Slot Systems

For my second live slots session at the Choctaw Casino, I chose a Hexbreaker slot machine.

I thought Hexbreaker was the coolest. The artwork on the machine was real stylized and sleak. It was very modern looking, fitted out in black and midnight blue.

The main character in Hexbreaker is a black cat named Hoodoo. You might not know this, but Hoodoo is like a cooler way to say "voodoo". It's more contemporary than stodgy old voodoo, so you need to know that.

Even though black cats are supposed to be unlucky, this one is apparently just the opposite. That's why they call it a hexbreaker.

This is not a game for the superstitious.

It flaunts all the conventions of bad luck. There are several versions of the black cat, broken mirrors and jinx symbols, which are the bonus images you need to get the real money.

It's a 5-reel, 13-line slot machine. You can bet up to 20 credits. For the life of me, I can't remember how much I was betting. I put $20 in the machine. My bets were in the $2.50 variety.

Of course, the main reason I liked Hexbreaker was I won $140 on the bonus round. That's when I used wise money management.

John Patrick suggests you set a win limit, that you win a bonus, then spin the button one more time, then walk away. So that's what I did.

Otherwise, I was playing the straight Stand and Bet Method.

For those that don't know, I created this slots betting method on my own. Here's what you do with the Stand and Bet.

You stand in front of the machine, and then you bet.

That's what I call wonderful simplicity. Scoff all you want, but I just won $118 with my new betting method.

Starting Money: $20 Ending Money: $118

WINNING SESSION

A buddy and I visited the Choctaw Casino near beautiful Durant, Oklahoma on Saturday.

The stated purpose of our visit was to play live poker and to play it in a setting that was all legal like. And that's what we did.

Of course, I had to stop off to play some slots on our way out of town. I couldn't travel all the way to a live casino and not play some slots. The idea was to play a full set of sessions using one of John Patrick's methods.
That didn't happen.

I forgot to take a pen and notepad. Actually, forgot is a bit of a misnomer. I figured that would look suspicious, like I was a Fed or something like that. And I didn't want anyone to think I was a Fed.

So the next few sessions I'll be writing about aren't from a specific guru. I'll be using my methods.

We'll call this The Chuck Flick "Stand and Bet" Method. There are two steps to using this method.

1. You stand in front of the slot machine.

2. You bet.

That's why it has that name, you see. It's worked for me in the past. I bet it's worked for you, too.

I played five different machines. That means I played five sessions using my own method. That's just the number of sessions I give John Patrick's methods, which works out nicely for the sake of comparisons.

The machines I played were Red Hot Ruby, Hexbreaker, Wheel of Fortune, Saturday Night Live Blues Brothers and Money Tree.

The first thing you need to know about these machines is that they aren't your average run-of-the-mill slots. These babies run off a bingo mechanism. Let me explain.

It's evil and wicked to bet on regular slot machines. You know, the ones with reels and random number generators. Those reels belong to the Devil.

But if the random number generator is tied to a bingo game, then that's approved by both Church and State. It's legal. More importantly, it's pious.

Bingo is good. Slots are bad. But slots with Bingo are good.

I think you understand.

Now, don't get me wrong. These machines sure look like regular slot machines. They have reels and everything. And if you don't look for the little bingo card on the top of the machine, you would never know it was there.

I mean, you could probably play a whole session of this stuff, and think you were doing something really wicked. But you wouldn't be.

Explain that to your priest.

Anyway, on to Red Hot Ruby. This machine has a cartoon picture of a red-head named Ruby. The cartoon picture is fun-loving.

Ruby has big eyes and is a little comical looking, though I have to say she's pretty attractive, if you are attracted to cartoon characters.

Then there's the other ruby. At another spot on the machine, Ruby looks a little more realistic looking. She's in her same red skirt, except this time she's laying on her back provocatively.

Ruby's being all seductive and stuff. I assume she's had a few drinks. I figure that's "Red Hot Ruby", if you know what I mean.

I had to lay some money down on this slot. So I inserted my twenty dollars into Red Hot Ruby.

It was one dollars bets. Three lines. Basically, I was paying $3 a spin.

Long story short, I won a few dollars here or there. But within ten minutes, I had lost all twenty dollars.

So my Stand and Bet method didn't work for the first session. But that's why I played five of them.

For the record, I won a little at the poker tables. So I was playing with house money anyway, if you can call other poker players' money "house money".

NOTE: I'll have to detail my poker session soon, just for the sake of information. I had a great showdown with one woman. And by "great", I mean that I won the showdown. More on this later.

Okay, so I lost my money to Red Hot Ruby. That's just like a woman, taking my money like that.

Starting Money: $20 Ending Money: $0

LOSING SESSION