By Samantha Williams

Playing casino slots is as easy today, as finding a site that you like, registering to play, making a deposit and being given quite a bit of free money to play with – playing at online casinos. These virtual casinos are dedicated to making your gambling experience as life-like as possible and they follow through many different themes – feel like you are live in Las Vegas or meandering through the Venetian – Macau. No matter how much fun playing casino slots online is, it is never quite the same as being in a real life casino, although it’s a lot less expensive. I mean where is the fun in not having to have to wait for a seat at the slots game you want to play?

That having been said, it is still one of my life-goals to get to visit Macau – Macau used to be like a mini Las Vegas; but now Vegas is a mini Macau! It must be a real eye opener to visit a gambling den where people spend $4 for every $1 spent in Las Vegas. Macau is where China likes to spend it; but many more international gambling fans are heading for these Asian shores today than are heading to the sights and sounds of the city of sin.

Chinese workers are incredibly industrious; they are also completely committed to saving money to get what they want. What they want is to spend enormous sums from their savings, gambling on the acres of casino floors which make up the isle of Macau. Obviously casino slots are only some of the games being played, but they do take up a great deal of space on these casino floors. However, for pure exclusivity, Macau just can’t be beat.

For example – the Paiza Mansions; try to book at this hotel online? Forget it, Tripadvisor can’t help – the Paiza Mansions chooses you. It offers 6,000 sq ft suites, access to each by private elevator, 60 inch, end-of-bathtub TVs; their own butlers (2) and a masseur. Yet it costs nothing to stay here – simply spend HK$10-15million (£800,000-£1.2m) downstairs in the casino and receive your free invitation!

This is part of the service offered to high rollers at the Macau Venetian, which also happens to be the worlds largest casino and the 5th largest building on Earth. Buy something which says “Made in China”, and you can guarantee that at least a portion of the money you spent on that item will end up playing casino slots on the Venetian casino floor.

By comparison Las Vegas is puny, a mere pimple on the backside of international gambling. Chinese punters are spending approximately £70 billion at the baize tables of Macau, and baccarat is their preferred game – there are acres of baccarat tables. We are looking at estimated spend figures for 2011 of £1 trillion!! To put £1 trillion into perspective; as we are speaking GBP – take all the cash issued in the UK, from every ATM for a year and multiply this by five!!

By Samantha Williams

The one thing about playing slots which can be dangerous, is that these type of games are so much fun they can become addictive. If you are playing for money every time and you don’t take care what you do, you may end up with a gambling problem, or possibly very rich! The beauty of playing freeslots online is you can slot until you drop and never have to worry about even spending a penny. These games are available to play at most good casinos online and you don’t even have to register as a member to play; but this is not the case with all online casinos – you first have to register and login to play and you still can’t play all of the games.

Playing free slots games can prepare you, help you get used to it and find out the best way to play. Slots are completely random games, therefore strategizing is a waste of time, there is no way to change a winning outcome. But you could call it strategy to trial freeslots to see what coin range will fit into your budget and how to spread out your bankroll. Let’s call it an exercise in quantifying random adventure, rather than strategy!

Freeslots come in all shapes and sizes and all types of themes, but the easiest way to find a theme you enjoy is to first find a site that you like which allows unlimited play for free. As an exercise, I chose Victor Chandler Casino, because I like Net Entertainment games and I k now they allow free play. Simply click on the slots tab, and the first video slots game which caught my eye, was Jeff Wayne’s “War of the Worlds”.

This game can be played through Flash in “Enhanced 3D Animation mode, with rich audio and in a reduced version. I chose the recommended (rich) version and this is currently loading as we speak. Please note, I have not registered at this site (although I am seriously thinking about it!), and it is allowing me to play this brilliant sots game in “demo” mode. Let’s just say that this is an “entertainment experience” the music is completely fabulous and you get to play slots while you listen. This is a massive 100 pay line game, and playing for the minimum maximum wager, if that is what you call it; costs £€$5.00.

This site features some unbelievable slots; titles such as Arabian Nights, Spellcast, Blood Suckers, Boom Brothers, Beetle Frenzy – there are so many, and all can be played for free. There are also a huge amount of casino table and other games to choose from; it really is a superb site. They are not the only online casino where you will find freeslots obviously, but I have certainly found it to be, one of the fastest and least troublesome for free fun.