When it comes to playing table and live casino games, there is a strategy for just about every single type of game. Whether it’s edge sorting in baccarat, counting cards in blackjack or placing corner bets in roulette, everyone has heard of at least one of these.

But what about slots? Are there any strategies to help you win when you play slots, more specifically online slots? Today, we’re going to walk you through our best tips to help you walk away from the online slots as a winner!

Start Off with Your Bankroll

Before you sit down and play any online slot, you need to decide on your bankroll. Your bankroll is the money you’re happy to gamble with and can live without. Now, you should NEVER use money that’s set aside for bills, rent, mortgage payments, tuition fees etc. Only use disposable income that you can happily live without.

Once you decide on this amount, you need to decide how long you want to play for. Most games have bet limits per spin, but some of these can go up to €100. If your bankroll is only €1,000 then you’re not going to want to play max bet spins as you’ll only have 10 spins before your money’s all gone – presuming all bets are losing bets.

Instead, look at playing games with a smaller bet size. Let’s stick with the €1,000 bankroll and let’s say you want to spin the reels for three hours. A moderate to fast player will do about 40 spins per minute. To play with €1,000 for three hours doing 40 spins per minute, you’re looking at a bet size of €0.13 per spin.

Once you’ve done the calculations to see how much you need to be able to have a good time, then you can go on to the next step – picking a game to play!

Which Games are Best to Play?

For this strategy to winning at online slots, we’re only looking at online slots, so we will leave out games that aren’t slots, even though they could allow you to play for longer and win more in the process thanks to their RTP levels.

Now, focus on the RTP and volatility levels for a moment here. The higher the RTP, the more money the slot will pay out to players over the course of a session. The lower the volatility, the more frequently you’ll pick up wins. However, lower volatility games don’t tend to have such big wins. That being said, if you’re playing at €0.13 per spin, you’re never going to win more than €1,144 from a single spin anyway – that’s with an 8,800 multiplier on Fu Fortunes!

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Stick to games with very generous volatility and RTP. Your best bet is the likes of Mega Joker from NetEnt, 1429 Uncharted Seas from Thunderkick, Blood Suckers from NetEnt and Jack Hammer 2, also from NetEnt. These all have an RTP of 97% or higher, meaning you’re going to see wins more frequently.

Think About Your Strategy

Finally, you’ve got to decide how you want to play. Playing the Single Line strategy can drastically decrease the cost of landing a big win, but in the process, it increases the volatility. For example, in Royal Masquerade, the max bet is €50 and the max win is €250,000. But, if you change the paylines down to a single payline, you’re looking at a max bet of €5 and a max win of €50,000. That’s a cost decrease of 10x and a max win value decrease of 5x – a pretty good bargain, if you ask us!

There you have it. If you follow these tips you will increase your chances of having more fun when you play online slots. There is no real strategy that you can follow, so just do your homework, do the math and make sure it makes sense for you. After all, playing at an online casino is supposed to be fun!