Do casinos have camera installed in slot machines to “read” faces to determine if the person is a sucker?
I was wondering if they do, because I was watching my husband play for about 2 hours on a single slot, and whenever he could be seen really frustated he would win just a little bit. Then he started loosing and it would happen again. I found this interesting so I started counting seconds of how much time this took before he would win a little again…I started noticing there was a pattern of 250 -300 seonds before he would win a little again. I have read so much about computer face reading that his senario has really made me wonder if casinos have invested in this technology. I found it really strange that it always seemed to happen with in 250-300 seconds of a frustrated facial expression? I can see how this could become a casinos advantage to contantly keep you paying more.
No they don’t, but maybe they should!
The simple fact is that slot machines are completely random. In every casino, every single slot machine is connected to the others via computer networking. Casinos are legislated based on state or province as to how much of their take they must pay back out in winnings. Here in Ontario, the Provincial legislation states a minimum of 85% must be paid out, either in small winnings (a few credits/coins) or in jackpots. The casinos are permitted to hold back up to 15% in profits.
Now as to which machine pays out these winnings… that is where the randomness kicks in. Because the machines are all linked together, any machine can pay out at any time. Just because X amount of credits were put into any given machine doesn’t mean that this machine will be the one where the payout occurs. The required payouts don’t necessarily have to come on the machine where the money was taken in. It can pay on any machine on the network.
This is why playing at the same machine UNTIL it pays out doesn’t make any sense. There is no guarantee that any percentage of the money that went in to that particular machine will come back out at that machine.
FYI, at the casino I worked at, 75% of our revenue (and we’re talking over a million a day) came from the slots, whereas only 25% came from table games. Playing slots is the best way to guarantee you’re going to lose your money. For better odds, try a blackjack table. It has the highest odds of winning, but even then, it’s only about 17% odds of winning.
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