When playing a slot machine, any slot machine, you will experience a what seems to be a random "pattern" of wins and losses. It is often difficult to spot a pattern but the more you play the better your ability becomes in recognizing these patterns. In fact, the more you play, the easier it is to teach yourself to recognize and learn each slot machine pattern. The quicker you see a pattern, the better your ability is to either bet down, or even walk away when a machine is in a losing cycle, (or down cycle) and/or bet up when on a wining cycle, (or up cycle).
Since each spin of a slot machine is different from every other, some people attribute these cycles to nothing more than luck. Therefore, some players will say that when a machine loses a few hands, it is not necessarily in a down cycle nor winning a few hands means it is in an up cycle. Due to the Random Number Generator in every slot machine, which makes every spin different from every other, there is no real way to predict any future spin from any past. Therefore, it is often a matter of luck when you lose 20 hands in a row and then hit the jack-pot on the very next spin. This is why you will see experienced players hanging back watching a machine. They are waiting for the person playing it to hit a down cycle, cash out and move to another machine, while they swoop in and hope to catch the up cycle patterns.
This type of cycle suggest to some gamblers that a slot machine may be either programmed or simply fall in intervals which lead to higher slot pay-outs. The more a machine takes in on a down cycle, the better the return is on an up cycle. So if you see someone quickly go thru say a distinct amount of money on a slot machine, with nothing good, that might be the machine to jump on in hopes to win big soon.
I've tried this method from every single angle to try to answer the question of whether or not this is exact science or junk science. After 25 years I still don't have an exact answer.
The Random Number Generator is pretty random in todays era of 64 GB pc's and it is pretty tough to get a read on these things. If not impossible but that doesn't keep me from trying, and I still seem to win, I am just unable to prove my theory.


