- Look for Machines on a Hot Streak
Class 3 slots are usually illegal in the jurisdictions that have these slots bingo games, so game manufacturers and casinos combined their forces to come up with this alternative. Sometimes you’ll see a small bingo card on the bottom corner of the screen which will straight away tell you that this is a class 2 slot machine. Open the card to find an antique slot machine pop up into life. The front of the gold and black slot machine has cherries in the corners and “Vegas” running down the middle. The corners of the card is embellished with a few more cherries and the rest of the card is left blank so you can say more.
Easy Pop-up Card
Slot machines run hot and cold all the time. And some players have told me that you can find the hot machines by jumping around and trying different games.
Here are the simple steps for how you accomplish this:
- Play a slot machine for 10 spins or so.
- If you don’t win anything, move on to the next game.
- You repeat this until you win a couple of prizes or more.
This theory falls under the belief that slots are programmed to have hot and cold spells. And if you can take advantage of enough hot streaks, you’ll have a chance of earning profits.
The problem with this theory, though, is that slot machines are programmed to behave randomly on every spin.
Sure, you might win 3-4 payouts within a short span. But this is attributed to good luck, rather than some pre-programmed hot streak.
Slot machine results are determined by a random number generator (RNG), which cycles through thousands of number sequences every second. The RNG selects one of these many number sequences as soonas you select the Spin button.
The complete randomness of slots results ensures that a hot machine is nothing more than a lucky one. Jumping around from game to game to find hot slot machines is a waste of time.
Casinos are designed for a single purpose: to separate you from your money. And they’re good at it. Commercial casinos in the U.S. made nearly $35 billion in revenue last year, up a percent from 2009.
While they represent just a fraction of that revenue, slot machines are the casino gateway drug for the least savvy gamblers. It’s why they’re by the door. More than any other casino game, slots condition people to keep playing through positive reinforcement (bells and whistles). And the odds have gotten worse as technology has improved.
Though today’s sophisticated multi-line machines have a higher “win-rate,” the amount won is negligible, and often less than what was originally gambled. A recent study by researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, finds that these multi-line machines are more effective than their single-line predecessors at taking money from the gambler by disguising losses as wins.
Slot Machine Pop Up Cards
Casino slots today are dominated by multi-line machines, which allow you to bet on a multitude of combinations: up, down, diagonal, rather than just hoping for the three 7’s to line up across the middle on an old-school single-line machine. While that may seem like an advantage, it’s harder for the average person to accurately calculate the odds of multi-line machines.
The table below shows how losses are disguised as wins based on the number of lines the user has bet on:
Though you may win more, the pay out is often lower than what you’ve already put into the machine to begin with. So you get the bells and whistles, but it’s really just a fancy loss.