If the player is otherwise knowledgeable I'd put this in the category of a harmless quirk or superstition, or in a 6 hour session just something to do. Changing from one to another identical machine has no negative statistical consequence.
What's bad is at casinos that mix in good and bad paytables on the same row; 9/6 JOB mixed in with 8/6 for example. Players who change from the "cold" 9/6 to the 8/6 are making the bad decision based on the misconception.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Pat Nashick <patnashick@...> wrote:
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> The biggest misconception that I see all the time is people avoiding playing a particular machine because "it just hit." ... That and the idiocy of changing machines in the same bank because, after a minimal amount of play, they decide the machine is "cold."
