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Unless you’re a professional card counter or an expert sports handicapper, you don’t benefit from changing the amount of your bets. The simplest and safest strategy in most casino games is to bet the same amount each time. That doesn’t mean you have to bet the table minimum every time; it just means you should stick to a bet size that’s right for your budget and fits the table betting range. For slots and video poker, that may mean playing the max number of coins or credits each time if you are playing a progressive machine (see Chapters 12 and 13).

Most players change the amount they bet on each play — typically increasing the bet size — because of two circumstances:

 They’ve been losing, so now they’re desperately attempting to regain that money. Consequently, they steam, or increase the size of their bets.

 They’ve been riding a hot streak and are playing on house money (funds they’ve won from the casino).

Although games do run in streaks, you can’t know when those streaks begin or end. After you have the money, it’s yours. How you obtained it doesn’t matter, but you still need to be judicious about how you spend or bet the money.