- Joined
- Aug 25, 2004
- Location
- Bexhill on sea, England
I wanted to share this experience with you to show what can happen when even my best laid plans go out the window, but I never give up hope...
Warning - it's quite a long story!
Part 1 - Insanity!
I took a 100% bonus on $125 at Sloto on Monday, mainly with a view to trying out the new slot Gobblers Gold. But it was late at night, I'd been drinking, and I think my brain had gone away on holiday leaving my body behind! This was my insane play on day 1:-
Gobblers Gold:
139 spins @ 40c; Got 2 lots of 10 free-spins - paid $1.20 & $4.32. Nett -$35
66 spins @ $1; Got 10 spins on pull 41 - paid $1.20...
Nett -$29
Now getting pretty frustrated, I did 30 spins at $2 - no features. Nett -$36
Quit slot $100 down.
Hole in Won
Started on 75c spins & got the feature on spin 3!
Did 50 more at 75c, then increased to $1.50 and got the feature on spin 34.
At this point I was actually $11 down and I don't know why, but I stuck at $1.50 spins...
50 of them, then 25 @ $2.25, but no more features & $57 lost.
Then up to $3.00 spins (I must have been drunk!); did 25 without getting the feature, but I did hit a nice win with 2 wilds for $90! Nett +$77
So stuck on $3.00 & got the feature 14 spins later for $90.
At this point I was $88 up, and that's where I should have stopped.
But I did another 25 x $3.00 spins; $75 wagered, $56 lost...
Quit slot $32 up.
So 80's
What possessed me to play this pretty crappy slot and go totally bonkers is beyond me now and I'm not going to give all the gory details, just the summary:-
Started on 75c spins and hit a fairly decent free-spin win ($33.60), but carried on upping bets until reaching $3/spin again when I hit another set of free-spins... which were crap! ($25.80).
Then did 50 x $1.50 & 50 x $2.25 and hit not-a-lot.
Quit slot $150 down - despite having only $32 left in my bank. I hate having same day deposit & bust-out, so dragged myself away to bed.
Part 2 - Lucky, lucky lucky!
With what I'd done before I couldn't even face logging in again until 3 days later (yesterday).
But there it was, a pretty sad looking $32 being all that was left of my starting $250.
However I don't like to give up easily & decided to see what I could do. After all, I have previously taken 3 $10-20 freebies to $100+ cash-outs!
So, what to play? Well I'd had a pretty good run on Baby Boomer's last time I played it, so headed to that one to see if I could low-roll as few $'s out of it...
Baby Boomer's:
Started off on a very modest 2c/line (30c/spin) - and got the Bonus Wheel on just my 5th spin!
This took me off to the Caribbean - but little did I know that I was going to get stuck there for ages!
I stayed at 30c spins... and the features flooded in!
After just 99 spins I'd had 6 features and gained $37. But these features take quite a long time to play out and quite frankly I was starting to get bored!
So to make it more exciting I upped my bets to 75c/spin.
I got another 3 features in 33 spins, the last was a Skeet Shoot which paid $60!
At this point my bank had amazingly reached $134 and I suppose I should have stopped. But I felt like I was on a roll, so carried on... into disaster!
25 x 75c spins - no features, 25 x $1.50 spins - no features, 25 x $2.25 spins - no features...
Bank now back down to just $49
Start again! Switched back to 75c and played on...
Finally got a bonus round on spin 37 (112 spins since my last one), and then got 3 more in the next 88 spins, but my bank had been slowly dropping and I reached $28 after the last 25 spins with no features.
Now I was beginning to lose hope, so I went into "All or Nothing" mode & upped my bets to $3.75/spin!
On spin 7, when I literally only had enough left for 1 more spin, I hit the Shuffleboard feature for $75.
Then I decided to try something; I went back to 75c spins and as soon as I'd gone 25 spins with no features I would up it $3.75 again. But the first time this happened I bottled out & dropped back to 75c after just 10 spins. Got 3 more features before going 25 featureless spins again, so up to $3.75 again... This time I got the Shuffleboard on spin 3 & won $82.50.
But here's the good bit this whole post has been leading up to; I forgot to lower my bets!
9 spins in I got the Skeet Shoot... and it paid $300!! (Screenshot below).
After that I played 25 more high-roller spins with no features & 37 x 75c spins getting just 1 feature before FINALLY hitting 3 ships to take me back to port, when I quit the slot with my bank on $312.
Summary of the Caribbean section:
Spins: 504
Shuffleboard features: 15
Skeet Shoot features: 5
Wagered: $570.45
Profit: +$281
Moral of the story: Where there's chips there's hope!
Part 3 - More to come!
Well that was all rather nice (in hindsight!), but there's more to come...
So far I've only wagered $1.632 of the required $3,750.
