peeing u off

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bob666
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peeing u off

Post by bob666 »

just a quick question if any body can anser please when playing machines and lets just say u have 2 blue sevens on the left and right whell and u dont hold and thne u spin and a blue seven will drop in the middle does that mean it would of droped in if u held the other 2 blues r does it just to pee u off
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Post by rocket »

does it just to annoy you.
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Post by pokerpete »

no it doesn't
random
you forget the times you don't hold and it doesn't drop in
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It's not as random as you think. Machines do stuff like this as a strategy to get mugs to think they've nearly got a win, thus making them put more money in. Think about it.....how many times do you get rolled a 2 on your last credit with machines that have trails going to 4. It makes you put in another quid for the hold, which most of the time never materialises. Can't remember the proper term for it, but it is pre built into AWPs.
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Post by harry 3 »

The leaving of two like symbols on the last credit scam comes to mind.

Or the one nudge when you need two nudges scam

Or the lower than 11 for jackpot scam.

and The jackpot repeat chance scam when it never repeats.
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Mattb wrote:It's not as random as you think. Machines do stuff like this as a strategy to get mugs to think they've nearly got a win, thus making them put more money in. Think about it.....how many times do you get rolled a 2 on your last credit with machines that have trails going to 4. It makes you put in another quid for the hold, which most of the time never materialises. Can't remember the proper term for it, but it is pre built into AWPs.
I know it seems like that but it's very rarely true.
The human brain is a pattern spotting machine. It's how the thing works.
Sometimes it spots patterns that aren't there.


harry2 wrote:The leaving of two like symbols on the last credit scam comes to mind.

Or the one nudge when you need two nudges scam

Or the lower than 11 for jackpot scam.

and The jackpot repeat chance scam when it never repeats.
top one is random

losing nudges are standard pseudo activity and gambling lower than 11 for jackpot on a lapper is trap a decent player shouldn't be falling into. neither of which are really 'scams'

repeat chances. when will people get a grip on this. your repeat chance is never more than 50/50.
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Post by Drpepper »

It's frowned upon by bacta, but i don't think there's anything they can do to eradicate the problem.
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Post by Matt Vinyl »

never more than 50/50.
I'd say it's never as much as 50/50... ;)
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Post by stuart4010 »

Streakypoos is spot on, there was a bit on a tv programme a while ago about national lottery scratchcards - they bought hundreds and found that they all (i think it was all, if not a vast majority) had at least 1 pair of cash amounts the same, thus trying to mess with johnny munter's head and say "oh, close but no cigar.... maybe the next one you buy will have 3 cash amounts the same".

It's a simple bit of pyschology that works wonders for the gaming industry however it manifests itself.
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Post by Dynamike »

Mattb wrote:It's not as random as you think. Machines do stuff like this as a strategy to get mugs to think they've nearly got a win, thus making them put more money in. Think about it.....how many times do you get rolled a 2 on your last credit with machines that have trails going to 4. It makes you put in another quid for the hold, which most of the time never materialises. Can't remember the proper term for it, but it is pre built into AWPs.
Exactly, this is why Extremes are/were so profitable as you're making them do what they would only tease at doing.
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