- Feb 15, 2013 GO TO www.sevenstepstoslotmachinesucess.com How to win at slots. We all know the slot machines are set by the casinos to make them money, But what if.
- Techniques to Beat the Slot Machine. Generally, the lower denomination on the slot the higher the house edge you must beat to win. Take advantage of free slot play. Many casinos offer bonuses such as slot credits for new players who sign up for a player's club card. Most vouchers allow you to play $5 or $10 of 'house' money at the slots.
I suppose this is kind of a dumb question, but I would really like to know if its possible? The thing that really gets me is that when I go to the casino I observe a lot of people, I mean a lot of people playing slots vs the other games available. It is like 80/20. These people do not look stupid at all. Do they know something I don't? I mean our local casinos only have a 88% payback. I know some slots are better bets then others but it seems like overall the casino has a HUGE edge with slots vs the player.
The easiest way for normal slot players to win at slots is to play at online casinos with free money from the casino. See Arnold Snyder's How to Beat Internet Casinos and Poker Rooms. For more information on how professional gamblers beat slots, video poker, roulette, keno and a wide variety of casino games, see the Blackjack Forum Library.
Certain types of slots (progressive, banking, or progressive/banking) can develop short term advantages. But they are not as plentiful as they used to be.Certain types of slots (progressive, banking, or progressive/banking) can develop short term advantages. But they are not as plentiful as they used to be.
And even if they exist, there's no easy way of telling which ones they are. In most places (one exception I can think of being Melbourne, Australia - at least back in 2011), the machine does not have to tell you any information about what its expected return is, although in Nevada, it has to be at least 75%, and it must say what the odds are of hitting the jackpot if they are 100,000,000-1 against or higher.
Supposedly, on a machine that has multiple pay lines, every position on a reel has an equal chance of showing up, so it's possible to determine the probabilities from the reel layouts, which you can determine if you play the game long enough.
And even if they exist, there's no easy way of telling which ones they are. In most places (one exception I can think of being Melbourne, Australia - at least back in 2011), the machine does not have to tell you any information about what its expected return is, although in Nevada, it has to be at least 75%, and it must say what the odds are of hitting the jackpot if they are 100,000,000-1 against or higher.
Supposedly, on a machine that has multiple pay lines, every position on a reel has an equal chance of showing up, so it's possible to determine the probabilities from the reel layouts, which you can determine if you play the game long enough.
A progressive game takes a little more work, but banking games are easy once you know what to look for.
1) The idea of hitting a big jackpot. In blackjack, which is essentially a 50-50 game, it would take a long session to win a life changing amount of money, in slots you can hit it with one spin of the reels
2) Intimidation by the tables. Some people don't want their decisions affecting other people at the table or the perception that they do
3) Perceived lower limits. You might play a penny slot, and it is perceived as costing you less than say at a $10 blackjack table. That penny slot might cost you $1.80 per spin and you might have 10 times as many spins per hour in slots as you may have in an hour at the blackjack table. Plus you factor in the higher house edge on the slot reels and this makes it even a worse mathematical play.
4) Not knowing the rules of the games. Some people just may not want to play table games because they don't know the rules and don't wish to learn when money is on the line.
I am sure there are others, but those are what I can think of off the top of my head.
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And even if they exist, there's no easy way of telling which ones they are. In most places (one exception I can think of being Melbourne, Australia - at least back in 2011), the machine does not have to tell you any information about what its expected return is, although in Nevada, it has to be at least 75%, and it must say what the odds are of hitting the jackpot if they are 100,000,000-1 against or higher.
Supposedly, on a machine that has multiple pay lines, every position on a reel has an equal chance of showing up, so it's possible to determine the probabilities from the reel layouts, which you can determine if you play the game long enough.
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If you take all of the bonus AP type of VP, VS all the slot bonus type machines, it's not even close, SLOTS are way more profitable.Usually promotions or mail is better on VP because of the low hold, it doesn't take much to push a VP positive. Slots require a far better promotion.
I think the best angle to beat slots are mystery jackpots. The type that must be hit by some maximum amount. Just keep watching as many games as possible until you see one near the 'must hit by' point and then pound it until it hits.
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Will definitely keep my eye out for these! I notice that it says when the progressive must be payed out by. This is not going to show everywhere they have these type of slots is it?
I suppose this is kind of a dumb question, but I would really like to know if its possible? The thing that really gets me is that when I go to the casino I observe a lot of people, I mean a lot of people playing slots vs the other games available. It is like 80/20. These people do not look stupid at all. Do they know something I don't? I mean our local casinos only have a 88% payback. I know some slots are better bets then others but it seems like overall the casino has a HUGE edge with slots vs the player.
There have already been some good replies to this. Table_fear being a very good one.
