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Ask the Slot Expert: Straight Flush Payoff, Slot Placement, Odds on Progressive Slots

2 October 2003

By John Robison

Dear John,

I recently went to Harrah's Casino in St. Louis and I noticed that all machines (pennies, nickels, quarters, halves, dollars) were all set for the reels to stop the same on all machines. By that I mean the symbols come up different but the same on all machines--even when playing one, two or three coins at a time.

I know they have to be controlling it from the computers in their computer room. Do you think this is true?

Different days or weeks it's different and the machines pay out

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