Prepaid Calling Card – Yes they are cheap! 3.5 cents to 6 cents per minute. Let’s take a look at back of those cards. There is a connection fee of 35 cents to 75 cents per call. A payphone connection fee of 75 cents A 20 minute call will cost you (at 35 cents connection fee, payphone fee of 75 cents and 3.5 cents a minute x 20) $1.80 times twenty calls a month and you are paying $36.00 per month. . Don’t forget that with prepaid calling card in their hand they are free to call their friends too!

Toll Free – A toll free number may be your best choice, a toll free number costs $0 to $2.00 to set up and $0 to $2.00 a month maintenance fee (depends on which company you chose). The company I use charges $1.50 maintenance fee per month and 3.49 cents per minute. There are no monthly fees or minimum usage required. (There will be a $1.99 billing fee with "Bill Me" option in any month where usage is lower than $20). I also get same low rates for my long distance too! We’ll use my toll free company as an example: 20 minute call x 3.49 cents minute = $0.69 (rounded off) times 10 calls per month = $6.90 + $1.50 month maintenance fee = $8.40 month. Added to that, your son or daughter can only call you, keeping your phone bill down.

For more on toll free service and what it can do for you see part 2

So, my strategy for doubling a $100 slots playing stake goes like this: I would choose a two-coin 25-cent machine with a single-pay line and a jackpot of 800 and 1,600 coins for one-coin and two-coin play respectively. And slot will have to provide decent mid-range payouts. Double Diamond or Wild Cherry machines are good candidates in brick-and-mortar casinos.

Choose your machines carefully, not all Double Diamond or Wild Cherry slots have identical pay tables. The brand of a machine is not really important it’s pay table that counts. Online casinos will have slots that meet our requirements, but don’t look for same machine names as you see in live casinos.

I would play single coins until I had exhausted my $100 or had hit that 800-quarter ($200) jackpot. Towards that end, I would have to make $100 starting bankroll last as long as possible by recycling all those small payouts. The more spins, more chances I would have of lining up winning combination.

Playing one quarter per spin and reinvesting smaller winnings has two objectives. Either $200 (800 coin) jackpot is hit, or there will be sufficient smaller payouts to tally up 800 coins or $200 on credit meter. Either way, you meet challenge of turning $100 into $200. You can’t expect to reach this goal every time, but I believe success rate will be about same as in even-money table game betting.

So there you have it. If you’re ever asked to double your bankroll on slot machines, those are methods I am suggesting.

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Tony R Frank