He made his point perfectly clearly. You might try reading instead of posting more and more threads which add nothing
thanks ves! i like the empty thank-yous from lojo though, he is always liberal with the thanks
btw, lojo is that like short for long john at all? just curious.
anyways, lj's just on a rant, it happens -- and with a wack job like him it's nothing surprising --
he's not a bad guy, i like his point of view a lot of times or it is at least amusing to read his posts, probably more of the latter
my advice, avoid the slots, at least for a time. play vp if you must have a machine interface, or better yet try a table game. if basic strategy discourages you from cards, 3 card poker has just one strategy, raise with Q64 or better (courtesy the wiz). even roulette offers 50/50 bets plus all kinds of prospects for the degenerate gamb00ler.
personally slots aren't my thing, but it's easy to see why they can be aggravating. playtech has pachinko which like slots is a cheap way to watch your screen for a long time, and there's a minimal skill aspect to it i believe. i could never understand the game but it could appeal to some.
one thing i really like that i've seen on some flash-based casinos is deal or no deal. i played in fun mode and the structure seems fair. it goes like 1%,5%,10%,20%...100%,200%,500% cases or to that effect. i'm almost certain if you play it right you get get bank offers for more than your bet size, and in most of my trials i had the higher of the two amounts left when it got to the down and dirty.
any event it takes about two minutes(?) for each game and you control your destiny so it's quite fun to take on the house in this way when they offer to buy your case/stake back. in decision/game theory it is always discussed your EV (on tv's version, before opening any cases the average is 131k computed courtesy the wiz, so pick good and unless you screw up hold out for 150k+, haven't yet seen any computations for the online versions where obviously you have to pay to play) and you would sell this bet at this juncture for such an amount. i am very passionate about this game show, and howie is just a blast to watch!
sorry for this derail but i thought i'd give alternative views than just trying to uphold the integrity of slots to someone who's obviously just venting and scapegoating. slots are very interesting, but last week it was also discussed about the randomness and reel stops, and i insist i saw on tv the reels are regulated by a cpu, which makes perfect sense and prevents mechanical defects from altering a reel's randomness.
i wish there was a definitive manual on how a slot worked; how it picks the wins and translates data into reel positions, if the machine is aware of the bets placed on the spins, how the returns on physical machines are tuned to pay various %s, if only someone could give an accurate breakdown of the programming and mechanics of a slot machine...