Many of you know I’m team “No Button Slapping.” And from the comments I hear from many of you, you agree. One of the elements I emphasize is that button slapping does nothing to help you. One of my viewers asks for clarification on this:
If the second you press the button determines the outcome of a spin, why do you say button slapping doesn’t work? Wouldn’t stopping and starting a spin change the outcome? I’m not a button slapper, but my sister was, and she was much luckier than me.
Roxan M.
Thanks for the question, Roxan! There’s a few elements to this.
The first is slapping a button tends to happen most frequently on games like Lightning Link and Dragon Link during the hold and spin bonus. When you do this, if you pay attention, nothing happens to make the spin goes faster. In fact, the rules inside those two slots confirm this is the case. We’ve included a picture here to show you what I mean.
So when you slap the button (or bang the empty spaces remaining on the screen, and so on), it doesn’t make the current spin go any faster (and as you note, the outcome of that spin was established when the spin started). And because it doesn’t speed up the spin, all that slapping is a lot of exerted effort for nothing.
But for players around them, it’s more about it being very loud, very annoying and an overall very frustrating experience to hear someone slapping and beating the machine for no reason (especially once you know it’s truly no reason). Are there games where the spins speed up? Sure. And for those around us, that is actually a relief because it speeds up those bonuses and gets them out of it faster.
But since the previous spin isn’t faster on the games where players are doing it, it really doesn’t change the next outcome, which is the second point. And the final point is that even if it was, you don’t know if it’s changing that spin for the better or the worse, because you don’t know what the other outcome would’ve been if you hit the button at a different time.
Now, for those games where slapping does speed up spins, another thing to consider is that you can complete more spins. So it may seem like a player is doing better because they’re getting more bonuses, but they’re compressing the spins it takes to get to that next bonus, and are taking more spins, which means more wagers. More spins means more of everything – winning spins, losing spins, bonuses – but it costs more to get them.
So no, I hold my position here that button slapping doesn’t help anyone. It just makes the casino environment more frustrating for a lot of people, potentially makes the machines less responsive for the rest of us, and for what? Casinos aren’t going to tell them to stop, it’s clear, but that doesn’t mean we have to like it – I certainly don’t.
And finally I’ll say that if you want to button slap, there is a way to spin just as fast by pressing the button with your finger tips without being loud and disruptive! But something tells me it’s more about the noise they like, and the attention it gives them by letting their neighbors know they have a bonus. Maybe I’m on to something?
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