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Bet $2.50/spin on the nickel denom - Link machines

BIGGEST Jackpot Of My Life On Dragon Link - Low Budget High Limit Slots - 67.8K subscribers - May 17, 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRNsDFTSOAY


My first time visiting this channel only because I saw the Grand JP in the thumbnail somewhere. Some of these machines, I've never seen or heard of before, probably due to the age of the machines.

Slots Today:
Dragons Riches
Magic Pearl
Golden Century
Panda Magic
Emperor's Treasure
Chica Bonita
Queen Chiu
Sensei Master

Casinos played at:
Winstar World Casino
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This player is trying to advise budget players to get off the 1 cent and 2 cent denoms and onto the 5 cent denoms with a multiplier of 2 for $2.50 per spin bets. With $100 inserted that comes out to 40 spins plus your wins. He seems to draw the line at 2 bonus rounds per machine before moving on. Luckily he's not going broke on those 40 spins. I go broke on 80 spins on the penny denom at 50 cents per spin in 100 spins with $40. So would upping my bet from the basement really give me a better shot at not going broke on $200 at $2.50 per spin on the nickel denom? Remains to be seen.

I've hit these links recently and concluded that playing at a higher denom than 1 cent will probably benefit me. Playing $2.50 per spin with a 5X 50 lines at 1 cent vs. $2 per spin with a 2X 50 lines at 2 cents vs. playing $2.50 per spin at 2X 25 lines at 5 cents per spin; the 5 cent denom has a higher RTP so it should be preferred. The mini ($50) and minor ($250) bonuses are bigger and with a multiplier are more likely to show up. It says on one example graph that 1 cent denom pays 87% to 90% and the 5 cent denom pays 89% to 92%. It could be the difference in whether the machine pays back <50% on 100 spins or pays back over 100% in 100 spins, I don't know.
I think wasting less money on 25 lines vs 50 lines is a thing. The line pays on these games are typically shameful. This video's player thinks the 5 lines per spin are not worth it, and prefers 25 lines.

What is Dragon Link RTP? - https://www.freeslots99.com/blog/what-is-dragon-link-rtp/
What is the best bet size to play with in Dragon Link Slot? https://www.freeslots99.com/blog/what-is-the-best-bet-size-to-play-with-in-dragon-link-slot/

So this player hit a $15K+ Grand JP on Panda Magic within a few spins on this day. Most people can't say that. This was his third Grand JP and he says they've all been won playing $2.50 per spin on the nickel denom. My local casino's Grand JP resets to $10K, but I have seen it above $15K recently. I still have to check out the machines at other casinos in the area. I've been spending much of this year learning about Dragon Link and Lightning Link machines since the hand pay threshold was raised to $2,000. The Major JP is typically below $1,000 on the low limit machines, but on Phoenix Link machines the Major JP can be multiplied 2X or 3X for each orb that shows up, pushing for hand pays.

The local high limit room for Dragon Link machines only goes down to the 10 cent denom with 50 lines and $5 per spin with the Grand JP at over $25K and the Major at $5K to $10K and $100 Mini & $500 Minor JP's. It goes down to 25 lines at the 50 cent denom for $12.50 per spin with $500 Mini & $2.5K Minor JP's.

I'd be looking at other casinos for Dragon Link Grand JP's of over $100K and Major JP's of over $5K for $5/spin on the dime denom with $100 Mini & $500 Minor JP's. Not sure if they go down to 25 lines at the dollar denom, each casino has their own settings. With $5 spins and 250X orbs, the biggest orb would be $1,250, and a winner might get 300X total bet on a bonus round of $1500 with smaller orbs on the screen.

I typically see YouTubers taking the cash money hand pays, and never taking a check. They have more gambling to do is a solid reason. Why give it to a bank? Well, if you have to prove your income, you would take a check; but I'm sure the W-2G form also proves you had income come tax time. It's just hard to mess with the banks overall.

Banks refusing cash withdrawals for gambling purposes.

Bank REFUSED my cash withdrawal!! - Goodyear from Blackjack Advisors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoowXtLbHvo


It's hard to keep money aboveboard with the banks for any kind of side-hustle. Every deposit becomes scrutinized, and every withdrawal is falling into an Orwellian trap. This story ends with an admission that she owned a safe deposit box in another state long ago and she closed it. What? They said they wouldn't freeze your account, yet they did.
Who knows what goes on in the minds of bankers, but they really don't want to give your money back to you. They must be broke.