There's also the perception that you can sit down at a slot machine and safely pump in a tenner and walk away (perception being the key, short term addiction as soon as you sit down being the issue).
I think the simplest answer to this question is 'hypnotic_entertainment'.
Slot machines are noisy and flashy and quick. They can be fun without knowing what you are doing.
Simple as that really!!!
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A lot of people might think of slot machine cheats and cheaters as the people who have figured out a way to beat the games. I tend to think of them as people who CLAIM to have figured out a way to beat the games. Then again, I guess both categories could be considered cheaters.
Real Slot Machine Cheats
Real slot machine cheats use devices to get payouts when they otherwise shouldn’t. These devices often have clever, colorful names, like the “light wand” or “the monkey’s paw”. The former sounds like something you might find in a Star Wars movie, while the latter obviously brings up literary connotations. (“The Monkey’s Paw” is a well-known short story by W.W. Jacobs, about a paw of a dead monkey, which grants its owner wishes. Things end badly.
Tommy Glenn Carmichael is the most famous of these cheaters. Of course, he’s in his 60s now, and he’s retired from the cheating game. Like many former con-men, he’s turned his past as a less-than-honest-but-clever-confidence-man into a profitable career as a consultant for the people and businesses he used to swindle.
Carmichael was in the slot machine cheating business for over 20 years. 30 years ago, when Carmichael got started, the state-of-the-art slot machine cheating tool was a “top-bottom joint”, which is just a piece of metal that slides into the coin release slot. This triggers un-earned payouts in massive amounts—or at least it did in 1980. Modern slot machines don’t usually pay out in real coins anyway, and the manufacturers caught onto that trick years ago.
That didn’t even slow Carmichael down, though. He was caught cheating early in his career, but he used his 5 years in jail to learn about (and invent) other cheating techniques and tools. His approach to figuring out ways to beat a slot machine was simplicity itself. He would buy a machine, take it apart, and think about how the machine paid out money from a mechanical perspective. Then it was usually easy to come up with ideas like the monkey’s paw, which was actually just some springs and guitar wire that, used correctly, would trigger the machine to payout a massive bunch of coins.
Online Slot Machine Cheats
Cheaters online spend their time cheating players out of their money, not the casinos. And these cheaters aren’t casinos, either—they’re ebook authors. They claim to have all kinds of inside information about how slot machines work, and they sell this information for ungodly amounts of money.
The problem is that the information they’re selling is worthless and inaccurate. It’s not even worth buying for its entertainment value. Some of these “unbeatable” tips worked years ago, but none of them apply to today’s electronic and computerized slot machine games.
One example is a book that claims to help you win at slots consistently by explaining “betting concepts and spending habits”. It also claims to help you apply your common sense regarding slot machine decision making.
Here’s what my common sense tells me. Slot machines are entirely random. I don’t get to make many decisions at all. I can decide which machine to play, if any, and I can decide how much to gamble. But none of that is going to help me become a winner on a consistent basis, and the reason is simple:
A slot machine is a negative expectation game.
What does that mean?
It’s simple, really. A negative expectation game is one in which you stand to lose more than the odds of winning suggest. For example, if you and I played a simple game where you flipped a coin, and I won if you got heads, and you won if you got tails, and the winner got the quarter, we’d be playing a fair, heads-up, even-money game. The odds of winning are 1 to 1, and the payout is also 1 to 1.
But suppose we tweak the rules? Let’s say that if you win 2 quarter every time you get tails, but I win 1 quarter every time I get heads, then you’d have a positive expectation situation, and I would have a negative expectation situation.
That’s exactly the kind of math that applies to all casino games (except in certain rare situations). The casino always pays out your win at less than the odds of winning, which guarantees them a long term profit.
Common sense doesn’t increase your chances of winning. Neither does any combination of betting concepts and spending habits. Usually these types of books suggest setting a win goal and a loss limit for each session. While that might be an entertaining way of managing your bankroll, it does nothing for your long term expectation.
The Pros and Cons of Being a Cheater
The pros of being either kind of cheater are obvious. You’ll either win money or get money from a sucker. If money is all you care about, then being a slots cheat might be the perfect career for you to pursue.
The cons of being a cheat shouldn’t be underestimated though. Aside from the karmic implications, physically cheating at any gambling game in a major casino destination is a felony. If you get caught — and let’s face it, you probably will — you can plan on a lengthy probation and probably at least a little bit of jail time. If you get caught more than once, you can rest assured you’ll spend plenty of time in jail.
And if you have hopes of becoming a highly-paid consultant when you finish doing your time, well…ask Tommy Glenn Carmichael if the time he spent behind bars was worth gaining a career as a consultant. My guess is that he’d rather have had his freedom during those years.