Slot Machines Secrets Revealed:
Written by Dr. Raymond J. Wilson.
Number of pages 22.
Description: Slot machine payouts, winning tips and advices.
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Sittman and Pitt of Brooklyn, New York developed a gambling machine in 1891 that
could be considered a precursor to the modern slot machine. It contained 5 drums
holding a total of 50 card faces and was based on poker. This machine proved
extremely popular and soon there was hardly a bar in the city that didn't have
one or more of the machines bar-side. Players would insert a nickel and pull a
lever, which would spin the drums and the cards they held, the player hoping for
a good poker hand. There was no direct payout mechanism, so a pair of Kings
might get the player a free beer, whereas a Royal Flush could pay out cigars or
drinks, the prizes wholly dependent on what was on offer at the local
establishment. To make the odds better for the house, two cards were typically
removed from the "deck": the Ten of Spades and the Jack of Hearts, which cut the
odds of winning a Royal Flush by half. The drums could also be re-arranged to
further reduce a player's chance of winning. The first "one-armed bandit" was
invented in 1887 by Charles Fey of San Francisco, California, who devised a much
simpler automatic mechanism. Due to the vast number of possible wins with the
original poker card-based game, it proved practically impossible to come up with
a way to make a machine capable of making an automatic pay-out for all possible
winning combinations. Charles Fey devised a machine with three spinning reels
containing a total of five symbols - horseshoes, diamonds, spades, hearts and a
Liberty Bell, which also gave the machine its name. By replacing ten cards with
five symbols and using three reels instead of five drums, the complexity of
reading a win was considerably reduced, allowing Fey to devise an effective
automatic payout mechanism. Three bells in a row produced the biggest payoff,
ten nickels. Liberty Bell was a huge success and spawned a thriving mechanical
gaming device industry. Even when the use of these gambling devices was banned
in his home State after a few years, Fey still couldn't keep up with demand for
the game elsewhere. Another early machine gave out winnings in the form of fruit
flavored chewing gums with pictures of the flavors as symbols on the reels. The
popular cherry and melon symbols derive from this machine. The "BAR" symbol now
common in slot machines was derived from an early logo of the Bell-Fruit Gum
Company. In 1964, Bally developed the first fully electromechanical slot machine
called Money Honey. Casino's introduced slot machines as a way to keep the wives
and girlfriends of their gambling husbands entertained. The strategy being, if
the women were occupied than the men would feel free to spend more time
gambling. Today, slot machines account for 70% of all casino revenue making them
the most popular casino game played by both men and women alike. The attraction
of instant jackpots and ease of play are just some of the reasons people are
drawn toward slot machines. Unlike other casino games, slot machines do not
require any rules or complicated strategies to memorize.
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