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Play This Machine, Not That Machine18 July 2021
It was the bad advice that had my wife and I laughing a few weeks ago when the conversation turned to slot tips. The tips may not have been good, but they were memorable.
They went on their way. Marcy asked, "What do you think?" I said, "They're probably shills, but we're playing anyway. No harm in playing one machine over another." Twenty dollars and a few minutes later, it was on to a different game. Slot shills were more common than they are now. My mom once saw a man who was playing two $5 slots outside a downtown Las Vega casino. He was surrounded by plastic racks filled with $5 tokens. The area was roped off and had security guards at either end. The player couldn't lose, and as tokens poured out of one machine he'd pull the handle on the other. When the player left, the games were shut down. But the impression of winning was there for passers-by.
When I moved to video, someone walked behind me and shouted, "Don't you know any better than that? The video slots are computers, don't you know that? They can be fixed against you." It's no easier to "fix" a video slot than a reel-spinner, but I wasn't getting in a public dispute. I had work to do. That I landed on Boardwalk on video, too, and won 2,000 nickels was just gravy.
We found two machines together and both reached for our new club cards. Another player shouted, "Stop! You really don't want to do that." I asked why not, and that was his cue to walk down the row to deliver his lecture. "They take it right off your return. As soon as the machine knows you're playing with a card, it goes into low-pay drive." I said, "We'll risk it," and we both put our cards in. The random number generator doesn't know whether you're using a card. Your payback is unaffected, and If you can pick up free play, cash back, meals or any other comps, so much the better. The other player shook his head and gave a parting shot. "I wouldn't use that card if I were you." Look for John Grochowski on Facebook (http://tinyurl.com/7lzdt44) and Twitter (@GrochowskiJ). This article is provided by the Frank Scoblete Network. Melissa A. Kaplan is the network's managing editor. If you would like to use this article on your website, please contact Casino City Press, the exclusive web syndication outlet for the Frank Scoblete Network. To contact Frank, please e-mail him at fscobe@optonline.net. Recent Articles
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