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Originally posted by KRL
I don't trust them either. I went to one of the tribe casino's and nobody was hitting anything on the slots. You could just hear the winning sounds weren't in sync with what you usually hear while you're playing.
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You're absolutely right and the largest payouts on the machine are virtually nothing. I think the largest payout even for the jackpot is like $2500 and you rarely hear about anyone winning that. When the Indian Casinos first got started out here and there weren't very many people playing I would go in and ask my friend about the machines that dropped the pull tabs. Each machine held a roll of pull tabs. On each roll there were 7500 tabs, each roll contained x amount of winners on the payouts. I would go in and stick a buck in one and read the serial number on the ticket and see where they were in the roll. I would then ask my friend when the roll had been changed last and when the last winner of the larger amounts had been. I would then calculate how many tabs were left on the roll and determine if it was worth putting more money in. This sytem worked pretty well for about two months. I think I ended up winning just shy of 20,000 in those two months but when more people started playing it became harder to guage because they added more machines and it was harder to keep track of which ones had been won on.
I do think that the Indian Casinos are doing something that other casinos really should do. They have players cards and you can move from machine to machine with your credits on the card. You can switch between different types of machines and different denominations. I am more likely to set and play longer and spend more money when it's on this card. When i'm on a regular casino machine and I hit a bunch of money or want to change and have to go through the headache of cashing out my machine and then going to cash in the coins i'm less likely to return to a machine. If you're like me you like to go from machine to machine and give each one a few spins to see how they're doing and i'm not going to hassle with dropping several hundred coins each time and either walking around with the cups of coins or locating the nearest teller to cash them in and then walk all the way back. I realize that the lure of the slots is the sound of the dropping coins for most people and that's the theory they base it on but why not offer an either/or situation where people can drop or keep it on their card.