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Posted: 2/20/2019 12:26:19 AM EDT

Went to a casino with my buddy today, I spent $40 and topped out at $1465, adding another $50 I came with and losing my way back to $1189 where I cashed out and hit the bricks. Nearly everything was won on dollar slots.

Last time I went was in 2014, I turned $15 into $97 and left.

Is there a method to the madness or did I just have great luck?

Posted: 2/20/2019 12:29:08 AM EDT

[#1]

There are very few strategies a player can use in a casino to give himself an edge.

Unless you are considering video poker a slot, winning money on slots is pure dumb luck.

ETA: higher denomination slots have slightly better payout ratio, so there is that.

Posted: 2/20/2019 12:31:14 AM EDT

[#2]

Put money in, push the button. Only trick is to play the highest amount on the machine so you potentially get the best payout. Slots are lame. Keno is worse. 30% house advantage.

Posted: 2/20/2019 12:32:18 AM EDT

[#3]

Play higher denominations slower.

Posted: 2/20/2019 12:32:38 AM EDT

[#4]

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There are very few strategies a player can use in a casino to give himself an edge.

Unless you are considering video poker a slot, winning money on slots is pure dumb luck.

ETA: higher demonization slots have slightly better payout ratio, so there is that.

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True.

Posted: 2/20/2019 12:34:42 AM EDT

[#5]

Humble brag

You got lucky and nothing else.

Posted: 2/20/2019 12:35:26 AM EDT

[#6]

Normally slots in high traffic areas pay more often, same with machines that get heavily played..Still best to just be damn lucky..

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Posted: 2/20/2019 12:39:10 AM EDT

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Went to a casino with my buddy today, I spent $40 and topped out at $1465, adding another $50 I came with and losing my way back to $1189 where I cashed out and hit the bricks. Nearly everything was won on dollar slots.

Last time I went was in 2014, I turned $15 into $97 and left.

Is there a method to the madness or did I just have great luck?

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Walking away was the best luck you had all day. Used to be you could pattern a machine by how many times it paid in a certain amount of time, but not possible to do that anymore, they have got so good with the software to control them, it is pretty much luck.

Posted: 2/20/2019 12:47:17 AM EDT

[#8]

I was told by a older casino waitress years ago, to always play the slots close to the elevators. People coming and going at all hours, but always looking for that last big jack pot, before heading up to their room.. Just one more pull.

I will say my odds of hitting a good jack pot increased. Wax on wax off, take it for what it's worth!

Posted: 2/20/2019 12:55:50 AM EDT

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I was told by a older casino waitress years ago, to always play the slots close to the elevators. People coming and going at all hours, but always looking for that last big jack pot, before heading up to their room.. Just one more pull.

I will say my odds of hitting a good jack pot increased. Wax on wax off, take it for what it's worth!

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Most of my luck (and other folks as well) was had by the stairs and the cashier desk. One lady won $800+ on one pull and was still there well after I'd quit, gone and found my friend, he played some and quit, and we were leaving. I'm guessing she lost what she won after being there so long

Posted: 2/20/2019 12:57:25 AM EDT

[#10]

If there was a way to gain a real advantage in slots, you (and the rest of the world) would know. After which the casino would just remove said advantage because it would then be pointless.

Slots are supposed to be a completely luck based game.

Posted: 2/20/2019 12:58:07 AM EDT

[#11]

The best way to win at slots it to play craps.

Craps House Edge
BET Pass

PAYS 1 to 1

EXPECTED ROLLS 3.38

OUSE EDGEPER BET MADE 1.41%

HOUSE EDGE PER BET RESOLVED 1.41%

HOUSE EDGE PER ROLL 0.42%

Posted: 2/20/2019 1:00:04 AM EDT

[#12]

You could use the method I used the one and only time I went to a casino... Walk in with $100 split between the wife and I, and walk out with $0.

Posted: 2/20/2019 1:00:18 AM EDT

[#13]

All modern slot machines are just terminals connecting to a central computer that does ALL the random number generation and selection.

They're just a terminal with a coin box.

Which one is going to hit next is purely the choice of the central computer. The individual machines have absolutely nothing to do with that.

Posted: 2/20/2019 1:01:41 AM EDT

[#14]

EPROM or "Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory" and the algorithm used to operate the machine are what determine the payout(s). Short answer: no, there's no method to it. But hey, free fountain drinks!

Posted: 2/20/2019 1:01:45 AM EDT

[#15]

A method? To winning a game deliberately openly rigged against you?

I highly doubt it.

Posted: 2/20/2019 1:02:09 AM EDT

[#16]

EVERYTHING on the casino floor works in the casino's interest. Or it wouldn't exist in the casino. The only exception to that is poker rooms, where they still take their cut.

Posted: 2/20/2019 1:03:06 AM EDT

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All modern slot machines are just terminals connecting to a central computer that does ALL the random number generation and selection.

They're just a terminal with a coin box.

Which one is going to hit next is purely the choice of the central computer. The individual machines have absolutely nothing to do with that.

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If they're a progressive machine, that can be true. Most aren't and are stand alone or a bank of machines where the above wouldn't apply.

Posted: 2/20/2019 1:13:04 AM EDT

[#18]

Move from one machine to another, once you win a bit stop playing that machine and move to another one. This is easier said than done though because you can easily get suckered into paying one machine over and over again. Won $150 in Vegas that way, the Wheel of Fortune slot machines were the best with the bonuses they gave.

Posted: 2/20/2019 1:43:49 AM EDT

[#19]

There is a method, but you have to have discipline and set limits on your losses over time. it isn't all losing. You never know when you'll win.

