I thought I would just put together a short list of some advantage play hacks that perhaps not all of you know about. I certainly wish I knew about them when I started as they would have saved me a lot of time and increased my profits in the process.
Some of these I have mentioned before without going into any real detail and some are fairly new to me so I haven’t spoken about them before. If you are new here and don’t know what I’m talking about, head over to my Advantage Play explainer page.
So without wasting any more time let’s get into them.
Advantage Play Hacks
1. Using a Colour and a Third to Get Through Roulette Wagering
Often the advice when completing offers using roulette is to just pick a colour and stick with it. Or pick either odd or even and stick with it. The problem is those bets only cover 49% percent of the table.
Written somewhere in the fine print of most casino offers it says you cannot cover more than two thirds of the table (66.666667%) with your stake. So what can we do to increase our coverage without going over that limit?
The answer is adding a third to our colour bet. This leaves our coverage at roughly 63% increasing our chance of leaving the wagering with a profit or a minimal loss whilst still satisfying the requirements.
As I’ve said before in my post on roulette strategy, use the information given to you in the table data to see which third is “hot” and which colour is performing better and choose the best combination.
2. Using the Locked Wilds on Wild Gambler
This is one of the oldest tricks in the book for getting through huge wagering requirements. What we are talking about here are offers such as sign up bonuses of £100 that require a monstrous £4,000 in wagering.
This little trick allows you to increase your stake whilst not adversely affecting your risk, as it does not change the RTP percentage (97%) of the slot. All you have to do for this hack is “lock” the first two wilds on the middle row.
This greatly increases your chance of a big win, and increases your stake size to £2.72 a spin (remember to select the minimum spin value of 20p). This means after only 100 spins you will have ploughed through £272 worth of wagering, which makes the £4,000 seem slightly less intimidating.
Of course, just as would the case if you didn’t use the wilds, you can go several spins without a good win, and the minimum win for locking these wilds is only 30p. But when you do get some high value characters drop into place (for example a Rhino), you are looking at winning £12-£14.
Another tip is to move the wilds one space over and leave the first column as is. The stake increases slightly to £2.76, but your minimum win rises to 40p and I’ve found slightly more success doing it this way. But it’s probably just a case of swings and roundabouts.
3. Light Up All Lines On Hotline
This is a hack that is very similar in nature. Hotline is a Miami Vice styled 80s themed slot about cops and robbers. This shortcut is just as easy to set up.
Instead of just having one “Hotline” active for triggering wild re-spins on this slot, click on all three so that they are all lit up yellow. Your stake size increases to 45p but you now have a wild re-spin anytime a car lands anywhere on the slot.
This happens on a fairly consistent basis, but I would still class Hotline as being on the lowest end of medium variance. There can be huge swings of several wild spins and scatter bonuses in a row followed by dozens of spins with poor returns. If you strike it right it can be a great slot for grinding through huge wagering requirements, but you will need a decent sized bonus to ride out the variance.
4. Last Spin Loophole
I was going to say for William Hill in the title but this may work at other casinos that are using the same slot technology providers.
In the case of William Hill, they often limit the amount you can profit from an offer. This is usually in the region of £20-£50, but there is a way you can get around this. But it does involve an element of luck.
Let’s say for argument’s sake that you are £40 up on an offer and the maximum you can win has been capped at £20. When you arrive at precisely £20 left to wager, increase your stake to £20 (if possible) and anything you win from that spin is yours to keep on top of the £20 you are limited to.
How does this work? Well because you use up all of the bonus the tracking in their website believes you’ve busted out and so ends the bonus before you receive the winnings of the last spin. You can then enjoy your guaranteed £20 plus anything you win on that spin.
Of course you would lose £20 even if you did a £1 or £2 spin so you might as well go all in and hope for the best.
Just a word of warning though there is no guarantee that you’ll get anything back from that spin whether it’s on roulette or a slot. There are countless sob stories on the Oddsmonkey forums about people who did a £100 last spin and saw nothing come back, skulking away with their measly £20 when they were £120 up.
When William Hill moved to their new desktop site, they closed this loophole on a lot of their slots, particularly in the casino section. However, I know for a fact that it stills works on live casino and most games in the “Games” section of the website.
I’ve yet to be in a position to try it on Macau, maybe let me know in the comments below if you’ve had success with it there.
5. Blackjack is Often Available as a “Slot”
What do I mean by this? Well often you will see casino offers phrased something like “stake £20 on any slot for £10 bonus”. Now if you were just taking that at face value you would think you would have to wager on a slot right? Not always.
Before just opening up your favourite slot and beginning the wagering, delve into the small print. As long as it’s not excluded, there are often branded blackjack games that count as a “slot” for the purposes of these offers. This massively increases your chances of coming out of wagering with minimal losses (or perhaps a profit) as their RTP percentage is usually above 99%.
To use William Hill as an example again, you can use Mike Tyson’s Blackjack for wagering because for the purposes of their offers it counts as a slot, rather than standard blackjack (which is excluded). I think there is a Frankie Dettori Blackjack at some casinos too. Make sure to look through and see if you can spot a “branded” version of the game.
Conclusion
Hopefully you’ve learnt something new from this post, most of these are widely known across the advantage play community, but perhaps you might not have come across them before.
I will probably encounter and learn some more as I go along, so it is likely I will revisit this post and add some more when I do.
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