This is an interesting question. Since video poker machines cannot be "changed" without a visible alteration to the pay-table, I can only guess you are asking about slots.
My first question to you would be, "why are you playing slots in the first place?" But assuming you have a good reason...
In the old days most casinos only changed slot return after monthly or quarterly accounting sessions, or even more commonly during remodeling. Changing the return of a slot required replacing the reels and as this was costly, it was usually avoided. Nor did the casinos need to change them, many slots (Even the ones with 10% meter-rise) had massive holds and needed no alteration to be big bread winners for the house.
Machines might be shut down and checked for errors mid-month, only if they required 3 fills in a shift (standard house rule). Even so they were not changed, only fixed, if broken.
This is no longer the case. Now changing the return of a slot only requires swapping out the chip-set, with no alteration to the hardware or physical reels. I have even heard that some casinos can alter return on the fly with newly available software suites.
I have not personally verified or disproved these claims, since I stopped playing slots the day the went electromechanical.
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