Online slots offer a number of bonuses to keep you interested, to motivate you, and to keep you playing. One of the common bonuses that you will find is a gamble feature, but is that bonus a good deal? We’ll tell you.

Many online slots have a gamble feature that is triggered whenever you have a winning spin. At your discretion, you can either keep all of the money that you won and skip the gamble feature, or you can risk the money for a chance to increase it.

The gamble feature comes in many forms, but the most common is a guessing game based on a deck of cards. There will be a deck and you will have to guess what the next card will be. Normally there are two different guesses you can make –  a double or nothing bet or a quadruple or nothing bet. The double bet is guessing whether the card will be black or red, since both options have a statistical 50% chance of happening. The quadruple bet is to guess the card’s suit, with four options (clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades) and a 25% chance of each.

Some players like gambling their winnings because they are “betting with house money.” The truth is, once you win it, it is your money, just like the money in your wallet or bank account. Online slots do not have good odds, but they all have odds better than the gamble feature. Would you pay an online slot where you had a 25% of winning? Probably not, but that’s what you get when trying to quadruple your bet with the gamble feature. Though it’s possible to make money with the gamble feature, in the long run, your money is better off being spent on the regular game.