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In casino world the most welcome players always was “aces” – the very eminent players who can afford to loose million or more during one visit to a casino. And casino were always hunting for such players.
Casino management are ready to send a plain to every spot of the world to get an “ace” in own’s disposal and to deliver high-roller to their hotel free if he expresses a willingness to play one or few days. There are not too many such players in the world per se. There are about some hundreds persons.
James Packer and Laurens Ho – two billionaires’ sons scraped up their fortune on gamble business – inaugurated new casino in May 2007 in Asian gambling capital – Macau – $524 millions cost. The venture turned out fail…
Initially Crown Macau casino was oriented mainly on average-income players. But three months after grandiose opening two founders of the new casino decided that time to make cardinal changes came, how Laurence Ho said: “it’s time to set off an atom bomb and turn over a new leaf”.
Packer an Laurence took away from casino 60% tables for low staking games and moved off about 80% slots to clear a place for future “ace’s” big game. Casino shifted its’ accent from middle class to VIP-players leaving in casino from $100.000 during one visit.
It’s amazing that these risk straregy immediately brought their Crown Macau casino 15% share of gambling market less then during the year. Now the casino gets stably growing profit.
By the way, talking about Macau… Do you know that slots turnover in Macau is just 5-6% of general casino turnout and though it increased to 20% during last 5 years, slots are still far away from gambling leaders in Asian region. Curiously enough that the leader in amount of gamblers’ preferences is Baccarat!

When you’ll visit a casino next time look at Caribbean pocker tables and you’ll see that every player almost makes an additional stake on jackpot.
Majority of game analysts will say you: “By no means!”. Stake on jackpot is one of the worst, casino advantage here reachs 60, 70, even 80% subject to jackpot size. Even when jackpot becomes rather big and player’s advantage reachs, payings are so rare that your chances are imminent zero.
But when a player asks me if to make an additional stake I always answer with counter questions: “And what is your aim? What are you playing for?”.
For some players the aim of visit a casino is a decrease of casino advantage to minimum for own’s gain maximization. These players not only don’t stake on jackpot but don’t play Caribbean pocker at all. 5,2% casino advantage by optimal strategy is too much. Serious players go to play blackjack (casino advantage by basic strategy is 0,5%) or dices (casino advantage is 0,6% by combination  Pass/2хOdds).
Caribbean pocker players gather around tables because of two reasons. First of all it is a light relaxing game, one of the slowest in casino. Secondly staking on jackpot gives them a chance of a big gain which can’t be get in other card games. Blackjack gives up a higher percent to a player but blackjack player never leaves a casino with $10.000, $100.000 or even $712.070 (record jackpot in Caribbean pocker) after the one one-dollar stake.
Jackpot hunters make the additional stake at the same time with the main stake. Most of Caribbean pocker tables have coin slots in front of the main game box. Player put one-dollar fish to the slot before deal. When all stakes are made a coin falls into coin slot simultaneously with deal beginning and the indicator is alight.
After all cards are dealed a player decides if to play or not. After a dealer turns up player’s cards who is in game, players who staked on jackpot and have flush or higher get a fixed sum regardless of dealer’s cards.
Additional stake winnings are pay in compliance with a table reminiscent of videopocker. In the majority of casino $1 stake gets you $50 for flush, $75 for full-house, $100 for 4 of a kind, 10% of jackpot or $5.000 for street flush and full size of jackpot for royal flush. It is minimal payings established by Mikong Gaming company, casino can raise stated values.
Each of winning combinations is not easy to get in Caribbean pocker. So, flush occurs one time for 509 games on average, full-house one time for 694 games, 4 of a kind one time for 4165 games and royal flush one time for 649.740 games! In aggregate a winning on additional stake occurs one time for 273 games on average. You can osreve your dollars dissappearing in table’s depth during 7-8 hours before you’ll get something instead.
The more jackpot the less casino advantage. When jackpot reaches $261.950 a stake cease to be losing and a player gets an advantage before casino. But it doesn’t mean that you immediately get a perfect chance to win greately. You’ll win one time in 273 games as before. It means only that if you have staked on jackpot endlessly you didn’t come off a looser finally.
But even when staking on jackpot gives a player an advantage he still looses 5% on basic pocker stake. To make a game profitable in tote with $5 ant a jackpot value has to reach $351.200 already.
Let’s back to initial question: have a Caribbean pocker player to make an additional stake? It depends on you. When jackpot size is low casino advantage is great and winnings are rare whether or no. If you care about your money don’t stake on jackpot better. But if you prefer slots and jackpot fans point of view and ready to suffer additional losses for the sake of big gain, the Caribbean pocker its’ additional stake is right for you!

