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I tend to take a slow but steady approach to roulette. Admittedly many would simply call it boring and wouldn’t be at all interested in emulating it. To quickly explain, what I tend to find myself doing is sticking to a couple of numbers and placing chips on those come what may – along with occasionally variations of nearby numbers that include them.

There’s no particular reason why this is some kind of winning approach, it’s more a weird trait or stubbornness and allegiance being channeled into my play. If my luck is in that night and it’s one of the lucky numbers coming up multiple times, then I’ve had a great time. If, instead it’s like a ghost town, then oh well it wasn’t meant to be and it’s a case of ‘better luck next time’. No harm done.

While it’s not a matter of ‘better’ or worse’ my approach is a marked departure from the chip happy approach of some. As soon as they’re allowed to put their chips down there is a mad clamber to the point where they’ve covered all but every number on the table until the croupier states, ‘No More Bets’. Of course, generally they ‘win’, as in they have chips on the winning number, but how often do they actually win overall? At best it seems like a way to very incrementally increase your winnings, which if anything sounds more boring than my one number approach!

The real disaster scenario for the chip happy crowd is when one or the two or three numbers they didn’t manage or bother to cover comes up. It can be a real wipe out when that happens! In any case, it’s interesting to watch peoples different playing styles, so no judgement however you choose to play!

In a casino that I attend a few times a year and which shall renamed unnamed, I would often see a man named Graeme on the roulette wheel. It wouldn’t matter if it was weeks or months since I’d last been there, just like clockwork Graeme would always be present and accounted for. Sometimes he’d be winning, sometimes losing (mostly losing tbh) but he was a, or the, regular fixture.

Graeme wasn’t alone though…  Graeme’s wife was always by his side, and always drinking a cup of steaming hot tea. I could not ascertain whether it was flavoured as I couldn’t get close enough to inhale the aroma without drawing undue attention to my fascination with Graeme and his other half. Of course the tea was free anyway so maybe she’s the real winner here, but I never quite understood her role in what was unfolding.

Was she the browbeaten wife with no option but to tag along, was she the mastermind behind a betting system that she forced Graeme to carry out over a period of many months, was she bored and just fancied seeing Graeme’s finances fly off the rails? We never did get to the bottom of it and one day Graeme stopped showing up so we had nothing more to go on. My ideal post  Graeme scenario would be for his wife to have continued to sit at the roulette table drinking tea (but not gambling), so sadly that didn’t happen either, and so on this occasion it looks like we all lost out.

If there’s one game that really draws people to casinos it simply has to be slots. Sure poker has its place, but it largely attracts a certain kind of cerebral attitude (if you’re into winning that is!). Roulette too is fun, though there is still a level of involvement that goes beyond that of slots. Slots is the ultimate ‘what you see is what you get’. There is of course the possibility of a big win that accompanies every spin of a wheel, and a somewhat hypnotic feel to proceedings, but it can also be a fun ‘time waster’.

Even ‘back in the day’ there was significant appeal to slots but nowadays there are countless themed games both online and off that essentially truly do mean that there is something for everyone. If you’re on your cell phone it’s the case of ‘pick up and play’, if you’re on a tablet or laptop it’s just as easy really. And there are countless welcome bonuses, free spins and the like to keep people coming back for more. That’s by virtue of how competitive the online casino site world has become.  Some people take advantage of these bonuses with regularity and are very disciplined in their play, bringing in a tidy profit through little work. Others are insteadon the look out for a life changing win from their slots playing.

So whether you’re playing for fun, or on the lookout for a life changing win, slots are a great way to spend your casino time. It’s important to know your limits but in terms of games that draw you in with lights, sounds and more importantly casino action, there is surely no other game that quite rivals that of playing slots.