It's been over 4 years since I've been in a Nevada casino. I'm a dinosaur now as far as any kind of useful information I can give anyone because I have no idea what kind of slots they have on the casino floors today. But I do know exactly what I would do should I return to Nevada. The very first casino I walk into I'm not going to go and sit down on a video poker. Instead, I'm going to walk the entire casino and take a look at every slot machine on the floor, along with the video pokers. That is, after I go and get the slot card.
I'm going to take note of any advantage slots I used to play, and of course, spin off any plays I may find. But I'm also going to make at least a cursory inspection of every new game on the floor to see if there are any exploitable features. If I see anything that even remotely looks like it may be exploitable then that game gets a full examination.
Beating a slot machine but showing a loss is an old trick of the trade. Examples that come to mind are Wild Cherry Bonus Pie, Green Stamps, Money Factory. When you get that Pie down to one cherry to go, pull the card. Only a few spins left to fill up that Green Stamp, pull the card. Got the bonus money down to the end of the conveyer belt on the Money Factory, pull the card.
For instance, say you find a Wild Cherry Bonus Pie with just 3 or 4 cherries to go to fill up the pie. I'm gonna use ballpark numbers. There are 30 coins in the basket and you're expection is about a 100 coin bonus for filling up the pie. You're looking at a 60 to 70 coin loss to fill up the Pie. On these type of slots you are almost always behind when you fill up the Pie. About the only time you might not be is when you hit the 3 Sevens. So it's pretty simple. When you get the Pie down to 1 cherry to go pull the card out and stick it in your pocket. You always look like a loser that way. You're getting about a 60 or 70 coin win but showing a 60 or 70 coin loss.
You can hear all kinds of different things about pulling the card like:
"Pulling the card doesn't work anymore."
"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!"
"Jerk the card out and stick it back in upside down before the credits rack up! That way the coin out won't register."
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.
