i had received a $10 bonus from english harbour and it was sitting in my bonus money account. i know that i can’t use bonus money to pay for a slot tournament entry, i’ve tried that already. so, today, i thought i’d play with that bonus money in the regular area of the casino for a bit.

after a short while, i turned that $10 in bonus money into something around $16 in “regular cash”. i haven’t played with it enough to cash it out, but i did manage to move it over into the “cash” part of my credits from the “bonus” part. and now since it’s been moved, i can use it to enter a slots tournament. woo-hoo!

so, now that i know that little tidbit of casino playing strategy, i’ll be putting it to good use!

the tourney i entered today is called the Libra Slots Tournament. it’s being played on the “What’s Your Sign” machine.

the info on the tourney looks like this:

Entry Fee: $5
Bonus Prizes: $500
Cash Prizes: $2247 so far

Cash to the top 3 players, the lowest of which has 4,700 in credits. the leader in the tourney too the $400 in starting credits and built a $15,000 pile.

Bonus prizes go out to the top 23 players

here’s a screenshot of the What’s Your Sign slot machine . . .

the game itself is a video slot, with a bonus feature that i didn’t hit yet

there IS a wild symbol, thank goodness. after playing the 5 reel Rags to Riches game without a wild symbol, i realize i really want a wild symbol on my slot games. (it’s the sun symbol).

the rest of the symbols on the reels are take-offs on some different zodiac symbols. at first i didn’t really like them, they were just a bit too, i don’t know, feminine. doesn’t matter though, because when you land a winner the reels come to life with little animations. and i like the animations a lot, so the symbols grew on me quickly.

after just a couple of spins, i climbed up into 12th place in the tourney, so i’m shutting it down for a while. i don’t think i’ll stay there, but i’m going to let some time pass and see where i stand tomorrow, and go from there.

oh, the paylines . . . there are 12 of them. so, it’s a step back from the 20 line machines, but there’s more going on than on the basic 9 payline video slots.