10 thoughts on “How to win at slot machines – Interview with gambling expert Michael “Wizard of Odds” Shackleford”

1. liberty justice i think your right , my wife and i go to casino on strip , got loose slot andmade six one thou wins then machine stop giving walked away wife went to room i stayed and watched other players on same machine they loose their money went back later , other player loose money like machine turned off. this went on for a good ten hours or so then watched another player win one thou he left happy , my wife sat down machine kept putting out money mor come out than went in and kept playing for about six hours and made 3 thou then machine slowed then stopped and was eating money like no tomorrow so she stopped so ya machine does run on cycles so when machine is paying and win big amount hey don't leave it thinking it not gonna pay anymore. at another casino ,man won 700 dollars he happy and left wife sat down after about twenty dollars in bang hit a thousand after that hit 200 then man that won 700 came back not looking too happy .(never leave hot machine) casino on vegas strip women won three thou. machine stopped she went home next day one oclock she back to same machine which was on it's feedme cycle an she put back all the three thou plus digging out more money from purse to try get her money back . so machine don't pay don't play! and when you win go a little more it can pay again but stop when it don't.

2. Why is there no mention of Money in – Money out? Now that all slot machines are controlled by a computer, the computer can assure the casino it will only pay out a certain amount or keep a certain percentage!

3. casino managers control the machines

4. I like how he had to explain like 4 times that every spin was independent.

5. I know of a casino that produced a millionaire every moth for the first few months on the slot machines when they first opened 20 years ago. Since then i don't think they produced anymore millionaires since then. They did it just for marketing reasons. So i don't think the gentleman is telling us the truth about the machines or maybe he does not know how slot machines work

6. well let's see, you could either a) do tens of thousands of spins over the course of years and see if a jackpot ever occurs b) keep playing and realize that just maybe slot machines are completely impossible to win unless a casino manager fixes it for you personally c) talk with a casino manager and see about them fixing it up for you, and realize that they might want you to do ual favors for them or someone else who works there for them to agree to it.

7. You guys never ever talk about how you push the button it freezes to play at that time which I've learned a lot of money on that and if it's predetermined whenever you push the button then you stop it an Nguyen and I do that on the bonus the bonus won't be paying out anything so I start freezing it stop stop you know it changes from what is predetermined I think can you answer that question

8. Maybe because I don't have a addicting personality i knew it was all a scam when I went to the casino the first time put in a few hundred bucks and realized when I was doing 3$ pulls the machine would act like I won but give me a 1.75 back but count up by pennies so it seems like alot. After that happen five six times. I knew it was a gimmick,15 years later I can proudly say I am only down $100 from the casino slots, never played again.

9. I just want 99 cent shrimp cocktail back in Vegas. It was better when the mafia was running Vegas.

10. Couple years ago I was playing a machine called sizzling 7s . The rebels only had 1,2,and 3 bars . Then they had red Stevens, fire 7s which they called sizzling 7s . It was a $1 machine. $1 will only give u bars. $ 2 will give u bars with 7s ,different payouts. Example if u had $ 2 and got 3 different kinds of 7s u would get $ 100 . If u got 3 sizzling 7s with $ 2 u would get $ 500 . Now with $ 3 u would get $1000 . Now to the point . I always put a $ 100 bill to start with . The first spin I hit the $ 1000 . I kept hitting this machine and the cops they give u ,well my wife asked for 1 of those carts . The top and bottom of the cart was full of cups ,no lie or bull bad . The attendant had to restock the slot machine so many times it was funny . What is crazy all this happening less than a hour . Also it was the same attendant each time. So the next to last time ,the attendant got on his radio and talked to someone like I was cheating the machine. So the attendant had someone come down and gave me $ 1000 in hundred Bill's. Which was weird . So the attendant and the other big shot opened up the machine to inspect it ,looking for a JAMES BOND CHEATING DEVICE. Of course there was not. What's is funny is that this older gentleman sitting next to me starting bitching ,yeah when u winning money your cheating but when ur losing money they get a bone. So after 5 or so minutes of them looking around ,they closed the machine. Being a smart ass ,I looked at the older gentleman and said ,that's okay when I pull the handle ,I am going to win another $ 1000 dollars and dont u know that is exactly what happen. The 2 workers I thought were going to have a heart attack. After the $ 1000 slot dollars came out there were still $97 on the meter . I looked at the older gentleman and said here play these $ 97 in slot tokens ,dont u know the attendants push the cash out button after I got my $ 1000 out. They said this machine is out of order until further notice.As I started to push the cart toward the cashier ,the older gentleman said smiling ,II TOLD U THAT WOULD WORK .we both starting laughing our butts off . In total i had $18,572 dollars all together. After getting that i walked back to the same machine.They had it taped off like it was a murder scene . The gentleman i gave the $ 97 dollars to was up above $500 dollars . He smiled and we both laughed ,then he cashed out .He went 1 way and i headed for the door . It was a great day.

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