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Step 1
Scout the Vegas casino for winning slots. Look for a row slot machines with people waiting to play. Slots hit a jackpot every set number of revolutions, or spins. If no one hits by the time your seat is available, you have already turned the odds in your favor.
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Step 2
Play progressive slot machines. Look for tip-hungry employees waiting around high-paying progressive slot machines that have not yet hit. They want to be the first to congratulate the winner.
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Step 3
Play high bonus machines. For instance, if one machine says you get 50 credits for five cherry symbols, and the machine next to it says you get 1,000, play the second machine.
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Step 4
Don't mess with Big Bertha. In Las Vegas, there is often a huge slot machine that locals call "Big Bertha." Tourists are tempted to put large sums of money into this machine because of its prominent placement. It's a marketing scheme. Big Bertha probably gets one spin per hour--not near the amount of revolutions it takes to hit a jackpot.
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Step 5
Don't pay too much attention to the odds. Every machine posts the win per loss ratio. A smaller win per loss ratio means that the machine will pay smaller jackpots more often. A larger win per loss ratio means that the slot pays out larger jackpots less often. However, since you couldn't know how many spins the machine has had before you arrived, this information is useless. Instead, use this formula: If you play a machine for more than 20 minutes and are still below what you put into it, find another slot machine.