I just hope the second half of WR is not quite as exciting as the first bit!
Stay tuned to find out if this story has a happy or sad ending....
Warning - it's quite a long story!
Part 1 - Insanity!
I took a 100% bonus on $125 at Sloto on Monday, mainly with a view to trying out the new slot Gobblers Gold. But it was late at night, I'd been drinking, and I think my brain had gone away on holiday leaving my body behind! This was my insane play on day 1:-
Gobblers Gold:
139 spins @ 40c; Got 2 lots of 10 free-spins - paid $1.20 & $4.32. Nett -$35
66 spins @ $1; Got 10 spins on pull 41 - paid $1.20...
Nett -$29Now getting pretty frustrated, I did 30 spins at $2 - no features. Nett -$36
Quit slot $100 down.
Hole in Won
Started on 75c spins & got the feature on spin 3!
Did 50 more at 75c, then increased to $1.50 and got the feature on spin 34.
At this point I was actually $11 down and I don't know why, but I stuck at $1.50 spins...
50 of them, then 25 @ $2.25, but no more features & $57 lost.
Then up to $3.00 spins (I must have been drunk!); did 25 without getting the feature, but I did hit a nice win with 2 wilds for $90! Nett +$77
So stuck on $3.00 & got the feature 14 spins later for $90.
At this point I was $88 up, and that's where I should have stopped.
But I did another 25 x $3.00 spins; $75 wagered, $56 lost...
Quit slot $32 up.
So 80's
What possessed me to play this pretty crappy slot and go totally bonkers is beyond me now and I'm not going to give all the gory details, just the summary:-
Started on 75c spins and hit a fairly decent free-spin win ($33.60), but carried on upping bets until reaching $3/spin again when I hit another set of free-spins... which were crap! ($25.80).
Then did 50 x $1.50 & 50 x $2.25 and hit not-a-lot.
Quit slot $150 down - despite having only $32 left in my bank. I hate having same day deposit & bust-out, so dragged myself away to bed.
Part 2 - Lucky, lucky lucky!
With what I'd done before I couldn't even face logging in again until 3 days later (yesterday).
But there it was, a pretty sad looking $32 being all that was left of my starting $250.
However I don't like to give up easily & decided to see what I could do. After all, I have previously taken 3 $10-20 freebies to $100+ cash-outs!
So, what to play? Well I'd had a pretty good run on Baby Boomer's last time I played it, so headed to that one to see if I could low-roll as few $'s out of it...
Baby Boomer's:
Started off on a very modest 2c/line (30c/spin) - and got the Bonus Wheel on just my 5th spin!
This took me off to the Caribbean - but little did I know that I was going to get stuck there for ages!
I stayed at 30c spins... and the features flooded in!
After just 99 spins I'd had 6 features and gained $37. But these features take quite a long time to play out and quite frankly I was starting to get bored!
So to make it more exciting I upped my bets to 75c/spin.
I got another 3 features in 33 spins, the last was a Skeet Shoot which paid $60!
At this point my bank had amazingly reached $134 and I suppose I should have stopped. But I felt like I was on a roll, so carried on... into disaster!
25 x 75c spins - no features, 25 x $1.50 spins - no features, 25 x $2.25 spins - no features...
Bank now back down to just $49
Start again! Switched back to 75c and played on...
Finally got a bonus round on spin 37 (112 spins since my last one), and then got 3 more in the next 88 spins, but my bank had been slowly dropping and I reached $28 after the last 25 spins with no features.
Now I was beginning to lose hope, so I went into "All or Nothing" mode & upped my bets to $3.75/spin!
On spin 7, when I literally only had enough left for 1 more spin, I hit the Shuffleboard feature for $75.
Then I decided to try something; I went back to 75c spins and as soon as I'd gone 25 spins with no features I would up it $3.75 again. But the first time this happened I bottled out & dropped back to 75c after just 10 spins. Got 3 more features before going 25 featureless spins again, so up to $3.75 again... This time I got the Shuffleboard on spin 3 & won $82.50.
But here's the good bit this whole post has been leading up to; I forgot to lower my bets!
9 spins in I got the Skeet Shoot... and it paid $300!! (Screenshot below).
After that I played 25 more high-roller spins with no features & 37 x 75c spins getting just 1 feature before FINALLY hitting 3 ships to take me back to port, when I quit the slot with my bank on $312.
Summary of the Caribbean section:
Spins: 504
Shuffleboard features: 15
Skeet Shoot features: 5
Wagered: $570.45
Profit: +$281
Moral of the story: Where there's chips there's hope!
Part 3 - More to come!
Well that was all rather nice (in hindsight!), but there's more to come...
So far I've only wagered $1.632 of the required $3,750.
I just hope the second half of WR is not quite as exciting as the first bit!
Stay tuned to find out if this story has a happy or sad ending....
