Thought I’d share a little story with you - couldn’t quite believe my eyes but the proof is in the screenshot below. So there I am, sitting at my PC when up pops a message to tell me I have $45 in “comp” points sitting in my account at Jackpot City - an online casino that, if I’m honest, I haven’t played at much in the two years since I opened it. See, I have these accounts sitting around as my job is to review online casinos so I open one up, deposit, withdraw, test the various functions, games, yada, yada, yada. Then I tend to wander off and do the next.
Not to say I’m not a bit partial to some slots play it must be said, but that’s my “bag”. So yeah, anyway, there I am, still waiting for the casino win that will change my life after 4 years…and let’s face it, it’s a 1-in-a-million shot. Until now, my biggest success was at Intercasino, where I had $50-odd dollars sitting there and decided to play one of their low-denomination jackpot slots (Triple Olives). Boring as hell, but not when the 3 olives dropped in for just short of $17k! That was my “moment” and I’ll never forget it. But now I’ve eclipsed it.
Back to today - that $45 - so I think “what the hell”, let’s do 4 spins at $10 on the “Loaded” slot at Jackpot City. It’s a cool low-medium variance slot where the free spins bonus happens reasonably regularly .Sure enough, up it pops on spin 1 and a nice $600 win to boot! Good start. Play on! I moved over to my all-time favourite slot, “Thunderstruck”, start spinning at $11.25 - hey, easy come, easy go right? And whaddya know, free spins again and I find my bankroll just short of $2,000. This is going well.
Time to move again…only I am due to be playing a golf match at Skillground. Hmm….multi-tasking time! Boot up the laptop, get into the golf, move my PC gaming over to the “ISIS” slot and have it running in background methinks. ISIS is very high-variance…that means, you can hit nothing but tiny wins for ages, but every now and again you can win big. Come on baby, give me that casino win I’ve been dreaming of! I set the bet at a whopping $12.50 a spin…like I say, easy come, easy go!
Golf is going well, but meantime I hear the familiar (and somehow comforting) tune that accompanies the “free spins” bonus on ISIS. The free spins are cool - you get 20 spins at 6x. So I start to watch, and whaddya know, a “re-trigger” for another 20 spins. My golf is starting to suffer and I’m down 3 shots already. And then…OMG…I’m watching ISIS and playing golf with one eye on each machine…we’re in the double-set of free spins, and a scatter drops, followed by 2 more (that’s another retrigger!), followed by a fourth and then….the 5th!! You know what? 5 scatters in ISIS is worth 600x your bet. So that’s $7,500. But hey…we’re in the free spins and all wins are multiplied by 6! So, er that’s $45,000! Add to that the $3,950 odd that the other free spins have very kindly given me (which in itself is a very good return) and you have a grand total of $48,955 !! And here’s the screenshot to prove it:
