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Slots:
It is not an exaggeration to say that slots are the single, most favored form of gambling in a casino.
The objective of any slot player is to line up the symbols that return cash paybacks as frequently as Lady Luck will allow. Progressive slot players are usually hoping for the big jackpot win that could be in the thousands or millions of dollars
Todays slots are not the mechanical devices that were first dubbed one-armed bandits by politicians and social reformers of the late 1890s and early 1900s. Instead, they are computer-driven mechanisms that are not easily tampered with. The heart and soul of the new slots is the RNG or random number generator. This program is in a computer chip and it determines which symbols will appear on the reels when you put your coins in. Pressing the button or pulling the handle signals the RNG to signal the machine to line up a given set of symbols. Even when no one is playing the slots, the RNG is selecting number sequences that correspond to the symbols on the reels. This selection process is extremely fast and hundreds of sequences can take place in a heartbeat. In reality, when you put in your coins or play your credits, you are merely asking the slot to tell you what sequence had already been picked at the precise moment you hit the button or pulled the handle. (Note: except for rare internet casinos that use live dealers, all internet games are computer driven and use an RNG as the selection principle.)
Until recently most casinos kept the actual programming of their machines a secret. Casinos might advertise that they had the loosest machines or that some of their machines returned 97.8 percent (or some such figure) but they never told which specific slots these were. Recently, however, with the rise in competition for the slot players patronage, many casinos have begun to certify the returns on their slots. Often these certified slots will be programmed at 98 percent, which means that for every dollar played in such a machine, the average return will be 98 cents. That gives the casino a two- percent edge over the player.
Even in casinos where Slots are not certified, casino statistics can help us to ascertain which are the best machines to play. In this case, the higher the denomination, the more likely the better return. Therefore, a five-dollar slot will return a better percentage than a dollar machine that will return a better percentage than a quarter slot and so on.
Often the difference between two denominations is dramatic enough to make playing a single coin in a higher denomination a better bet than playing maximum coin in a lower denomination. Thus, you would be better off playing a single coin in a dollar slot than maximum coin in a quarter slot.
If you are considering playing slots in a given casino, first check to see if the casino has any certified slots. If so, play these -- even if it means playing a single coin. However, you should always play full coin on slots that give out big jackpots for doing so.
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