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A lot of online slots players will save their playing until the weekend. This is why a lot of online casinos will have their full line up of tournaments ready to go during the weekends—including the online slots tournaments with the big prize pools.

Want to see what I mean? Then take a look at Crazy Slots and what they have going just about every weekend.

First off is their Weekend Madness online slots tournaments. These will start at 10 pm on Fridays and run through Tuesday of the following week. Up for grabs is a $30,000 prize pool, and players only have to pay a $10 entry fee to take a shot at it.

The Weekend Madness online slots tournament is the biggest tournament offered at Crazy Slots. Well, not quite. The only tournaments with bigger prize pools are their end of the month/beginning of a new month tournaments. Those prize pools vary from 50K to 75K, sometimes 100K if it is a holiday weekend.

Fridays are the days for the Frugal Friday online slots tournaments. These tournaments only cost $1.99 to enter and carry a prize pool of $2,500. These tournaments start at 9 am and run through 7:45 pm the same day. Not a bad way to kill your lunch hour.

Then there are the Bonus Buck Weekend Freerolls. Costing nothing to enter, players spend Saturdays and Sundays playing for a prize pool of $2,500 in Bonus Bucks. While the first 125 tournament credits are free, rebuys are available for $1.99.

Also running on the weekends for you night owls is the Red Eye Pot Percentage online slots tournaments. These tournaments begin at 12:30 am and end at 8:30 am the same day. Players can stay up late spinning the reels for a piece of the pot for only $2.99.

Sundays mean it is time for the Beat the Bank Pot Percentage. Players can enter for $2.50 and spin the reels of the Beat the Bank online slots game for a shot at a piece of the pot.

There is a type of online slots tournament for everyone, and that is what Crazy Slots wanted to make sure of. This way when players sign in on the weekends everyone can play in a tournament.

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Slots players living across the Atlantic will be quite pleased with the latest freeroll online slots tournament series that has been launched.

This new freeroll online slots tournament is called the EUR100 Daily Slots Freeroll, and it is being hosted by Crazy Vegas.

I know, an online casino with Vegas in its name that American players cannot play at. It is kind of a letdown, especially considering what this freeroll online slots tournament has to offer.

As you can tell by the name of this online slots tournament series, this is a daily offering at Crazy Vegas and it is free for players to enter. All they need is to have downloaded the casino’s software in order to access the tournament section of the lobby, and to have created a real player account.

The title of this online slots tournament series also reveals its prize pool: EUR100. Those 100 Euros are broken down as so:

1st place: EUR40
2nd place: EUR25
3rd place: EUR15
4th place: EUR10
5th place: EUR10

At first the prize pool may not seem like a lot, but players have to remember that this is a daily freeroll tournament. Every day it is free to enter and every day EUR100 are being given away.

Each one of these daily freeroll online slots tournaments’ registrations open twelve hours before the start of each tournament and close one hour before the tournament ends. Each tournament lasts for twenty four hours.

This makes it easy for players to register and easy registration is a must since each tournament must have a minimum of six players to commence.

One more thing to note: players only have one rebuy available to them for EUR1.00.

This freeroll online slots tournament series is good for both experience players looking for an easy tournament to play in. It is also good for newer players who are just getting into online slots tournaments since they do not have to put money on the line.

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Okay so we are back to talking more about what players can do in terms of slots strategy to manage their bankrolls.

This morning I talked about playing only one coin per line on non-linked and non-progressive slots games. The cost of playing these cash cows does not have any decent odds for you to win the huge, life changing jackpot that thousands of others slots players are spinning for.

Nothing comes for free. And progressive slots games are meant to take your money. After all, that totally amazing jackpot has to come from somewhere.

So now we move on to other ways to manage your bankroll.

Going along with the ‘play one coin per payline and avoid linked and progressive slots games’ is ‘also avoid slots games that reward players for wagering extra coins.’

There are some slot machines and online slots games out there that only make certain bonus features triggerable when the maximum amount of coins is wagered.

