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We know that slots games are random. There is no way to control them. There is no way to know how much they will pay out in a given night. You follow all of that? Those are facts about slots. Remember them.

I heard recently of a slots player who wanted to know how a casino could possibly know that their slot machines would pay out more on a particular night. This slots player had heard a casino employee say that they would be paying out more. This same slots player took that to mean that employee knew there would be more jackpots, and therefore assumed that casino staff knew about the payouts because he knew that the casino controls the payouts.

This would all be wrong. The one detail that slots player initially left out was that it was a busy night at the casino—far busier than usual. And that detail makes all the difference.

No, casino staff do not know exactly how many payouts they will make. Nor do they know how much they will payout. But I ask you to consider logic.

If it is a busy night at a casino, far busier than normal, it means that there are more people playing slot machines. That is more slot machines seeing spins and more people wagering and spinning than normal. Logically it follows if there is more spins happening, there will be more winning combinations simply because more action is happening. And more winning combinations mean more payouts.

So there goes the idea that there is some secret conspiracy that casino staff will know when a slot machine will hit or how much it will payout. They do not know. They are simply in possession of logic.

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Luck will find us in all manner of ways and times. For a housewife and her husband in Melbourne, Australia it found them in the form of an online slots game. And in the amount of $74,070.

The housewife got online to play some online slots at the online casino that her husband plays at. She assumed that she was playing for fun and not with real money. But then she won over $70,000. She seemed to be having a good run; after only twenty minutes of spinning the reels she had won $920. And she just kept on playing.

This housewife was not aware the she had been playing for real money on her husband’s playing account. She called him immediately once she realized what had happened. His first response was shock, but once that wore off they were both quite happy.

Thankfully she won a good deal of money rather than losing it. But this brings up a very important security issue for slots players to take to heart. You always want to make sure that you are logged out. If you are a person who keeps a written record of your accounts and passwords, be sure you do not leave it lying around. While this couple was more than lucky, it could have ended on the other end of the spectrum.

When it comes to online slots games it can be hard to tell if you are playing real or for fun. The appearance of the slots game on the screen is the same.

Another thing to be mindful of is that the majority of online casinos require that the person playing is the person who owns the playing account. This is a step to prevent an adult from creating a player account and then allowing someone who is underage from playing. Again, this couple was lucky and they made the payout won on the husband’s account.

While this Australian couple was lucky when it came to online slots, not every player is as lucky. And that is why you always need to make sure you are logged out and that your account information is not lying around.

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For those of us who have played and keep playing slot machines in land-based casinos—or boat casinos—we have all encountered slot machines we love and slot machines we wished had never been made. I am referring to the hot and cold machines.

When a slots player is talking about a cold slot machine he is talking about a machine that just does not pay out no matter how much money you put in. You might get a few small payouts, but for the most part you are only losing money.

Then there are the slot machines we all love—the hot ones. A hot slot machine is one that pays out pretty often and in fairly good amounts. These are the slot machines that you can make money on. You will still lose some money but you are likely to walk away with some extra money in your pocket.

When we slots players find a hot slot machine we are loathe to give it up. We will play it for long periods of time, only leaving when we have to. And when we return to the casino we head straight for that same slot machine, hoping that no one else has planted themselves in front of it. And if someone is already there, we hope that they do not play through all the ‘hotness’ of the machine.

But then the day comes that we walk in and head straight for our favorite slot machine only to discover it is gone. We will not believe our eyes. We will think it is a mistake. And we will look around to make sure we are in the right area.

But we are in the right area. The machine is gone.

Naturally our first thought is that the casino has figured out how much the slot machine is paying out. We will think that they have gotten rid of it. I mean, these slot machines have computers and those computers report to the casino. So the casino knows that machine is paying out and has taken it away because they really hate having to pay out money.

As much as this makes sense in your head, this is not the case. The casino has not removed the slot machine because it pays out too much. They have not taken it ‘out back’ to tinker with it to make it pay out less. What they have done is moved the machine to a different location.

Retail stores do it all the time. In the attempt to keep the casino looking fresh and to encourage movement around the casino, machines can and will be moved around.

So the next time that hot slot machine has disappeared on you, take a walk around the floor and see if it has been moved to another location.

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