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Originally Posted by cdcox
This.
It's not like you pull it x times it is going to pay off. It depends on how the lever is pulled.
If you pulled the handle exactly like the winner did EVERY time, yeah you would have won. Good luck with that.
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Not true. All slot machines are computerized, even the "mechanical reel" ones. As soon as you press "spin" or pull the handle, the computer knows what the outcome will be.
Furthermore, the computer inside continues to "play" even when you don't play it. It's little brain is running the payouts, going "nothing, nothing, a buck, nothing, five bucks, nothing, two bucks, five hundred bucks, nothing, nothing, five bucks..." You simply have to be lucky enough to put the quarter in and press "spin" at the same time. In other words, if you play a machine, and stop, and walk away, and no one plays that machine for an hour, and an hour later someone hits on their first pull, that doesn't mean you would've hit an hour ago. Whether or not you played it for an hour or not, it wouldn't have hit until that moment in time.
However, it also depends on whether or not you were playing Max Bet, which is usually what you need for the huge payoffs. If, indeed, you were playing Max Bet, and if, indeed, you would've sat there for that whole time period, then, yes, you would've been the one to hit that jackpot at that moment in time.
(As you can tell, I spend too much time at casinos.)