“About eleven o’clock in the afternoon only real foolhardy players stay out near gaming-tables. It’s only roulette exists for them, they were coming for it only, the pay no heed what’s happening around and nothing interested in for all season but playing only from morning till night and ready to play till daybreak if it can be done”.
F.M. Dostoevskiy. “Player”

I was playing roulette twice. Both times I staked a little. I have won thirst time and loose for a second. My loss didn’t hit me on my pocket much though I didn’t try my luck for a third time. And I’m not sorry for it generally. Though sometimes especially when I see blinking casino lights I have an inclination for coming in. The roulette is contagious apparently. Kuprin wrote: “… A roulette have no pity… A roulette is dashing thing and mean”.
It is still unknown who did invent this mean thing. It seems that ancient Greeks used for gambling revolving shield balanced on sword edge. And Roman emperor August had a fighting chariot wheel mounted on a vertical axle in special palace room for the same purpose. And the roulette which is turning in all world casino was invented probably by XVII century French philosopher and mathematician Pascal who didn’t intend to create a gambling device. Studying probability theory he planned and constructed a wheel with revolving cylinders and exactly denoted order of numbers and combinations. This wheel had to help with explanation for fortuity theory suggested by Pascal. His revolving cylinder wasn’t stay secret: moreover his contemporary scientists who were loking at Pascal’s constructions with interest and scepticism but the church drew their attention to the roulette. They divined a revolving cylinder potential immediately and weren’t tired of reiterating about “heretical” elements: all roulette numbers were 666 in sum. And one literary man writes that “whoever was invented the roulette but he made a perfect and thoroughly thought-out foreman work whether or no. The structure per se, system, number subdivision, combinations, purpote and moduses of winning probability calculating – everything carries on genious and delight traits”.
A special wheel with numbered sockets and ball for the first time was applied in gamble purpose in the “hoka” game, modern roulette predecessor. These earlier roulette wheels variety were more crude and primitive then modern devices. In XVIII century in France lots of casino with “hoka” playing were open already. A profit from these casino was rather big because three sockets from 40 were marekd with “0” (zero) and when a ball got into one of them an eastablishment took all stakes. Thirst France minister cardinal Julio Mazarini ordered to open casino to fill up slender Ludovic XIV ‘s treasury. By the way Mazarini has became the reachest noble after king because of the then roulette. There was another roulette type – the game named “even-odd” (a wheel with 40 sockets and markings for stakes applied on it’s surface). Twenty sockets were mark with “E” (even) letter, the others with “O” (odd) letter. If a ball got into “even” socket all stakes went to the bank and the other way. In many XVIII european casino the other type of roulette could be meet – “Bul”. A wheel was look like a big bowl, along it’s edges a ball was moving. A wheel was motionless, had 18 sockets numbered from 1 to 9. “Zero” role was playing with the number 5. A gain was payed 7 for 1. Besides it was possible to stake on even and odd, when payings were 1 for 1. “Bul” game attracted women mainly; the explanation must be that the rules are pretty easy and stakes are little. That’s why “Bul” for example is one of  few gamble games spread in Switzerland where casino, private lottery and sweepstakes are prohibited. Another game preserved till nowadays is “pti shwo” where hippodrome and casino elements are joined. A ring with nine spokes revolve on axis above immovable circle, small horse with numbers figures are fastened on ends of these spokes. Under the ring there is a textile field with a hippodrome finish pole picture. A player whose horse is closer to finish line then others when the ring stops wins and gets all stakes.
So, roulette became fashionable and conquered Paris gaming-houses fast. A wheel stoped revolving in 1789 only when during the French revolution government enacted the decree forbided all gamble games. Gaming houses were opened again with Napoleon’s coming to power. Business prospered not so long – in 1839 all gaming houses in France were closed. By then roulette fever spreaded all over the world. In Russia under Ekatherine II roulette tables adorned not only luxurious palace halls – it could be seen at kitchens even where coart cooks amused with overseas game in their free time. When Turkish sultan Selim III heard from captivated Frencmen about roulette he sent his foremen oversea for learning how to produce “wheel of fortune”. And Hindoos got aquanteed with this game by British diplomats. In America the roulette started its victorious train in 1800 in New Orlean. In XIX century the game was haunted by vicissitudes of fate like in Europe: it was forbided, casino were closed. In XX century gamble business was legalized in USA. By the way the difference of American roulette is two zero cells. Further numbers following one after another are situated on opposite sides of a wheel and the sum of two successive numbers is always 37. For example red sockets 14 and 23 or black 4 and 33.
In 1861 Parisian Francua Blan inaugurated the casino in Monaco. Initially it was situated in barn where four gaming-tables stood, two of them were roulette. Few years later the great gaming palace was build in Monte-Carlo where crowds of people from all over the world were gathered to try their luck. Lots of regnant persons came to Monte-Carlo – they were playing in special hall one-on-one with croupier who embodied Fortune. The main reason of Monte-Carlo’s prestige is that the casino traditionally gives players hundred-percent guarantee from any types of swindle there.
It considers that roulette is a fight with fate, with chance because a winning here depends not on your skill but on luck only. But owner’s of some establishments don’t agree with such statement of a question. In other words the roulette doesn’t defend from underhand. For example in due time so-called “acicular wheel” was popular. The principle of its’ operation is easy: when pressing a hidden button needle tips sliding in from microscopical outlets situated opposite red or black sockets. There is own needles operating button for each colour. If needles block red wheel sockets a ball surely will fall to the black cell and vice versa. Needles moved off to a background with the appearance of electromagnetic arrangement for roulette wheel operating. Small electromagnet builded into the down side of wheel under appointed numbers and a steel core fixed into a ball. In addition to this attachements brake blocks using sometimes, they stop a wheel if a pedal masking like parquet board is pushed and telescopic roulette table legs changing high of which make a ball falling to earlier chose sockets. But if owners try to deceive clients it would be logically to suppose that luck hunters do the same when don’t rely upon blind chance wheel. Though it’s almost impossible to do these: intricate “systems” or the accuratest calculations don’t allow to “rob” casino. At the best these systems lead to a man loosing minimal sum or neither gain nor lose. But there are exceptions. So, the system invented by English mechanical engineer William Jaggers brought its’ author 180.000 dollars. Jagger’s system based on there are no ideal balanced roulette wheels so it means that physical errors will influence somehow or other on its’ rotation and the result is that some numbers will fall in more frequent theh others certainly. Jaggers employed six assistants assigned to each of them one gaming-table. Everyday the were looking at gaming and wrote down all falling numbers. At the evening engineer gathered notes and analized it. After laborious calculations during month he could say with confidence that some numbers falling frequincy doesn’t keep within probability theory. After that Jaggers came to a casino himself and took part in a game staking on numbers marked earlier. Four days later he holded enormous amount in his hands.

