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- From: ron@osf.org (Ron Birnbaum)
- Subject: Re: Playing slots
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.170131.4971@osf.org>
- Sender: news@osf.org (USENET News System)
- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- References: <727711922snx@tixel.mv.com> <74150@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:01:31 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- In article <74150@cup.portal.com>, Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes:
- |> >
- |> >Is there really a viable "slots strategy", other than continuously
- |> >stuffing <coin denomination> into the machine, and hoping it pays off
- |> >before your financial resources disappear? Logic tells me no, but....
-
-
- Stick to progressive machines with appropriate payoffs - see the
- FAQ for details.
-
- |> >
- |> Well there are a couple other interesting slot tidbits... play
- |> a machine to get a few coins to fall out. If the coins are real
- |> warm, then they've been in the machine a long time, meaning the
- |> machine's primed to spew its load soon. (Slots only pay out a
- |> certain few hundreds of coins on a large jackpot, the rest of
- |> the payout is handed to the (lucky) winner in cash by a casino
- |> worker). If the coins come out stone cold, move to another machine.
-
- I thought that payoff history had NOTHING to do with the chances the
- machine was about to pay off. Each slot pull is completely random. A
- machine is just as likely to pay a jackpot if it paid one off 5 weeks
- ago or 5 minutes.
-
- |> Or... hand some cash to one of the change women (they're ALWAYS
- |> women, at EVERY casino, aren't they? Why is this :-) and tip her
- |> and ask her to point you towards a machine that's primed and
- |> ready.
-
- They'll do anything for a tip!
-
- |> I'll admit that neither of these "tips" has ever worked very well
- |> for me at all.. I've played slots, from nickels to dollars at
- |> dozens of Vegas casinos and never hit a jackpot over $50 or so.
-
- Hmmmm, hard to believe...
-
- ;-)
-
- -Ron
-
-
- |>
- |> Harv
-