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How To Play Online Slots Like A Pro In Simple Steps

How To Play Online Slots Like A Pro
At face value, being a pro at slots sounds strange. By their very nature, online slot machines are simple games that require very little skill to play. All you have to do is find your trusted game slot online site, fill up your balance and start spinning. That’s it! There is not very much to it.
Where to begin
After you click spin, you are now at the graces of the computer systems and algorithms deciding the outcomes of your spins. With that in mind, most slot players overlook the fact that despite having very little to do with the outcome, there are still loads of things you can do to improve and enjoy your experiences with any slot game. Learning these methods and little pieces of information will give you the necessary edge to transcend the casual player base and become a pro of sorts. Here is what you need to get started!
How does a slot machine work?
Before you think there is a way to beat a slot machine, realize now there isn’t. A random number generator is the base component of every slot machine on the market, whether it is in a land-based or online casino. The fact that reels spin randomly and stop at random means slot machines are truly down to luck. It is highly likely that a system or a process that promises to increase your likelihood of winning is a scam. The pay-out of jackpots or bonuses on some slot machines depends on the random number generator, and this is why some slots will have better odds than others depending on the number of possibilities and outcomes the random number generator will stop on. Since slots operate unpredictably, it is impossible to develop a winning strategy. There are methods and ways to play smarter and, in the long run, that could make your session spent in front of a slot machine far more enjoyable.

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Before you play
The first step is finding a casino space with a trusted and good reputation. Make sure you read that fine print on your incentives and find out what the withdrawal policies are. Once you really get into the online casino space, you will find out that you have an endless number of options to choose from. No casino will be the same as another, even when they are owned by the same company. Ensuring you are fully satisfied and protected in the casino space you choose will be the most important part of having an enjoyable and safer experience.
Now you are faced with a variety of slot games that entice the eyes in such a way that choosing can be impossible. As long as your casino of choice is actually a good one, they will help you out by providing useful information to use in making your final decisions. There is a lot of information available about the slots at legitimate online casinos. Volatility and return-to-player (RTP) percentage are two items you should pay close attention to. Based on the volatility rate, you can find out how often and how much you’ll get paid. On a low-volatility slot, there will be frequent payouts, but in small amounts – the lower payouts come with the benefit of less risk. Slots that pay less frequently but have bigger pay-outs are called high-volatility slots. RTP is a measure of how much you can expect to win back on average per session. You have a better chance of experiencing payouts if the RTP is high.
Get those emotions under control
You can’t win every spin, and that’s okay. Make sure to avoid revenge betting and emotional betting, as this can quickly spoil your fun. You need to keep your head straight and stay disciplined. Remember, you are playing a game and not trying to make money. You came to enjoy the thrilling nature of the unpredictability in these games. Only play with what you are willing to lose; do not rely on one big win when you cannot handle the loss if that happens to be the outcome. Keeping to your risk management plan is imperative; you do not want to be betting far above the money you can afford. Gambling should be an experience where you play unpredictable games for fun without any negative feelings attached. You should practice good risk management to play for as long as possible to ensure you can enjoy playing these exciting games of chance.

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The ease today
Today you can play slots in Vegas from the comfort of your bedroom. Online casinos have opened the doors to possibilities. You can now play all the casino games you want from one place, and with a variety of deposit methods, you can add money using your preference in banking. Besides the enticing and massive bonuses offered at some casinos, you also get to play at your own speed. At a land-based casino, you are not able to choose the pace of the games. Online casinos give you the option to take a break at any time and also to play at any time. These benefits have really made massive changes to how people should be enjoying casinos; why leave the house to gamble? You can play every single game your heart desires and entertain yourself for ages with various online casino spaces boasting different graphics and bonuses to suit your needs.
Pro-life
Being a pro in slot machines is about being smarter than the rest of the player base. Through good risk management, you will have a far better experience and the chance of making a couple of bucks and having more fun than the average player in the online casino space. Online casinos make it easier for you to become a pro at slots because you no longer need to take a road trip to the nearest casino and stay there. You can become a pro from the comfort of your home.
