Playing slots on a casual basis
If you play slots on a casual basis, you will be exposed to far greater fluctuations in your fortune than would be the case if you played every day, like a job. A casual player either will hit any given machine for a sizable profit, or will suffer a loss of the investment, or a portion of that investment. This simply means that on a casual basis, you will either hit the machine at a far greater payoff than its preset withholding percentage indicates, or at far less. Meaning that you will either win a lot more money than you should, percentage-wise, or lose a lot more. Over time, this will smooth out and you will actually be getting, and giving up, something close to the actual hold of that machine, and gaining the profits to which you are entitled by playing in accordance with theadvice, and strategies, offered here.
In the short term, however, many of us find that we either experience a nice win very quickly, and then proceed to lose some of it as we continue the enjoyment of our visit to the casino, or we find that we have lost our bring-in investment and have to start hunting for more cash, or consider leaving early. The issue here is to find the best possible combination of skills, machine selection, bankroll, discipline, and other factors that will allow us to exploit the profitability of machine payoffs, while diminishing the inevitable losses.