13. But someone
wins the progressives, right?
Yes, once in a while someone wins -- but look at
how long the jackpot builds before it is hit. Sometimes
over a year. Sometimes up to two years! If you want
a chance to come home with some money tonight, I
would recommend that you stick to “equal distribution”
or “straight multiplier” machines such
as Double Diamond. Then only play one coin because
there is no added benefit to playing two coins.
You have an excellent chance of winning some money
on a given night that way. You also have an excellent
chance of not losing all that much.
14. Are there really
“loose” and “tight” machines
in a casino?
Yes. There are also loose and tight people in a
casino.
15. Where are they?
They are located in chapter six of my book Break
the One-Armed Bandits!. Okay! Okay! Here’s
a hint: Where would you put the best-paying machines
in a casino if you owned the casino? Of course,
you would put them in areas that would encourage
other slot players to continue playing or to play
at a faster pace. You would not put them in areas
where people would get annoyed with hearing slot
players yelling and screaming -- like around the
table game area. Those machines are usually tight
because astute slot managers realize that table-game
players aren’t interested in hearing coins
being pumped into slots and these same managers
know that if the table-game player is going to dump
a few coins in a machine, he or she isn’t expecting
to win. So why give a table-game player a loose
machine? Why give him anything? Keep those few coins
for yourself. Anyway, no one knows where every loose
or tight machine is in every casino [even the source
I used for my book could only tell me definitively
where they were in his/her casinos although he/she
stated that the psychology of placement is basically
the same for most casinos] but as a general rule
of thumb, the areas where slot players will be encouraged
to play will be loose, the areas where solitary
players might put in a few coins before going here
or there to do this or that will be tight.
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