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NRM Group restructures and rebrands as Boomerang Digital

Andrew Ludlow, who has served as Managing Director of NRM Group since 2012 has completed a far-reaching strategic rebrand of the business culminating in the launch of Boomerang Digital.
The product of a 12-month business review Boomerang Digital brings NRM, ISD and Big Deal games into a single entity and in the process provides a frictionless touchpoint for customers across the totality of its technology-driven product range.
Expanding on the strategy Boomerang Digital co-founder and Chief Executive Andrew Ludlow said: “We are taking the NRM heritage totalling close to 30-years of ground-breaking thinking to create a platform from which to launch the next important phase of the Group’s development under the new Boomerang Digital brand.”
He added: “Because Boomerang Digital is a single entity offering a range of solutions it means that customers can now talk to us much more holistically about their requirement for end-to-end solutions. Under Boomerang we can ensure that the technology ecosystem is appropriate and streamlined.”
Confirming that there will be no job losses as a result of the restructure Andrew Ludlow stated: “To grow the business, we need the right calibre people and we will continue to recruit the additional talent that we require. I am delighted to say that Chris Wrigley will be moving to the newly created post of COO with Wayne Forster becoming Director of Product, membership and mobile.”
Boomerang Digital’s first industry appearance will be as part of the Bingo Hub at the EAG Expo (16-18 January, ExCeL London) and Ludlow confirmed the importance of the event. He stated: “We’ve got lots to talk about, lots to share and lots of exciting plans for the future. In order to meet the entertainment and engagement demands of tech-savvy consumers our customers have evolved and so have we. It’s a really exciting time and the team cannot wait to bring the Boomerang Digital vision to life. EAG can’t come quickly enough!”
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BOS rejects the government’s proposal to raise the gambling tax

The Swedish Trade Association for Online Gambling (BOS) today submits its advisory statement to the Ministry of Finance on the memorandum “Increased gambling tax”.
The memorandum proposes an increase in gambling tax from 18% to 22%, to apply from 1 July 2024. BOS rejects the proposal.
– The government can hardly time its proposal to raise the gambling tax to a worse time. We are in a situation where fewer and fewer players choose to play on the safe licensed market, and more and more on the unregulated, unlicensed gambling market. That the government proposes to raise the tax for licensed gambling is the best Christmas present you can think of – to the unregulated and unlicensed gambling market, says Gustaf Hoffstedt.
The memorandum in English can be found below:
Referral statement Fi2023/02665, Increased gambling tax
About BOS
The Swedish Trade Association for Online Gambling (BOS) is here issuing its opinion on
the memorandum “Increased gambling tax”, in which it is proposed that the excise tax
on gambling be increased from 18 to 22 percent as of July 1, 2024.
BOS represents twenty gambling companies that operate on the Swedish gambling
market.1 This makes us the largest trade association in Sweden within our industry. All
members have a license/permit issued by Spelinspektionen.
BOS recommendation
BOS rejects the proposal to raise the gambling tax.
Our motives for the rejection
The goal of the gambling market, as described by the government, “is a healthy and
safe gambling market under public control”. In addition, according to the government,
revenues for the common good must be protected, the negative consequences of
gambling must be reduced, gambling for money must be covered by strong consumer
protection and cannot be misused for criminal activities.
BOS believes that the proposal for a tax increase is in conflict with all of the government’s stated goals for the gambling market. It is connected with the fact that the implementation of a tax increase on gambling will lead to a reduced channelization to the
Swedish regulated gambling market, something that is also expressed by several other
reference bodies, including the Swedish Gambling Authority.
In contrast, the un-licensed and not infrequently illegal gambling market in Sweden will gain market share
if the proposal to raise the gambling tax is implemented.
It is connected with the fact that a tax increase on licensed gambling further
strengthens the competitiveness of unlicensed gambling in Sweden, which
correspondingly increases in attractiveness when Swedish gambling consumers have
to make decisions about where their gambling will take place. A product subject to
high tax is less attractive than a comparable product subject to low or no tax.
