In other words, if you can’t afford to play 5 credits on the dollar machine ($5 per spin) drop down to the 50 cent machine so you can play 5 credits ($2.50 per spin). This advice held true for slots as well because almost all slots offered a jackpot bonus. Let’s first take a look at why that advice was so important. The slot machine prints a ticket you can redeem for cash or put in another slot machine. There is another option if you have good credit and want to gamble with larger amounts of money without.
Abandoned credits/tickets & whether it’s finders keepers or property of the casino/state is constantly debated among many gamblers. There doesn’t appear to be any uniformed rules & it really depends from casino to casino, state to state. My approach is to simply not take them. As an advantage player I never want to give a casino a reason to throw me out. If I see a small amount of abandoned credits on a machine I’ll cash it out & set it aside. If it’s a good sized chunk I’ll notify a slot attendant & have them deal with it.
Some casinos have a relaxed attitude towards credit hustlers. I don’t know if he’s still getting away with it in 2019, but here’s a New York Times article from 2012 about a guy who was doing pretty decent buzzing around Resorts World Casino in New York & taking abandoned credits. Other casinos however will show you the door & ban you for the day. Others when they catch you will ban you for life.
I knew a hustler several years ago who was making really good money at a particular casino. This casino had a ton of advantage slot machines & he didn’t have much competition for plays as it was a casino that was in a fairly remote location. He dominated the place.
This slot hustler had a habit of always cashing out abandoned credits on machines while making the rounds. He wasn’t particularly slick about it either. He didn’t sit on the machine, put a ticket/bill in the machine, check the rules of the game or things of a similar nature. You know just in case he would get caught to pull the plausible deniability card. No, he would always walk directly to the machine, push the cashout button, collect & walk away. He had been warned by the casino before & other hustlers would advise him to stop doing it, especially if he was going to do it like that.
One day I get a call from the hustler. He tells me he’s been lifetime banned from that particular casino. I ask why but he doesn’t want to get into the details. I respect his wishes & don’t press any further. It wasn’t until much later that I found out that the reason he was banned was because he took an abandoned ticket worth 32 cents. This hustler blew his chance to continue making thousands upon thousands of dollars for 32 cents.
Some casinos depending on the jurisdiction will get the law involved to actually prosecute you. Colorado is one state that takes the prosecution route. Here and here are a couple of links to articles written in 2017 about how they deal with credit hustlers. Do I think Colorado’s approach to credit hustlers extreme? Definitely, & it looks as if there’s a complete lack of common sense as well as a waste of resources to treat people like criminals for what in many cases appears to be taking minuscule amounts of money. In some of these cases it even appears that people are doing it unknowingly. If someone cashes out a $500 when a player is looking the other way sure. But for $2? Give me a break.
Now could you take abandoned credits left on a machine & get away with it? More than likely. Lots of people do it all the time & nothing happens to them. We’re in the business of gambling but with so much money to be made from the advantage slot machines, it’s a bet I’m not willing to make.
- Look for Machines on a Hot Streak
Slot machines run hot and cold all the time. And some players have told me that you can find the hot machines by jumping around and trying different games.
Here are the simple steps for how you accomplish this:
- Play a slot machine for 10 spins or so.
- If you don’t win anything, move on to the next game.
- You repeat this until you win a couple of prizes or more.
Five Line Free Slot Machines
This theory falls under the belief that slots are programmed to have hot and cold spells. And if you can take advantage of enough hot streaks, you’ll have a chance of earning profits.
The problem with this theory, though, is that slot machines are programmed to behave randomly on every spin.
Slot Machine Taking Credits Without
Sure, you might win 3-4 payouts within a short span. But this is attributed to good luck, rather than some pre-programmed hot streak.
Slot Machine Taking Credits Imvu
Slot machine results are determined by a random number generator (RNG), which cycles through thousands of number sequences every second. The RNG selects one of these many number sequences as soonas you select the Spin button.
The complete randomness of slots results ensures that a hot machine is nothing more than a lucky one. Jumping around from game to game to find hot slot machines is a waste of time.