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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 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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It is Monday again, and that means that it is Online Slots Tournament Monday.

This Monday I clicked my way over to VIP Slots to see what they were offering online slots players. I found a rather nice sounding online slots tournament—and it begins today.

VIP Slots is hosting a freeroll online slots tournament that will begin today, Monday, August 23rd, and run through next Monday, August 30th. And as stated, this is a freeroll online slots tournament, so there is no entry fee and no reason not to play. Especially since this tournament is running for a whole week.

Typically an online casino will host a freeroll tournament to bring in some tournament traffic and create a little excitement. They are not meant to be big time tournaments with big rewards; typically they will only award bonus money or small cash amounts.

However, VIP Slots is treating this differently. They are going to be giving away a $3,000 prize pool. That is an unusual amount for a prize pool being given away to winners of a freeroll online slots tournament.

This freeroll online slots tournament will be played out on Wheel of Chance. This is a five reel online slots game with twenty paylines of play. Wheel of Chance offers players the chance to trigger the bonus game and free spins.

Both features certainly help in tournaments, giving players a little extra boost. Again, the choice of online slots game is another thing that sets VIP Slots above when considering that many online casinos will choose a game for their tournaments that does not offer a bonus game.

The combined freeroll element and the larger than normal prize pool for such an online slots tournament is just the sort of player pleasing that VIP Slots is known for.

This week’s freeroll online slots tournament was the fourth week long freeroll tournament that VIP Slots has offered this month. We can only hope that they continue this type of online slots tournament in September.

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Monopoly. You either love it or you hate it. Personally, I like the game. So I was quite happy to learn that Wagerworks had created an online slots game based on the Milton Bradley classic.

As an online slots game, Monopoly is a five reel online slots game with nine paylines. The regular game is a little on the basic side. It features Monopoly themed-graphics, but the classic fruit symbols are there too.

With the Monopoly online slots game it is the bonus features that truly make this game.

Naturally there is a Wild: Mr. Monopoly himself. He will substitute for all symbols in the game except for the two bonus symbols. Sadly, he does not offer a multiplier on combinations he completes. I guess he has got to keep a little money to himself.

But the Pass Go bonus game more than makes up for a lack of a Wild multiplier. The Pass Go bonus game is triggered by landing three Dice on a payline. Once triggered the regular playing screen vanishes and players find themselves with a Monopoly board on their screen.

The Dice that triggered the bonus game then each reveal a number of dice rolls for the actual game. Players have the allotted amount of rolls to travel around the Monopoly board to collect bonus prizes to add to their starting bonus amount of 10 coins.

Each deed on the board has a bonus amount assigned to it, and landing on that deed automatically adds that bonus amount to the player’s total. Every time Go is passed the amount of the deed bonuses increases. If you land directly on Go you receive a 2x multiplier.

Free Parking will award a random bonus amount for landing on it. And Chance will move the player to a random spot on the board to collect that bonus and continue from there.

Even Jail is not bad in this bonus game. Players have three chances to roll doubles to not only get out of jail, but to get a multiplier for their bonus. Rolling doubles the first time awards a 5x multiplier; the second time awards a 3x multiplier; and the third time awards a 2x multiplier. If you do not roll doubles you get to leave Jail anyway and continue on your way.

When the bonus game is over any multipliers you have won are factored into your bonus prize before returning you to regular game play.

Thanks to that Pass Go bonus game, the Monopoly online slots game is quite full of fun features and chances to win money.

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Shh.

There are bugs in your online slots game.

More specifically, there are beetles.

Actually this is another 9 reel, five payline online slots game called Beetle Frenzy.

While Chinese Kitchen was a graphically entertaining online slots game, it lacked features that online slots players expect online slots games to have. Those features being free spins and a bonus game. Oh, and a Wild.

Actually this online slots game has several bonus features.

There are two bonus games to begin with:

The Bug Collector bonus game is triggered when three Glass Jars are landed on a payline. Then there is the Flower Frenzy bonus game. There are three different colored flowers in this online slots game. Landing three of the same color on a payline will trigger the Flower Frenzy bonus game.