But such cases are rare that’s why in roulette game (on conditions that it goes clear on the casino’s side) we can expect to a fortune only. And it smiles just for ones.

AWP – Amusement with Prizes.

AWP playing machines came from Great Britian where they took a place of “classic” british fruit machines with the electronics development. I’ll remind you that fruit slots (three drums and one line usually) give players accidentally extra possibilities to operate a game. There are two ways usually:
•    to nudge one drum such a way when a drum moves one symbol down. There are variants when you can not use available nudges but to keep them for next round, to get repeat nudges in the next round or to risk and to increase / decrease a number of nudges.
•    to hold any number of drums – in a next spin only unholded ones will be revolving.
AWP slots add one more opportunity – it is a prize game. The base is an ordinary one-line slot with accidental nudge and drums hold opportunities. But over some symbols on drums are shown any number (from 1 to 5) or symbol – everything is small and not covering the main symbol. These symbols mission is to initate a bonus game. If it is numbers we have to collect 7-8 points at least, if it is symbols – three symbols in a field of vision (it’s not obligatory in a one line, but on every of nine symbols which are visible on a screen). After a bonus game starts, there can be diverse variants also. One variant is a Hi / Low game, where a number (or some) from 1 to 12 is given a player and a player have to guess if the next occuring number hi or low. If you guess you walk up one step in prize table, if you don’t your bonus game finished. You can stop every moment when your bonus collected. It’s clear that the hier the bonus is bigger. In some cases a player can choose type of bonus (money, nudges, any bonus thing). In other variant of bonus  a game field with some squares  is shown to a player, each of these squares has it’s own type of game. You press the “Spin” button, the number occurs and you move check boxes from start field to turned out numbers.

