can online casinos tighten or loosen the slots?

**lojo** · 18th November 2007, 08:23 AM

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

**loganberry** · 18th November 2007, 12:05 PM

What I find very strange about all of this are the patterns I have observed during my own play, e.g.

1: Sometimes I win on some of my favourite slots, but nit-a-thong on some of my other favourites. But on the slots I am winning on, everything comes to me very easily. I have no issue with this - it is called gambling!

2: Sometimes I win on some of my favourite slots, but nit-a-thong on some of my other favourites. However I have to work very very hard to get any wins at all. I have no issue with this - it is called gambling.

3: I win on everything - even on slots I very rarely play. I can do no wrong. Just call me Queen Midas.

I luv it! But this bothers me.

4: I don't win on anything at all. Zilch. Nada. Nit-a-thong. Just call me Queen Midas-in-reverse.

I have no issue with this - it is called gambling!

5: When I first join a casino, I usually have astounding bouts of luck. At first! I luv it! But this bothers me.

6: After I have been playing at a casino for a while, my luck reverts to one of points 1 though 4.

My conclusion? I am convinced there is some type of payment adjustment going on, particularly relating to Point 3 and Point 4. Both of those indicate to me more than 'just my turn to win' or 'a change of luck'.

Point 3: Winning on absolutely everything? I simply don't believe that every game I choose to play can be at the 'maximum payout point' just as I come along.

Point 5: That incredible luck when I first join a casino? This doesn't make sense. My luck should be no better or no worse than casinos I have been playing at for a long time. A casino 'parlour trick' perhaps?

And yet, despite all my misgivings, and what commonsense is telling me, I continue playing. Which says more about me than I wanted you all to know!

But I still remain unconvinced that all software providers and their associated casinos are created equal and that payment adjustment isn't the name of the game!

**KasinoKing** · 18th November 2007, 03:54 PM

I'm coming up to 7 years of online gaming (just over 3 years of heavy slots play) and I'm still making regular profits so it would be silly of me to say casinos are rigged.
But can they adjust the return %'s?
Well, who knows? I totally empathise with some of the posts above; sometimes it just feels like you're never going to hit jack-schmidt and other times you can't miss. But that's just the nature of the beast.

Personally, apart from RTG which we know can adjust the payouts, I'm happy that most other softwares I play are totally straight & fair at least 99.5% of the time - even I can't be 100% certain!

I have to honestly say I have never personally experienced 'software giving you big wins at the beginning of WR then taking it back at the end'. I have lost near the end of WR a few times, but that's usually down to playing bigger & more risky bets in my impatience which nearly always ends in disaster.

KK