Dear Mark: How come every time I get up from a machine,
someone sits down and immediately hits a big jackpot?
Bill F.
My
twenty years spent working on the front line, put
me within a casino for at least 8,320 hours (20 yrs
X 52 weeks X 8 hours a day), I don't need to get to
my toes to count how many times I've seen a person
desert a machine, someone new jump into the still
warm seat, and on the first spin, snag the big one
and sail into a charmed life of champagne wishes and
caviar dreams. .
Seriously,
Bill, how many machines have you left, (and that's
probably hundreds if not thousands over your career-pursuit
of the big one), and how many times has the next
player after you "really" hit it big on
the first three coins? Sure, it happens, and yes,
I've seen it, but far, far less often than you see
in your mind's eye.
Besides, Bill, a slot machine uses a Random Number
Generator to determine which symbols will land on
the payline, and the RNG in the slot machine is
continually running whether anyone is playing or
not. Therefore, it is highly unlikely that the player
following you would have stopped the RNG at exactly
the same nanosecond needed to produce the mega-jackpot
combination on the screen, as you would have. There
is little, if any chance that both of your results
would have been the same.
.
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