Video poker games and slot machine games share multiple similarities, but the one most pertinent to this page is that they both have pay tables. The purpose of this page is to explain why video poker pay tables are so important to experts and intermediate players alike. Read the Pay Table In general the pay table of a video slot machine can be in one of three places. On the top front of the game above the screen, on the lower panel below the screen or on the screen itself accessible via a view payouts or help button. Slots Pay Table. The most important feature when choosing a machine is the slots pay table. Seriously, the name of the slot is not important! It’s the pay table that should determine whether you play a certain machine. Ignore the top jackpot and concentrate on the numbers in the middle of the board.
Pay cycles? Oh yeah, that is the neophyte slot player's theory that slot machines sort of sit there and count up how much has been taken in since the last jackpot payout and only after some unknown amount of cash is put through the machine does the machine enter a pay cycle wherein the player can win a jackpot.
But does this stuff belong in a newsletter authored by a Harrah's host?
Would the Gaming Commission feel something was amiss with corporate statements such as this that promote obsolete myths about the operation of slot machines and suggest that a RNG is somehow turned on and off by the amount and timing of coins-in?
Here is the full paragraph:
SLOTS: I can only speak for the last week. Taxable jackpots were plentiful. Players were hitting majors of $10-$20 and $30k. After being slow since the end of September, I suppose there has been enough played on these machines to turn them back onto the pay cycles. Remember, these machines are $1-$5 denomiations. The pennies and quarters were steady but not allowing wins at the end. Since most of you are playing for fun, I suggest moving around quite a bit if the machine does not give you any coin-out after $40. Video poker has been rough, to say the least. Local, strip and downtown were brutal.
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But it begs some questions:
Who is CJP Gaming? A recognized and respected source or the author's initials with 'gaming' stuck on there?
And just who is the author? A casino exec or some lowly bean counter?
> But it begs some questions:
>Who is CJP Gaming? A recognized and respected source or the author's initials with 'gaming' stuck on there?
You got it!!
>And just who is the author? A casino exec or some lowly bean counter?
You got it again!!
He is an independent national host somewhat recently hired by Caesars. So he is an independent contractor probably paid a bounty for bringing in new players with lots of money. Claims to have been in Vegas since '82 and to be a gambler himself. Yet there are Caesar's logos and advertisements all over his blogs.
I'd pay it no never mind. He's not going to change any minds, just like The Wiz isn't going to change the minds of the people who believe in the cycles.
It's disgusting, pathetic, complete sh_t and exactly what you would expect.
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Well, for those who want a host at Caesar's .... be my guest. Go ahead and contact him. Maybe on your next trip to Vegas the slot machines will be 'in cycle'. By the way, do people say 'thrower' or 'shooter' at craps these days. And he is a gambler, not merely a national host. Seems he is simply full of hot air but doing what politicians and casino-hosts have to do to survive: get out and work the crowds. Just as a politician's speech is often full of hot air, so to is the casino-host's speech.I like how he reports on gambling likes its the weather report.
That's it. Precisely!! Just as you might check the weather report yourself before deciding to take a trip to your favorite fishing camp he is indeed providing you with the 'weather report' for gambling in Vegas. The trout are running and chomping on hooks that don't even have to be baited, they just jump right into your boat. The cards are just nothing but Aces and Jacks. The Dice tumble with just a good hard stare, the lovely young maidens are throwing themselves at men like there is no tomorrow, so hop on a plane and get here fast. Come on down!!This from a national host!! Probably none of his readers play slot machines and none of them believe in this 'cycles' nonsense but he is going to spout anything at all about as many types of gambling as he can so as to cast a very wide net in hopes of trapping somebody into believing him.
Is it any wonder that gamblers opt to simply go to a local Tribal casino than bother to trek to Vegas to get such blatant hucksterism?
It's badly written, rambling nonsense,
And just who is the author? A casino exec or some lowly bean counter?
Its still around so it seems to have morphed into a reservations company as well.
And CJP is a friend and apparently a partner of the well-respected Gambling Historian Ph D at UNLV.
Here is some recent data from facebook... it is not posted as an advertisement but solely posted to show the ways in which there has been a transformation between my initial posting in this thread and in the current situation.
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Slot Machine Patterns
When playing a slot machine, any slot machine, you will experience a what seems to be a random “pattern” of wins and losses. It is often difficult to spot a pattern but the more you play the better your ability becomes in recognizing these patterns. In fact, the more you play, the easier it is to teach yourself to recognize and learn each slot machine pattern. The quicker you see a pattern, the better your ability is to either bet down, or even walk away when a machine is in a losing cycle, (or down cycle) and/or bet up when on a wining cycle, (or up cycle).
Since each spin of a slot machine is different from every other, some people attribute these cycles to nothing more than luck. Therefore, some players will say that when a machine loses a few hands, it is not neccesarily in a down cycle nor winning a few hands means it is in an up cycle. Due to the Random Number Generator in every slot machine, which makes every spin different from every other, there is no real way to predict any future spin from any past. Therefore, it is often a matter of luck when you lose 20 hands in a row and then hit the jack-pot on the very next spin. This is why you will see experienced players hanging back watching a machine. They are waiting for the person playing it to hit a down cycle, cash out and move to another machine, while they swoop in and hope to catch the up cycle patterns.
These cycles suggest to some players that a slot machine may be either programmed or simply fall in intervals which lead to higher slot pay-outs. The more a machine takes in on a down cycle, the better the return is on an up cycle. So if you see someone quickly go thru say $100.00 on a slot machine, with no real hand, that might very well be the machine to jump on in hopes to catch its profitable up cycle. I too have tried this very system time and again, on several different slot machines, but the payoffs always lead to the question, is this a sound system or is it simply luck or coincidence if or when that machine hits shortly after the “down cycle”? It is very hard to judge, as it really is a hit or miss with the Random Number Generator at work.
The notion is that there is one ongoing list of numbers called “the computer selection table” that the random number generator selects from, which is a list that sometimes contains more losing numbers at one point and more winning numbers at others. Determining which part of the computer selection table is the real point of this slots strategy. However, keep in mind, the Random Number Generator selects from hundreds of number combinations every second, so when you hit “spin” the Random Number Generator collects the last number it generated and matches it with a corresponding reel placement. This determines if you win or not. Since you are seeing the results of significantly less than one percent of all the number combinations generated. Therefore, it's very hard, if not impossible, to determine whether you are just missing the jackpot or that you are in one of its down cycles.
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Although it remains a matter of opinion, anyone who sits in front of a slot machine long enough to plot up and down cycles will tell you, if you are losing consistently, that’s usually a sign to cash out and try your luck at a different slot machine as it does you no good losing your bank roll waiting for an up cycle to bring home a jackpot...