As for the free spins, any symbol can trigger them. Which is why this is called the Lucky Spin feature. All that needs to happen is to either land the same symbol in all four corners, or land the same symbol in the middle space of all four sides.

The Lightening Beetle is the Wild. This little guy will substitute for any symbol in the game other than the Scatter.

And speaking of the Scatter, it is the Golden Apple. The multiplier on its payout starts at 2x for two Golden Apples, and maxes out at 400x for eight Golden Apples. And nine Golden Apples is the trigger for the jackpot: 500x the triggering wager.

One thing of note though is that the wagering works a little bit differently on this online slots game. All five paylines are active. The only wager controls the player has it the amount he is wagering and how many coins he is wagering.

The good thing about this is that players are not going to have to increase their wager to activate all the paylines. Think of it as similar to betting on one payline, but getting all the paylines active.

In short, players are only paying to spin the reels on this online slots game without worry over what paylines are active or not.

On the whole, the range of bonus features on this online slots game could make a player quite happy. Not to mention the slightly unique slots betting method here. I do not think I mind having beetles in my online slots game.

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Microgaming is one of the top producers of online casino games in the online gambling industry. Slots players have come to associate state of the art graphics and game quality from Microgaming online slots games.

And today Microgaming releases another little treasure into the sea of games offered by Virgin Games at their Virgin Casino.

Mermaid’s Millions is the new five reel online slots game to come out of the Microgaming creative pool. This new slots game features fifteen paylines of play. The standard wagering ranges per payline are available. Players can also adjust the number of coins they are waging on a payline from one to five. This makes the maximum coins per spin seventy five.

As for the graphics that Microgaming is reputed to give players, they do not disappoint. Players are given Neptune, Lobsters, Treasure Chests and more. Naturally there is the starring character: mermaids.

Players will find that this new online slots game foes off free spins with a 3x multiplier, triggered by landing three or more of the Scatter symbols.

And of course there is a bonus game which sends players to the sea floor in search of treasure in the barrels, clams and chests on the bottom.

Mermaid’s Millions comes on the success of the Tomb Raider online slots game that Microgaming created and released several months ago. Executives at Virgin Casino are hoping for a repeat performance in popularity.

“Following the enormous success of Tomb Raider launched a few months ago, this latest offering from Microgaming is set to be another big hit with our customers. Like Tomb Raider, Mermaid’s Millions offers the best online game functionality and great graphics—it really is a fantastically fun game to play and is of the quality and high standard that our customers have come to expect from Virgin,” said Warren Eloff, who is Head of Products at Virgin Games.

While Mermaid’s Millions carries the graphics and hallmarks of a good Microgaming online slots game, it does not have the already familiar characters derived from a movie like Tomb Raider does. The coming months will tell if this new online slots game will be as strong as Tomb Raider.

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Seems that the Pharaoh is done being the King of Egypt and he is liquidating his treasure trove.

Okay, perhaps he is not leaving Egypt but the new online slots game created by Ash Gaming certainly is putting players in the position to cash in.

Ash Gaming has given this little slots gem quite the decadent treatment in terms of design. Symbols and graphics are rich in detail and lay out the land of ancient Egypt for all who wish to venture forth to claim some treasure.

Pharaoh’s Treasure is a five reel online slots game with twenty paylines. It carries the standard features of a Wild and a Scatter. Players can trigger multipliers on their Scatter payouts as well as free spins.

But the crowning feature is also what makes this game on the exclusive side. The Tutankhamen’s Tomb bonus game gives players a chance to win the progressive jackpot that this online slots game features.

I know, that does not sound so exclusive. Pharaoh’s Treasure is not the first online slots game to use the bonus game as a way of possibly winning the progressive jackpot. The exclusivity part comes into play in that only players at Virgin Games can win the progressive jackpot.

Seems Ash Gaming has made another online slots game that is, for the most part, only for Virgin Games.

Should this new online slots game ever become available to other online casinos, players will probably be able to trigger and win something in the bonus game, but that progressive jackpot is only for players at Virgin Games.

But for now the new online slots game Pharaoh’s Treasure, complete with its exclusive progressive jackpot, can be found at Virgin Games.

