This lesson sorts out Slots Myths and the facts for curious
slot players at Learn, Play
Slots program.
Slots Myths
develop
when you ask, "I might win more at the slot machines by
playing only one coin at a
time?" or "I have a a sizable win and
this machine
has to turn cold to make up the difference."
Have you ever felt that you could go happily end an online
gaming session or leave a casino if only the Web master or shift
manager would
push the jackpot button for you?
You're not alone. Even slot players who understand how the
games work sometimes wonder if there's a little something they
could do,
a little adjustment they could make, that would change their luck.
Those feelings have led to a mythology surrounding slot
machines that rivals Mt.Olympus.
Let's bust a few slots myths:
SLOTS
MYTH:
Slot machines that haven't hit in a while are
"due."
FACT:
Slot machines are never "due" to pay off.
The combinations you see on the reels are determined by a program
called a
"random number generator." It continuously spits out numbers that
correspond to reel combinations, and it is as close to random as humans
can
program a computer to be.
What that means is that previous results have no effect on
your next spin. If a machine is programmed so that the top jackpot will
hit an
average of once per 10,000 spins, and you've gone 9,999 spins without
hitting
it, your chances of hitting the jackpot on the next spin are still 1 in
10,000.
If you've just hit the jackpot, your
chances of repeating on
the next spin also remain 1 in 10,000. Your chances of winning on
future spins
don't rise and fall with your past results. The odds remain the same.
SLOTS
MYTH:
After a jackpot, machines must turn cold to make
up
the payout.
FACT:
Players believe machines turn cold after jackpots. But
the casinos are in this for the long haul, and they know the machines
continue
to pay at a normal rate after a big hit. Jackpots just blend into the
background of millions of spins of the reels.
Let's say we're betting three coins at a time at a machine
with a top jackpot of 10,000 coins, and that the machine is programmed
to pay
95 percent in the long run. We hit the jackpot on our first pull. How
low must
the payback be over the next 999,999 spins to bring the overall
percentage back
to 95 percent for 1 million reel spins?
Would you believe a drop to 94.7 percent would do it? After
a big jackpot, results remain random. There are cold streaks after
jackpots,
and there are hot streaks, too.
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