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Tournaments in Las Vegas
March 19-20, 2005: Las Vegas Hilton, Luck of the Irish Slot Tournament
Includes a three-night hotel stay and an awards dinner.
March 27-29, 2005: Imperial Palace, Masquerade of Cash Slot Tournament.
$675 entry fee includes a three-night hotel stay.
April 10-14, 2005: Riviera, Golden Anniversary Slot Tournament. $299
entry fee.
June 16-20, 2005: Riviera, Jump for Joy Slot Tournament. $595 entry fee.
July 31-Aug. 4, 2005: Riviera, Spin to Win Slot Tournament. $299 entry
fee.
Oct. 4-8, 2005: Riviera, Roll out the Barrel Slot Tournament. $595 entry
fee.
To find out more about tournaments in Las Vegas casinos, call these Las
Vegas hotels and ask for tournament details.
Don't forget to ask for special packages for tournament players. Las
Vegas casinos routinely give discounts to slot tournament players.
Arizona Charlie's (702) 258-5200
Bourbon Street (800) 634-6956 or (702) 737-7200
Buffalo Bills (800) FUN-STOP or (702) 679-5460
Caesars Palace (800) 262-2502 or (702) 731-7485
Excalibur (800) 879-1379
Fitzgeralds (800) 678-LUCK
Flamingo (800) 225-4882 or (702) 733-3117
Four Queens (800) 634-60645 or (702) 385-4011
Fremont (800) 874-0711 or (702) 385-3232
Harrah's (800) 392-9002 or (702) 369-5088
Imperial Palace (800) 351-7400 or (702) 794-3160
Las Vegas Hilton (800) 547-2600
Luxor (702) 262-4000
MGM Grand (800) 929-9410 or (702) 891-7488
Palace Station (800) 367-2717
Rio (800) 777-1711 or (702) 252-7706
Riviera (800) 637-5687
Sahara (800) 634-6645 or (702) 737-2111
Sam's Town (702) 456-7777
Santa Fe Station (702) 658-4900
Silverton (702) 263-7777, ext. 3020
Stardust (800) 824-6033 or (702) 732-6111
Stratosphere (800) SLOTS24
Tropicana (800) 521-8767 or (702) 739-2614
Check other casinos close to where you live. All casinos in varying
states and locations run some form of slot tournament from time to time.
Look other casinos up on the web or simply give them a call.
Tournaments are a lot of fun, you get to meet other interested people,
receive cash, prizes and special room rates.
Sometimes, depending on room rates at the time, it is cheaper to get
a slot tournament package than to book your trip without participating.
If your going to play slots anyway this is a great way to save money and
possibly win some too!
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Payout percentages are the most commonly used form of differentiating slot machines, and the most often used form of advertising slots by the casinos. Many casinos offer "98% payback slots " or some other high number as their payback percentage. This is most often thought of as "98% of the total amount of money deposited into the machine will be returned to the player". People tend to think this means if they play through $100, they should expect to have $98 come back to them. This is a bit of a fallacy however, because the return percentage is a theoretical one based on an infinite timeline. This means if you were to keep playing the slots game forever, you would eventually have made back 98% of what you put in. Most people don't usually play long enough to hit a big jackpot however, and winning that jackpot is part of the calculated 98%. This means if you play and don't win big, chances are you're actual return percentage will be significantly lower.
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What do I mean by traps? I mean slot machines that aren't entirely up front about what they offer you. The biggest trap by far is the full coins trap. There are many slot machines in Vegas that advertise great payback percentages and amazing jackpots, but they also advertise themselves as 'quarter slots ' or 'nickel slots ', which is a little misleading. The majority of these machines require you to play multiple coins in order to be eligible for some or any of its available jackpots. Many of them require that you are playing the maximum number of coins possible on the machine in order to be able to win the jackpot that probably convinced you to play it in the first place! So be very wary, you may find yourself in front of a machine that has three cars lined up in a row making you think you've won the grand jackpot, but no lights will flash, no sounds will erupt, if you only played one coin.
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There are many, many myths around the Internet trying to convince you that the casinos in Las Vegas have masterminded the way they place their slots , with loose slots more visible than tight slots . You will undoubtedly read about how slot machines near the isles, on raised carousels, or near the entrances and exits pay out more and more often than other slots in the casino. The logic is based on the idea that the casino wants any winner on a slot machine to be seen by as many people as possible, convincing them to play too. While this may be a fairly logical assumption, it seems as though if it was true once in the past, it sadly no longer is. Recently Michael Shackleford of the wizard of odds has done some fairly systematic tests of casinos around Vegas and found no difference between the payouts on machines located randomly, and those in previously though of 'loose' spots.
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Big Top has a wild symbol, and a scatter symbol.
The Wild Clown symbol is wild. This means that it
substitutes for any other symbol to complete a winning
combination, except the Scatter Monkey symbol.
The Scatter Monkey symbol is a scatter symbol. This
means that it does not need to appear in a line on
an enabled payline to win. It can be scattered anywhere
on the five reels, provided three or more Scatter
Monkey symbols appear.The Scatter Monkey symbol can
appear in any position on the reels. The Wild Clown
symbol cannot complete a scatter symbol combination.
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