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John Robison Gaming Guru - Page 63  Ask the Slot Expert: Paybacks at Indian casinos29 October 2014
Please discuss the Indian casinos in Michigan. Are their paybacks the same as non-Indian casinos? Who regulates them?
I frequent a newer casino in Battle Creek. I never can win. Other casinos seem to pay well but not this casino.
All the slot machines are new. Can they control these machines with ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: Why can't I win on the slots today?22 October 2014
I like playing the video slots, but it seems like I never win. I sometimes left the casino with a profit playing the old machines.
My friends all say the same thing. We don't win anymore.
You and your friends have a complaint I've heard many times now that video slots, specifically multi-coin/multi-line machines, have taken over the a large percentage of the slot floor. ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: Common-sense advice for slot players15 October 2014
There are slot players out there who believe that the casino can dial the paybacks up and down at will, at any time and even during play.
No matter how much logic and law you present to these people to show that what they believe is not actually happening at all, they believe it nevertheless. Then you ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: Changing slot paybacks8 October 2014
I can tell you without any doubt whatsoever that slot machines, especially at the $100 slot level, are adjusted and changed regularly, which is all legal and ethical.
Google "can split machines be altered by chip" and you will see evidence in bold print regarding public knowledge of this fact. They are on ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: What can casinos change on a slot machine?1 October 2014
Can you tell me what a casino can do to a newly acquired slot machine?
Does the slot machine come with a preset payout percentage? Can the casino change the payout percentage?
I assume the slot machine has a preset time period for the payout percentage. Can a casino change the preset time for the ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: I lose more, but my wife gets better rewards24 September 2014
When my wife and I get our fliers from the casino, she always gets a larger dollar amount than I do. I know at times I have spent more dollars and yet I get screwed in the end — what gives? The explanation of ADT was very vague and complicated.
Casino rewards can seem arbitrary when you compare your rewards with someone else's. ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: More on video poker dealing17 September 2014
I read with interest your early September column about video poker dealing being changed from five cards with five "shadow" cards behind them — and you got the card behind whichever card you threw away.
I am wondering if you left out one iteration of dealing before IGT (and others) got to the current ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: Two people, one slot club account10 September 2014
I occasionally play at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Tampa, Florida. Can you tell me what kind of slot machines they have there? Are they Class II or Class III? Also is the video poker a random play or are they Class II?
The Seminole tribe has a compact with the state of Florida, so the Seminole Hard Rock can offer Class III machines. ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: How video poker machines deal3 September 2014
On the IGT video poker machines I play in Atlantic City, they used to deal you 10 cards, five you could see and five cards behind them (I've heard them called shadow cards). Now they deal you five cards on the initial hand, and the next five are continuously being shuffled by the RNG.
I've talked to some players who say it doesn't matter how they're dealt. ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: Sequential royal video poker27 August 2014
I am currently in Cripple Creek Colorado. I was in Johnny Nolon's Casino a few hours ago. They had a 25-cent video poker machine that had a payout for a sequential royal. The current value for the sequential royal was $12,994.57. I looked at the pay table but I didn't write it down so I am
not sure what the percentage was. ... (read more)
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