If I knew when to switch machines, I'd have enough money to go to the MegaMeet. I can sit at the same machine for hours, if it is giving me play. Sometimes I put a twenty in a machine and play for awhile. When it starts to cool off, I say to my machine, "Come on, now. You don't want me to leave you. If you don't play nice, I have to go to another machine." Then I hit a decent to big pot and continue playing. LOL! I once was sitting by a young woman who was saying to her machine, "Don't MAKE me go to the ATM," as though it was a threat to the machine. A more serious answer to your question is, there is no rhyme or reason. Sometimes I will get up after I've played half my...
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Most modern slot machines are designed to look and feel like the old mechanical models, but they work on a completely different principle. The outcome of each pull is actually controlled by a central computer inside the machine, not by the motion of the reels. The computer uses step motors to turn each reel and stop it at the predetermined point. Step motors are driven by short digital pulses of electricity controlled by the computer, rather than the fluctuating electrical current that drives an ordinary electric motor. These pulses move the motor a set increment, or step, with great precision (see Introduction To Step Motor Systems to find out more). But even though the computer tells the...
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The gaming industry is big business in the U.S., contributing an estimated US$240 billion to the economy each year, while generating $38 billion in tax revenues and supporting 17 million jobs. What people may not realize is that slot machines, video poker machines and other electronic gaming devices make up the bulk of all that economic activity. At casinos in Iowa and South Dakota, for example, such devices have contributed up to 89 percent of annual gaming revenue. Spinning-reel slots in particular are profit juggernauts for most casinos, outperforming table games like blackjack, video poker machines and other forms of gambling. What about slot machines makes them such reliable money...
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Slot machine the slots ( Canadian and American English), poker machine/pokies ( Australian English and New Zealand English ), or simply slot ( American English ), is a casino gambling machine with three or more reels which spin when a button is pushed. Slot machines are also known as one-armed bandits because they were originally operated by one lever on the side of the machine, as distinct from a button on the front panel, and because of their ability to leave the player impoverished or in debt, with bandit as a synonym for "thief". Many modern machines are still equipped with a legacy lever in addition to the button. Slot machines include a currency detector that validates the money...
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