There a “choosing game” is waiting for you, different variants of winning is twinkling there and you have to choose your winning by pushing the “Stop” button. If you like your winning you can take it pushing the “Collect” button or you can continue the game pushing the “Spin” button. You can get money, free spins, any bonus thing as a winning. If you’ll get to “mysterious”sector marked with interrogatory you can loose in this type of game. The most probable choice options there is a loss.
In AWP, bonus games and sometimes in main game you can win one of the bonus “things”. Among them are:
•    Shifta (Spin a Win) – gives a random winning combination in slot;
•    Boost – adds points;
•     Stoppa fruit (Cash Blaster, Reel Roulette, Pick a Win) – winning combinations become twinkle in slot, you stop twinkling and choose combination occurs;
•    Win Series – starts up series of winning combinations;
•    Exclusive game bonus – usually it calls like the game and gives a maximal gain.
Generally I recommend to read rules and discriptions of bonuses, because I am misled a little in these bonus opportunities even after an hour playing different AWP .
One more AWP type has another principle of operation. In the main game it is a classic slot but if you’ll collect three identical symbols on a line you will not get a money prize but accordingly number of bonus spins. And these spins wuoldn’t be in the main slot but in the bonus. Bonus slot usually has it’s own symbols, payings table and five lines. This bonus slot give a winning every spin almost unlike the classic slot where winnings are quite rare.
And some own opinion in conclusion. I don’t know what is a payings percent in Microgaming casino AWP playing machines but I doubte if it is high. In one game I couldn’t win anything during 50 spins (it was my first trial though and I didn’t use all opportunities of the game fully). To my mind AWP with bonus games are rather interesting if these games occur not very rare. Unfortunately it’s not easy to wait for bonus in some games, winnings occur very infrequent in the main slot. Mainly it is a game with quite rare winnings and the worse is that hopes for big gain are minimal. Besides as I understand AWP games haven’t to be random. I got added avidance myself in one of Hi / Low games, I won only few times even so when start number was not 6 or 7 but 3, 4, 11. Though I advise you to try this game in the cause of acquaintance. I have not bad impression of the Apocalypses Cow game, there bonus rounds are given often so the result is rather big payings . Seek and maybe ye shell find likable for you AWP game machine.

I-slots (interactive slots) – are the next video-slots step.
Video slots are popular all over the world – good graphics and sound, rich stakes changing opportunities, lots of different bonus games, everything is talking in favour of this type of game machines. But the industry doesn’t stay on its’ place, companies endeavour to develop their game machines offer new abilities to players. One of these novelties are i-slots (where “i” means “interactive”). This is the next level of video slots development, which offers players more abilities and   more game pleasure. I can’t say that it is a quiet principled type of game but i hope players will like it. I-slots usually offers nice stills (painted in flesh) forestalling game stages which adds points.
Nowdays there are two main i-slots types in online casino.

The base is an ordinary video slot with standard opportunities – “wild”, bonus, “disconnected” symbols. In the first i-slot type the difference to ordinary slots is a bonus game. In video slots bonus game is the “guess game” – you choose one by one line of “containers” and collect points untill stumble on “losing container”. In interactive slots there are games where a gain will depends on your skills also. For example in golf game “Hole in Won” you set a direction and power of your kick and have to score a ball by the lesser count of kicks geting round obstacles on a field. The less kicks the bigger gain. In other game you’re flying in space and shooting asteroids, every missed of your sluggishness asteroid will cause your money. I can’t say that these games are difficult or gain size is limit but it’s more interesting nevertheless then guess boxes.
Another i-slots type shows player a whole story. Let’s look for example “Bank Heist” game. Thirst round – “Plan” is an ordinary video slot, you have to collect three “disjointed” tommy gun symbols to pass it, after the bonus game will come. There are two variants of bonus game passing – you find a key and get to the bank or the alarm system wenting off and you have to run away. The second round starts “In the bank” or “Escape”. In these rounds we’re playing video slot again but with other symbols yet, other paying table, other additional “things” in “tag”. You run away from chase, can’t you? You forse a safe, don’t you? So there is an ordinary bonus game again and receipt of extra winnings. The third round is “Dynamit” – offers another its’ own variant of video slot. When you reach the end of the game (you succesfully skiddoo with money or you are catched) everything starts all over again and you have some free spins.
Some words about my own sensations. Interactive slots conception is likeable for me. In one game you get pleasant emotions like in some games. It’s more interesting to play – you’re waiting for some joy of next round. Besides it found out on practice that some of i-slots have quite good payings percent. My own preference is mentioned “Bank Heist”. I was laundered bonuses there, played rather long and remained with little plus in total. You can’t win great money here but everything has action, winnings and bonus rounds are rather frequient, you haven’t to wait for a long time turning drums idle.Nowdays interactive slots are present in Rival soft casino only but I think thant this conception soon will get its’ spreading in other online casino.

