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How do you play off your free play?

Today was extra payday where I play. We have 3 a month, some months 4 some months 2. You get what your weekly free play is that day for 12 hours use it or lose it. Since my wife and I have not played our weekly $125, we had $250 each today, $500 total. When I go to just play free play off and leave, I play quarters or less to get as many hands as I can to leave with as much as I can.

I hit the casino after work and started with 10 coin nickels downloading $25 at a time. The second machine I played held 2 to the royal and bang, $400! Played the rest out some quarters some dimes some nickels. Left with $800, wife was happy!

Royal number 22 this year!

Good Luck chasing the Royal!

Nice hit Wildman!!!

wildman49 wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 20, 2018 8:32 pm

How do you play off your free play?

Nice!

A few years back, our resident VP expert offered this advice. He said playing your free play on slots would increase your comps and offers. Since then I always play my free play this way and it has worked as he suggested.

When I do this, my personal preference is to make the maximum bet. I consider any slot win as a gift and I want to walk away with it. A slot is set up to feed you small wins to keep you playing while it slowly drains your bankroll. I only play slots with free play and I walk on every decent win. As always, there are many different thoughts on this.

Wildman, congrats on making freeplay work to your favor. I've done that a time or two myself.

Gobble, gobble, gobble.....

FloridaPhil wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 21, 2018 5:59 am

I consider any slot win as a gift and I want to walk away with it. A slot is set up to feed you small wins to keep you playing while it slowly drains your bankroll. I only play slots with free play and I walk on every decent win.

Trying to understand. If you walk away, you still have free play left right? Are you just switching machines?

Eduardo wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 21, 2018 9:16 am

Trying to understand. If you walk away, you still have free play left right? Are you just switching machines?

Not necessarily. I cash out all wins over $100, stash it in the back of my wallet and play until my free play is used up. It's nice to start my day out ahead. About 6-8 months ago I won $1,100 with my free play in a three up Buffalo slot. I believe I reported it on this forum. The slot went into multiple bonus rounds and must have run for at least 15 minutes. I had no idea what I was doing. Sometimes it's better that way.

FloridaPhil wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 21, 2018 5:59 am

wildman49 wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 20, 2018 8:32 pm

How do you play off your free play?

Nice!

A few years back, our resident VP expert offered this advice. He said playing your free play on slots would increase your comps and offers. Since then I always play my free play this way and it has worked as he suggested.

I tried that slot thing and did not see any difference in my free play. To be fair I did play small like .75 per pull.

Bah! Go for the gusto. Wager more freely.

I think at some casinos, when you play freeplay, you get zero points or tier credits (CET). So playing off the free play in a slot machine is a loser. You would probably be better playing the free play on VP, take that money won and play that in the slot machine. Just an idea.

I suspect casinos are different in this regard. At our casinos VP is not eligible for multiple points. Slot play definitely builds more points and free play. As far as I can tell, there is no way to tell how they calculate this.