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BetSoft has created a new 3D online slots game that has been released with their partner online casino, Party Casino.

Heist is a five reel online slots game with thirty paylines. But Heist is being called the latest in 3D online slots games, that is its claim to fame for Party Casino.

But what is a 3D online slots game? I mean, it is played on a computer with a 2D screen, so how can it be 3D? Do players play it with those red and blue 3D glasses?

These 3D online slots games are not as complicated as you might think. What makes them 3D is graphics that look three dimensional, meaning they have been created to appear to have depth and shadows, etc.

But we are not here to go on about what makes 3D online slots 3D. We are here to talk about the new online slots game Heist.

Heist centers on Neil Quailand the master mind behind seven years worth of thefts. And for all seven years Detective Albert Kowalski has been chasing him, always one step behind though.

This online slots game does come with a fun little Wild for players. In this game players takes on the identity of Neil Quailand. When it comes to those Wilds, players (as Neil) can take some explosives and blow up the reel to create an Expanding Wild. And that just sounds entertaining.

But the bonus game is where the real fun is. Blowing up reels for Expanding Wilds is one thing, but robbing a bank is another.

In the bonus game, players have to outsmart Detective Albert who is right on your tail and succeed in cleaning out the bank’s vault. If you can make it without Detective Albert catching you then you win the bonus game’s prize.

All in all, BetSoft has given players a new online slots game with a heighten thrill because the player is cast in the role of the thief. It is a thrill like when you were a kid sneaking cookies out of the cookie jar behind your mother’s back. Except this an online slots game that is encouraging you to rob a bank vault. And you can win money instead of cookies.

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Join Ferris Bueller, Sloane Petterson and Ed Rooney in the third new online slots game to be rolled out recently from Cryptologic.

The Ferris Bueller online slots game is a five real with twenty five paylines. It is also a part of the Cryptologic Hollywood Progressive Jackpot series. And when playing this new online slots game do not forget your popcorn as there are a bunch of clips from the 1986 John Hughes’ movie.

While the traditional symbols are present (9, 10, J, Q, K and A), characters from the movie and other relevant symbols are there too. And by relevant I mean the car.

And speaking of cars, one of the bonus games in the Ferris Bueller’s Day Off slots game is called Kick the Car. Guess what you do in this bonus game. That is right, you will be destroying a Ferrari right there on the main playing screen, recreating that cinematic moment when the Ferrari was destroyed in the movie.

If demolishing the Ferrari is not enough to satisfy your bonus game needs there is another one called Fake the Parents. This is the bonus game that yields some rather nice payouts. The better you can fake your way out of going to school, the more money you can win. After all, this is an online slots game based on the infamous Ferris Bueller, and there is no way to avoid playing hooky.

This online slots game has got to be the best way to ‘play hooky’ as an adult. Spend a day at home on your computer enjoying Ferris Bueller and winning some extra cash.

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Recently Cryptologic released three new online slots games to their partner online casinos. One of these three is making his debut into the world of online gambling. This new online slots game is called Conan the Barbarian, and it is indeed his first time showing up on the reels.

This new online slots game features five reels and nine paylines. But these are not just your ordinary paylines. Each payline has its own Crazy Jackpot and each is triggered independently from the others.

These Crazy Jackpots are triggered when five of the triggering symbol are landed on a payline. And that triggering symbol? It is none other than the barbarian himself, Conan.

In other words, land five Conans on a payline and the Crazy Jackpot for that payline is yours.

The amount of each Crazy Jackpot will vary and is determined, in part, on which payline’s jackpot you have triggered.

And what other feature do players of online slots games want? A bonus game of course. And Conan the Barbarian does indeed come with one. Conan’s bonus game is triggered when three or more of the Scatter symbol appear on the reels.

Players are then whisked away to a second screen for the bonus game. Yes, it is a ‘Pick Your Prize’ type bonus game. But a bonus game is better than no bonus game. In Conan’s bonus game players choose between the skulls to find their bonus prize payout.

While the bonus game on this new online slots game might be on the ordinary side, those Crazy Jackpots certainly make up for it. And on that note, well done, Cryptologic on your new online slots game.

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