Different internet casino tournaments are well-known for a long time, usuallu they could be found in a section “Promotions”. Tournaments are one of the active players’ encouragement form – prizes are usually given players who staked more then others. Such a tournament is usually sponsor by casino so players haven’t to pay a participation they have to play only. So this is a type of bonus for outstanding players. It’s clear that a person who will stake a lot has chances in such a tournament. And you have to have a lot of money to play big stakes (or you have to be very lucky). In some casino such tournaments are carry for certain games, in others – for any. Somewhere it is a once-only actions for casino birthday or other occasion. In other – it is main type of players’ encouragement. For example some Microgaming casino groups carry such tournaments from time to time. If to speak about russian casino Grand Casino carries roulette tournaments from time to time for example. Russian casino offers monthly tournaments for each of available games instead of deposite bonuses. So if you are an outstanding player it makes sense to participate in such tournaments if not there is no mouch benefit for you.
Generally speaking I want to tell here about other tournaments. Real tournaments, where the main factor is not purse thickness but art of game. Probably many heard about pocker tournaments, for example about world pocker series (WSOP) where the best club pocker players meet and compitate each other. Analogous offline casino tournaments exist for a long time sufficiently, for example there are blackjack championships, craps tournaments and other games. Recently casino tournaments become more popular online. Casino with Microgaming, Cryptologic, Vegas Technology (Odds-on) soft gave an opportunity to participate different tournaments. Slots tournaments are the most popular online, then blackjack tournaments, roulette and other pocker games from video pocker to let-it-ride coming.
What is such a tournament? A scheme is easy: casino announcing a tournament, start and end time (lasting from 15 minutes to month, about a day usually), start supply of chips (1-5 thousands usually) tournament contribution (from 0 to $1000, $10 as usual), prize fund distribution are giving. Each participant pays tournament contribution and gets tournament chips, usually it’s possible to join every moment before the end of a tournament even ten minutes before finish. Offline players play at common tables simultaneously but online everyone plays on one’s jack like in ordinary game. Player’s job is to gather more money then other tournament participants. Current leaders are showing in tournament’s lobby so you can always asses your position concerning opponents. A number of prize places is proportional to a number of participants and a prize fund is the same. I hope it’s clear that tournament chips can’t be converting to money but if you’ll become a prize winner you’ll get a gain on your account.
There are a lot of types of tournaments like pocker. The most pleasant for some players are freerolls – tournaments with free entrance. You haven’t to pay tournament contribution but a prize fund is small and there are lots of rivals. There are “guaranteed” tournaments where a prize fund is fixed in spite of participants number (or minimal prixe fund guarantee). There are tournaments-satellites – tournaments with a cheap contribution where the prize is an entry to next larger and expensive tournament.
In tournament game there are one’s own strategy which can differs from ordinary gambling. When playing for money most players’ job is not to loose. Player plays carefully, tries to prolong pleasure and not to loose. Tournament’s job is maximal gain. Dawdling around basic amount makes no sense, you wouldn’t get to prize winners for sure. It doesn’t matter for you if you’ll loose all money or breake even – you’ll spend contribution money to no purpose. That’s why tournaments game strategy is on “endsville” formula. You’ll have to make big stakes, risk. There are two main approaches to a tournament game which are calling conservative and agressive. Conservative approach stipulates “slow” beginning of a tournament. Stakes are rather small without special risk, the main aim is to hold out and look around other participants’ progress. As a tournament sitation becomes clear stakes increase and a player tries to run after leaders. By agressive approach a player starts playing about maximum stakes immediately. Someone stakes all money if table limit allows. The main task is to take the lead quickly and to watch competitors from the leader’s position. By the way this method enables to economize on time – lose quickly and can take a rest till next  tournament if the game doesn’t go . Choose the variant you like but there is an advice in tote – to play “against the crowd” it means that if the majority plays conservative you’ll play agressive and the other way.
If you’re playing blackjack or other game which has a basic srtategy you have to follow strategy. The only exception is few last deals (when the time is up). If you have to reach your opponents quickly and you haven’t time you can go away from “base” sometimes, you can divide tens or double. Don’t hope your luck, play with strategy. By the way different stakes strategies like martingail can be use here, it’s a tournament, you don’t afraid of loosing your money, you are interesting in gain. In this case dispersion is not your enemy but a friend. You have to risk to score a success!
A little advice – before the first tournament look for previous results to understand what to seek to. I can say that I was playing blackjack in one freeroll. Start stake was 2 000, maximum stake was 200. I could raise to 5 000 and stuck after it but leaders had about 10 000… But it is the freeroll, paid tournaments are easier…
I hope you’ll be interesting in tournaments. Casino tournaments allow you to move up from negative average of distribution to positive! There are two ways – tournaments with gaurantied prize fund can offer the greater prize then sum of gathered players’ contributions, these automatically makes a game prize. The second aspect is your game level. If you follow the basic strategy and ready to play reckless you’ll get an advantage over opponents. Practically not all players know a basic strategy and tournament game principles too. As you compete not with a dealer but with other participants you get above the average chanses, it means that you play a surplus. So if you want to play reckless and don’t afraid of possibility to loose everything, take part in tournaments – you’ll get a pleasure and can win quite good money.

