Nickel High Rollers.

by Guide Bill Burton

There was a time years ago when nickel slot machine players were the bruntof many jokes. Just the mention of them brought to mind images of littleold blue haired ladies playing the machines in Atlantic City. I rememberon one trip my friends and I watched these ladies take one coin at a timeout of a roll of nickels insert it in the machine and pull the handle withmore gusto than we thought possible. At one point a fight actually brokeout between two of these ladies over the territorial rights to a particularmachine. We listened to a verbal exchange of blue language that would makea sailor blush. With tongue in cheek we refereed to the nickel crowd as theHigh Rollers.

Fast forward to the year 2000 and the joke about nickel high rollers hasturned into a prophecy of sorts. With the new multi-line, multi-coin machinesthe nickel players are taking on a new image. Many of the new nickel machineare anything but cheap to play. In a previous article I wrote about thehistory of these multi-line andmulti coin machines. This type of machine was first introduced to thiscountry in 1996 by Australia's company. As the popularity of these machines grew, more slotmakers started offering multi line/coin machines. it seemed that the slotmakers were trying to outdo each other in designing multi coin machines.More paylines were added and more coins could be bet on each line.

As the number of coins needed for maximum bets increased it was only logicalthat the denomination would have to be lower if the casinos expected to getmuch play out of them from the average player. Playing a machine with ninepay lines that accepted five coins per line would cost the quarter player$11.25 per spin. A 45 coin bet on nickel machine would cost a player $2.25per spin. The casinos are finding out that many players are willing to increasetheir bets on the nickel machines because in their minds they are still playingnickels.

A player used to playing two or three coins in a quarter machine will nothesitate to sit down and play one coin per line on a nine-line machine forforty-five cents. Many will increase the number of coins bet per line aftera winning spin. These same players would not think of switching over to adollar machine after a winning spin on a quarter machine but with the pushof a button they can up their bet without a second thought.

At the end of a session, players have a tendency to play off credits whenthey are playing a nickel machine more than they do when playing higherdenominations. This fact has not been lost on the casinos or the slot makers.A dollar in quarters will fit in a player's pocket a lot easier than twentynickels. It is easier to just play that lasts dollar down to zero than waitin the cashier's line to convert your nickels into a buck.

The slot makers are introducing more nickel machines that are fun to playlike the Adams Family and LittleGreen men. Video Poker players are not left out of the multi coin craze either.introducedtriple play where a player could play three hands simultaneously. This gaveway to Four, Five play and then Ten play video poker. The newest machinegaining popularity is the Fifty Play video poker machine. Playing fifty handsat a time is exciting but it also takes 250 coins to make a maximum bet.That equates to $12.50 per spin for a nickel machine and that falls intothe High Roller category.

The new multi-coin machines are fun and exciting to play but you have toremember that losing site of the value of a nickel could add up to a bigloss in the end.

Until next time, remember:
Luck comes and goes...Knowledge stays forever.

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