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FOBT in the bookies
Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2016 7:15 pm
by Joe
Just spoke to a paddy power employee who said these machines are making the bookies absolutely millions of pounds and they are all fixed to rake it in.
If you want to lose then keep playing. lol.
Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2016 7:35 pm
by doingthem
Roulette doesn't need to be 'fixed'
Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2016 11:21 pm
by quizard
You don't need to speak to any employee to know you are going to lose in the long run. It tells you plainly on the help screen what the % return is: about 88-92% on reel games. So people can't say they are not warned.
Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2016 11:26 pm
by doingthem
If they didn't make money they wouldn't be there
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2016 2:25 am
by bubbles
thanks for that info joe, i'll have to look up the other 5 posts you've made in the past 5 years to see if they are equally insightful! quality over quantity everytime for me! lol
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2016 7:05 am
by BFK
OB has beaten the odds on roulette for the last 20 years.
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2016 2:26 pm
by JG
Many thanks to the OP. I was planning to lose £1,582 this afternoon in the bookies, but I'm not going to bother now.
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2016 5:52 pm
by Roll_With_It_Russ
Surely its a better game if its fixed, you can't be unlucky or pick the wrong numbers.
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2016 7:07 pm
by buzzer
it isnt't fixed, works on odds same as proper roullette.
any number pays 36/1
there are 37 numbers including the zero so a 1/37 chance of picking the right number.
this works out at a payout equalling roughly 97% on average.
this means if you play on and on, you will always eveutually loose everything.
this is why fobt's are very dangerous, you can loose a fortune in a very short space of time..
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2016 8:15 pm
by BFK
Not in OB's case buzzer.
He's beaten those odds and is ahead on roulette.
To most it's an impossible task.
But we are not dealing with an average human being.
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2016 8:36 pm
by buzzer
fair play to him then.. lol
the laws of averages must not apply...
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 4:41 pm
by Plumy2k
I spoke to a ladbrokes employee a few weeks ago who told me the odds of hitting 7 reds in a row was 23 million to one. Did say he had seen it quite a few times, but was adamant he was right.
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 7:35 pm
by titchno1
How is that possible? I thought every spin is separate, the Spin history shouldn't matter?
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 9:22 pm
by Plumy2k
Every spin is meant to be mutually exclusive.
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2016 10:03 pm
by messiah
I have just calculated the chance of 7 reds as being 0.0064 i.e. if you ran 1000 lots of 7 spins you would get 7 reds 6 times on average. Not exactly 1 in 23 million
* I of course may have fucked up the odds...