Many times passed after the appearance of the thirst game-playing machine, but the myths about functioning of these machines lasts.
During the most part of 20-th century slots were the same. Three turning drums, revolving firstly by hands, and then with the electric switches. The position in which drums stopped generally depended on the gravity.
Since then time of drum’s revolving and the number of symbols on every drum are the same, chances and probabilities could be counted up by compiling of the drum symbols scheme and the stakes system could be improved for giving sharp players an advantage.
Everything changed in 1984, when Inge Telnaus was patented his computerized method when slots’ results were calculate. When the system was spread, players ceased to trust game machines. In consequence, a lot of myths about how a computer chooses win variant and how a player can get the best chance to win appeared.
People don’t like to trust computer technologies. And they can’t believe that the result choosing by computer can be accidental. Thereby, myths, logical but mistaken and absolutely absurd, continued. Now it’s time for casino players to publish short description of the most popular delusions about slots and to show real facts.
But first we have to know what Telnaus with his computerized system, which is the base of all slots, actually invented. The system became famous everywhere like “virtual drum” because with this system the results ceased depend on material drums’ motion. (The patent was bought by just set up Intellectual Graphic Terminal (IGT), and was used by it till the patent time expired in 2004.) Instead of this every result was count by number in the computer program. Low-paid and unpaid results were counted with lots of numbers and jack-pot symbols just with some or the one number. This numbers were record on a game chip with the accidental numbers generating (ANG) device, which is continuously processing all possible combinations with the enormous speed. When players pulled down a handle or pushed a button, the mechanism generates one number in the program in accidental order.
Manipulate with the numbers’ combinations which are attach to every symbol or recurring result in the program, producers theoretically could count a period of expenditure, based on a computer modeling of millions rotations. However mathematical genius couldn’t count chances by counting symbols and looking on a payment table any more, because physical drum’s rotations loosed their sense. ANG device chose a result and gave a signal to a computer pecking motor for stopping a drum. Now drums were used just for showing a result, which was chose by this device accidentally.
There are many articles about ANG and virtual drums system, much more then about other details of slots. Readers write us a lot about different myths of slots’ functioning, players still believe in.
Let’s look at the most spread myths and facts, exposing them. We’re sure that myths’ existence will be continued after the reading of this article, because they have their own life. However we’ll try to give you some facts.
What is real and what’s not when we’re talking about slots?

