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With restrictions on how U.S. players can deposit money to their player accounts, some online casinos are looking for other deposit methods that can help make depositing a little easier for U.S. players. And some will offer up slot bonuses to entire players to use them.

One such way is pre-paid gift cards. These little cards allow players to put a balance onto the gift card. They can then deposit money from the gift card to their player account so that the money does not seem to be coming straight from a financial institution.

Some online casinos accept the pre-paid gift cards, most notably several of the Vegas Technology online casinos, which do accept U.S. players.

Crazy Slots in particular not only accepts pre-paid gift cards, they also offer players a slots bonus.

The first time a player uses a pre-paid gift card to deposit money to their player account, they receive a 100% deposit match bonus. This bonus is worth up to $600. So for the player who deposits $600 using a pre-paid gift card, she will receive another $600 from Crazy Slots.

Naturally players need a coupon code in order to receive this slots bonus. For the first pre-paid gift card deposit players need to enter ZY035 in the cashier section of the online casino.

But the slots bonuses do not stop there. After that first slots bonus, players can continue to receive more slots bonuses for using a pre-paid gift card. Every time a player uses one, they can receive a 10% deposit match bonus worth up to $100.

Cray Slots is definitely giving players a good reason to use pre-paid gift cards to deposit money to their player accounts. Free money in a slots bonus is still free money.

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What is the best way for an online slots player to keep themselves entertained in the early hours of the morning?

An online slots tournament that is especially for all of those late night people!

And Go Casino has just the online slots tournament series to fill that need. They host their Red Eye Pot Percentage online slots tournament every night, or morning depending on how you view time, of the week. That means that there is always some late night online slots action out there for night owl slots players.

It is also offers a chance to play and even win an online slots tournament that most players will not play in simply because they are asleep. True, less participation means less in the Pot to win, but it also increases a player’s chances of winning the Pot.

Each Red Eye Pot Percentage online slots tournament begins at 12:30 am and runs through 8:30 am every day. So there is no single night, or morning, that leaves an online slots player without a late night thrill.

This month seven online slots games created by the ever popular Vegas Technology have been selected to be used in this online slots tournament series, one for each night of the week:

Monday: Winter Wonderland
Tuesday: Parrot Party
Wednesday: Tiki Lounge
Thursday: Northern Lights
Friday: Butterflies

And the weekend night, or morning, offerings are:

Saturday: Fire Hawk
Sunday: Eastern Dragon

Players who are interested in the Red Eye Pot Percentage online slots tournament series only need to register at Go Casino and pay the $2.99 entry fee to receive their 250 tournament credits; rebuys are $2.99.

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We have seen what other online casino game developers have dished out this month in the way of new online slots games, and now it is time to see what Rival has for its partner online casinos.

For slots players who are fans of the iconography of the 1950s the new online slots game from Rival, called Doo Wop Daddy-O, is sure to become a favorite. There are Pink Poodles, Records, Jukeboxes and Classic Cars. Oh, and lots of neon sign letters.

It is like the malt shop exploded and turned into an online slots game. The graphics are colorful and have captured what everyone likes to remember about the 50s. True to Rival Gaming’s style, the graphics are well-done and the animation smooth.

The Motorcycle is the Scatter offering an easy payout for landing as little as two of them.

Naturally there is a Wild in Doo Wop Daddy-O, the letters of Wild spelled out in pink neon sign letters. It will substitute for any symbol in the game except for the two bonus symbols.

Yes, I said two bonus symbols. Instead of free spins, Rival put two bonus games into this new online slots game, and they each represent to iconographic things from the 50s: the soda fountain and racing.

The Soda Fountain bonus game is triggered by landing three or more Milkshakes. Players are then taken to a second screen where they are behind the counter of a soda fountain. They task is to make a dessert for a girl whose name is probably Judy.

Various pieces that make up ice cream sundaes will glow. Players have to click on the glowing pieces to build the probably-Judy’s dessert. The more pieces that make up her dessert, the bigger the bonus prize.

The other bonus game is the Drag Race bonus game and it is triggered by landing three or more of the Red Classic Truck. I hope you can drive stick.

On a second screen players will see a steering wheel and a gear shift knob along with a plus and minus symbol. Players have to click plus to shift up and minus to downshift when the arrow points to a new gear. When the game says ‘Honk’ click the steering wheel to give an extra boost to the bonus prize. Crossing the line first also gives an extra bonus prize.

Having two bonus games rather than one is what stands out in this new online slots game. Not to mention all the 50s iconography. Two bonus games will help add to players’ bankroll, which will most likely make this a popular new offering in Rival powered online casinos.

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Seeing what new online slots games are released is the best part of each month. Today we finally see this month’s release by Real Time Gaming.

