Responding just to your last paragraph, I had a strange (maybe bordering on weird) experience yesterday at Foxwoods. There was a gentleman having a machine put back in service late last night, and he was asking for a slot tech to fix the machine. It apparently was making a ticking sound that was bothering him.
He said to the slot attendant that he had dropped $4500 on the machine so far on this trip so the machine owed him and would make it up to him. Really now, what are we expecting reversion to the mean? That was the strange.
The "weird" was he said that the ticking was like the sound of the TITO slot, and I quote, "It is like the machine is telling me to put more money in, put more money in, put more money in,put more money in, put more money in."
I was waiting for a hand pay so I had to stay there, and I overheard all this. But when the hand pay came, I decided I didn't want to be sitting next to him, in case the machine told him to start killing people instead of just putting more money in.
What does it take? It takes all kinds.
Guru
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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>And again, I know some people who will put $200 in a $1 single-line machine and play until it's gone, and then quit, and others that will feed money into the same machine as needed to keep playing until some factor other than money or fun makes them stop. Same goes for upside decisions, some will quit when they double their money, some will continue to play no matter how well they're doing. And so on...
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