The Build & Bail - Color Up

Color Up presents The Build & Bail
Collect on 4, 5, 9, 10; Take winnings from the 6 to press 4, 5, and from the 8 to press 9, 10.
$124 across at a $10 table. $42 on the 6 & 8, $10 on the 4, 5, 9, 10
Win on the 6 or 8, pay $1 to collect $50 and press $25 on the corresponding outside numbers.
Keep adding to outside numbers on 6 or 8 win, but collect and regress to $10 on the 4, 5, 9, 10.

There's an image at the end of the video 21:03, that shows this strategy outpacing even the 3 Point Molly with 3X, 4X, 5X odds (but I can't post the image in a blog)
It won to over 25X the $124 Across bet on 2 hot shooters in a row, +$3.3K.

I'll be looking to win on this in the future sometime.

What If You Never Collected on 6 or 8?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MORTICRZDwo


I'm going to make some changes to it for my play. I had very good luck with it for hot shooters, but the dirge of point 7-outs kept coming and can wreck any winning streak I had going, and driving me straight to my stop-loss on a session.
At my last state of play, I was betting $90 on the PL and whatever became the point it may have odds added to it, depending. The other numbers would get $90 to them but the 6, 8 would get 4X $90, and if the point was 6 or 8, 3X $90 would be added as odds instead of the PB 6 or 8. The 5 & 9 would be Buy bets unless that means rounding up my bet because it wasn't divisible by $10; then they wouldn't be Buy bets. On the first win of 6 or 8, I'd add $210 per side (half of the PB 6 or 8 win of $420). On the next win of a $300+ bet, I'd add $210 to the remaining bets to bring them up to $300. Then I'd wait 5 hits on those $300 bets before another round of raising bets.
Then I'd raise the 6 & 8 $210 each on the 6th hit, the 4 & 5 on the 7th hit, the 9 & 10 on the 8th hit. So I'd be at $570 bet on the 6 & 8, and $510 on the other numbers. If I hit a session win goal, I could bring them all down. If the point was another number and I had $300 or $510 already on it, I could bring those down for odds, but at a 3X, 4X, 5X odds table that might not work, so just add the PL to the number of bets out there and keep the place numbers the same.
I was trying to get a $4900 buy-in up to $16.6K, but quit at $15K because I can just use the extra $10K as a couple more $5K buy-ins. I was down to $1K and came back, which I just don't see in other strategies I've tried with this much ease inside of 500 rolls. I change my bet values along the way, bottoming out at the $10 level.

Are gambling winnings taxable in Canada?

Are gambling winnings taxable in Canada?
When it comes to the question “Are gambling winnings taxable in Canada?”, you’ll be pleased to know that you have nothing to worry about as there are no taxes on casino winnings in Canada, and in fact, there are no taxes on gambling winnings of any kind for most players. However, if you are a professional gambler, any winnings you make count as your income and are taxable. The good news is that you do not have to pay taxes on lottery winnings in Canada, even if you are a professional gambler.

https://readwrite.com/gambling/guides/gambling-winnings-tax-canada/

I saw a video of Mr. Big Jackpot (Raja) playing in the Hard Rock Casino in Ottawa last year. He had trouble getting one machine to accept his $2500 transfer to the slot machine. The casino even rebooted the machine, but he moved on to another Black Widow machine. He won 20K+ credits in a bonus round on that and it would add to his 13K dime credits on the machine but somehow it spit out a voucher for the win amount. There was no hand pay or slot attendant this time. Other parts of the internet say there are hand pays in Canada and in the past they have been as low as $300. Like back when machines used coins instead of TITO's you'd see the machine pay out the first few hundred in coins and the rest as a hand pay even if the total was under $1200 in the USA, they didn't want to burden players with far too many coins. Are those kinds of machines gone or fixed yet? I don't know. There isn't enough info out there to figure out if there is a standard hand pay limit in Canada, or Montana or wherever. Different states have income taxes of their own that could trigger hand pays at unexpected amounts. Canada may have a credit meter limit of $3K, but I can't find anything about it, but it would explain why Mr. Big Jackpot got a voucher instead of bringing his credit meter above $3K. It paid a voucher for his win and brought the credit meter back down below $3K to what it was before the win. There might be an even lower credit meter limit of $2K on the main floor of this casino.

It's a nearly 4 hour, 230 mile, drive for me to get to Ottawa. Some parts of Ontario, Canada are raising the speed limits from 100 km/hr to 110 km/hr, but Eastern Canada has banned radar detectors, so I'd have to leave it at home. I just didn't know a Hard Rock Casino was even in Ottawa, I guess Raja was there for their grand opening in July 2025.

