--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Mickey" <mickeycrimm@...> wrote:
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> I'm dying to know the third way. But here's a little trick I used to use on the IGT Vision Series advantage slots. On the machines made before 2000 you could get down in the window and look past the third reel to see the coin in and coin out meters. I used to track those meters to get an idea how strong or weak the payback was. The intelligence came in real handy.
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> Take the Wild Cherry Pie, the original version where you had to put all 54 cherries in the pie to get a 40 to 200 coin bonus. The top line hit did not get recorded in the coin out meter. So the biggest hits going into that meter was 100 for 1 for three sevens or if you caught the 200 coin bonus after filling the pie.
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> After 30,000 or so coin in I had a good idea of the payback percentage of that particular machine. If the coin in - coin out meters showed that particular Cherry Pie was only returning 90% then I would only play it if there were just a few cherries to go. But on a machine that showed a 97% return I would play it when it was only half way filled up.
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I forgot the big hit for putting 3 wild cherries in the window. But it still works the same.
