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Deal Me In
by Mark Pilarski
December 18, 2015
Chance, not Persistence Determines the Winning Spin
Dear Mark: Please help me save my marriage. A while back, my wife and I were in a local casino in Reno. She was playing Megabucks. We were there for about two hours, and she had about $350 invested in the machine. I was tired and told her I wanted to go, so she reluctantly cashed out the remaining $50 she had in the machine, and we headed to the casino cage to cash the ticket.
After getting cash for the ticket we headed for the door. This took us right past the machine she had been playing just a few minutes earlier. All of a sudden we heard loud screaming. A lady sitting at the same machine she was just playing minutes before hit the Megabucks jackpot...over 11 million dollars. The lady explained she had just sat down and had put in $10 and on her third spin of the wheel she hit the progressive payout. My wife turned to me and said, "you idiot."
I was stunned but realized what she was thinking. Had I not asked her to leave, she thinks she would have won that jackpot. I explained to her that that may not necessarily be true. But, almost every day she berates me for getting her off that machine.
I told her that just because that woman won the jackpot within three spins of her leaving, doesn't mean she would have won if she took three more spins. From what I understand, the RNG has to be hit at the exact same time for her to have won and it's unlikely her staying would have accomplished that feat.
Please help me explain that to her and save my marriage, as I think she will never forget or forgive me without your expert help in explaining it to her.
signed,
Anonymous
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I know a good divorce lawyer.
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Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of slots and RNG's knows a split second difference in timing on hitting the spin button can be all the difference in how the reels stop. She didn't have an ice cubes chance in hell...
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Since it was a state wide-progressive-That means when you get up it is still being played/incremitting the 50 bucks in the time span of going to cash cage etc. would not have done it. Even though they are progressive, they still look at cash in and out and in the end that is the determing factor on wins. There is No Magic switch they just flip. In all class 2 states with progressives they are monitored from a wap site. The companys have to come at that point to verify-casino can't touch it. They know as soon as one as hit (big) and put the call in to the people on call -ie; igt,wms,bally. The companys pay a percentage of that as these are all leased games.
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I don't know if you guys have ever tried arguing with a woman by using your logic and sound reasoning,
it doesn't usually work if she's already made up her mind that you screwed up.
[with no offense intended Roz]
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I think I could convince my girlfriend of the "numbers" if the same scenario happened, but damn if I wouldn't feel something sad myself. :EmoticonHelp4:
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I don't know if you guys have ever tried arguing with a woman by using your logic and sound reasoning,
it doesn't usually work if she's already made up her mind that you screwed up.
[with no offense intended Roz]
Well that's only because, despite all of the male logic and male reasoning, men DO screw things up! :24: :24: :24:
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Roz, You know Men do like to screw. They also know how to screw things up. I am guilty of that-- :Tongue_Out: . Take care of those special women in your life is all I can say-- :jeannie: