High Limit Slots
The high limit slots are slots games that allow you to play for higher stakes. They still come in the same varieties as the regular limit slots and this means you will still be able to play the types of games you enjoy the most. You will find classic slots, video slots, bonus slots, progressive jackpot slots, and more.
Introduction to High Roller Slots Tricks
- The first tip that will help you to increase your chances of hitting a jackpot is to time the.
- With $2k, you're better off playing the high limit slots than you are the high limit tables. Since most of the nicer casinos have $100 blackjack tables on the main floor, I'd guess you'd have to put up somewhere between $200-500 as a minimum bet to sit down.
This blog continues our journey of winning strategies for slot machine casino gambling. Here, I’ll be explaining to you three easy high roller slots tricks. Now, please understand I’m not trying to turn you into a full-time high-limit slot machine gambler! Not at all!
As I’ll explain, there are some very inexpensive slots winning strategies which can be applied to more than just low limit slots. They can also be rather cheaply used, with only a few bets, on a $1 to $5 denomination high limit slot machine.
The three tricks you should know about involve applying a few of the winning strategies I’ve already discussed, as well as a new slots strategy, winning strategy #6, I’ll be explaining in full momentarily. Here goes!
This article has the following sections:
- Introduction
- 1st Trick: Use Winning Strategy 1 in a High Limit Slots Area
- 2nd Trick: Combining Winning Strategies #1 and #7
- 3rd Trick: If a Slot Machine Shows a Win, BET ONCE
- How Long Does a Slot Machine Need to be Idle?
- Play High Limit Slot Machines When Appropriate – Carefully!
- Summary
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1st Trick: Use Winning Strategy #1 in a High Limit Slots Area
One interesting pattern I’d noticed at a relatively medium-sized casino had to do with a simple observation. At this local casino, I saw that I would win once when I first sit down, but not win again for some time.
This pattern recognition is a slots strategy I’ve mentioned before, explicitly Winning Strategy 1: Only Win Immediately and my Professor Slots podcast episode #23.
By using this approach, we can take advantage of a common practice found at many casinos, where they provide an initial winning taste.
The first dozen times I visited the high limit slots area at this small, local casino, I found it odd that I would win a jackpot during the first few pushes of the button. But, then, I would spend thousands of dollars without so much as another hit.
I don’t mean I wouldn’t have another taxable jackpot, but that I wouldn’t win anything whatsoever. It just seemed odd. Or, put another way, it was statistically unlikely to be randomly happening so consistently and often, visit after visit after visit.
As an aside, don’t worry too much about all the money I was spending. Unbeknownst to me at the time, each $100 spent these three months earned one more entry for the drawing of a car – which I would end up winning. I tell that story in:
As a second aside, the money I was spending was significant slots winnings from another local casino where I was consistently making quite a profit using Winning Strategy 7, the topic of my next blog article.
2nd Trick: Combining Winning Strategies #1 and #7
Let’s back to the story of what I learned and how I learned it. At the time, I even struck up a conversation with one of the slot operators. In that helpful interview, I asked them when were people winning jackpots and on which machines were they doing it?
This slot attendant helpfully told me about a slots player who had recently gone from one machine to another winning about eight total jackpots in a row in the high limit slots area.
I found this other slots player’s approach very intriguing, to say the least, and have since tried to employ my Winning Strategy 7 alongside playing each machine up to 5 times. By doing so, I’ve found that my annual return for this strategy alone resulted in a 150% profit over my original bankroll.
However, I’d only been using this strategy for four months since this casino opened, and felt I’d need to continue doing it for about a year to be convinced that it wasn’t either temporary or due to having limited data.
Today, I see this as an error on my part, and probably a severe loss of winnings. Winning slots strategies exist, and you can find them yourself – if you can believe your own eyes.
The area most people get stuck on is this: They don’t believe these strategies are possible, and it’s hard to try it yourself they do when you’ve already convinced yourself it’s impossible.
It doesn’t help that most winning strategies are relatively new, and based on the latest casino technologies that started being installed in new casinos since 2012.
Getting down off my usual soapbox, and back on topic, I have found this combination of winning strategies to be the cheapest approach yet to slot machine gambling, while resulting in the highest profit margin.
Using it at my local casino required only $500 per visit and $250 in return on most visits without a taxable jackpot. But then there are the taxable jackpots won, which are more than a few of the typical jackpot winnings on high limit slot machines.
As I’m sure you understand, a single $4,000 taxable jackpot pays for many subsequent visits.
Again, so far, this is all further storytelling about the experiences which resulted in my discovery of Winning Strategy 1 and how to best use it in conjunction with another winning strategy I knew. But, next, I learned a strategy I didn’t already know.
3rd Trick: If a Slot Machine Shows a Win, BET ONCE
By using these known strategies, yet another approach grew out of them. It’s easy, simple, and quite inexpensive. And, it’s completely counter-intuitive to what most slots players will tell you to do. But, because they feel this way is the reason why it works.
Slots players will tell you it is essential to check the machine’s last play. If it shows a winner then, in general, skip that machine. Don’t play it, is the general advice. I say phooey, but with a small caveat I’ll pull from Winning Strategy 1.
My third trick is this: If a slot machine is showing a win, BET ONCE. However, avoid that machine if it’s been played recently.
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For this to work, if it is going to work, a slot machine showing a win needs to be idle for a while, and probably hasn’t been idle if its chair is still pulled out. That the chair is even pulled out is a beautiful clue it was used relatively recently.
Why does this work? At some casinos that set up their slot machines to offer an initial taste, the first push of the button of a high limit slot machine will win either a “small” nontaxable jackpot worth several hundred dollars or a more massive taxable jackpot over $1,200.
For example, I happened to be in the casino one Saturday evening, to take care of some tax paperwork having to do with winning a car the night before, and noticed that one of the $100 high limit slot machines was showing a $1,000 win. I didn’t think much of such a small jackpot, as it was not even taxable, but it was something I noticed.
When I went back to the casino the next morning, I noticed that that same machine had the identical winning reel combination showing on it. To me, this indicated that no one had played that machine for just over one day.
At first, I didn’t think much of it. But then, standing there looking at it, I got to thinking about my strategies. And, standing there thinking it through, I learned something.
Previously, my strategy was not to play any slot machine if it showed a win. But, I started to think, what if I was winning at one push of a button on machines that hadn’t been played for some time? Was this perhaps a refinement of a known strategy?
As usual, theory metaphorically in hand, I decided to test it. I walked over to the $100 machine showing the $1,000 win, placed my player’s card along with $100 in the machine, pressed the bet button, and immediately won a $5,000 taxable jackpot.
To date, this is the only time when I’ve won any taxable jackpot on a $100-denomination slot machine. Although, using this strategy at the same casino, shortly later I did win $500 with a single 1-credit bet on another $100 slot machine.
How Long Does a Slot Machine Need to be Idle?
One loose end with using this strategy is the question of how long does a slot machine need to be idle for it to turn into a winning slot machine via this strategy? The honest and straightforward answer is: I don’t know. But, consider my observations.
I’ve found more slot machines are winners with this strategy if I attend the casino on a Saturday morning (especially after a busy Friday night) or mid-afternoon on Sundays.
That’s because these are typically the most extended times when slot machines aren’t played, and being idle for some time matters. But, how long does it need to be inactive, you ask? I’m still piecing together clues about this.
Another clue comes from Eric Rosenthal, from whom I have second-hand information. He knows someone he trusts from within a slots manufacturer who told him that slot machines reset whenever a voucher is printed.
That’s interesting. If true, it means idle means no time at all. So, that information alone may be enough to tell you how long idle is – but I don’t think so.
Why? Because I’ve seen 30 minutes work when an immediate next player did not. Other times, I’ve seen it work after it’s been idle for hours only. Another area of uncertainty is maybe, more like probably, different casinos are set up differently.
But, I have put some effort into trying to figure this out. After some thought, one week later I went back to the casino and took handwritten notes of all the current spin reels showing on all the high limit slot machines at that casino.
Slightly over a day later, I went back to that casino with the intent of executing the usual strategy but brought extra cash with which to push the button once on any high limit slot machine still showing the same reel spin from the previous day.
Unfortunately, that day was a beautiful day in January with moderately high temperatures not seen in months. Somehow, for this reason, the casino and high limit slot machine room were incredibly busy.
I mention this because, when checking the reel spins on each slot machine, I found that ALL slot machines had been played. I then went ahead playing my usual strategy and, to my slight dismay, I didn’t win a single time despite four immediately prior visits where I made 50-60% over the bankroll I’d brought.
What I learned from this confirmation, such as it was, was that it was the wins I had seen when using my unrefined strategy of 5 pulls then stop was occurring on slot machines which had not been played for a while. That is to say, I had been winning on idle slot machines.
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So, during busy periods in the high limit slot room which, by the way, isn’t necessarily the same times when the overall casino itself is active, I learned that I shouldn’t use this strategy. Not then, anyway.
All I can say is, where casinos have set up this winning strategy, winning slot machines need to be idle for a while. This bit of information may not seem like much – but it’s something once considered impossible which evidence now suggests isn’t any longer.
And, being the savvy slots enthusiast I know you are, I expect you’ll make the most out of it.
Play High Limit Slot Machines When Appropriate – Carefully!
So, let’s continue to talk about getting the most out of my winning strategies. The whole point of these specific strategies is that they don’t require much money to try out. Not to be too blunt about it, why wouldn’t you try out inexpensive strategies in the high limit slots area?
I suppose I first noticed this myself at Seminole Brighton Casino in Florida in October 2019 and earlier at Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut in April 2018.
Only afterward did I think, while I’m here why don’t I try out the winning strategies I’ve just figured out in the high limit slots area?
Unfortunately, this idea came to me only after I left both places. But, here it is for you. If you have figured out a winning slots strategy that appears to work at a casino, consider trying it in the high limit slots area.
This suggestion is especially valid if the specific slots strategy you’ve found to work outside of the high limit area doesn’t require much bankroll to win. If only a small bankroll is needed, or if you’re willing to risk a larger bankroll if it doesn’t, consider one way to optimize your strategy – by bringing it into the high limit slots area. Carefully, of course.
For those who have read my blog article Seminole Brighton Casino Florida Trip Report, these follow up thoughts for using a working strategy on high limit slots should work quite well there.
However, for those who have read my blog article Easily Win a Little at Slots at Foxwoods Casino Connecticut, I’d caution against this approach there.
As Dr. Mike from the You Can Bet on That podcast very well knows (I was sitting near him at the time), you can win a couple of hundred dollars on a high limit slot machine there within the first few bets.
But, the problem is, you can do the same thing on a low limit slot machines. So, use the winning strategy I described outside of the high limit area to bet less for corresponding winnings. Your profit will be more substantial.
Summary of High Roller Slots Tricks
In review, I’ve pointed out the easy application of two past winning slots strategies, along with a new winning strategy, which would require only a few bets on a high limit slot machine.
From a high level, the three easy high roller slots tricks I’ve outlined are merely pointing out that the winning strategies you worked hard to uncover at the casino you frequent can be leveraged, perhaps even optimized, in the high limit slots area with relatively little risk.
Because, finding that a winning strategy which works
If your gambling goal is entertainment, as with more slots enthusiasts, then getting a W-2G for having won a taxable jackpot would be exciting. I know my first W-2G was very exciting and, quite honestly, you never really get tired of winning them.
If your gambling goal is earning comps, then you’ll undoubtedly earn players clubs point by making bets on high limit slot machines. But, more importantly, some or all of winnings received in the high limit slots area can be spent on low limit slots.
Finally, is winning take-home money your gambling goal? Well, you’ll earn that money with little cash spent. If, as always, the casino you’re at has been set up by their operator such that one or more of these approaches will work.
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Some of the most valued casino guests can be found in the high limit slots rooms that line the Las Vegas Strip. While casinos across the country usually have their own version of high limit slots, few can compete with the selection that is found on the strip. Whether it is in terms of payback, game selection, or quality of service, it is tough to match the high limit slots rooms in Las Vegas.
There is a number of criteria that we considered when ranking the best high limit slots casinos. We included a mix of both on the strip and off the strip options, as there are some high limit slot sections that tend to cater to locals, but are still very much in the running for “best” in the greater Las Vegas area.
#1 Venetian
Interestingly, while we rank Venetian as the best overall high limit slots room in Las Vegas, we did not include the room at its sister Sands property, Palazzo. When compared to Venetian, or the other rooms on our list, Palazzo did not make the cut.
What makes Venetian high limit slots stand out…
The level of service and privacy afforded to players in the Venetian high limit slots room is unmatched. Whether you are playing $10 per spin (generally the lowest game you will find here, with most being $20/spin when playing max credits), or $2,000 per spin, your privacy is assured. The room itself tends to be very quiet most of the time and is located in a corner where the average tourist would not think to visit, making it that much more “exclusive” to high limit slot players.
In addition to the feeling of privacy, Venetian offers top quality drink and slot service. The slot attendants are generally pleasant and are also timely in their handpay processing. Beyond this, cocktail waitresses will usually offer a drink within minutes of when you first sit down. Even if you are simply watching a friend play, the employees will treat you well at the Venetian high limit slots room.
One of the unique features of this room, which helps to set it apart, is found in its ultra private rooms in the back section of the slots area. Super high limit machines, with mins of $100 up to a few thousand per spin, can be located in separate rooms, complete with your own TV, table, and couch. Very large players will have an employee on standby for drink service, handpays, or any other assistance.
The only drawback to Venetian’s slots, and slots at any strip property, is found in its lower payback to players. While the high limit room will have a better RTP (return to player) % than on the floor, you will find a lower rate than at off strip and/or locals casinos.
Even if you are not playing the highest limit games, the lounge located in the rear of the room is also open 24/7, and includes complimentary drinks, and for a few hours per day, snacks as well. If you have not yet visited Venetian’s high limit slots room, we suggest giving it a shot.
#2 Cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan may not come to mind when you think of slots, but despite its relatively young age, Cosmo is very competitive in the high limit slots scene. Players appreciate the friendly and efficient nature of the staff, and the frequency of giveaways, promotions, and rewards through the Identity player program all combine to this room’s popularity.
Cosmopolitan’s high limit slots include a dynamic variety of games to choose from, including the very popular classic games like Pinball and Top Dollar to all of the modern video slot machines, like Buffalo, Kitty Glitter and Cleopatra. Cosmo has gone out of their way to appeal to high limit slots players, and especially those who post video of their play on YouTube. The player-first approach to high limit slots has been a winning formula for Cosmopolitan.
#3 Aria
Aria’s high limit room, named the “Spin High Limit Room,” is one of the higher end options on the strip. Players looking to bet in the $10 or even $20 per spin range may have a tough time finding games to their liking at Aria’s high limit room, but for big players it can be the perfect fit.
There are two separate sections within the Spin Room. As you step up to the back, slightly elevated section, you will notice that the denominations are even higher than the machines near the front. Aria has a well known 7s slot machine that can be played for $5,000 per spin. This denomination, while exceptionally high, is a great illustrator of the big bets that can be found at Aria high limit slots.
The high limit room also offers “QUICKPAY,” which affords players the opportunity to bypass paperwork on W2G handpays. Use your M life card and you will be able to set up this feature. Once your information is inputted, you will be able to play without interruption for any hits over $1,200 that would otherwise require time and manual paperwork.
#4 Wynn
Wynn has always set the bar for luxury on the strip, and the same can be said for the high limit slots section. The level of customer service at Wynn slots is top notch, just as you would expect when playing on the floor. Surprisingly, there are a number of machines in the $20 range within the Wynn high limit slots room, though they are certainly in the minority.
If there is one element, other than inherent luxury, that makes Wynn slots stand apart, it would be found in their frequent and over the top promotions for big slot players. Wynn regularly holds both slot tournaments that require buy ins as well as free entry promos to avid players.
Throughout the year, players will be invited to giveaways with prize pools of $50,000, $100,000 and sometimes even larger than $250,000. Wynn may have a higher hold on their payback percentage, but they make an extra attempt to encourage repeat visits through their unmatched slot player giveaways. If you are playing slots at Wynn, make sure to use your Red Card in order to be eligible for an invite to one of these exclusive events.
#5 Green Valley Ranch/M Resort
Unless you are a Las Vegas local, there is a good chance that you have never even heard of Green Valley Ranch or M Resort. While these two casinos are off the strip and lack the glitz of many strip properties, they offer some of the best value and overall high limit slot experiences on the market.
M Resort, like many locals casinos, offers high limit slots that start at just a few dollars. These machines, along with 99% payback video poker games, can be found in the high limit “room,” which is fenced off near the table games area. The high return to player payback percentage, combined with cashback for slots through the Marquee players card, makes M Resort a solid choice when considering where to play high limit slots in Las Vegas. If you are on the strip, expect a 10-20 minute drive to M, depending on current traffic.
Green Valley Ranch was our wild card pick for top Las Vegas high limit slots rooms. We chose GVR as a front runner for a few reasons. First, the room is very quiet and discreet. You are almost in your own casino when you play high limit slots at GVR. Next, the section connects to the high limit table games area, and it even includes its own separate bar (with 99% payback video poker!).
On top of all of this, the Green Valley Ranch staff delivers a combination of experience and friendliness that is tough to match. Payouts tend to be handled quickly, drink service is always a few steps away, and slot attendants are always available if any assistance is needed. GVR also offers generous reward points for slot players, in addition to their normal weekly and monthly promotions. The locals tend to keep GVR busy, and the high limit slots room is one of many reasons why.
M Resort, Green Valley Ranch, and almost all off the strip high limit rooms offer added value in their higher default payback percentages and player reward programs. We highly recommend giving these, and other off strip casinos, consideration when deciding which high limit slots rooms to visit in Las Vegas.