Joining their Real series of online slots games is Goblin’s Treasure, a five reel online slots game with twenty five paylines.

According to legends and mythology, goblins are often associated with treasure and riches, but you have to manage to get it away from them first. So this is a very fitting theme for a slots game.

True to the Real series of online slots games by Real Time Gaming, Goblin’s Treasure entices players with two jackpots—a minor and a major—as well as a win-win feature.

Neither one of the jackpots has a limit on how high it can climb before being won. And when the minor jackpot resets, it resets to $250 while the major reset to $1,000.

The win-win feature is only triggered if bonus credits are not won in the free spins feature.

The way it works is that the free spins are triggered by the landing three of the Scatter symbol just like in any online slots game. However free spins do not guarantee that any bonus money will be won; they are simply spins that will not cost the player any money.

Should a player not be lucky enough to take some of the Goblin’s treasure away during any of the free spins, the win-win feature is then triggered. It is during the win-win feature that the player can win up 1,000x their wager.

So I guess you could say that a player will not come away from a Real series slots game’s free spins with nothing.

To top these features off Goblin’s Treasure also boosts multiplying Wilds. That should not be surprising—goblins are clever little thing, which is why there is also a Wild Goblin who, when landed on the first reel, will award a 5x multiplier to the wager.

Real Time has given everything they can to help players win some treasure away from the goblins in Goblin’s Treasure. This new online slots game can be found at Real Time Gaming online casinos, like Club USA. So who is going to take the chance to try to steal away some goblin treasure?

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The management at Jackpot City was a bit stunned by their most recent progressive slots jackpot winner of £4,444.

No, they were not stunned by the fact that someone won the progressive jackpot. So if it is not the fact that a player won that stunned them, how exactly do you stun the management staff of an online casino?

Simple. You refuse to accept the jackpot.

A spokesman from Jackpot City said, “This is a first for us at Jackpot City, where a player has refused to claim their winnings.”

The latest winner of the WowPot progressive jackpot hails from China. And he has declined his progressive jackpot win on the grounds of his culture’s superstitions.

Culture in China is very different from Western culture. The Chinese believe very much in their culture’s superstitions, this includes the belief in Numerology.

So what was the Numerology superstition that has this man in China refusing his jackpot?

In Chinese Numerology the word for the number 4 has a very similar sound to the word ‘death’ in Chinese. Because of the similar sound, the number 4 is to be avoided as often as possible. Dealings with the number 4 are believed to bring bad luck, another cultural belief in China.

You can see how a prize made up of four number 4s would make this winner wary.

“This player contacted customer support upset about the winnings amount. He was not keen about missing his winnings but at the same time is very worried about bringing bad luck to himself and his family,” a spokesman said.

So what do you do when a player refuses to accept their progressive slots jackpot winnings? Well, I do not know and it seems that management at Jackpot City does not either, but they are trying to figure it out:

“We are talking with the player in hopes of working out a different approach which would be sensitive to the player’s beliefs and also ensure he does not lose out on his progressive winnings.”

At least we know that online casinos, despite the reputation for wanting to take a player’s money, do make the effort to make sure they get their progressive slots jackpot winnings.

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Microgaming will be launching three new online slots tournaments to their partner online casinos.

According to Mike Hebden, the Head of Casino at Microgaming, “Microgaming constantly strives for innovation and we will continue to analyze our casino offering and make further improvements to ensure we stay ahead of the curve as the market evolves.”

Microgaming certainly does seem to be keeping ahead of the curve, launching two highly anticipated online slots games this year already: Thunderstruck II and The Lord of the Rings.

This time they have turned their eyes to their online slots tournament offerings. Three new types of online slots tournaments have been created, and players will be seeing them shortly in Microgaming powered online casinos.

Midweek Moolah and Weekend Whooper will have guaranteed prize pools of $10,000 each. And the Monthly Monster will have a guaranteed prize pool of $25,000.

The Midweek Moolah is going to be a three day tournament that, as its name suggests, will run during the middle of the week. The time span for this tournament is going to be three days.

The Weekend Whopper, as its name also suggests, is going to be a weekend tournament, covering three days—most likely Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Finally there is the Monthly Monster. Guess how long that one lasts. Yes, players will spend a month playing for a share of the guaranteed $25,000.

Microgaming hopes their new online slots tournaments will be successful in catching players’ attention and drawing them in for some online slots tournament fun at their partner casinos, such as All Jackpots.

Hebden said, “We have delivered a number of new, smart, player focused initiatives that we are confident will meet the expectations of even the most discerning casino player and will further increase engagement.”

Microgaming has done well of other new online slots games, so the initial outlook on the new online slots tournaments is definitively a positive one.

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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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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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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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