According to various studies and statitsics, roughly half of all games played in online casinos in the UK are slot machines. But you don’t really need to look at statistics in order to assure yourself of slot machines’ popularity – just go to any online casino at all, literally any one will do, and look at the games they have available. If they’re any good they’ll have a couple of versions of blackjack and roulette, maybe if they’re really good they’ll have something like scratch cards and that kind of thing, but the overwhelming majority of the games (think over 70-80%) are bound to be slots. You might be asking yourself, why in the world are they so popular – after all, they’re not particularly fun to play (unless you enjoy pushing a button every once in a while… Which, honestly, wouldn’t surprise me, given that one of the most popular online games of all time is “Cookie Clicker”), and they aren’t too pretty to look at, so what’s their secret? Well, it’s complicated and dependent on a whole lot of factors – the fact that the majority of people who play in online casinos are only casual gamblers who feel comfortable with slots contributes a lot. But I’d say that the main reason is because slots can make you a whole ton of money.
You see it happen all the time – ordinary people winning £13.2m on a 25p bet, or getting more than 17 million euro on a 25 cents bet… And it’s not like those are isolated incidents – there are thousands upon thousands of people who have won money (over £10,000) from slots, and it keeps on happening all the time. I can say from experience that, with the right training and knowledge, anyone can win money from slots, literally anyone. Trust me when I say I know what I’m talking about – my name is Mason Collier, and back in 2013 I won over £1m on an online slot, with a £5 bet. True, not a major success story like the ones I have linked, but let’s just say it was a life-changing experience. It’s easy to assume that I just wasted most of that cash on slots, but I actually used them to buy myself a house where I live to this day with my wife and my beautiful daughters, and the rest of the money I invested back into slots. I never scored another hit again, but my net winnings are slightly larger than an average salary and I only do about an hour of work a day, so you could say I’m certainly not complaining!
When I first introduced the idea of starting this blog to my wife, she thought I was crazy – “Why would you want to teach other people how to win money from slots, doesn’t that mean at the end of the day nobody will be winning?”, she asked me. But the thing is, think of the online slots environment as an economy. If a lot of people earn big salaries, the economy doesn’t dry up – quite the opposite, it flourishes. I think we can all agree that the countries where the life standard is the highest and people get the biggest salaries (such as, say, Germany) are among the most successful ones. The same goes for online slots – the more people play, and the more we win, the higher the winnings will go as the jackpots accumulate faster and higher and the return-to-player percentages grow. If you win, everybody wins. So why don’t you stop playing slots for fun and start winning some real money?