Been mucking around with different ways of staking on pokies for ages and I keep ending up back at the boring option... same amount each spin, small sessions, walk when I’m up a bit. Every time I try getting clever and doubling after a rough patch, it turns into a bloody donation pretty quick.
I know some punters love the chase-it-back stuff and reckon it can work if your bankroll is deep enough, but I dunno hey. It feels smart for about five minutes, then you hit one of those dead runs and suddenly the spin size is way bigger than you meant it to be. Had heaps less pain just setting a stop loss before I start and trying to stick to it... mostly lol.
What do you lot actually do? Same stake the whole session, bump it up after a decent hit, break the balance into little chunks, or just wing it depending on how the game feels? Keen to hear what’s actually worked for real people and not just the usual "system" chat you see floating around.
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Max LuckyJackpot wrote >
same amount each spin, small sessions, walk when I’m up a bit.
Do you stick to one pokie for that whole session or switch if it feels dead, mate? I can never tell if changing games keeps me disciplined or just gives me an excuse to hang around longer.
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Have you ever tracked how long those sessions are when the flat stake works best for you? I started paying attention to that and noticed my bad runs were usually tied to staying on after the first decent feature, not really the size of the spins. Curious if your stop-loss works better with short bursts or longer sits.
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I’m pretty skeptical of upping it after a win tbh. People dress it up like it’s safer because it came from the machine, but the next spin doesn’t know that. Why should it suddenly earn a bigger bet?
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for the people who keep notes, do you treat a bonus round as a reset point or nah? I always seem to break my own rules right after one because it feels like the game has woken up.
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Yeah I’m with you, the boring way does the least damage by heaps. Only extra thing I use is a hard time cap, because if I sit there all arvo I start reading meaning into every near miss and that’s when it goes sideways. Anyone else find it easier to stop on time than to stop on balance?
