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Earning the First Level of Slots Club Benefits

Once you know the minimal levels of play you need to meet to qualify for the program's first level of benefits, the only variables that affect the time it takes to get to that first benefit level is the speed of play (how many spins on average you play per hour) and the average number of coins you play per spin. Or to put both those variables together, in essence, the formula boils down to how many coins you play per hour. The more coins per hour you play, the faster you accumulate the action required by a casino to reach activation levels.

How do the casinos determine this first level? First we must understand how casinos rate a player's slots action in general, and then how they reward that action.

Casinos generally rate a player's action on a point system, awarding so many points for each level of dollars played. You may receive one point per dollar played, one point per $20 played, or even 10 points per $1 played. But none of this means anything unless you know what these points mean. Each point earned is relative to the value given it by that particular casino.

Each casino has its own point or earning system and activation levels, and it is only by knowing these levels that you can make sense of which program is good and which one is not quite as attractive. For example, getting ten points for one dollar won't mean anything if the activation level for this casino requires you to spend twice as much time playing your preferred denomination machine as another casino.

In other words, 1,000 points at one casino may be of more value to you than 1,000 points at a different one, and may even be of more value than 10,000 points at another casino that throws points around like Italian lira.

There are other ways that casinos rate a player's action at their slots, such as time played, but typically speaking, casinos will use the total dollar value action wagered by the player. The total number of coins placed into the machines multiplied by their dollar value is the most accurate and fair measure of play anyway. Playing three dollars a spin and spinning the reels 300 times yields an exact amount of action, $900. Another player may spend just as much time at that machine but put in only one third as much play.

Obviously, the first player is more valuable to the casino and is a player the casinos want to encourage even more than the second.

Casinos don't want to reward players just for time spent at a machine, who perhaps, more or less, just sit there soaking in the free drinks and the atmosphere, and accruing points with little play. Casinos want action, and there is no better measure of that action than adding up the coins played.