We've always used the same strategy and it has always served us pretty well. We decide on an amount we'll play per machine and an amount that we'll come out at. We never go to the ATM and never rob from future days or from what has traditionally been Moyra's shopping fund.

We ordinarily bet somewhere between $600 and $1,200 a day but the system doesn't change regardless of the amount played. The amount, in large part, is $5 per machine, betting 40-75c a spin. Any time we get the amount up past $10 or any multiple of $5, we bring it out. Any win of $5 that doesn't take us past $10 gets reclaimed as a technical win. We have, in the last six trips, kept a very close track of what we play and what we win so we can vent at and blacklist specific slots, casinos or casino groups! It is uncanny how we end up using our wee system - between 81% and 91% return but enough comps, free drinks and fun to fully justify the small loss per trip.

We were hoping to go a bit bigger and deploy the same strategy with $20s and bets of 75c-$1.50 a pop but the idiot racists have hammered the pound to such an extent that we're going to stick with the old strategy for now. It's going to be a whole different story gambling with our actual money now rather than with play holiday money as it has always been.

Cheers,

Billy