Long post but just my personal experience with these online casinos this past year.

Last year is when I really buckled down and started gaming online and towards the later part of the year in tribal casinos. In the beginning lost a lot of money playing many different games until I was enlightened and educated more by the cowboy slots channel/youtube videos/lives about volatility, when to walk and take a break, and double up method and dip.

So started on online social casino last July 2022, after tracking gameplay amounts paid in for sweepstakes coins and the amount that was paid out for the year. I was really surprised to how much I won and how much I lost.
So at first last July 2022 was very leery on playing them because I heard they don't play out or the issues related to deposits of money from the sweepstake coin online social casinos etc. I was so naive that I would win big the first couple of months and not even have the money deposited out, would just play it away like some play money that first month or two like a dummy.

so for the first 6 months didn't really pour too much money into the sweepstakes coins, until December 2022 where winning more than 10 thousand that month, and then winning pretty consistently by playing games that I was comfortable with and understanding denoms/bonus rounds/number of spins per level etc so it took me a while to understand and try certain unproven methods that work for me, I say unproven because its not consistent enough to quit working but enough to have fun and understand that you can make money from these sites if you find the right games and gamble responsibly.

To be really honest too, because I didn't know what I know now I was really greedy and tested limits on ridiculous amounts, so when I would get up to 5/6 thousand on sessions I would bet $15/$20/$30/$50 a spin burning through thousands to try and get bonuses when I should have just been happy with the massive wins and walked away in Nov/Dec/Jan/Feb of 2022/2023.

The issue upfront and in the beginning of online gaming is I wasn't gambling responsibility or knew what I was doing and didn't piece things consistently together until halfway through the year of gambling. Once I felt comfortable with them depositing the winnings I took bigger swings. With the bigger swings where the larger spending took off. The way it tracked was pouring 3-6 thousand a month in and getting 8-12 thousand out. Once I realized what games to play the winnings jumped but also noticed number of spins grew took longer to bonus so tried different methods and played other games in a similar spin/bonus feature and it panned out. Don't get me wrong I lost alot learning these methods, what was a issue for me was my greed on many , many occasions I did well, but could of done better. And it is gambling, my expectations were very low.

What you have to be careful of when spending money on these online social casinos is the comps lost versus playing at the tribal casinos. I now know that the money was probably better spent at a casino to get better comps/freeplay. So once I understood that I went more to the casino with the goal of getting top tier status/more comps/more freeplay and pretty proud that I got it in June/July 2023 within 4-5 months of tribal gaming, which is another story etc.

So could write a small book but numbers in from July 2022 to July 2023 $62,000.00 out and over $73,000.00 deposited. I don't see this as a success, I did pretty good at the tribal casinos this year as well. The working points for me are greed in the sense that when I would double/triple/triple-double up I wouldn't walk away, I would want to see how many spins to catch a bonus on the social casinos and did the same at the tribal casinos to learn/get experience and test the limits on these games like top dollar/pin ball/line hit because it was all new etc. Now I know you can be stupid and just pour and pour money into these machines/social casinos to failure and calamity so the methods and practices on the channel that you guys speak often of are tried and true for me and over the last two months have seen jumps in the ratios versus how much I put in, the denoms I am playing, and what machines etc. For the social casino side its fruitful and just wish I had a friend to show me the ropes because then the lessons would of came sooner etc and the profits higher, just a gamblers wish I guess.

The amounts seem large but this coming year have plan to cut the out to $8,000 and triple that amount with what I know now. Also will be budgeting more towards the tribal casinos which will up receiving pretty good freeplay. The finding the balance, not going full tilt, and gaining the discipline to walk away after double-ups or with profits is the work in progress that I am working at. Setting my boundaries and limits are a thing for me too. Now I have a designated day, only a certain amount of budget, and modifying from there. It is always gambling and no matter how much tik tok or youtube blast these social casinos and casino gaming where everyone wins, big bets win big all the time etc, the house is going to win in the long run, finding the balance in it and having fun in the process is my big take away. Its exciting to play but also a crazy grind, This year was a big learning experience and look forward to the next with a heightened sense of awareness/possibility/optimism.