Slot Machine Payouts Are Not Random - Here's Why

Anyway, the above's my take on the article.  Over here, when machines first started being computerized there were tons of bugs and tricks in the programs you could use to literally empty the things.  There's a few around you still can do.  

I thought I'd share a lovely trick that still works in a small number of poker games. The games were paying out in pound coins and if you had a big win, and they were counting up the coins they were paying out using a clicker, it could take AGES paying the win out.
 So some genius designer came up with an infra-red light beam in the coin chute - every time a coin broke the beam the machine counted up one till it hit the amount needed to pay out but it could just pour the coins down the chute in a steady stream, each one breaking the beam in passing.  

Much faster.  Till some genius player realized that if you shone a red light up the chute it kept the beam from being broken so the machine never realized how many coins it was paying out!

 Because the 'random number generators' on Vegas bandits are NOT random - I've showed that in the article, I think - there ARE guys out there with programs that can 'watch' a machine on a certain denom/stake, work out where it's gotten to in its non-random numbers list (there's a LOT of numbers but the guy's patient, he sits having a few drinks and letting the laptop crunch numbers happily) and he can work out when the best time to shove a few bucks in is to get a fairly guaranteed profit.  

Not a grand or anything like that, but a few decent wins.  Y'see, another thing the casino guys don't want you to realize is when you change denoms, you're changing everything.
 The reels, amount of bonus symbols on the reels, the lot, it's a totally different machine with the same pictures on it!  BUT - the one thing that stays constant is the percentage.  So all you're doing is going from small amounts more often to big dollops less often.  It still adds up to the same percentage.   Check out Mega888.

What the number-cruncher-guy does is go on a small virtual stake with his laptop so it tells him when he's got the most chances of winning SOMETHING (by eventually synchronizing its program to that of the slot machine so it can show where its got to.