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Hi! Welcome to George the Slots-Guru’s web site. I’m going to graciously share with you my vast knowledge about internet slots and slot machines. I’ve been around for a while and I’ve seen a lot, so you know my advice will serve you well when you decide to head out to the casinos or play some internet slots from home. Also, you can
if want some answers that I missed out on. If you’ve ever had a lesson from the Guru before, you know that you should sit back and take it easy and take some notes too. If this is your first time, pull up a chair, grab a notepad, and listen up! You might also want to visit some of my other sites. If so, you can find the links to them in the bottom left corner of every page. Here we go!
Now internet slots haven’t been around all that long. This is coming from a guy who saw the original Star Wars movie when he was in his 30’s! It wasn’t until the 1990’s that internet slots game along, but the original game has been around even longer than me! It all started in 1887 when Charles Fey, a San Francisco car mechanic, made the first slot machines in his garage at home. They were manufactured by hand and rented out to the local gambling houses. Originally, the symbols were standard playing card suits - hearts, diamonds and spades- along with bells, horseshoes and a star. That is until 1907, when Herbert Stephen Mills, a Chicago manufacturer of arcade-type machines, began producing a machine similar to Fey's (there are those that think he stole one in order to copy it). This one was the first slot machine to use the familiar symbols of bars, bells, oranges, lemons, plums, and cherries. This doesn’t seem like much, but on the internet slots of today there can be upwards of 100 different symbols.
Slot machines and internet slots have become so very popular because they can be played at your own pace and require no skill. In the olden days the machines were simple three reel machines with each reel containing 20 symbols. That’s the most important feature in older slot machines; the number of reels and the number of symbols. The fewer the number of reels and symbols, the easier it is to get a winning combination. With internet slots, of course, it’s all computer controlled, so you’re up against a whole different type of machine.
There are basically two different types of slot machines; flat rate and progressives. Flat rate machines will always pay off the same amount, and progressive machines have a jackpot that keeps increasing as you insert coins, and reaches its maximum when you hit it (the jackpot, I mean, not the machine itself!). This is the same for internet slots and casino slots alike. As far as the actual payouts go, most slot machines are set to pay between 80 and 99 percent of the amount inserted. Internet slots tend to have a higher payout percentage. After all it’s cheaper to run some gambling software than to maintain hundreds of slot machines in a casino.
Well, that’s it for me (on this page at least). I hope you kept your ears open and kept some good notes. Remember that there’s lots more to learn from me. There are plenty of pages to look through, so stick around, and soak up the knowledge of the Guru. That’s what I’m here for!
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