How do you find loose slot machines?

Mark Pilarski of the Detroit Free Press tries to answer that question...

As for finding those loose ones, well, that's no easy task. Slot managers place their machines strategically to maximize customer appeal and potential casino earnings. Unfortunately, no two casinos do it exactly alike.

It also isn't possible to distinguish loose and tight machines by look or type. Unless specifically advertised, such as, "98% return on these machines," two similar machines sitting side by side could produce radically different results.

You can read the rest of his article here...
http://www.freep.com/..../20080501/ENT11/805010308/1115/ENT05

To sum it up, he basically tells you that there is no way to know.

The slot machine technician friend of mine says that various indian casinos here in Southern California each adjust their payback rates differently. He's had to set these payback rates at casinos all over Southern California.

As it would turn out, the indian casinos with the higher payback rates are those that are furthest away from civilization, and therefore, have the smallest business.

The same holds true in Las Vegas. The strip casinos have the lowest payback rates, while the downtown casinos have higher rates, and those "island casinos" located by themselves in the middle of nowhere, have the highest rates of them all.

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