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Posted by: vinylweatherman at January 21, 2008, 10:46 am

Topic: how slots work, what do you guys think? Forum: Casino Meister

Quote: Originally Posted by kimss

And havn't we all heard of the scam in Las Vegas, were some slot companies programmed in cycles. By inserting coins in a certain matter the slots "switched" to expected payout (like under testing) but when set back into the casino they just ate money.

This was mentioned in a documentary on slots I saw some time. It's just to much money in the industry, and they know we are suckers on the slot, so it's only "human" to get greedy on their part and make the system bullet proof. We are greedy, why shouldn't they be?

There was also the case of some people who were arrested for using a small device that was fed the outcomes of a few spins, and could then compute the probable outcomes of the rest. Since the casino operators had these people arrested and charged, it follows that the device actually worked!
If the device did not work, they would just sit back laughing as the hapless punters fed the slots in the false belief they had an advantage. The only other occasion I have heard of "devices" being a problem was at the blackjack table and roulette wheel, where cards can be counted electronically to dynamically compute the expected return of each play, and at the roulette wheel, a laser measuring device was connected to a computer simulation of the physics of a roulette wheel, allowing a favoured sector to be computed before the croupier announced "no more bets please".

UK fruit machines can be predicted in the same way, but it is harder now that the cycles and blocks are more complicated, because of the greater computational power in modern machines.

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