FICTION: When lots of players win or casino is full, casino can click a switch and lessen your probable win. Or, increase quantity of winnings, on the contrary, if causes go too slowly.
TRUTH: Winning switch is the firmest myth, however the reality is another. There is no any switch on the casino personnel’s monitor for changing slots’ winning program.
The working principles are the following. Slots producers demonstrate their software in front of casino leaders like prototypes. If leaders like what they see, they order a complete set of slots, choosing from 6 or 7 probable recoupment programs, which are offering by slots producers. These recoupment programs are recorded to the game chip on a plant by programmers, who theoretically were calculate resetting time using a computer by simulating slot’s work for a few years. Chips also get a state control agencies’ evidence, which made the same calculations to check theoretical win percent. Slots are delivering to casino when chips are integrated in already and access denied.
Chips, that were integrated once, remain in the slot till the end of operation usually. It can be changed if a slot doesn’t get a profit, however it also causes a control agencies’ evidence. So practically it is easier to change a slot, if it doesn’t get a profit, then change a winning probability, for casino.
According to the regulations currently in force, changing of winning probability requires case’s opening and switching chips. And inspectors have to be informed beforehand about place and time of it to control changes. Casino simply can’t allow these.
Winning probability is one of the main casino’s politic regulations in every country. If you have any doubts, pay attention to annual loose awards, adjudging to slots. These digits are the same every year and they reflect real payments, not theoretical.  If a slot is not profitable, casino doesn’t change winning percent. They just change a slot.

FICTION: If programmer can determine slot’s winning probability, results of any rotation can’t be random.
TRUTH: Results of any rotation are random. Programmer’s manipulations with a winning probability achieves by coercion on a set of numbers. There the random results are choosing. Winning probability reduces if low or loosing results are set for greater quantity of numbers.
Winning probability increases, if big gain is setting for a greater quantity of numbers. The reason is not manipulation, but the probability theory: quantity of numbers changed once will be generating in random order.
Imagine a programmer created a machine, which demonstrating easy coin dropping. One number he set for the obverse side of coin and the other for the opposite side. During all game the obverse side will occur as often just like the opposite side. Thereby this game will give back as much as it will take – he programmed the game on 100% correlation of winnings and looses quantity. But actual coin turning is random. Obverse side can occur five times in succession or even two obverse sides will alternate with three opposite… but recoupment will be 100% after all. Howbeit actual coin turning and actual result generation by ANG are random.

FICTION: Winning probability is always more when stake is maximal.
TRUTH: Computer is not worry about how much is your stake. It generates numbers in random order, irrespective of stake. The truth is that “multiplying” game – for example jack-pot quantities are multiple numbers accurate of the coin’s value: 10 coins for one staking person; 20 for two; 30 for three; that’s why there is no point in stake’s increasing to maximum. Winning probability and success frequency are not irrespective from stake too.
This reality can be change by payments program or by making winning combinations only. If this is a “buy-and-pay” program, you’ll see in the table that some jack-pots can be activated after second or third coin only. In that case winning probability will increase really with growing of stake. However not a stake increases probability, but a payments program. Actual result will be the same, in spite of the stake size; a payment will be the other only.
If all combinations are not activated, in case of multiline drum or videoslot winning probability will be less, and it will grow with every coin, which is activating a next combination. When all combinations will be activating, will happen the same like ‘with the instantaneous multiplier – if you’ll make a stake, which is enough for all combinations activation, winning probability and frequency will be invariable.
If a slot doesn’t get a profit, casino doesn’t change percent correlation of winning. They change a slot.

FICTION: Slot pays more (or less) if I put in my club card.
TRUTH: One more everlasting myth is a club card functioning. Information read-out device for cards doesn’t connect with slot’s computer chip. Actually this device is situated in isolated place, in the upper side of slot’s case. It intends just for game registration: a coin is insert or extract. Device transfers this information to the main club computer in the case of reward for game devotion. A club member’s card doesn’t influence on the results any way, these results will be reach by the way of working of ANG program.

