Big win on small bonus.

This past july 2007 I received a $5 no deposit bonus from This is vegas casino for my birthday. Being this is not a Rival casino I deposit at the bonus was small "I prefer Mayan fortune" but hey $5 is $5 and not so bad for free. So I logged in and claimed my $5 dollar bonus and I started playing Dog pound video slot. "One of my favorite games" I started off with 30 cent bet and within about the five pulls I hit the 12 free spins, which ended up paying me about $4 so I kept playing and over the next 20 spins or so I had hit the bonus three more times, each paying me about $4 to $5. So at this point I thought the game seemed like it was paying pretty good so I up my bet to 75 cents. Sure enough It hit the free spins again in just a few spins and again and agian and just kept on hitting the free spins about every 4 to 5 spins. so I up the bet again to $1.50. Same thing, about three more 12 free spins over next 20 spins and buy this time I was up to about $90. So I started betting $3.75, sure enough started hitting free spins again 3 to four times about every 20 spins. After about 1 hour I had ran that $5 birthday bonus up to $1200 dollars, I must admit I was amazed. I have never ran such a small bonus up to that amount of money in such a small time. Well all winning streaks come to an end and even though after slots went cold I did start moving around from machine to machine but just could not win any more so final amount won was $900 dollars and that was the end of the day. I will say this do not ever doubt those small bonuses it is always possible to get a winning streak going and never be afraid to raise your bet when you feel a machine is hot.