Online Slots

well, i didn't figure it would take long to find a tournament to enter. it's been so long that i'm completely out of the loop when it comes to who has been running what kind of slot player oriented promotions.

it seems like there's a LOT of stuff out there, but i won't get into all of that at the moment. a lot of it seems geared towards new players, and i have a bunch of online casino accounts open already, so that leaves me on the wrong side of the fence.

still, it turns out that i could go back to the microgaming casino where i had been doing a lot of playing before - ALL Jackpots - and find that they're partnering up with All Slots casino to present an outrageous free slots tournament.

there's $100,000 "freeroll" going on. and now, i'm going to admit to having turned into something of a "button pusher". i opened up the casino, was happy that i still had some real money in there that i had long since forgotten about, and noticed the big-ass slots freeroll that was going on.

well, it seems like that $100,000 is broken into parts. tonight there was $2,500 available and the tourney was on the Tombraider machine. i had forgotten all of the winning combos, so i wasn't really "into" it. i was just puching buttons.

still, it was neat. the starting point put me in about 3,300th place. i hit a special and got some credit by picking the right "idols" during the special screen. that put me up into 1,900th place. but i busted out.

there was a timer going, and i'm thinking it was about 5 minutes. i'm not sure if that means there is only 5 minutes of play that you can have or not. when i go back for the next tourney maybe i won't be so pressed for time and i'll be able to take a moment and figure out exactly how it works.

well, that's all for now. it's good to be back

wow - i thought it had been forever, but i guess it really hasn't. i just feel like i've been gone for years and years.

i haven't gotten back into the casino gaming at all to be honest. but, i have been playing games to pass the time. in fact, i've been playing a lot of cards lately, mostly at Full Tilt.

i've been taking my poker seriously for the past three weeks, and although i've improved, i'm certainly not planning on quitting my day job any time soon.

before the poker, i was tinkering with the game of Gin Rummy. at Game Colony, i'm solidly no better (or worse) than when i started. i should be rated 1500, which is what they rate you when you walk in the door for the first time. lol!

anyway, i wonder if i can morph this from "the online slots" blog to the "what i've been up to lately" blog??

anyway, just stopping in spouting a bit.

take care guys,
- pete

well, i tried to get into English harbour this morning a couple of times, and gave up on the idea. i can open the casino on my 'puter, and log in. it even gets to the point where it asks if i'm in the mood for real money play, or just want to play for fun.

after i answer that, it hangs. i can see the progressive tickers clicking up bit by bit, but i can't get any of the games to come up. and i can't get into the tournament lobby to even see what's going on there.

at first i was thinking a restart of the computer would clear that all up, but my computer is old (the son reminds me from time to time about that), and there's so much stuff on it that restarting would take about the same amount of time i wanted to spend playing, so that wasn't an option.

here, i find myself a little later in the day with some free time, so i thought whatever it was might have cleared up. nope. same thing happened.

this is as far as i could go at the moment . . .



i'll try again in the morning and see what's up. i know i missed out on the last $5,000 freeroll completely. i'd like to get some spins in on the new one this week. and, there's a bunch of really low cost buy-ins starting up, like a buck to enter. i'd like to test some of that action as well.

well, off to All Jackpots for a while . . .

today i thought i'd try something alittle different. recently, all jackpots casino game me a $15 bonus in my account. it didn't go along with any deposit i made. in fact, i had just made a withdrawal.

it did co-incide with my birthday, but that might just be coincidence. but, at any rate, i thought i'd do a little bit of playing this morning. and, i decided to do it on the Tunzamunni machine.

the Tunzamunni is a progressive slot game, with a coins size that's fixed at a nickel. it takes a max bet to win the jackpot, and since you can play up to 5 coins per spin, a max bet costs a quarter.

that's about perfectly reasonable in my book. right now that jackpot is up to over $63,000, so for a quarter a spin i'm looking at a super-high potential payoff.

i decided to try this out not only because it's a cheap way to take a shot at a jackpot, but because it also jives with a promotion offer we've received here at the humble blog.

River Belle casino is giving new players 100 Free Spins on the Tunzamunni Machine

what that means is they're giving away some $25 free accounts, which is twice as good as most free money accounts (actually 2 and half times better, most free money accounts are $10). that $25 will give even the most unlucky player 100 free spins on the tunzamunni.

having $15 of my own, i thought i'd give it a go, and sat down for a quick 100 spin session on the slot.



since the slot machine is a microgaming, and i'm playing at one of the better ones (and riverbelle is a good one too), there's an "expert mode" on the machine. it let's me hit "autospin" which i did. somewhere around spin number 50 my bankroll was down to the single digits in the dollars space, and i thought there would be a good chance of me busting out before i hit the 100th spin.

but then, i landed three sevens (mixed) for my big winner of the morning. that put me ahead of where i started, and that where i ended.

this was my 100th spin . . .



so i did manage to take the 100, and some good things happened along the way.

this was just a fun little thing to try. obviously i could keep spinning for quite some time, but i thought a fun little session was what i was after today. and that's what i got.

i do have to say that the tunzamunni slot has become one of my two favorite progressive slot machines. i just love how crips the colors and the action are, and the fact that for $15 or $20 i could sit down and play the thing!