This means that if you are playing one of these slots games and the maximum number of coins per line is 10 and wagering $0.01 per payline, that twenty five payline game will not cost you $0.25 per spin. It will cost you $2.50 instead.

On top of wagering a lot more than you probably intended, the chances of triggering this now unlocked bonus feature is still slim. The odds of triggering this special maximum coin wager only bonus feature does not balance out the cost of the spins it will take. It is not even close.

These ‘triggerable only with maximum coin wager’ slots games are like the linked and progressive slots games. They are meant to suck your money out of you faster without paying you hardly a thing back.

Smart players who want to use an effective slots strategy to manage their bankroll will do well to avoid any slots game that wants a maximum coin wager to make bonus features available.

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It is no secret that there is no slots strategy out in the world that will allow a player to influence the Random Number Generator (RNG) of a slots game. No amount of holy water or rabbits’ feet is going to make the RNG like you more.

However, there is one thing that a slots player can control: their bankroll.

Approaching bankroll management with the idea of saving money is a good attitude to have. But then this depends on how you judge the quality of your time playing. If you judge the quality of playing based the amount of time or money you put into playing then bankroll management can be done.

Managing your slots bankroll is similar to using coupons—the more you save the more you have in your pocket.

Translation: Throwing the maximum amount of money into a slots game is not going to make you any likely to win. Slots games do not recognize the amount of money as large or small, and use that to determine the likelihood of you winning.

Winning slots is based on chance and on luck. If you just so happen to be sitting in front of the game when the RNG pulls that jackpot winning combination then congrats to you. But the amount of your wager is not a factor.

So what are some ways to manage your bankroll as your slots strategy?

First off, stick to wagering only one coin on non-linked and non-progressive slots games.

Yes, those progressive jackpot slots games offer those life changing jackpots, but they are just carrots being dangled in front of players. Casinos and online casinos make money off of players who play progressive jackpots.

This is because you have to wager the maximum amount, meaning multiple coins, in order to be eligible to win that amount. Progressive jackpot slots games are linked so there are more players, which decrease everyone’s odds of winning it. Between the maximum wagering and the thousands of players, these are cash cows for casinos and online casinos.

This is why playing only one coin should be a part of your bankroll management and your slots strategy.

More to come in Part II.

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It is not a brand new online slots game, but it will be brand new this month at Virgin Casino, owned by Virgin Games. The online slots game in question here is called Alice’s Wonderland.

And, no, it does not have a shred of Tim Burton in it at all. In fact, its graphics are a curious cross between the original illustrations in the Lewis Carroll books and the Disney characters from the 1951 animated movie.

But graphics aside, this online slots game comes from Ash Gaming, and features five reels and twenty paylines.

This being Wonderland we are talking about, naturally the fun of this online slots game does not end there.

Alice’s Wonderland offers up an incredible bonus game and progressive jackpot all rolled into one. Only in Wonderland, right?

The Tea Party bonus game and progressive jackpot is triggered by landing three or more of the Mad Hatter scatter symbols. Players then choose one of the four guests: the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the Dormouse or Alice.

At that point the tea party begins. The more your chosen character drinks the larger your bonus winnings are. When a player’s first guest is done drinking their tea, the player can choose another character to drink. This repeats until all four tea party guests have drunk their full.

As for that tea party progressive jackpot, if a player sees one of the characters reach towards the sugar bowl to put sugar in their tea, it means that the progressive jackpot has been won. The winnings will then be added in at the end of the bonus game.

But there is another bonus game: The Rabbit Hole bonus game. The Rabbit Hole symbol only appears in the middle reel, and if it appears players then take a trip down the rabbit hole with Alice, collecting bonus winnings as they fall. At the bottom of the hole, the winnings are totaled and added to the player’s bankroll.

Then there are the White Rabbit free spins. Land at least three White Rabbits anywhere and the White Rabbit pops up with his pocket watch. Wherever he stops the hand on his watch is the number of free spins the player wins. He then hops across the reels randomly changing symbols into Wilds that remain fixed throughout the free spins.

