For those of you that worked slots at a casino...

Watch the old birds. They’ve got the system down.

They absolutely can modify a machine to change how much of every dollar put into it gets paid back as winnings.

However, there is a range of minimum and maximum payouts (as a percentage of money put into the machine that must be paid out) set by the state that the operators have to ensure their machines fall into.

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Jk

Yeah they can manipulate it. I’m sure there is a system that full time gamblers use

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I was always curious how the choose which machines do better than others.

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What I've heard from gamblers is that if a machine hasn't paid out in a long time, it's "due".

What I've read is that the casinos want the machines to catch the eye of people walking by, using flashing lights and noises when they're paying out. And the best machines to do that are the ones on the ends.

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there is a range of minimum and maximum payouts (as a percentage of money put into the machine that must be paid out) set by the state that the operators have to ensure their machines fall into.

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Mississippi: A slot machine “Must theoretically pay out a mathematically demonstrable percentage of all amounts wagered, which must not be less than eighty percent (80%) or greater than one hundred percent (100%) for each wager available for play on the device. Gaming devices that may be affected by player skill must meet this standard when using a method of play that will provide the greatest return to the player over a period of continuous play.”

Mississippi Slot Machine Casino Gambling: Simple Payout Statistics from mid-2016 thru mid-2017.

I walked into a harrahs on my 21st. Put a dollar in a progressive slot. Didn’t have the balls to drop a 20. One spin, and it hit the progressive jackpot. Paid out $500 and change for the $1 bet. THe $20 would have netted be around $14k

An old black dude was yelling at me because he had been pumping money into the machine and stalking others that played on the same machine. He knew it was going to hit soon.

Dude, it’s a computer running software that’s coded by human beings. Of course they can and do modify the odds in their favor.

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BurningHeart

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See your doctor.

Stat!

This gambling shite can wait.

This. I would actually be extremely surprised if each and every single slot can't be modified remotely now, too. I'm not sure what kind of OS and software run on those boards now, but setting up remote access is as easy as doing it on a PC, and it would save a lot of trouble from workers having to visit each slot physically.

Since we are on the subject, I know back when slots first went from analogy to digital, a couple heroes figured out how to hack the boards to their liking, and they made ridiculous money before they were caught. It continued to happen over the next decade or two before it finally got extremely difficult, but it makes me wonder what kind of countermeasures they use to protect their boards and software? I do think they are still very much vulnerable, but there's only so much you can do around a slot that is air gapped to the casino and has no inlets for plugging in hacking peripherals. Also, look at the number of ATM's in the news lately that have been hacked, set up with a rat, and then remotely controlled from behind a proxy/vpn to drop all its bills when someone else goes to machine. Interesting stuff