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One of my first jobs was working at a casino. While big, it was certainly nothing like those casinos in Las Vegas or Atlantic City. It was, however, the pride and joy of Central New York andpeople would come from hours away just to try their luck at the slots and the tables. Working at a casino is unlike any other job. There are strict codes of conduct and secret “protocols” thatare in place for gamblers whether you realize it or not. In fact, Business Insider did a piece covering other secrets of Las Vegas casinos as told by anonymous staffers. What to know what theyare?

One of the perks of a casino is that the drinks are usually free. Now, where I was working, the state did not permit alcohol sales BUT guests were allowed to and encouraged to bring in their ownbooze. More often than not, I would come across a guest who had gambled away his money thanks to too much alcohol. At larger casinos, the drinks are free because they expect you to lose. Yourlosses are what cover those free drinks. Secondly, by giving you free drinks, the casino is helping impair your decision making skills which means you will likely spend more money.

To be a good gambler, you need to be focused. To be focused, you need to be sober. Even though they are free and contribute to the atmosphere of the casino, you should skip the alcohol if youwant to turn a profit.

The casino lets you have a chance to win a new car by playing slots or by earning entries to a drawing. The more you play the better your chance of winning. Casinos know every trick in the book to get you to spend more money. Most of these are directly tied to getting you to play more. That’s because they’re banking — no pun intended — on you getting so tired of waiting in line that you return to the casino and be tempted to spend some more money. CONCLUSION Comment. So, now that you know the tricks, arm yourself with this knowledge before your next trip to the casino. Or, better yet, don’t go at all! Keep holding the mouse button down until the race is over half way done. You will know you have done it right if at the start of the race it has charged you 200 or 300 chips. On the occasion that your chosen horse wins, you will be paid as if you bet the max amount of chips, but you only paid 200. Summary: Choose horse. Make sure current bet is. Many of these tricks are blatant theft. These usually include tools to manipulate a slot machine’s hardware, namely its coin dispenser or note acceptor. Some cases involved a casino insider who helped to manipulate the slot machine. In another group of cases, players were just unusually lucky.

You might think that security at a casino is limited to the hundreds of overhead cameras and the occasional floor manager – but you would be wrong. Every casino has their own set of lawenforcement officers who are posed as guests. Their duty is to watch what gamblers are doing, identify cheaters and arrest wrong-doers. Casinos don’t want you to know this because it will maketheir guests feel uneasy.

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Want to spot an officer? It’s easier than you might think. Officers tend to move around the casino a lot. You’ll notice them at various tables for one or two hands and at many of the slotmachines. You also might notice that they place small bets and are not heavily invested in winning or losing any game. This is because these “players” are not able to keep their earnings and theyare using the casino funds for their bets.

I’ve seen quite a few gambling forums that talk about trying to manipulate the casino into giving you free drinks, meals or rooms because it looks like you are always losing at the machine. Butthere are eyes always on you. Casino staff has certain guidelines to follow when it comes to comping. They cannot simply comp your drink because you are good looking. In fact, an employee can getfired for giving out comps to any guest who they feel hasn’t spent enough money in their establishment.

If you aren’t losing, don’t expect to be comped. Furthermore, if you are losing, recognize that the reason why the casino is offering you a meal, room or drink is because they want you to staylonger and lose more. This is the perfect time to know that it is time to head home.

Possibly one of the biggest secrets of casinos is how the cards are handled. You are probably familiar with the card trays and that they are switched out every few hours. But the trick is howthey play the cards that they have. Let’s say that you see a dealer with two decks in his hand. You think that this is a double-deck game so you sit down. On one hand, it is a game of 104 cards.However, the cards are a combination of six or seven different decks.

Remember, at the casino you are not playing Go Fish, you are playing for real cash that the house doesn’t want to give to you. This trick is used to deter card counters who think they know whatis in the deck, but they don’t really because it is a mixed deck. Simply put, do not put too much of your money on a card game you think you have a good chance at winning. Chances are you arecompletely wrong about what is in the dealer’s deck.

You will notice in many casinos that you are encouraged to take larger chips rather than smaller ones. They do this simply because it is more convenient for them. You might not think anything ofit, but taking larger chips can actually work against you. It somehow seems easier to throw down a single $25 chip than it does to count out five $5 chips, so the temptation is always there tobet more than you might really want to. This can result in losing money very quickly.

