When you play slot machines, techniques like rapid firing, along with other methods of playing (like stopping a reel when a symbol appears to be going by) doesn’t change the odds of winning, as the game doesn’t take those actions into account.
From a numerical perspective, with rapid firing you can expect to have more bonuses! You’re also expected to have more winning spins! But you can also count on more losing spins too, for a simple reason – rapid firing speeds up the number of wagers you’re placing, and therefore spins you’re completing.
Having more wagers simply means you’ll have more outcomes, both good and bad, to come to light, speeding up the process. The odds on any given spin will be identical, because the same rules around the random number generator will apply, but you’ll just see more outcomes come to light.
For some players, this is an acceptable trade-off, because they just want to get to the good stuff faster – let’s get a big hit or a bonus! Some games will even let you buy a bonus, which can skip all the losing spins altogether and let you get right into a bonus.
Others players who will bet higher on a more regular basis may rapid fire on a lower bet accordingly, as it’ll balance out in terms of the amount of money bet in a certain window of time.
Betting lower and spinning faster is a way to lower the volatility a bit, as your swings can’t be as high or low because you’re betting lower and have more outcomes to provide winning spins to offset losses, or vice versa. But that still doesn’t change the odds, and still doesn’t change the overall expectation of what will happen over time (ie: what the slot will pay out as a percentage).
Ultimately, rapid firing is just another way to play the slots, with the same overall odds as any other way of playing slots, so it shouldn’t be thought of as a technique to do better.
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