Here is one thing that is absolutely certain about "pulling the card": there is now a way that is being used to prevent your wins from being hidden by the card pull. I discovered this on one of the Norwegian cruise ships. As long as there are credits left in the machine, pulling the card does not matter. All plays, wins, and losses will continue to accrue to the person whose card was last in the machine. So pulling a card with trip Aces won't have any effect- you might as well leave it in. Only cashing out the machine will stop their following of your play, and you can't do that in th middle of a hand.
When this will hit land-based casinos, I don't know - I haven't seen it there yet, but it is definitely there on at least one Norwegian ship, more probably all of them. I only found out, not because I was doing it, but because someone had left $.05 in credit in the machine, and I asked a host why the machine wouldn't recognize my card. She pointed out the nickel credit and once that was cashed out, the machine accepted my card.
If you cash out under the circumstances Mickey was talking about, I guess zeroing out and then playing would work, but unless you hit on the next spin, your subsequent losses won't be registering.
Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win. -Lazarus Long
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. -Yogi Berra
There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe. -Robert Heinlein
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>You can hear all kinds of different things about pulling the card like:
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>"When you pop in the last cherry reach up and jerk the card out before the credits rack up! The coin out won't register!"
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>"Jerk the card out and stick it back in upside down before the credits rack up! That way the coin out won't register."
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>I don't know what to believe about all that. So I just pull the card before the play is completed to insure I'm looking like a loser.
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