Credit vs. Coin Play Selection (Part 1)
The vast majority of all slot machines, whether reel or video, will have credit meters upon which winning credits accumulate, and from which coins-per-play are deducted. There may still be some very old machines that take only coins, have no credit meter, and dump all wins into the coin tray, but these are most slots tournaments likely in a museum or perhaps part of personal collections. No modem U.S. casino of which I am aware still uses these old-style machines. So for the sake of all examples and further discussions, all machines to which I refer throughout this entire book will be the kind that have a credit meter.
The credit meter functions in two ways. First, if you insert paper currency the bill acceptor will read the value of that currency, and then credit to the credit meter the equivalent amount of that currency. So if you are playing a $1 reel slot machine and insert a $100 bill, then the credit meter will show 100 credits. start playing blackjack if you are tired from slots. The second function is to accumulate your wins. Continuing with this example, if you played the first pull at 2 coins, your credits would now have been reduced by those 2 credits, and so you would now have only 98 credits on the meter. But let us say that your first spin was a winner of 10 coins. The credit meter runs up and reg-isters that win, and now you have 108 credits on the meter.
To be continued…
