Brian Christopher has shared periodically that stopping the reels changes your timing. One player recently wrote in, wanting to understand it better:
So, when you say stopping the reels will only change the “timing of your next spin”… do you mean that the next spin will be a different outcome than it would have been, had you NOT stopped the reels manually? Or will the outcome be the same for the next spin also, either way?
Dave D.
Because the outcome of any spin is determined when you make your wager by starting the spin, the outcome for the next spin changes because your timing for the next spin is likely to change when you speed up the counting.
Theoretically, if you stopped the reels, waited a bit, and hit the button at the exact same microsecond you would have if you let the reels count up, your outcome would be the exact same, because your timing would be the exact same.
However, the odds of that happening are pretty low. Most of the time when players speed up the outcome, they’re looking to move on to the next spin faster as well, and so that will naturally change the timing of that next wager, and the outcome that comes along with it.
Now, will that actually be better than the one you would have? No one will be sure, because you don’t see the outcome you gave up in favor of that different timing. It could be better, worse or the same.
So we discourage players from getting too stressed out about that aspect. In the long term, it’ll likely be a neutral outcome – some will be better, some will be worst, and it will likely be a wash in the end.
The main reason why Brian says this is to underscore speeding up the stopping of the spin doesn’t change that spin’s outcome, because it’s decided when you hit spin, not when the spin stops.
It is worth noting, however, that taking more spins in an hour by speeding up the outcome of each spin puts more money at risk – you’re making more wagers on a game that’s designed to make the casino money over time.
So while you may improve your outcome in a single instance, over the long run, it will be a more expensive endeavor, presuming all else equal, vs. letting the spins come to a stop on their own and count up.
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