The machine has no memory and does not correct itself for payouts it made. So, over the long haul, of hundreds of spins, the house will not go broke, but you will.Īlso, as a tip, even if the machine just paid out a checkpot, statistically speaking, you have the exact same odds of winning the jackpot again on the very next spin as you did when you hit. Most of the quarter machines payout around 85-87%, maybe as high as 88% or 89%, of every dollar they take in, which is comprable to a lot of Vegas machines.

I know we like to think conspiracy because it is the American thing to do, but there is no button or switch to change the machine's payout. The only way to change the payout would be to change the motherboards. A friend of mine who works in the casinos says that the ships machines, like the Vegas one have pre-set motherboards. I won $800 on one of the dollar machines, but I cannot remember which one.Īs for setting the game between tournament and regular play, that is only with the handful of machines that are used for tournament play, using basically two machines, built inside one, if you will - sorry about the overly simple answer.

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