Learn How Slot Machines Work For Real. (Tech4Truth Episode 2)

Learn how slots and slot machines work on the most basic level, and why winning is so hard. I'm Mark Vincent, a certified slot technician, and my tech4truth videos are to educate the gambling public about how slots work, and how not to get scammed by those selling systems.

This is Episode 2 of 8... make sure to view my other episodes when they come online! If you haven't seen Episode 1 yet, you should start there.

For more information visit http://www.tech4ruth.com.

To purchase a copy of my book about slots and how to get the best odds, visit http://www.egdsecrets.com.

Sample Transcript: The Random Number Generator, also called the RNG, is a computer program that is always running inside the slot machine unless the machine is turned off or its in an error condition. The RNG has only one job, and that's to constantly generate random numbers, big ones. It chooses a new random number several thousand times a second, and the number it chooses is what decides if you win. How does it choose a number? It picks one at the exact millisecond you place your bet. No more, and no less. Yeah, you heard me right. If you win or lose is based solely on when you hit the bet button. Hows that for truth?

So, how can a casino possibly influence random numbers in order to make the machines so profitable? This is where the reels come in. The machine relates the chosen number to a set of reel stops. Reel stops are the symbols, including blanks, that the reels can land on to make up the combination that you get. There are usually 22 of them on a standard slot reel. This gets tricky, and there's not enough time in this video for me to fully explain it, though I do explain it fully in my book. Its tricky because the symbols you see on the reels that are actually in the machine are not the symbols the machine uses to decide payouts the machine uses virtual reels. A virtual reel is sort of like a pretend reel that can have as many stops on it as the casino wants. This way, the casino isn't forced to make all the reels and symbols have the same odds of appearing, and they can make the top award symbol actually appear far less often than it seems like it should on the reels you see. The number chosen by the RNG is mapped to the virtual stops, and your combination is made up of that. The virtual reels are then matched to the symbols on the actual reels, and your combination is displayed. The reels you see on the machine? They don't decide anything they're just there to display the combination the machine chose before they even started to spin.

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[MixeTube]

Slots are not Random. If they were random casinos wouldn't be able to make money off them.

Slots are set to pay out a certain percentage of what they take in over time.

[tech4truth]

@MixeTube Sorry, but did you watch the video? I explained how the casinos can control the approximate level of payout even though the spins are all random. It's not intuitive, but it is a fact. Just like rolling dice. That's random, yet the casino makes money from craps too.

[mjooe]

ho...ld on mark, i am talking about beliefs based on observation. in part 2 of your vidios you talk about the virtual reels. how often do they change? is also possible that a multitude of virtual reels could be planed out ahead (like songs at a radio station) and switched and random intervals? why people play slots instead of the lottery? i already knew the answer, i wanted you to elaborate to its full conclusion.

[tech4truth]

@mjooe Frankly my book explains all of the questions you ask and far more. There isn't room here to explain it all, but virtual reels don't change like radio stations. They're part of a slot program that is loaded by a tech at the machine and stays in place until another tech loads another program.

[mjooe]

some people do not believe this to be a purely random system, for example; why should i go to the casino to play slots when i can buy a lottery ticket if rng is all there is? often casinos do run there machines as if it were a lottery but this is were the discernment comes in if your serious about playing slots.......

[tech4truth]

@mjooe To be frank, it makes no difference what some people believe. Just because you don't believe me, doesn't mean it isn't true. People play slots rather than the lottery because, even though the chances are still bad, chances are better of winning at slots... you win more often, but in smaller amounts.

[petemaxwell431]

@MixeTube Actually this video is true the random number generator decides when a slot pays out.

[jon50316]

well what about EMP devices do they work in toping up the credits or sumthing

[InfiniteTeach]

@111111111111111COBRA A stop spin feature won't change anything because at the moment that you start your spin the symbols are already chosen for you via the RNG. You could choose to allow the reels to continue until they normally stop OR you could hit the stop spin button and stop them (seemingly) immediately. Either way that you choose to watch your spin play out you would end up with the exact same symbols on the exact same lines. @tech4truth correct me if I'm wrong on this.

[june201955]

@jjisfine Do a Bing search for "Server Based Gaming" and look for an article that was put out from "About.com". This SBG system is the latest slots technology that most all casinos now use to boost their profits. They can over-ride an RNG in any slot in an instant at any given time by the click of a mouse from a central (manned) computer. Between the eye in the sky (cameras) and your inserted card they know all about your play habits. And if you use their atm they know your balance.

[jjisfine]

i agree NOT RANDOM why 90 percent of the time when your playing slots or video slots you dont hit bonus rounds for a hour and when your at your last bet it gives u the bonus thats not random thats rigged it happens way to much to be random i have studied these slots over and over especially when u put in a hundred dollar bill it takes away from you and when you win it goes exactly right back up to a hundred again then takes away then goes back to a hundred it again it like remembers how much