 - Jan 22  Cleopatra’s Pyramid FREE   $5,000 + %
Jan 23 - Jan 31 The Reel Deal FREE $10,000 + %

each of them has no entry fee, so the freerolls are definitely on.

it’s great to see the big money continuing to flow, every week!

it’s well into the final football game of the evening on New Year’s Day, and i’m just getting into the swing of things for the day.  man, is my sleep schedule going to be off by a ton!  but, it’s not all the partying that’s turned me upside down, it was all of the travel over the holiday coming in quick bursts.  put me down for a nap this afternoon, so here i am bright-eyed in the late evening

anyway, i opened my email box, and it turns out there is a continuing player’s offer from All Jackpots Casino.  they’re offering 25 free spins on my choice of the following slot machines:

Avalon
Harveys
Isis
Loaded

hey, free spins are free spins, even if none of the machines are on my current list of favorites.  

looking at the “conditions” of the bonus, it becomes obvious that i’m not going to qualify:

“This offer is valid for players who have made a minimum of 2 wagered deposits between Sunday, December 31st 2006 and Wednesday, January 3rd 2007″

some offers are generous enough to make me consider being active to take advantage of them, like making an extra deposit or something of that nature.  this offer, requiring 2 separate deposits, isn’t really attractive enough.  although i do have to admit that even if i don’t take advantage of all of the offers, i like getting them. 

and, if the machines were different, that might have made a difference.  maybe not.

before moving on to some chores i can do at night, i thought i’d take a look in at English Harbour.  the last two slots tournaments i was in ended, and so there’s some fresh money in my bonus account.  that’s a good deal.

and, it looks like a new $5,000 freeroll has opened up.  i’ll have to look into the new schedule for january.

hope everyone is having a great new year’s holiday!