Channelization
The concept of channelization refers to what proportion of Swedes’ gambling takes
place on the licensed market designated by the state, and what proportion takes place
on the unlicensed market in Sweden. Ideally, all gambling should take place on the
licensed market, but in practice this is impossible to achieve, especially when it comes
to online gambling, which by its very nature is cross-border. Sweden’s unofficial
channelization target has therefore been set at 90 percent. In other words, it is
acceptable (but not desirable) with a leakage to the unlicensed gambling market of no
more than 10 percent. If the leakage becomes greater than that, the goals of the
gambling policy are considered to be unachievable.
Unfortunately, Sweden’s channelization target must now be described as “unofficial”,
with reference to the fact that the government seems to have distanced itself from the
target in recent years. What was initially a clearly defined goal from both the government and the Riksdag, at least in the political debate, has in recent years rather been referred to as an expectation, assessment or forecast.
To the extent that a government and Riksdag decision is needed to establish Sweden’s
90 percent target, we strongly recommend that the government take this initiative,
and thus not distance itself from this gambling policy goal by calling it something other
than a goal or objective (for example assessment). It is in the government’s own
interest that there is a channelization goal and any way to distance oneself from this
harms the government and the legitimacy of the licensing system, and what is worse
harms Sweden’s gambling consumers.
The reason why the government should under no circumstances undermine the goal of
at least 90 percent channelization is that a high ditto is a basic prerequisite for all other
goals of gambling policy. A high channelization goal is a goal to reach all other goals.
These other goals can be summarized as:
– That consumer protection is strong
– That unhealthy gambling is kept to the lowest possible level
– That crime is pushed back
– That the state receives good tax revenue from gambling
– That the licensed gambling companies have good profitability and good conditions
– That the licensing system has high legitimacy
The government states as a motive for raising the tax that “[t]he current tax rate of 18
percent has applied since the Swedish gambling market was reregulated in 2019. The
gambling market has since stabilized, and channelization has increased significantly.”
It is a claim and a description of reality that we dare to say that the government is
quite alone. In the memorandum, the government presents no more recent figures
than those presented by the Swedish Agency for Public Management (Swe: Statskontoret), which originate from 2021, in a report on the gambling market.
It is unfortunate that the state has not produced more recent data than this, and it is
unfortunate that the government has not taken on board new data presented by
actors other than the state. BOS was able to show half a year ago that the
channelization in March 2023 was 77 percent for all competitive gambling (that is, all
gambling not protected by monopoly).
It is a channelization that testifies that the Swedish licensing market is in a very serious situation.
The BOS report also broke down the competitive gambling market into its various
components, such as sports betting and online casino. The gambling vertical online
casino, along with online poker, showed the very weakest channelization at 72 percent. That in such a situation there is no room for measures that further damage
channelization – which a tax increase on gambling does – should be obvious.
In addition to BOS’s channelization report, which was carried out by opinion institute
SKOP, the gambling company ATG has had the channelization measured using a
different methodology and presented it in a report. ATG’s measurement mirrors the
BOS report in terms of channelization in general in the gambling market (only 1
percentage point separates the two measurements). On the other hand, the ATG measurement shows an even worse position for the gambling vertical online casino.
Considering ATG’s channelization report, where channelization has fallen dramatically
since the Swedish re-regulation in 2019, it is difficult to even know how to relate to the
government’s claim that “[the] gambling market has since stabilized, and
channelization has increased significantly.” In a later report from ATG, which extends
to Q3 2023, channelization has further fallen to 70 percent channelization for the overall license market and 59 percent channelization for online casino.7
In addition to the above quote from the government testifying that the government
simply lacks a basis for its claim, it demonstrates another, general, shortcoming in the
government’s memorandum: the lack of data, basis, preparation, and analysis.
Examples of the absence of analysis concern the proposal’s impact on the media and
the sports movement. Both of these social actors are major recipients of money from
the gambling industry. A cost increase for the licensed gambling industry of SEK 0.5
billion annually (the increased tax revenue estimated by the government) has to come
from somewhere, and this will by all accounts happen at least in part through reduced
advertising in traditional media and reduced sports sponsorship. The government has
nothing to say about how the media and the sports movement are affected by the government’s proposal. There are no impact analyzes in the government’s memorandum on this.