You’re not obligated to take the larger chips, so make sure that you get the denominations you feel comfortable with.

Readers ask if quick reflexes are the key to winning

By John Grochowski

I keep a list of questions that I’m most often asked about slot machines. You could probably tick off some of them: “Are games programmed to go cold after a big win?” “Do you get less payback when you use your rewards card?” And the big one, “Can you tell me how to win?”

Those have been standards ever since I started writing about casinos and casino games 20 years ago. But recently, another question has been shooting up the charts. I have it all the way up at No. 2 on the readers’ hit parade:

“I’ve noticed on a lot of video slot games that if I hit the button a second time while the reels are spinning, they stop right away. I was wondering if I could use this to my advantage. If I see the bonus triggers or the jackpot symbols at the top, should I quickly hit the button again and try to stop the reels?”

I had that thought myself the first time I accidentally double-hit a button and saw the reels click to an immediate halt. Could this be an answer to the chart-topping question, “how to win on the slots?”

Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way. In nearly all slot games that allow you to stop the reels, there is no skill or timing involved on your part. The random number generator has already determined your outcome when you hit the button to spin the reels, and you’re going to get the same result regardless of whether you stop the reels early, or let them halt in their own time.

When you play a slot machine, the game isn’t actually being played out on the reels, whether it uses “real” reels or video reels. It’s being played internally, on the game’s random number generator. The reels are just a player-friendly interface, and are told where to stop by the RNG. If there’s a malfunction and the reel display doesn’t match the numbers generated, it’s the RNG that counts. Large jackpots can be denied—and have been denied—if a check shows the random numbers on the internal computer chip don’t match the winning symbols on the reels.

But this is extremely rare. The engineering is good enough that almost all the time, the RNG and reel display are going to match up. This doesn’t change if you double-hit the bet button. If the RNG has spit out a random number that tells the first reel to stop on a single bar, then you’re going to get a single bar—regardless of whether you hit the button a second time for a “quick stop,” or just let them take their own sweet time.

There are rare exceptions. When I’ve answered similar questions in the past, I’ve mentioned IGT’s Reel Edge games. In their original incarnation, Reel Edge games enabled players to touch and stop the reels one at a time. There was actual skill involved. Your timing in stopping the reels determined the outcome. The reels spun very, very fast, so it was going take a keen eye and sharp reflexes to get better than random results, but it was possible.

I gave it a try, and found my reflexes just weren’t fast enough to generate more than my normal share of winners. In the original three-reel Blood Life game, I identified a green 7 as the easiest symbol to pick out as it whizzed by. I touched each reel individually as I saw a green 7 reach the top of the slot window, and managed to stop 7s on all three reels. Alas, I failed to land them all on the same payline. Some younger folks with quicker reactions may have been able to do better.

I don’t know if any of the first generation of Reel Edge games remain on casino floors. They were never widespread, and I don’t get lists from casinos or manufacturers telling me what games are available in any given casino. The new generation of Reel Edge puts the skill-based portions of the games in the bonus events.

Blood Life’s updated video incarnation, Blood Life Legends, allows you to test your skill with a joystick to guide a bat through the ups, downs, twists and turns of a cave as you try to collect gems for bonuses. There is actual skill involved, but it’s not the reel-stopping experience readers have been asking about.

On most slot games, even in the bonus events you’re getting an illusion of skill rather than actual skill. And when it comes to stopping the reels, it’s the random number generator, not your reflexes, that determines the results.

What about my readers’ other top questions?

To answer another—no, games are not programmed to go cold after big wins. Results remain as random as humans can program a computer to be. As long as the RNG keeps doing its thing, any big jackpot, any hot streak, and any cold streak eventually fade away into statistical insignificance, and the machine comes very close to its expected payback percentage.

No, you don’t get less payback when you use your rewards card. The player rewards system doesn’t interact with the RNG.

And no, with rare exceptions, there is no way to beat the slots except by being in the right place at the right time. There have been opportunities for small profit on games with banked bonuses such as the old WMS game Piggy Bankin’, where the sharpies would start to play only when there were enough coins in the bank to give the player an edge.

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Such games are not common. Just as with stopping the reels early, your results are up to chance and the RNG.