Slots Adventures

tonight i checked in at EH to see how things are developing on the big one, the $5,000 free slots tournament on the wheel of chance video slot.  my standings haven’t changed much, i’ll need to make a push for it by the end of the tourney because i’m still not in the money on it.

i checked out that else was going on in the tournament lobby, and there was a tourney on the princess jewels game.  the tourneys at EH started out with the simpler slots.  most of the early ones were on the “three reel bandits”.  now that they’re involving the video slots, i think they’ll be a little more enjoyable.  at least we’re getting time on different slots than we used to.

here’s the stats on the tourney tonight . . .

> Bonus Money - $250

> Real Cash - $335

there are already 2,343 players in the tourney.  that’s a ton.  and they all start with $300 in tournament credits.  the best of them has already gather over $20,000 in tourney credits.  that’s some big time winning!

i’ve gotten my warm up spins in, and i’m up $9, standing in 73rd place.  i have some ground to make up, but i’m hoping to hold in there long wnough to unlock the bonus screen, so i’m taking $9 spins on the machine.  9 paylines, at a $1 a coin.

here’s a shot of the princess jewels slot game . . .

the machine has some neat features on it, like an autospin function.  it is one of the newer video slots, so that’s not a big surprise, but it’s a nicety.  i’ve gotten used to pushing the spin button over and over after all those tournies on the older three reels i played here.

there is also a stop button.  it’s not a skill-stop (which i hold no faith in anyway), but just a “stop right now” buttong in case you don’t want to wait for all five of the reels to finish doing their business before you check for winning combos.

when you hit a winning combo, the symbols will come to life, like some of the newer microgamings.  maybe they were doing this before the last crop of microgamings came out and i never noticed?

there is a Wild Symbol, and that is the princess herself.  there is also a bonus symbol, that i don’t think acts like a scatter.  it seems you have to land the fairy godmother symbols on a payline to trigger the bonus round.  i’m still chasing that . . .

 well, i’m up to 58th place after a couple of nice wins, including a $100 hit.  the money reaches down to  23rd, so i’m going to keep on spinning, hoping to catch a bonus screen . . .

 oh yeah, can i get a woo-hoo!  here it is . . .

 the bonus screen is a triple spin on the jewels wheel.  there are three layers of jewels, each with a multiplying number value.  the wheel spins once, and i landed a 7x.  on the second spin, i got a 4x, and on the final one i got a 4x. so thats 7×4= 28 x4 = 112.  a $112 bonus spin.  in tournament credits, that is.

now, i’m up to $400, but still only 47th place.  i’ going to pick up the pace a bit and hope to get another quick winner to launch up into the money in the tourney. . .

well, that was over quick.  at $5 a coin, it’s $45 a spin.  never did hit a winner.  but, i had enough of a bankroll to take some big spins, and i needed a good hit to get up there into the prizes, so i made my move.

maybe next time.