Banged away on these things for 5 days (approximately 80k hands) without a royal. Didn't see anyone else hit one neither. On the 5th day a local player comments "I bet you had much better success on the uprights they got rid of". I paused for a second to recollect and indeed this was the case. So it seems that not only I have observed Royal dry spells with these slant tops. Given the popularity of Joker Poker I also expected these machines to be fully occupied. What's going on here, is it common local knowledge that these things are gaffed?
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