Wrong.
Wrong.
Wrong.
Wrong.
Wrong.
Wrong.
Wrong.
WRONG!!!
And stupid.
If you believe what you wrote, YOU’RE A SUCKER! A total unmitigated sucker. The kind of person casinos love.
I can honestly say this has never happened to me playing slots.
Here’s a free drink. Now shut up, smile and play some more.
Before we had kids, my wife & I would occasionally gamble. And you’re right there is no system for slots. Sure, management always picks 1-2 machines to pay lots of small jackpots near the entrance to the casino floor, but thats just to lure people to walk in (96% seems high; more like 75%). It just so people can constantly hear that soothing jingle-jangle Midi-Hell music that slots play.
The only way to lose less money at slots is to play one quarter at a time…slowly… and ask for a drink everytime a waitress comes by. Assuming you tip a buck (and you really should) and order a new drink everytime she delivers one, you’ll consume more alcohol than you would have recieved for the cash equivolent at the bar for $20.
So, you’re drunk in a casino. Are you having fun yet?
My stupid waste of time game was ‘Caribbean Stud Poker’. It took me a while to realize that statistically the only way to minimize losses and maximize profits was to stop playing after the very first time you got a winning hand. :smack:
Strange game: the only way to win is not to play.
For us, “sucker” is an imprecise term. For the casinos, it’s simply a monetary calculation: if you bet X dollars, on average you’re contributing Y dollars to us. When Y is greater than some amount (per day/week/month), past history shows that we can help keep it coming our way by handing out free rooms, meals, show tickets, etc.
I have a system for roulette: I take half my money and bet it on red, and the other half I bet on black. I never lose. Well, except those times it landed on green.
The OP is wrong.
Only one of the burly guys is named Vinnie. The other one is Louie.
I did lawns for a high roller at Foxwoods. He would give us his card to go to the casino for dinner. $100 meals taste twice as good when they are free. He did have big money, but I never heard him brag about his luck at it, so I am guessing the slots is not where it came from. More like where it went. He couldn’t grill burgers either.
There used to be a billboard on my way to work that advertised 99% payback, and I remember thinking that all this meant is that for every $100 you spend, you lose $1. Of course, if you really enjoy playing slots and you aren’t in it for the money, that’s not a bad user’s fee.
Honey, that slot machine is just as likely to hit after someone has put $500 into it as it was before that person put $500 into it. It’s as likely to hit on the first pull of the day as on the last pull of the day. When will people understand this?
True…if this actually worked, it would mean that the machine was rigged.
More likely he’s counting the numbers to the right of the decimal and the 5 figures are $100.00
Hmm it happens to me regularly. I generally start with like $ 20 on the penny slots. My wife and I play together.
Because if you lose the profits then you are on a string of bad luck and shouldn’t play anymore because the experience will start to sour. Last time I played my wife and I were up over a hundred, we didn’t stick to our plan to go play Blackjack so it sort of messed the system up, but we were sort of thirsty for more so we played the original $ 20 and lost it but it was just enough. It cost us less than going to the movies and I got a bloody mary out of it.
Oh I don’t doubt you. Happens to my sister-in-law all the time; she never leaves Foxwoods without at least $2,000 more than she came with, sometimes much more (and she only plays slots). I cannot explain it, other than to say I now know where my money goes.
True. I guess people like Will are operating under the assumption that slot machines have to pay out a certain mininum amount per day.
They don’t.
You can win at some slots - look for the ones with graduated payouts which increase with every play. Watch someone dump money in it. Once they beef it up, you go play it. And play it. And play it. And play it. Once the payout gets high enough, you actually do have an edge. The house, of course, doesn’t care. They get a cut every time someone drops a quarter in. You do have to know exactly what the odds of payout are and be able to calculate your potential winnings. I hear there are teams of guys roaming Vegas looking for these payouts and monopolizing them in 8-hour shifts. Essentially, they’re gambling for other people’s winnings.
Hey, I’ve got a system for playing the slots too. While it isn’t perfect, I can guarantee a 100% return on your money, not like those 96% or even 99% values other people cited.
Wanna guess what my system is?
Hint: it involves a little number mathemeticians like to call “zero”.
Me and my husband’s slot system is better, I think. We determine how much we’d like to lose on the slots-- our slotty money. We take it to the quarter video poker and play one quarter at a time (this is for fun, remember. Why would you pay up to 4 times as much for the exact same amount of fun?). Every time we win, we take the ticket and put it away. When all our slotty money is gone we go eat king crab legs at the buffet.
At the end of our stay (we never do day trips to casinos because that’s just not any fun for us) we cash in all of our tickets. When it used to be quarters we’d not cash them in at all. During our second year of marriage we did our laundry off of our ‘winnings’ for almost 9 months.
And what do you mean you BIL is not entertaining? He sure is making me laugh.
Some video poker machines have higher than 100% payout.
Everybody with coin-operated amusement devices love me.
Software engineers are perfect?
They’ve passed the “Law of Averages” you know, the one physicists have had so much trouble getting enacted?
They pay out a certain amount for an amount paid in.