Player’s will be glad to know that an enhanced set of reels is used in these free spins which should create more winning combinations than normal. However the bonus symbols disappear down the rabbit hole and the bonus games cannot be triggered during these free spins.

Ash Gaming as certainly put together quite the online slots game, full of bonus features and chances to win. Players at the Virgin Casino are sure to be pleased once they get their hands on this online slots game.

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I am not much of a fishing person, but Party Casino’s newest slots promotion The Big Catch has caught my eye.

That and I could not resist the cute penguins fishing up money.

The Bit Catch slots promotion has two parts to it: a leader board and a pick-your-prize, and will run through September 7th through September 21st.

For the leader board part of this online slots promotion players only have to spin the reels on the jackpot slots are Party Casino, such as Snow Business. Spinning the reels on these online slots games will earn players points. The more pointes that are earned, the higher up the leader board players will progress.

The top thirty players will receive cash prizes, and places 31st through 500th will receive bonus cash prizes:

Cash prizes
1st place: $10,000
2nd place: $7,500
3rd place: $6,000
4th place: $5,000
5th place: $4,000
6th place: $3,000
7th place: $2,500
8th place: $2,000
9th place: $1,750
10th place: $1,500
11th – 15th places: $1,000
16th – 20th places: $800
21st – 30th places: $650

Bonus cash prizes
31st – 45th places: $500
46th – 60th places: $400
61st – 75th places: $300
76th – 100th places: $200
101st – 125th places: $150
126th – 150th places: $100
151st – 200th places: $75
201st – 300th places: $50
301st – 400th places: $20
401st – 500th places: $10

What is more is that the hot spot of every fifth rank between 505th place to 2,000th place will receive a $5 cash bonus.

As for the pick-your-prize part of this online slots promotion, players will hit prize levels. At each prize level players can choose to take the prize of that level or to continue climbing.

For the first prize levels (100 through 500) players can pick up $10 cash bonuses or receive 50 more points to keep going. After 501 points players can pick up $35 cash bonuses.

Party Casino has put together a fun online slots promotion for this month.

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Slots players hear a few times a month about how casino game developers create and launch new online slots games. But they do not often hear about an older online slots game that gets revamped.

Think of it as making the online slots game in question new and improved.

Such is the case with Rival’s recent revamp of For Love and Money. This five reel, fifteen payline online slots game has been a staple at Rival powered online casinos. Even the launch of new online slots games, including the newer iSlots, cannot take the fans away from For Love and Money.

Well, Rival has finally recognized the draw this online slots game has, and has given it a facelift and relaunched it as a new online slots game.

But fans of the original game will not be disappointed. The same features that were loved in the original are there still. Mostly it was the graphics of this ‘new’ online slots game that have been given a going over: symbols have been cleaned up and animation smoothed out.

The story—and attachment—to this particular online slots game can be found in the opening:

A poet is contemplating love. He sees an older couple, obviously married for money, who are not all that fond of each other. Then he spies a young woman who is set upon by two nasty men; she is then saved by a Fabio-esque man—huge muscles, trim waist and lace up pants (which are kind of funny actually). The poet, I am assuming, believes this couple to be together for love.

Symbols include both couples, the nasty men and love symbols such as Love Birds, Chocolates, Roses and Poetry.

The Poet is the Wild and will substitute for any symbol other than the Scatter. He must be a good poet as he carries a 2x multiplier.

Cupid is the Scatter. A minimum of three Cupids landed will trigger ten free spins with a 3x multiplier.

So as players can see the favorite older features of For Love and Money are still there, just with cleaner graphics and better animation. I have to say that Rival did well with this ‘new’ online slots game. I would only have added a bonus game in which players helped Fabio rescue his girl, or one in which the players helped the unfortunate money man escape his woman.

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If there is one thing that Microgaming is good at it is creating hysteria about their new online slots games. The good kind of hysteria.

I do not think that the hysteria generated by the launch of Microgaming’s launch of Thunderstruck II back in April was quite like the mad dash to offer promotions for the launch of their new online slots game Lord of the Rings.

