We recently had a doozy of a comment left on one of our posts. The comment is included at the end of this article if you wish to read it in full, but we’re going to focus on the key assertion made and explain why it’s yet another casino myth:
They always say the machine doesn’t have a pattern. Well that may be true but it can read your pattern. So like you always say timing is everything. The results you want are moved. If you’re always pushing the button at the exact same time after the last one, it reads your pattern and places all the outcomes that you want in a different area. That’s random.
William M.
That’s not random, that’s just simply wrong.
Slots’ outcomes aren’t determined by the pacing at which you press the button, because that ignores the fact that the random number generator is randomizing the outcome selection at a rate of hundreds to thousands of times a second, with no input of your spin pacing factored in to how it operates (and has to by regulations).
Changing your pacing doesn’t change anything about how a slot’s outcome is determined, other than a different outcome will be determined. It can’t “place” outcomes based on your pace.
William goes on to say playing faster or slower (as well as fast stopping spins) can improve outcomes, but none of that has an impact on how slot outcomes are decided either (and fast stopping spins, only brings to a conclusion the spin you already initiated – there’s no skill element to slots by stopping the reels).
So ultimately this is just another example of players attempting to detect patterns in pseudo random scenarios, and with selective memory citing the times it supposedly worked, while rejecting the times it most surely did not.
Now for that full comment:
It’s really not about you figuring out the pattern of the slot. It’s more about the slot figures out your pattern. After all, it’s AI. Example; watch your own habits like when you go to push the button, count how how long after the machine stops on the roll before you push the button again. I notice a lot of people don’t even get to the count of lone thousand one before they push the button again. They always say the machine doesn’t have a pattern. Well that may be true but it can read your pattern. So like you always say timing is everything. The results you want are moved. If you’re always pushing the button at the exact same time after the last one, it reads your pattern and places all the outcomes that you want in a different area. That’s random. Try mixing it up. Also, on the very last couple of turns on some of the games like where you might need three balls to get the grand prize slow down. Maybe wait an entire 60 seconds. A lot of times I find that I get down to one ball left. I don’t have as many times where I only get three or four extra balls. There is also a great way to do fast stops but that’s pretty detailed but actually pretty simple to where you can get the chances of hitting something down to one out of three or even to the outside one out of six chance of hitting kind of complicated to write down, but that works really good on some of the machines. If you want I could kind of explain that to you. Changing your pattern randomly creates a problem for the machine to figure out where to put the next set of objects that drop.
William M.
