Hi, I can certainly agree with you on not getting the advantage when playing. It certainly can take some thinking. I have some solutions if you play slots.
I'll, share one and if you or anyone else likes (and it's acceptable with forum admins\mods) I'll share the rest.
The main thing is finding slots this method works on. And having at least 30.00 to get it to work.
The games I've played and it's worked on:
Diamond Strike
Prosperity Pearl's Hold The Bonus
Meta Moolah
Wild Wild Riches
It works well on Low Volatility slots, but you'll notice as you get more familiar with the method that it would work esepcially well on High Volatility slots, but the risk is a little steep for me to really test it out.
Anyway, it's pretty simple. Drop down to lowest possible bet and spin until you either get free spins or whatever bonus round is native to the game.
Immediately after the bonus feature ends, do not spin, go right to increase your bet by a single increment. ie) from .05cents to .10 cents.
Then spin again until bonus feature and repeat, but always by the same increment.
Jumping up by let's say .50 or 1.00 will simply throw away any progress you made and you'll need to exit the game, log out and clear cookies and cache then restsart from the lowest increment again.
Tips: if you find its not going well, try leaving the current session and returning. Clear cookies and cache and that should help. Some days it works super well and other days it's so/so, it's definitely a good way to build up funds.