Slots Adventures

Whoo-hoo, i restarted my computer last night, and bingo, today she’s running all the programs without issue.  i might even try to get my new Zune up and running by end of the day. 

what it means on the slots front is that i could get into EHarbour without any problems today.  and, sure enough, they are running the Big Free III which is a slots tournament with $5,000 in free prizes.  there is no entry fee for the tournament so it’s yet another in the long line of free slots tournaments being offered at English Harbour.

the formula for payouts and starting credits and such seems to have been settled upon and repeated in all these big tournaments.  this one lasts a week, and with $5,000 up for grabs, that makes it a big one. 

every player starts out with $500 in credits on the machine, which in the case of this tournament is the Cleopatra’s Pyramid machine. i’ve played the game a couple of times before, so i’m familiar with it.

the payouts extend down pretty far on the leaderboard.  anyone finishing in the top 100 places gets paid.  that’s a lot of payout spots.  the prizes are a mix of cash that is, well, cash.  and bonus money that has to be put into play at the casino before you can withdraw it.

i pretty much always have a mix of bonus money and cash in my account at English Harbour.

this machine has 20 paylines, and i need to break into the $50,000 territory to make it into the top 10, i’m not sure where 100th place stands, but i’m setting the coin size at $.50, so it’ll be $10 a spin and i’ll see where that takes me.

at the end of 20 spins i’m in 506th place with a modest win.

i did hit the bonus game, but couldn’t make it past the first stone (they show a pyramid on the bonus game, cleopatra’s pyramid - and you choose one stone from the bottome level, then the next higher level, earning credits all the way to the top.  unless you uncover a serpent.  then the game ends and you take whatever winnings you’ve acquired back to the slot)

in the end, i got in 107 spins, at $10 each before running out of credits. didn’t seem like i caught a hot machine at all. 

oh well.  it’s already wednesday!  i’m sure there will be another big free slots tournament next week, and there are some daily events on the EH schedule, plus, i’ve been meaning to get to a new casino to try out some different games lately.  we’ll see. 

in the end, i hope you have better luck on Cleopatra’s Pyramid than i did!