Fruit Machine Chat

sorry to steal your thread, but I am steaming over an "incident" in Ladbrokes just now. It's nowhere near the scale of what happened to the original poster - but I have been there many times with losing lots on fobts and roulette etc. However, this short story about Ladbrokes should be fai...

no %age payout?

But if you press the "help" button on the machines, it states that there is a % payout.


The "arguement" is whether or not the stated % (approx 97) is actually what the punter is getting.

I'm in agreement too - but how did they go from "pretty good" to "shit"

Numbers playing them has fallen - but annual reports show income to bookies has increased!!

Another random thread about roulette - altho having a leaning towards FOBTs. There are separate threads about FOBTs in particular - but I'd just like to reply to someone's post (About 10 messages up - sorry - forgot to do quote) who said it was stupid covering lots of numbers because you are just wa...

in response to PMK: I can see where you're going - you're giving a few small examples of people playing them (in fairly short time) I agree that those of us that think they are rigged also give small examples - however, I, for one, can look at it over a much longer period - both from playing (rather...

yes I've played them plenty Spyder - and yes on occasion I've played two at a time - on some it does spin the same number - other times it doesn't. Certainly with the old Ladbrokes machines (going back a couple of years) it was far less likely to. However, the much more interesting post (nothing per...

I have no "interests" in these machines - other than almost certainly being (sadly) addicted to them - it could easily have been me in that youtube video - however, whether I am addicted or not, I still feel cheated that I feel that I am being scr***ed because the machines "feel"...

They are not a spinning wheel - we all know that (I think) - the arguement does continue (if people want it to) as to whether or not they are random or even rigged. As Spyder says about the feel, it just doesn't "feel" right when it spins in a losing number - looking at this from both side...

Hi, Just joined - but have been reading these forums on & off for a while. Just read this whole thread - and there a number of interesting thoughts - however, it appears that most people seem to miss the most obvious point (until a poster a few posts back) and that is that on fobts, the machine ...