Posted by: admin : Category: Prescriptions for Newbie online casino Players
Newbie players are players who are completely new to online gaming. They have probably heard about the concept from friends or have come to know about it while surfing the Internet
but have never played online games before. Such players should not rush headlong into the real money wagering but should ease themselves into the online gaming environment taking one step at a time. The first issue is of selecting an appropriate online casino and this has been dealt with in several other articles at CasinoAdvisor. The player should then engage in playing for fun till he becomes completely comfortable with the playing environment and the games. The best experience is hands on experience and the first thing that the newbie player should do after he accesses any online casino game is try out all the buttons and understand the functions they perform. There are two types of buttons. One type performs functions that are incidental to the gaming and the other type performs the actual gaming functions. Buttons of the first type would be the Options button or Help button. For example in the Options button the newbie player should enable or disable each of the options available one at a time and play the games. He should try to focus on the affect of making the change on the gaming experience. He should play the games with the sound options enabled and also later with the sound options disabled and see which works better for him. The buttons that operates the games are more important and
unlike the earlier type of buttons
they vary from game to game. In slots the newbie player should figure out how to vary the number of coins
the coin size and the number of paylines and how toggling these buttons affects the amount wagered. He should understand how the Bet Max button functions and the judge whether it suits his style of play. In games like blackjack certain buttons come into play only in certain situations and the newbie player must know what these situations are. Becoming familiar with the buttons is a time consuming trial and error process. Reading the rules provided in the game does help but it is not a substitute for actual trials on the screen. In some online slot games wagering with larger amounts makes it more likely to trigger bonus rounds and win larger payouts. Since the newbie player is wagering with play money he should not hesitate to try wagering with larger amounts and seeing if it benefits him. This will help him in setting a proper budget when he starts wagering with real money. He will realize that in certain games it is better to have larger wagers
even if it means having fewer wagers. The next issue that newbie players should be concerned with is strategy. Online casino games like slots and roulette do not have any strategy issues. However games like blackjack and video poker are very much strategy oriented games. Optimal strategies for these games are available in very many forums on the Internet
including CasinoAdvisor. The strategies have been tabulated or are available in simple bulleted points. Online casino gaming have an advantage that players can keep these strategies in front of them while wagering. Newbie players are advised to refer to these strategies as and when required in order to ensure that their game play is optimal. In games like blackjack and video poker optimal game play can make a tremendous difference to the average payouts. Articles from Casino Advisor
Looking Into Betting Options For Online Slots
After the player selects an online slot game to wager at he has to make up to three important decisions before he can start spinning the reels. This set of decisions is known as betting options. It includes selecting the number of paylines
the number of coins wagered per payline and the coin size. Most slot games allow players to choose all three betting options. Some slot games fix the number of coins wagered per
payline
usually at one
and this choice is removed from the betting options. There are very few slots that fix both the coin size and the number of coins thus effectively freezing the line bet. Before the betting options are discussed two terms need to be clearly defined. The line bet is the amount wagered per payline and is the product of the coin size and the number of coins per payline. The total bet is the total amount wagered per spin and is the product of the line bet and the number of paylines selected. Most online slot games allow players to choose the number of paylines. However this is only a nominal choice because it makes little sense to play the online slot game without enabling all the paylines. Winning combinations
except for the scatter wins
result in payouts only if they occur in an enabled payline. The worst nightmare for a slots player can be to see five of like symbols in a payline that is not enabled. Progressive jackpot online slots emphasize the need for selecting all paylines even more pointedly. The progressive jackpot usually pays out only when the stated combination occurs in the highest payline. By selecting all paylines the total bet per spin can increase drastically
especially if the player has chosen a slot game that has 50 or 100 paylines. In such cases the player should enable all paylines and reduce his line bet so as to remain within budget. The coin size and the number of coins per payline together contribute to the line bet. Some slot games allow only one coin to be wagered per payline
but they have a larger coin size range with a fair degree of choice within that range. The slot games that allow players choose the number of coins usually have a smaller coin size range with fewer stops in that range. Either way it usually works out to the same thing. Consider the slot game Mayan Queen that offers one coin per payline with the following coin size range: 0.01
0.02
0.03
0.04
0.05
0.06
0.07
0.08
0.09
0.1
0.25
0.5
1
2.5 and 5.00. This gives a line bet range from 0.01 to 5.00 with 15 stops. There is another recently released slot game Moonlight Mystery that offers up to 5 coins per payline and coin sizes of 0.01
0.05
0.1
0.25 and 0.5. This gives a line bet range from 0.01 to 2.50 with 18 stops. Hence the coin size and number of coins per payline have to be chosen in conjunction with each other so that the player gets the desired line bet. The line bet must be decided based on the players bankroll for the session and the number of spins that he expects to play. Suppose that the player has a bankroll of 100 credits and wants to play 100 spins. Then he should go for a line bet of 1.00. In games like Mayan Queen he simply chooses the coin size of 1.00. In games like Moonlight Mystery he can choose 2 coins of size 0.50 or 4 coins of size 0.25. Both options are essentially the same. Whatever the player wins can be kept aside for another day. Articles from Casino Advisor