January 4, 2026 by

It’s New Year’s Resolutions Time

Here at Slots Play Casinos, we cover primarily the online casino market.  So, this year’s resolutions will direct you to online casinos as opposed to land-based casinos.

We will focus on the advantages of online casino gaming over land-based casino gaming.  We will also focus on improving your online casino gaming user experience.  Finally, we will offer a few thoughts on how you might improve yourself in 2026.

Play at an Online Casino

Online casinos are in their Golden Age, which may last for decades more!  We have seen, for example, that the casinos on the Las Vegas Strip have become outrageously expensive, charging mucho dollars for the buffet and rooms.

Not all land-based casinos have become ridiculously expensive, but there is a growing awareness among casino gamers that the extra costs of going to a land-based casino are not worth the bells and whistles and whooping and hollering at the craps and roulette tables.

As for roulette, American land-based casinos carry only American Roulette, while most good online casinos carry European Roulette as well.  As you may have guessed, the house edge in American Roulette is much higher than the house edge in European Roulette; in fact, it is double!

The additional costs at land-based casinos are in addition to the growing practice of land-based casinos that pay out only 6-5 for a blackjack and 8-5 or less for a full house and a flush in video poker.

We have pointed out that when a gamer uses the correct strategy on every hand in blackjack or video poker, and the payouts are 3-2 for a blackjack and 9-6 for a full house and a flush, the return to player rate is about 99.5%!

The return to player rates at land-based casinos in slots are also only about 90% or less, as opposed to the 96-97% return to player rates at online casinos.

It is a lot easier to control your gaming sessions both in terms of time and in terms of money at an online casino as opposed to a land-based casino.

This Year, Learn the Best Strategies for Video Poker and Blackjack

A lot of gamers still play these great games by hunch.  This lowers their return to player rate dramatically.  It may not be easy to learn the basics of strategy in blackjack and video poker, but it is not rocket science, either.

Everyone can learn the ideas behind the strategies that computer analysis of millions of hands has shown.  A return-to-player rate of 99.5% means that you should expect to lose only $5 of a series of bets totaling $100

Set Limits to Gaming

This involves setting fair and reasonable time and money limits on your gaming.  This procedure has two salient benefits.  First, you never play too long, and you never bet too much.  This is the opposite of what so often happens at a land-based casino, where a player will stay on the casino floor endlessly and will take out more money when his or her original bankroll expires.

The second benefit of setting limits, especially time limits, on gaming is that it frees up time for other responsibilities and other activities.  You can’t read the classics if you spend hours at a casino.

Everyone should cultivate at least one hobby.  By setting time limits on gaming, you release time for hobbies.

It’s Never Too Late to Improve Your Overall Health

We have said many times that gamers should play only when they are in good shape.  You need to be rested and feeling well to be able to concentrate and make the best decisions at the casino.

You don’t have to be an Adonis or an Amazon to be in good gaming health.  Eat properly, rest well, exercise your body, especially by walking, but also by bicycling or swimming.

Whereas land-based casinos want players to drink alcohol because even a slightly inebriated player will make mistakes while gambling, online casinos have the opposite approach.  Save the alcohol consumption for after the gaming.

Physical well-being is one side of the wellness coin.  To get the most out of any activity, including online casino gaming, you need mental wellness, too.  We all should cultivate positivity and a strong appreciation of what we have.  We should adopt a glass-half-full attitude.

Of course, this goes well beyond online casino gaming.  It is a prescription for happiness and joy in general and is a goal well worth setting for yourself for the new year.

The healthy pursuit of fun is another aspect of this approach.  Online casino gaming, when it is done in a responsible manner, as we have delineated here, is just one aspect of the healthy pursuit of fun.

Sign up at a Number of Online Casinos

Here at Slots Play Casinos, we have reviewed and recommended some 30 or more online casinos.  All of them deserve your patronage.  Each casino offers its own set of promotions.  Some use the games of SpinLogic exclusively, and others offer games from a variety of game providers.

The day when an online casino gamer had to download the casino to his or her desktop computer’s hard drive is long gone.  In fact, many, if not most, of the casinos we recommend have stopped the download option altogether.  It is passe in the extreme, and many online casinos no longer consider it an option.

With Instant Play, you can easily go from one online casino to another and enjoy the many benefits each one has to offer.

Take Great Quotes to Heart

We will finish with a few great optimistic quotes.

  1. Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success ─ Shiv Khera
  2. Opportunities don’t happen; you create them ─ Chris Grosser
  3. Nothing is impossible. The word itself says “I’m possible.” ─ Audrey Hepburn
  4. The best way out is through ─ Robert Frost
  5. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement ─ Helen Keller

Here at Slots Play Casinos, we are optimistic about the future of online casinos and of the increasing awareness of gamers as to how to maximize the fun and entertainment you can achieve through online casino gaming.

Slots Play Casinos is committed to bringing you the most accurate information about all things that relate to online casinos.

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