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We were brainstorming an article around the idea of Everygame Casino bonus codes, and we had the idea that a bonus code is like a grocery store coupon! Then we thought, “maybe we can write an article about how an online casino such as Everygame Casino and a grocery store are similar".
Land-based Casinos are NOT Like Grocery Stores
The grocery store is open. It costs nothing to enter. The land-based casino does cost a pretty penny (pennies are being fazed out, but language will still honor the humble penny) in transportation and hotel costs.
Grocery stores have amazing shopping options. You can even leave your cart in one aisle while you look for things in a neighboring aisle. You don’t give up your cart when you leave it to look elsewhere. This is like going from one game to another at Everygame Casino. You can always come back to your original game.
Try that at a land-based casino. If you leave your seat, someone will likely take it.
Gamers and Shoppers Need a Plan
If you go to a grocery store without a good shopping list, you might impulsively buy two things you want to try. It’s fine to try out a new product, but why buy two?
When you play at an online casino, you have hundreds of games to choose from. When you decide to check out a classic slot or a variation of video poker, you can check it out over a short period of time. Buying two at an online casino is like playing one game for the entire gaming session.
Good Idea to Shop and Play when You’re Wide Awake
A neighborhood grocery store will close at around 10:00 pm. But some stores stay open around the clock. All good online casinos stay open around the clock. So, you might find yourself going to the grocery store or opening the mobile casino app at 2:00 am.
If these are your regular hours, it’s totally okay to shop and play at 2:00. But if you can’t sleep, you got home later than you thought you would, or otherwise want to shop for broccoli or spin some reels at 2:00 am, maybe you’re too tired to shop or play.
You should always shop for food or play casino games when you are wide awake. If you go to the grocery store when you are half asleep, you might be tempted to buy a family-size bag of arugula. If you play casino games when you are half asleep, you might make excessively large bets.
Land-based casinos love it when players stay on the casino floor even when they are way too tired to make good decisions. Free alcohol and free buffet dinners are the land-based casinos' way of keeping players just tired enough that they can stay in the casino and make gaming mistakes.
Checking out the Ingredients is Like Checking out the Pay Table
When you shop for food, you should always check the ingredients. There might be too much salt in the chips or too much sugar in the spaghetti sauce. You can always find a less salty chip or buy plain tomato sauce and turn it into spaghetti sauce at home.
The pay tables are super important at any casino. At land-based casinos, the pay table in video poker might be 8-5 or 7-5. That means that they pay these numbers of coins for a full house and a flush. Here at Everygame Casino, we pay 9-6, as we always have.
In blackjack, a lot of land-based casinos pay only 6-5 for a blackjack. We pay 3-2, as we always have.
The return to player rate is another way to check the ingredients at a casino. At land-based casinos, the return to player rate in video poker and blackjack, where they pay out less than they should, is quite a bit lower than the 99.5% return to player rate here at Everygame.
To achieve that high return rate, you need to play every hand correctly, which is eminently possible as strategy charts for every variation of video poker and blackjack are widely available.
Slots are another area where checking the ingredients makes good sense. Land-based casinos shave some wins by calibrating the random number generator to pay out 90% or less on their slots.
At Everygame Casino, our slots are calibrated to pay out 96-97% of all money wagered.
Volatility in Slots and Grocery Items
In slots, volatility is a measure of how the winnings are distributed among players. This has nothing to do with the return to player rate. Two slots might have the same return rate but have very different effective win rates for players.
This is because of volatility. A slot with high volatility has fewer winning spins, but the average win per winning spin is relatively high. Low volatility has more winning spins, and they pay out relatively small amounts.
Depending on the size of your monetary budget for gaming, you might specifically choose to play low volatility slots rather than slots with high volatility.
In a grocery store, volatility applies mostly to the spices used in a product or the spices themselves. Salsa can come in mild, medium, and high spiciness. This reminds us of the random jackpots in many of the slots we offer here at Everygame.
There are other spices or products that might be too spicy for you. Sample them in small amounts. Never buy the big container of hot pepper flakes before you know that you like it and that your stomach can handle it.
Volatility in a grocery store might also apply to foods that you are sensitive to. This is another vitally important reason to check out the pay table sat the grocery store. Some people are sensitive to gluten but can handle a small amount. Some people who can’t handle wheat can handle spelt.
Some people can handle one kind of artificial sweetener but not another.
All of these examples and many more are the volatility side of shopping at a grocery store.
Impulse Shopping and Impulse Betting
We spoke earlier about shopping or playing when you are really too tired to do so. Now, we want to talk about shoppers and gamers who are wide awake and anyway succumb to impulse betting or impulse shopping.
Chasing losses is the classic form of impulse betting. At a casino, be it online or on land, a player who is in the red should never stick around “until I catch up”. This is much harder to do at a land-based casino since you are already committed to a long weekend or even just a few hours at the casino.
It is easier to avoid impulse betting at an online casino because you can simply end the session. You will always be able to come back to the casino the next day, the next week, or whenever it is good for you to return.
Buying things at the check-out counter is the classic form of impulse buying, but a shopper might impulse shop in any aisle. If cheese is on sale for a mere $20 a pound, you might be tempted to buy more than you can reasonably eat before it goes bad.
Enjoying Online Casino Gaming
Here at Everygame Casino, we offer over 400 games. We run many promotions that begin with the Welcome Package, which has a potential value of $5555.
We have several variations of both blackjack and video poker. We carry all three variations of Caribbean Poker. We carry European Roulette with a much higher return to player rate than American Roulette, which American land-based casinos carry.
We carry a lot of games that you might not have played yet. One of gamers’ favorites is Banana Jones. We suggest going straight to Banana Jones as soon as you sign up because it’s possibly the game that draws out the most smiles from gamers.