All I seem to be reading this last couple of weeks is how most people seems to be consistently losing
maybe there is some truth in this tin foil theory after all
I'm a low roller who usually deposits in £20's same as yourself and my 'betting pattern' is usually as follows...(based on a £20 deposit and £10(50%) bonus)
First 10 spins or so, 243 ways slots - 0.60p - 9 liners - 0.45p
If (and that's a big IF these days) I get the desired start I will stop at these bet size(s) until the balance exceeds £100 ish and Increase to, 0.90p (243 ways and 9-liners)
Win or lose I tend to stick with this and very rarely exceed £1 bet. (even when I hit that 5-reel shite storm I played at 0.90ps to meet WR)
Nowadays when continually losing like everyone it seems I tend to start (after 1st ten spins are dead) on :-
243 ways - Minimum bet (0.30p) and 0.27p on 9-liners
Once I'm below 50% of SB thens its 9-liners 18p's
and then 'survival mode' is my last £5er at 0.09p's (where I make most of my spins these days)
Can see I've had a nightmare as when I open the games on most sites they are all on min bet and I even do something which grieves me to try and make play time last in reducing win lines where possible (only by a couple tho)
Jon mate, I will say this with the greatest of respect, but I think depositing £20 - £25 and then opening your play with 60p bets on 243 ways
is "almost suicidal". Even if you are getting a 50% match bonus, it is still optimistic. You know yourself, you could fire up IR and get 19 dead spins out of your first 20. Half your SB gone and you've haven't even so much as blinked. And already, you're off the 243 ways games and going onto 9 liners at 18p and fast approaching survival mode. If you are going to play that way, start with an SB of £50. Give yourself some wiggle room and
lengthen your "hit window".
Then there is another problem....what if you do hit quickly on a 60p bet? It might be the kind of hit that is good enough to enable you to cash out
(if you had not taken a bonus). But for the sake of a mere £10 in bonus money, you've signed up for £300 of wagering. And a LOT can go wrong in
£100 of wagering, let alone £300. You only have to look at how dunover's vid finished on that hideous Dish Washer session. Ah...Dish Washer...finished...see what I did there? Move over Richard Whiteley.
I know you have gone on record many a time saying that you're "a low roller who needs a bonus". And I for one can respect that.
But perhaps a change in approach may be required.
If you're going to roll the dice by betting 60p on a SB of £30, why not just start with £25 (and no bonus) instead? Obviously, you narrow
your "win window" even further, but what if you were to "quickly luck out" on IR and get a quick Troy feature that pays 100x and takes you to over £75?
There's a quick triple up in the bag. Why not just say "you know what fuck it, I'm hitting the cage. I'll take my triple up. That's my next 2 deposits
paid for. Now I can try to rinse and repeat". In fact, I would go further and choose not to be "afraid" to cash out once you've doubled up, even if it is "only £25". That £25 profit pays for your next deposit. I have tried this approach before (and I have tried it again this past week - my losing streak has forced me to mix
it up a bit) and it has been reasonably effective, if not spectacular.
I mean, look at Jory's double or bust series. Simple, quick and effective. And most importantly, quite profitable (on this run of 10 episodes anyway). And you don't necessarily need to "quad play" in order to achieve similar results. The key thing was...as soon as he got from A to B, he could cash out and put his feet up before attempting to go from B to C in the next episode, an episode that was already paid for courtesy of the successful trip from A to B.
And then of course, there was always the chance that he might strike gold, like he did in episode 1. And win over 10 times his deposit.
All 10 episodes paid for before he's even thought about what games he will play in Episode 2. How good is that?
I think you should consider a brief spell of "bonus-free" play. If it doesn't work out, so be it. But if you want your luck to change, perhaps
you need to make a tactical change. I speak as someone who was "quite the bonus whore" and never thought he would embrace the idea
of bonus-free play. But you know what, it's actually not a bad thing at all.