Post by Blitz on Jan 28, 2022 9:50:31 GMT -5
I had a buddy that liked to play slots. He would get upset by what he called 'swoopers' - people that would hover around a machine he played for a while and then 'swoop' in just after he got up and hit a winner...
JAN 28, 2022
Casino Scene: The probability of hitting a slot jackpot is constant
There’s a question that has been haunting slot players ever since "one-armed bandits" were invented: "Would the jackpot that somebody just won at the machine I was playing a minute ago have been mine if I had just stayed there?"
The answer is simple: You may have hit the jackpot, but your chances of doing so were the same as the player who did hit it – no more, no less.
Contrary to popular belief, slot jackpots are not events sitting in the machines just waiting for the next player to sit down and initiate a spin. They are totally random occurrences. The odds against hitting the jackpot on any one spin are the same on the next spin as they were on the previous spin.
The chances of hitting a monster progressive on a machine you moved on to are the same as they are on the machine you left.
This fact is made possible by the random generation of combinations of symbols that are common to all computer-driven electronic gaming devices. Games are programmed by the manufacturer for payback percentage and hit frequency, the foundation of which is mathematical probability.
There's another important fact about slot machine play to consider: Every slot machine is continually processing the combinations of symbols whether or not somebody is playing.
In the time it takes the previous player to leave the machine and the next player to sit down, tens of thousands of combinations, if not more, have been generated. It is only when someone initiates a play that the result is revealed.
The machine "locks in" on a combination the instant a play is made. It's just a matter of luck and beating tall odds for a player to catch the jackpot combination at the precise moment it is "flying" through the machine's internal computer "brain".
The odds against hitting the jackpot, depending of course on the machine, range from the hundreds of thousands to one to the tens of millions to one. As remote as that may seem, the possibility is always there every time you make a spin. The probability of hitting "the big one" remains constant.
Continue reading: www.nwitimes.com/entertainment/casino-scene-the-probability-of-hitting-a-slot-jackpot-is-constant/article_40e9c56c-5c3b-57fd-b0ff-00bb2b260627.html
JAN 28, 2022
Casino Scene: The probability of hitting a slot jackpot is constant
There’s a question that has been haunting slot players ever since "one-armed bandits" were invented: "Would the jackpot that somebody just won at the machine I was playing a minute ago have been mine if I had just stayed there?"
The answer is simple: You may have hit the jackpot, but your chances of doing so were the same as the player who did hit it – no more, no less.
Contrary to popular belief, slot jackpots are not events sitting in the machines just waiting for the next player to sit down and initiate a spin. They are totally random occurrences. The odds against hitting the jackpot on any one spin are the same on the next spin as they were on the previous spin.
The chances of hitting a monster progressive on a machine you moved on to are the same as they are on the machine you left.
This fact is made possible by the random generation of combinations of symbols that are common to all computer-driven electronic gaming devices. Games are programmed by the manufacturer for payback percentage and hit frequency, the foundation of which is mathematical probability.
There's another important fact about slot machine play to consider: Every slot machine is continually processing the combinations of symbols whether or not somebody is playing.
In the time it takes the previous player to leave the machine and the next player to sit down, tens of thousands of combinations, if not more, have been generated. It is only when someone initiates a play that the result is revealed.
The machine "locks in" on a combination the instant a play is made. It's just a matter of luck and beating tall odds for a player to catch the jackpot combination at the precise moment it is "flying" through the machine's internal computer "brain".
The odds against hitting the jackpot, depending of course on the machine, range from the hundreds of thousands to one to the tens of millions to one. As remote as that may seem, the possibility is always there every time you make a spin. The probability of hitting "the big one" remains constant.
Continue reading: www.nwitimes.com/entertainment/casino-scene-the-probability-of-hitting-a-slot-jackpot-is-constant/article_40e9c56c-5c3b-57fd-b0ff-00bb2b260627.html