Slot Systems

Welcome to another installment of From The Files Of Slot Systems.

This is the segment where we go back to the dusty past, back when online gambling was legal in America. Back before the age of gambling prohibition, I played a bunch of sessions. I took notes. Occasionally, I open the tomes and post one of those old sessions.

I'm returning to my notes of sessions I played months ago. I just dug up another one of my "Down the Steps" sessions.

Maybe I should recap.

John Patrick wrote a book called John Patrick's Slots, where he detailed different ways to win at the slot machines. I'm testing all 25 systems. The latest one of these is Down The Steps.

Here's the post where I first discussed the system.

http://www.slot-systems.com/2006/09/intercasinocom-intercasino-down-steps.html

Basically, you start betting high. As you hit the spin button, you bet less with each spin, then start the cycle over again. John Patrick explains it better than I do.

What goes up, must come down.

I'm serious; he wrote this stuff. But who's the fool, right? I actually bought a book full of this nonsense.

But, hey, I've played three sessions using Down The Steps and I actually won once.

The first session, I played the Hulk slot machine. I won $148. Here's my original post.

http://www.slot-systems.com/2006/09/hulk-slots-game-down-steps-session-1.html

The second session, I played X-Men slot machine. On this one, I lost $36. Here's that session in full.

http://www.slot-systems.com/2006/10/x-men-slots-game-down-steps-session-2.html

For the third session, I played the Thor slot machine. I lost $14. And guess what? Here's the recap.

http://www.slot-systems.com/2006/10/thor-slots-game-down-steps-session-3.html

If you don't want to read all that crap, let me tell you I've won around 98 bucks on the Down The Steps, which is frankly better than I'm used to doing with John Patrick's advice. So that's good.

As you might have noticed by now, I've been playing Marvel Comics slot machines at Intercasino.com.

For my fourth session, I decided to play Silver Surfer slots.

The Silver Surfer is one of my favorites. You'll love this. His name is Norrin Radd.

Isn't that cool?

I mean, he's an alien surfer, but his name just so happens to be "rad". I mean, that's one huge freaking coincidence. He might as well have been named Narly Johnson or something.

Of course, the Silver Surfer is serious business. He was the herald of Galactus, the Devourer of Worlds. He became a herald to keep Galactus from destroying Surfer's homeworld of Zenn-La. Hmph...the sellout.

Eventually, the two came to Earth, where they faced The Fantastic Four. You know, Galactus was hungry and he wanted to eat the Earth.

Deciding that Mr. Fantastic had a point about saving Earth and all that kind of stuff, the Surfer betrayed Galactus and helped the Fantastic Four. Galactus banished him to Earth as a punishment, and the rest is history.

It looks like the Silver Surfer will be a big part of the Fantastic Four 2 movie coming out this summer. It kind of looks like Surfer will be the major villain, though I hope that isn't the case. A good idea might be to tell the story in its original form. That's worked before, you know.

I doubt that will happen. They already put Dr. Doom in a love triangle in the first movie, which is just plain stupid. I mean, Dr. Doom was the character George Lucas ripped off to create Darth Vader. He was the original disfigured, masked badass who killed his minions for failure.

I mean, can you imagine Darth Vader in a love triangle? Okay, I guess he kind of was in a love story in the second Star Wars trilogy, but those movies sucked.

So I guess that kind of makes my point.

Whatever the case, I hope to see Galactus being galactic in this sequel, but I bet he'll hardly make an appearance. At least they'll have Jessica Alba running around, so the movie won't be all bad.

By the way, I had a losing Silver Surfer session.

It was a long one. I had 71 spins. 25 of those were wins, but I bled money anyway. I didn't win anything over $4.50. In the end, I lost $50.40.
But I'm still up for these sessions, so John Patrick is still a genius.

Starting Money: $676.91 Ending Money: $626.51

LOSING SESSION