When the guys in the suits come out to pay you 4, 6, 15K and offer to comp your trip, that's a nice vacation.

Posted: 2/20/2019 1:53:57 AM EDT

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Move from one machine to another, once you win a bit stop playing that machine and move to another one. This is easier said than done though because you can easily get suckered into paying one machine over and over again. Won $150 in Vegas that way, the Wheel of Fortune slot machines were the best with the bonuses they gave.

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This is basically what I was doing. I probably played on 10-12 different machines.

Posted: 2/20/2019 2:17:10 AM EDT

[#21]

Believe it or not, but I go by the "vibe" I get from the machine. Mostly quarter slots, play the max.

My best payout machine was near the cashier cage. $179 one night, $467 the next night. Smaller amounts at other times and places. Rarely lost money. Just lucky at slots I guess.

Haven't played in years though.

Posted: 2/20/2019 2:23:46 AM EDT

[#22]

My dad always played the machines next to the door as he left the casino. He won over $15,000 over a 6-month period and every time they would comp him a room so he didn't leave.

Posted: 2/20/2019 2:24:39 AM EDT

[#23]

Two words: Baccarat.

Posted: 2/20/2019 2:24:50 AM EDT

[#24]

In the big casinos there's a machine ready to pay with one roll of quarters all the time, but which one is it?

Posted: 2/20/2019 2:29:23 AM EDT

[#25]

Method for playing the slots:

1. Keep feeding money into the machine until you run out.

2. The End.

Posted: 2/20/2019 2:36:18 AM EDT

[#26]

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Went to a casino with my buddy today, I spent $40 and topped out at $1465, adding another $50 I came with and losing my way back to $1189 where I cashed out and hit the bricks. Nearly everything was won on dollar slots.

Last time I went was in 2014, I turned $15 into $97 and left.

Is there a method to the madness or did I just have great luck?

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Of course. Walk over to Texas Hold'em table, sit down, play poker, win money.

Posted: 2/20/2019 2:49:15 AM EDT

[#27]

You gotta be at the right place at the rght time. And lucky.

Posted: 2/20/2019 3:12:44 AM EDT

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If they're a progressive machine, that can be true. Most aren't and are stand alone or a bank of machines where the above wouldn't apply.

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All modern slot machines are just terminals connecting to a central computer that does ALL the random number generation and selection.

They're just a terminal with a coin box.

Which one is going to hit next is purely the choice of the central computer. The individual machines have absolutely nothing to do with that.

If they're a progressive machine, that can be true. Most aren't and are stand alone or a bank of machines where the above wouldn't apply.

^^^ this..
I used to work for the engineer that invented (first assembled) video poker and did extensive work with gaming machines as Computer Chips became the operational guts of the machines.
State gaming law dictates the worst or best case payout for slot machines..depending on if you are the player or house. The house always wins.
Example: 87/1 Slots have to pay back .87 cents to every dollar played. Not by each machine. Collectively.
So the chips are programmed with those odds or better depending how the casino is marketing it self.
It is never absolutely perfect but dam close to the programming.
The house can give back more but the State Gaming Commision mandates the base number.
The house almost never owns the slot machines. Bally or IGT, etc does. The machine companies also get the lions share of the money from slots. Not the house.
Which is why you see a shit load of oversight when machines pay out big or have to be opened.
Everyone, including the State wants their correct share of every dollar played.

Posted: 2/20/2019 3:14:52 AM EDT

[#29]

There is a system. It is documented in books. It requires selection of very specific games, specific machines and to only play in a casino with specific odds (hint: not Vegas - Reno is better). It required following the system without variation. It requires playing for a certain amount of time (IIRC - 2-2.5 days) and with a bankroll of (IIRC) $15K-20K.

I have a colleague that does it. Very disciplined. He does quite well. Also won a very nice Mercedes doing it. He has also been asked to leave his favorite casino, where he played for years.

Posted: 2/20/2019 3:28:01 AM EDT

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In the big casinos there's a machine ready to pay with one roll of quarters all the time, but which one is it?

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Well on the trip for my daughters 21st b-day it was the 10X machines...cleaned up nicely on them...besides the winner up above I also took these plus a pile of smaller winners across the 5-6 machines in that casino...but that was a few years ago and it was a pretty good lucky streak...

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Posted: 2/20/2019 3:51:08 AM EDT

[#31]

There is no real "method" to it. Short of cracking the RNG algorithm.

Also, there is no such thing as luck.

Posted: 2/20/2019 4:06:19 AM EDT

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Move from one machine to another, once you win a bit stop playing that machine and move to another one. This is easier said than done though because you can easily get suckered into paying one machine over and over again. Won $150 in Vegas that way, the Wheel of Fortune slot machines were the best with the bonuses they gave.

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Last time I was in Reno I won 2900 in an hour.

Vegas year before last sucked hard, couldn't buy a WoF jackpot.

Go after a major holiday, play machines on the end of the row or carousel

Old school machines you just asked the slot girls which were the best to play, and tip them.

Posted: 2/20/2019 4:25:55 AM EDT

[#33]

the secret is you have to play while wearing your underwear backwards

Posted: 2/20/2019 8:29:17 AM EDT

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Normally slots in high traffic areas pay more often, same with machines that get heavily played..Still best to just be damn lucky..

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This.

I was in Vegas a few years back at the Palazzo. I decided to play the machine right by the hotel entrance at the back of the casino floor. I turned 3 bucks into a Benji in one pull.

A few weeks before the trip, another Arfcommer did even better on a machine in a high traffic area. He turned a Benji into 20 or 30 thousand in one pull IIRC.

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