Slot machine, fruit machine (British English) or poker machine (Australian English and New Zealand English) is a gambling machine that creates a game of chance for its customers.
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18 Facts About Slot machine
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The Slot machine pays out according to the pattern of symbols displayed when the reels stop "spinning".
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The Slot machine proved extremely popular, and soon many bars in the city had one or more of them.
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The Liberty Bell machine was so popular that it was copied by many slot machine manufacturers.
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Later, a similar Slot machine called the Operator's Bell was produced that included the option of adding a gum-vending attachment.
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The popularity of this Slot machine led to the increasing predominance of electronic games, with the side lever soon becoming vestigial.
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The Slot machine is then activated by means of a lever or button, which activates reels that spin and stop to rearrange the symbols.
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The Slot machine automatically calculates the number of credits the player receives in exchange for the cash inserted.
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Theoretical hold worksheet is a document provided by the manufacturer for every slot machine that indicates the theoretical percentage the machine should hold based on the amount paid in.
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Each Slot machine has a table that lists the number of credits the player will receive if the symbols listed on the pay table line up on the pay line of the Slot machine.
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In 1984, Inge Telnaes received a patent for a device titled, "Electronic Gaming Device Utilizing a Random Number Generator for Selecting the Reel Stop Positions", which states: "It is important to make a Slot machine that is perceived to present greater chances of payoff than it actually has within the legal limitations that games of chance must operate.
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Table of probabilities for a specific Slot machine is called the Probability and Accounting Report or PAR sheet, PARS commonly understood as Paytable and Reel Strips.
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Slot machine only published the odds after a fan of his sent him some information provided on a slot machine that was posted on a machine in the Netherlands.
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The player who continues to feed the Slot machine is likely to have several mid-size payouts, but unlikely to have a large payout.
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Slot machine averaged the data, and assigned an average payback percentage to the machines in each casino.
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One reason that the slot machine is so profitable to a casino is that the player must play the high house edge and high payout wagers along with the low house edge and low payout wagers.
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Poker Slot machine playing is a mindless, repetitive and insidious form of gambling which has many undesirable features.
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