FICTION: Casino worker, who knows slots, can unerring predict when slot is “waiting” for jack-pot.
TRUTH: Players often pay personnel for direction to the slot which “have to” win. And those who do these waste their money in vain. Every slot’s rotation doesn’t depend on previous or next absolutely.
Slot’s ANG go over all possible combinations more then 100 times on a second. That’s why if on some slot doesn’t occur a jack-pot for several weeks it doesn’t mean that it will occur today, tomorrow or in a week. Or that it can occur in the next game. Not you and not casino worker can’t know that exactly.
These apply to the case, when casino worker is looking for some slot during long time, and then advices to use it instead of tips. In the TV-program “Megabaxes” was shown, that when the wining absence reaches unprecedented proportions, it becomes a bringing disaster because of the “jack-pot fever”, as it calls. More people will play, increasing its probable occur today or tomorrow. Leave your tips for cocktail delivery boy.

FICTION: Player, who sits down and hit the jack-pot immediately, “steals” previous player’s gain.
TRUTH: Nobody can steal jack-pot. It was marked earlier, that ANG go over all possible results few times on a second. To believe that previous player “steal” your jack-pot – means that you would press the drum’s stop button exactly in the nanosecond like he was. The probability of this case is astronomical. You could hit a jack-pot or loose. It’s impossible to know this, that’s why you haven’t to experience about it.

FICTION: Casino always place constantly loosing slots at the border, for one can see that people win.
TRUTH: There is only a grain of truth – no more. It’s logical – to place winning slots in the most visible location, however really, casino managers stir them. As it was mentioned earlier, winning probability – is the casino politic, that’s why slots situated at the border, have to repay yourself finally, like the slots which are situated in the middle. That’s why the destination of all slots situated in casino is the same.

FICTION: The result of the second prize window is predetermined, that’s why if you can choose a hidden bonus, player’s choice doesn’t have any importance.
TRUTH: Actually, player’s choice in prize game, as it calls, does matter. When a prize game is running, AGN mechanism chooses the one prize quantity screen. After that a player makes a decision to increase or diminish a sum himself. Most of new slots control that by reproduction of all possible variants, after the player makes his choice. This function doesn’t influence on the game anyway; producers start to make this way because they constantly got questions from players about the importance of their choice in prize game.

FICTION: Counting the quantity of intervals and symbols on the drum relative to reward for every winning combination, skilful in math man can determine a slot drum’s wining probability.
TRUTH: It existed in old times really, when virtual drum system wasn’t invent yet. Though, as it was mention in the introduction, the symbols quantity hasn’t an importance any more. The probability of symbol’s occurring on the screen now operating with the computer AGN.
Assigning lots of numbers for one or set of symbols, programmers reach the result, when comes out a drum tape with hundreds of symbols, in spite of the drum has 22 stop position in fact. This is the “virtual” drum. Drum tapes on a traditional slot serve the same purpose like the video screen – the result displaying, chosen by AGN. Symbols counting and making a math counting wouldn’t bring anything but the head ache.
Computer is not worry about your stake. It generates numbers in a random order, in spite of your stake.

FICTION: Coin heating or cooling increases winning probability.
TRUTH: That is one more delusion, strange like the others. People actually heated their coins with lighters and packed them in the ice before dropping in. What’s the result? It made the coins hot or cold. And nothing else. If you like slots with note receivers or not, new slots will explode this myth once and for all at least.

FICTION: Drums swinging means that the mechanism is ready for payment.
TRUTH: V.S. Drums are for the results displaying, which is counted by computer. Even if they are swinging, jumping, dancing jiga or singing a national hymn, the result will be the same – the result displaying corresponds on the AGN choice from all program numbers.

There are the other myths, which we are back to sometimes in our letters section, and which are persistently lasting their existence in spite of factually information. … Lever twitching against the button switching, casino never let us win, casino stuff change winning probability during working with a slot… This list can last. However we have no enough places for enumeration of all lists, that’s why we have to leave something for letters.
Finally I want to say the following: the most part of myths bases on a view that casino is a place where everyone wants to cheat a player and take his money illegally. If you believe this, think about the casino have no necessity on this absolutely. Casino has a licence for taking money lawfully about 2-5% from stake on the majority of games. And we, players, give this money willingly for excitement feeling and regular big gains. Everybody is happy, casino gets money, and players have a respite of daily problems and sometimes get their gains. The main thing is the game doesn’t become a besetment idea. It’s impossible to become rich when playing slots, it’s a good pastime only. Remember about it and good luck for you!