While luck does play a major part in your slot machine playing success, money management is the key to keeping you playing longer and giving you more spins for your gaming dollar.

Money management 1 - don't put it all back

If you hit a good win don't put it all back into the slots again. Try keeping a percentage and putting a percentage back in. This way you will always end up with at least some of your winnings still in your pocket. Tomorrow is another day.

For example if you were to win $1000, you could play with 10% of that ($100) and if you win again play with 10% of that. If you don't win again at least you then have $900 left for another day..

Money management 2 - playing method

This is a great way of making sure that you usually leave the casino with at least some money. What you do is decide how much money you want to play with and then play it all through your slot machine once and only once.

This can be done by calculating your total amount divided by your bet size. For example $50 total divided by $0.50 would give you 100 spins of the reels. At the end of these 100 spins you then take out whatever is left and move on.

You may have much more than you started with or less but at least you will almost always have some money left.

Money management 3 - how much to play with

Money management is an important part of every serious slot machine players strategy. The first thing to do is set yourself limits for each day you are at the casino or each time you decide to play the slots online.

This is up to you, some people might want to play with $10 and some $1000. Either way an interesting point is that most big wins come early on. That is if you are playing a slot machine which does not hit any winning combinations for a while it is probably time to change slot machines or come back another day.