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A Roulette wheel in a casino is completely randon.
The Roulette wheels (FOBTs) in betting shops are only random to a point ...it is relatively simple to program an electronic machine to ensure it pays out 3%(or 2.74%) on turnover over time. |
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Ask yourself this. If you could tweak a roulette wheel without anyone knowing, to get more profit, would you do it? At the casino with a wheel, probably a 3% margin is enough and no one needs to play any tricky games. But at the terminal, if the casino owner has the option to change the 3% to 30% and get rich quicker, why would he not do it? If you can come up with a decent reason, let me know.
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1st spin £100 return £97
2nd spin £97 return £94.09 3rd apin £94.09 return £91.27 4th spin £91.27 return £88.53 5th spin £88.53 return £85.87 6th spin £85.87 return £83.29 7th spin £83.29 return £80.79 8th spin £80.79 return £78.37 9th spin £78.37 return £76.02 10th spin £76.02 return £73.74 |
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still no one has answered my question
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still no one has answered my question
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dig out your bow tie, tell your queen to get her dress on and get down for a serious night at a real casino. Enjoy your meal in between sessions.
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Starship.
To answer your question, they are Random Number generated games of chance, which pay out at fixed odds (ie. the prices never change). They are 'supposed' to be regulated and verified and beyond cheating, but there is no way of actually checking this. Hence people questioning their veracity. The computer game is supposed to be fair, and is regulated and licenced as such. However there will always be doubt. Personally, I think there is dodginess and was told by an programmer of these things when they were first invented about how the %age could be and indeed were "tweaked" on the machines in the Badblokes shops at the time. They did it by adding extra random numbers so instead of 1-37 (1 - 36 plus 0) it would generate a number between 1 and 40 or 41, and if a number higher than 37 came up the cartoon roulette would just show a number which hadn't been bet on as being the winning number. Ever since that day, I have asked about this and it has been denied emphatically and those particular machines no longer exist. However, I see no reason it couldn't easily be done. |
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That sounds very believable Studyform
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I thought so, ron.
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Ask yourself this. If you could tweak a roulette wheel without anyone knowing, to get more profit, would you do it? At the casino with a wheel, probably a 3% margin is enough and no one needs to play any tricky games. But at the terminal, if the casino owner has the option to change the 3% to 30% and get rich quicker, why would he not do it? If you can come up with a decent reason, let me know. Any changes are recorded and can't be hidden. |
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Stow the money laundering idea is well covered with machines recording everything.
Bookies must look out for it, easy to spot, and report accordingly. |
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Think the money-laundering thing is over played. The overwhelming majority of people playing these machines are doing so becuase they can't do their dough quick enough.
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i was always amazed that folk could play these machines not stop
without seemingly losing internet connection seems they were the only things that never got disconnected from internet people also told me there were patterns of same number coming up in clusters i wondered if internet connection was lost that machine defaulted to previous numbers in short term memory ? |
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What are the payout ratios on the £500 fruit machines? eg Luck of The Irish?
I got really pissed off when one online casino site said i could have a free £50 if i staked £50. I got the account up to about £160 and tried to withdraw the profit (i.e the £60), but wasn't allowed to. Some rule about how I had to wager something like 20 times the deposit. If payout ratio is 97%, after 20 times, you'll be down to £54, but say if it's a fruit machine on 90% that's £12. |
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I have always thought the payout ratio is somewhere between 75-90%, but that is if they are played properly/optimally.
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I believe it's 94% for slot games on a FOBT.
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I found all the percentages for the various games listed under Help or similar on the FOBT.
The best percentage was the basic roulette game. Some of the other games were low 90's. |
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