I guess it really boils down to WHY are you changing machines. In my local
casino, I have about a half dozen "favorite" machines. In area 1, if I'm not
doing well on machine 1, I'll move to machine 2. Why, you might say. Well,
because I was playing DDB on one and am now going to play P'em on the other. Why
sit there and watch nothing hitting on DDB, when you can change the game and
maybe, therefore, your results.
In another area, I'll switch from DDB to DDStud. Its not a question of changing
because the randomnicity (is that a new word I just invented?) is changed by the
physical act of moving. Just the game I'll be playing.
BTW, my "favorites" are machines that are located in places I find conducive to
comfort and good concentration skills: generally in quieter areas, located
behind a pillar to prevent bumping, good air circulation, etc. They do have good
pay tables, but so do many other machines. I just prefer these certain few.
If I am on a favorite, and its paying like an ATM, I'll sit there forever.
Thank you for your praise on our discussion, it's fun for me as well. I don't
get out much.
You hit on most of the key points of streaks when you said, "not anything that
you could count on at all, or predict, or make happen."
You missed one: or prove that they exist.
To say for sure that changing machines influenced your results, one would need
to be able to go back in time, not change machines and see if anything altered.
And if this was possible, we'd find out that in some cases changing machines did
improve results, and in other trials staying put would actually have been
better. It's the nature of randomness.
Try this experiment, every half-hour stand up and loudly say, "I'm changing
machines" (just stay where you are, no need to exert yourself). Then keep mental
records as though you really did change machines. You'll find that the
vocalization and creation of a imaginary line of demarcation in your mind, has
the exact same effect as getting up and really moving.
Sometimes your "new machine" will be a lot better than your "old machine". Other
times it will be just as bad or worse. Almost as though it was "random".
"We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living."
— Stephen King
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Valerie Pollard" <vpollard@...> wrote: Frank,
But I'm curious as to your response regarding "streaks" that appear due to
randomness....and the fact that you *could* happenstance upon a happier streak
on another machine, possibly. This is something I see as a factual possibility
- though only that and as I said before, not anything that you could count on at
all, or predict, or make happen.
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