Through advertisements in, for example, the daily press and sponsorship of sports
teams, awareness of the brands of the licensed betting companies is increased. Such
marketing and sponsorship thus promote the Swedish gambling market, in that
licensed gambling companies are top of mind when the gambling consumer chooses
an operator for its gambling. In addition, of course, the money from the gambling
industry is of great use in the daily recruitment of both sports associations and newsrooms, for their respective important tasks in our democratic society.
The government’s memorandum is not only incomplete in that it does not highlight
and analyze the consequences for important social actors. In addition, the small
approach to analysis that is actually presented in the memorandum seems to be
poorly executed. The government calculates the expected increased tax revenue at
SEK 539 million. There is no calculation for increased costs for the expected increased
gambling addiction, as a consequence of players migrating to unlicensed gambling, in
the analysis. In addition, there is a complete lack of calculations on the extent of lost
tax revenue due to the fact that the tax increase results in reduced channelization, as
well as in general reduced gambling on the license market because the price of
gambling products is raised.
With regard to price sensitivity (price elasticity), the figure -0.5 is used in the memo –
that is, not price sensitive – which is information taken from the inquiry “A reregulated
gambling market”. The information in the inquiry in turn refers to an external report
from 2014 from Great Britain.8 However, the UK document indicates a higher price
elasticity for certain gambling products, including online casino with a figure of -1.5
(high price sensitivity), but this fact – that gambling decreases when the price of
certain gambling products is increased – is completely omitted from the government’s
memorandum. The government’s estimated increase in tax revenues of just over SEK
0.5 billion annually therefore appears to be pure wishful thinking based on incorrect
assumptions.
Optimal tax rate
On behalf of BOS, in 2016 the consulting firm Copenhagen Economics had an optimal
tax level calculated for Swedish conditions, ahead of the Swedish re-regulation in
2019.9 As far as we know, it is the most detailed investigation that has been done based on Swedish conditions, and the report had a noticeable impact on the government’s and the Riksdag’s decision to set the gambling tax at 18 percent gross gaming
revenue.
Copenhagen’s Economics report presents an optimal range for the state to stay within,
15-20 percent. A tax rate above 20 percent means lost channelization, but also in the
long term reduced tax revenue, in accordance with a classic Laffer curve. There is no
reason to believe that the state can now, compared to the years before the Swedish
reregulation of the gambling market, be able to deviate from the presented tax range
without damaging the license market. On the contrary, today’s critically low
channelization bears witness that the tax in this sensitive situation should under no
circumstances be increased. Instead, the government and the Riksdag should urgently
devote themselves to reforms that strengthen channelization.
Reforms that strengthen channelization
In this context, BOS would like to conclude by raising a finger of warning for the superstition we see when governments – the current one as well as the previous one – propose new repressive measures on the gambling market. Repressive measures aim to
make it difficult for and exclude unlicensed gambling companies from the Swedish
gambling market. Examples of such measures are so-called B2B permits, payment
blocks and bans on promoting unlicensed operators.
We are generally positive about such measures, and we see their complementary task
as absolutely crucial to succeed in maintaining a high channelization. Complementary
in the sense of reinforcing a gambling license market that is fundamentally perceived
as attractive by the player collective. We object, however, to the fact that governments seem to live in the delusion that the attractiveness of the gambling license
market can be worsened (for example, by raising the gambling tax) without this
worsening the channelization, as long as the deterioration is met with repressive
measures to shut out unlicensed gambling. All experience, from Sweden and a number
of jurisdictions where our members operate, shows that this is an incorrect
assumption. In addition, governments tend to mortgage strengthened channelization
through intensified repression already in advance, not infrequently before the
repressive measures have even been put into effect.
Repressive measures strengthen and promote the licensed gambling market when this
is fundamentally perceived as attractive by the player collective. It is the customers
who decide whether the gambling should take place on the licensed market or not. No
countermeasures in the world, at least in the democracies of the Western world, can
stop the outflow of gambling consumers if the consumers do not consider that the
gambling offer they are given on the license market is sufficiently attractive.
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