Of the select Microgaming powered online casinos, Platinum Play, All Slots and Gaming Club have are hosting some incredible slots promotions and bonuses to lure in fans. Here is what is being offered and where:

Platinum Play:
This is one online casino that is trying to pull out all the stops in terms of slots promotions for this new game.

First they have set up a leader board to track who has won the most while playing the Lord of the Rings slots game. Top players will win prizes of course. And the best part is that there is nothing a player need do to enter this—all a player needs to do is play the game.

Platinum Play is also giving away 1,500 credits and a set of International Casino Games tickets to the player who wagers the most on the new online slots game each week.

Finally, Platinum is also doing a ‘spotted’ slots promotion. Random players who are spotted playing can win twenty five credits or a boxed DVD set of the Lord of the Rings.

All Slots:
All Slots has set up a secret three digit code in connection to the new Lord of the Rings slots game. The player who can correctly guess what the code is will win $100,000. The number of opportunities to guess depends on how much you play. In other words, the more a player spins the reels, the more chances they get to guess.

Gaming Club:
This online casino is giving away forty five free spins on the Lord of the Rings to entice players to spin the reels at their online casino.

And those are only three of the Microgaming online casinos that were selected to launch the new Lord of the Rings online slots game. There are plenty of slots promotions and bonuses being offered with the launch of this online slots game.

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Online casinos always know when to put out new bonuses and promotions to attract new plays. And if you do not already have a player account at Super Slots this is the time to sign up.

During this Labor Day weekend Super Slots is offering an online slots bonus to new players. New players who sign up between today, September 3rd, through Monday, September 6th, will be eligible for a 150% match bonus that is worth up to $300.

And what online slots player would pass up the chance to pick up an extra $300? After all that extra $300 goes a long way in an online slots player’s bankroll.

All a new online slots player needs to do at Super Slots is create a new player account and enter the promotional code in the cashier section of the site. After that the match deposit slots bonus is theirs.

Super Slots is a Vegas Technology powered online casinos with an incredible amount of online slots games to play, including the ever popular Reel Deel five reel online slots game.

For online slots players who like playing in tournaments, Super Slots offers daily online slots tournaments every day of the month. They also offer a Quick Slots tournament that players can play for the pot in for only $0.50.

If tournaments are not your thing, there is still the incredible array of online slots games to choose from, including Grail Maiden. And that match deposit Labor Day slots bonus would go a long ways towards time spent spinning the reels.

On top of this Labor Day online slots bonus, Super Slots also offers a six level VIP program as well.

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Still looking for some way to spend your Labor Day weekend? Rome Casino is offering up an option: their Labor Day online slots tournament.

Rome is hosting an online slots tournament that covers the entire Labor Day weekend. This tournament began yesterday, September 2nd, and will run through Sunday, September 5th.

Rome has a reputation as being an online casino that does not walk the exact same line as other online casinos in the online gaming industry. And this holds true for their Labor Day online slots tournament.

I suppose you could say that this is something of a freeroll online slots tournament in so much that there is no set fee to take part in this tournament. All any interested players need to do is create an account at Rome (if they do not already have one), and then make two deposits during the tournament time frame. There is no specified amount on those deposits.

Players compete in this tournament by playing any of the online slots game in order to collect Labor Day tournament points. The top twenty players at the time the tournament closes on September 5th will be rewarded:

1st place: $30,000
2nd place: $22,000
3rd place: $15,000
4th place: $8,000
5th place: $6,000
6th place: $4,000
7th place: $2,500
8th place: $1,500
9th & 10th place: $1,000
11th – 15th places: $500
16th – 20th places: $250

Obviously the nature of this online slots tournament deems the player who plays the hardest has the best shot at first place—the more you play, the more points you earn. But considering that there is no entry fee this is not a bad tournament.

Sure, you have to make two deposits, but you were going to make them anyway right?

All in all, this is not a bad online slots tournament. Players at Rome Casino stand a chance to win for doing what they do anyway: playing the slots. And this would be an easy online slots tournament to enter.

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