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In article <74150@cup.portal.com>, Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes:
|> >
|> >Is there really a viable "slots strategy", other than continuously
|> >stuffing <coin denomination> into the machine, and hoping it pays off
|> >before your financial resources disappear?  Logic tells me no, but....


  Stick to progressive machines with appropriate payoffs - see the 
FAQ for details.

|> >
|> Well there are a couple other interesting slot tidbits... play
|> a machine to get a few coins to fall out. If the coins are real
|> warm, then they've been in the machine a long time, meaning the
|> machine's primed to spew its load soon. (Slots only pay out a
|> certain few hundreds of coins on a large jackpot, the rest of
|> the payout is handed to the (lucky) winner in cash by a casino
|> worker). If the coins come out stone cold, move to another machine.

  I thought that payoff history had NOTHING to do with the chances the
 machine was about to pay off. Each slot pull is completely random. A
 machine is just as likely to pay a jackpot if it paid one off 5 weeks
 ago or 5 minutes.

|> Or... hand some cash to one of the change women (they're ALWAYS
|> women, at EVERY casino, aren't they? Why is this :-) and tip her
|> and ask her to point you towards a machine that's primed and
|> ready. 

  They'll do anything for a tip!

|> I'll admit that neither of these "tips" has ever worked very well
|> for me at all.. I've played slots, from nickels to dollars at
|> dozens of Vegas casinos and never hit a jackpot over $50 or so.

  Hmmmm, hard to believe...

;-)

-Ron


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|> Harv