Remind me NEVER to try "advantage play" at 3Dice
Anyway, to add.
Whilst the KK method is nowhere near optimal, using the optimal strategies of max possible bet using the best bonuses is ONLY better IF THE CASINO DOESN'T VOID YOUR WINNINGS for trying it.
This would mean that every time you WIN, you get it confiscated for "bonus abuse", but when you LOSE, you don't normally get your deposit back, despite attempting the SAME strategy deemed as "abusive".
Flat betting with min bet on a low variance game, supposedly the WORST possible strategy, is ALSO considered "bonus abuse" by MANY casinos when it comes to table games, and a few even with SLOTS.
The KK strategy, whilst not optimal, does NOT set off too many of those "bonus abuse" flags, therefore he is offered MORE and BETTER bonuses, and for LONGER. This gives more time for his slim positive expectation to grow into a sizeable lifetime profit.
The party may end for him some time, as casinos get ever tighter with the rules. It already did at Intercasino, when they got rid of the regular monthlies, and replaced them with ones weighted to 25% up front, and 75% post wagering, meaning the FULL WR had to be completed to get the bonus, and it thus COULDN'T be utilised beforehand to "bust trying".
The Martingale aspect of the KK system comes into play when you get VERY, VERY UNLUCKY INDEED. I have known slots that are supposed to give bonus rounds go many SDs beyond the mean, and then give a "crap" one. That could "bust" a great deal of earlier profit, if not everything. This is the Martingale problem, there is a very low probability that you will embark on such a spectacular run of misfortune, but if you do, you are finished off completely because of the escalation of bets.
When I won so much at Spin Palace on Munchkins, I may well have used a Martingale type strategy, this time one of INCREASING bets after a bonus round, but MOSTLY, I was SPECTACULARLY LUCKY, that upon my FIRST spin at a DOUBLED bet of 67.50, I got one of those rare multiple retriggering bonus rounds. It would not have taken too many fruitless bets at 67.50 to have LOST more than the 10K I gained on that bonus round. I even tried it in "fun mode", and in the cases I tried, 10K went pretty quickly.
I also recall KK's responce to MY "strategy" for Treasure Ireland, posted ages ago one April 1st (He didn't pay too much attention to the date, did he
). KK complained that he "did his ********" trying it with some of his profits, betting a STAGGERING (at the time) 2 per spin.
Funnily enough, my TI strategy was to start low, and step up a coinsize when a certain level of feature was showing, such as 50 winspins offered = move bet up a notch.
My TI strategy is probably just as useless as the KK Slotbeater one, because although it DOES work sometimes, as I have posted on "winner screenshots", it often FAILS MISERABLY, and it eventually pays a fraction of what, in total, it has taken.
Again, at
32Red I was SPECTACULARLY LUCKY, I had the HIGHLY IMPROBABLE event of SIX consecutive high paying feature rounds, the first FIVE of which paid WAY over the expected "mean" for similar selections of the same feature in the past. Since then, I have LOST on TI at 32Red, putting IN almost 4K, but getting OUT a little under 3K - and even that was a bit lucky, because the INITIAL win was boosted by a bit of "afterplay" that saw it rise another 800.