"8 royals so far"...blah...blah
In how many hands?
Two+ cycles on two successive vacations with other players also striking out over most of my playing time adds up to a huge number of hands. When playing casually I crank out about 3k hands per hour. When focused even more. And over most of the time in question there was at least one other player matching or exceeding my speed. I'm well acquainted with dry spells. Usually when I'm having one the players around me are not. Again, for the scenario described we're talking a huge number of hands. We're easily in the "American Coin" realm of numbers.
Gaffed is nonsense? Keep telling yourself that. And if you're lucky enough to confine your play to the legit machines within Nevada you might even be ok over the long run. But for anyone well versed in firmware programming alterations to the code may be challenging, but certainly well within the realm of expertise of a competent programmer. It's been done before and can be done again. My concern is not that machines are being altered out in the field, but that they are not truly random when shipped by the manufacturer and that the gaming board's testing isn't rigorous enough to detect very subtle gaffing. I still believe that the overwhelming number of machines in Nevada are legit. But situations come up that make a reasonable person take notice. Which is why it makes sense to ask the regulars.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Pat Nashick <patnashick@...> wrote:
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> Santa Fe is my "home" casino and I love the FBJW slant tops. I play there several time a week and I have had many Royals on them. A friend of mine was playing them a couple of weeks ago (he plays FPDW) and said he had 8 royals so far on them this month. You are having a losing streak - it happens to everyone - going two cycles without a royal may make you think the machines are "gaffed" but that is nonsense.  Â
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> Subject: [vpFREE] are the Santa Fe Station 100%+ slant tops on the level?
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> 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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