An alternate title for this article might be: How To Save For a Stern Pinball premium or How Not To Save for a Stern Pinball premium. But which one is it?
Video spoilers follow
If you want to see the moods of a high stakes gambler change, either good to bad or bad to good, then don’t read further, watch the video above, where Vegas Matt and his crew think they have a Buffalo slot machine bonus trigger figured out, by betting 75 cents per play to run up the bonus meter, then to switch to $50 USD per bet and trigger the bonus. Does this work or not? The video answers the question. You can fast forward or just keep reading in the next paragraph for the spoiler?
Ok, so this video is one to watch for the former: keep driving past the casino. It’s the way a lot of slot machines work and follows the psychology of a gambler that just keeps feeding money into a machine “because it has to hit and pay big!” — and doesn’t.
Here is a more sobering, how does it work for slot machine:
For those with the discretionary money and the willpower to leave when it’s time to leave, casinos can be a fun place. For those that gamble with money they can’t afford to lose, it can be a lesson in financial disaster.