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The Crazy Myths You Hear about Slots

Never play with slot machines thinking that they're alive, that's crazy. They're just computers. And it would do you good if you play slot machines just to kill time.

This is a pragmatic notion of slots, and a healthy point of view. But would you believe that most players don't see slots this way. In fact, they have a lot of crazy notions of the games. They come from many different origins and have sprouted from a variety of rumors. Once they float around for some time, they become accepted even with the most rationale of us. To stray away from that, here are some reality checks:

� It's best to play slots at certain days of the week or times of day or night than others. This is totally untrue. Slots are simply computers. They don't care if it's a weekend or Christmas or dawn. These computers run multiple numbers continuously every millisecond, 24/7. They run numbers whether they are being played at or not. The winner of the game gets to win entirely by luck, which the computer doesn't even care.

� Seeing someone walk away from the slot machine after playing it for a long time without winning much is a slot machine that's a good one to play at. The good news about this is that it's half true. The longer a slot runs without paying out, the greater the probability that it will. However, that doesn't mean that it will pay out every time. And it doesn't matter how much time it was running or how much money did the last player paid it. Payouts are so spread and are programmed to be random.

� When the slot you've been playing has paid off two or more times in a row, it's going to turn cold according to the theory of probability. Although probability is a mathematical prediction, it computes what is expected to happen and not what should happen. Numbers that would come up next is so random and are completely exclusive to its prior numbers that came out. And remember, slots don't have memory. It also doesn't matter whether you slid coins slowly or fast, or pull the lever down in a jerky motion, or heat the coins or put them in a freezer; slots are impervious to all of these.

The good thing about playing slot machines is that it requires no skills unlike in poker or Blackjack. When you lose, you won't get embarrassed. The only negative thing you might feel is regretting to have slid a coin or two into the machine when it didn't pay out. Then again, when you win, the opposite happens. People look up to you even though you did nothing but pull the lever. And then they'll ask, "whaddya do, heat the coins or somethin'?"

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