Huff N' Even More Puff

BIGGEST WIN EVER on Huff N' Even More Puff (By Far!) - Brian Christopher Slots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aayUC1uRTzw


I found this game on my Google Play install of Monopoly Slots. I started out with $35 million, and the only bet available was $250K. So I've got 140 spins to start with. After I lost $6.5 million I won $10 million on a Minor JP. I lost $9M then won $9.7M. Then I noticed I could have a higher max bet of $750K, but I didn't use it. I bet $500K when I was over $30M. I lost $21M before winning $20M back. Then I hit a Super Mansions Feature that had 13 Mini JP's ($2M each) and 2 Minor JP's ($10M each) for a total win of $80.5M or 322X my bet and that pushed me up to $108M. I increased my bets to $1.25M while over $90M, and lowered my bets to $750K between $50M and $90M. I had lost down to $47M before I hit the Mega Hat Feature, and had 4 mansions with 3 of them Mini JP's of $4M; I won about $21M on that round and got me back to $68M. I raised my bet to $750K and hit a Mini JP on the wheel for $6M. Then I hit a bunch of top paying piggies on 5 lines that pay 150 on 72 lines times $6K each for a $64.8M win or 86.4X my bet. I was up to $119M. I fell to $86M and won $60.5M on the Super Buzz Saw Feature on a $750K bet, so I was up to $147M. Above $140M, I raised my bet to $2.5M. I won $9M after losing $19M. Then I lost $58M before winning $38M to bring me back to $113M. Then I lost $45M before winning $10M on the Buzz Saw Feature. I was down to $73M and got the Upgrade Wheel and the Super Buzzsaw Feature and won $133M or 177X my bet on the 5X6 grid. I was up to $203M and setting a win goal of $240M before I enter a new kind of session with a $60M buy-in for 80 spins @ $750K/spin. My next $18M win got me to $230M. Then the bottom fell out before I ever started the new session. I lost $105M before my next wheel feature. I won $23M on the Buzz Saw Feature. I won another $18M and got back to $152M. I lost $28M and won $18M again. I won a quick $9M after that. Then I lost $90M on the way down before I got a $16M piggies line pay. I lost another $50M before seeing the wolf again, then another $10M , then I tapped out at $0. I kept getting $1.25M extra coins for Bankrupt Piggy extra spins to keep the game going. I was only getting like 5X my bet on the wolf rounds, so I quit before my last bet. I don't know if I'll get more play money on another day for free or if I have to plunk down $5 or $10 to get a few hundred million. I may be done with this game. One user at the Play Store said the machine tightened up so much it's unplayable, which is what happened here after a couple hours. I thought I was on my way to a billion at some point. Now I'm dead broke on the app. It may require a Facebook login to buy money and I can't do that. I lost near 280 spins down on the losing streak. Had I got to $240M, I would have had 4 session buy-ins of 80 spins a piece, so 320 spins, not much more than the 280 I lost, plus I got about 60 extra spins from bankrupt piggy, so getting to that win goal wouldn't have changed much on this losing round.

I made notes about the jackpot amounts at different bets in case hyperinflation sets in on real machines anytime soon.

Bet	Mini JP	Minor JP	Major JP	Grand JP	Super JP	Ultra JP	$1K Multiplier
$250K	$2M	$10M	$25M	$187.5M	$375M	$625M	$2K
$500K	$4M	$20M	$50M	$350M	$750M	$1.25B	$4K
$750K	$6M	$30M	$75M	$562.5M	$1.125B	$1.875B	$6K
$1.25M	$10M	$50M	$125M	$937.5M	$1.874B	$3.125B	$10K
$2.5M	$20M	$100M	$250M	$1.875B	$3.75B	$6.25B	$20K
$5M	$40M	$200M	$500M	$3.5B	$7.5B	$12.5B	$40K
$7.5M	$60M	$300M	$750M	$5.625B	$11.25B	$18.75B	$60K
$11.25M	$90M	$450M	$1.125B	$8.4375B	$16.875B	$28.125B	$90K
$15M	$120M	$600M	$1.50B	$11.25B	$22.50B	$37.5B	$120K
$25M	$200M	$1.0B	$2.5B	$18.75B	$37.5B	$62.5B	$200K
$50M	$400M	$2.0B	$5.0B	$35B	$75B	$125B	$400K
$75M	$600M	$3.0B	$7.5B	$56.25B	$112.5B	$187.5B	$600K

If I wanted to buy coins, they are offering me some deals.
$300M for $4.99 (1.5X the regular amount of coins, $200M)
$1.05B for $9.99 (1.75X the regular amount of coins, $600M)
$4.5B for $24.99 (2X the regular amount of coins, $2.25B)
So the $35M they started me with are worth less than $1 and are closer to 50 cents.