Mattb wrote:I see no real future for them to be honest. Especially not in the regular money making department. I think it'll just gradually decline to more sociable play than anything else.
Why not spend your time playing the AWPs and live off them like i do:P
I realise there are several other forums on here that might give me a few hints but as this one is by far the most interesting and erudite, I thought I'd have a go here.Matt Vinyl wrote:The trouble is, I really enjoy playing SWPs after thumping the AWPs. I enjoy a nice cold pint with a mate or two playing DOND / Bully / WWTBA-Pounder-aire.
My basic question is HOW do you or anyone else consistently win on fruit machines to the point where you could make a living from it? I know how winning on SWPs works - good general knowledge to begin with, depth and speed of memory, speed of reading, but above all hard work and practice - and how (in general) it DOESN'T work - the sort of things we all get accused of occasionally such as:
(a) you must have learned all the questions
(b) you must have programmed it
(c) you must work for the company that makes these machines
(d) you must be cheating/have insider information
In my experience such accusations are more likely to come from punters, and to not be aggressive in intent, rather than from pub managers or bar staff, and they are almost always rubbish anyway. There ARE occasions when someone has a special skill that they can exploit (such as the 'Magic Eye trick' with Spot the Difference), but I've never accepted that even if you could for example buy the question set for a game from an insider at one of the machine companies that this would be a realistic method of providing you with a living.
For fruit machines on the other hand, I've never seen how anyone can turn a 30% take for the machine into even a 1% profit for yourself unless you do have insider knowledge of such things as special button combinations, deliberately losing on a gamble as you know the next one will win, pre-defined patterns of Hi/Lo, or whatever. I'm accepting that this doesn't involve mechanical tricks or simply breaking into machines as that will soon get you battered and/or arrested almost anywhere, but is it really the case that you can simply gain enough skill in how to play them that the differential between the normal 'mug punters' and yourselves can be that great?
I don't want or expect you to post any real tricks of the trade on here, just an indication of how this might be done - I don't want to doubt you but for me, unless you CAN get insider information, frankly the whole issue just seems bollocks. If it is simply about insider information, that would put my mind at rest and fair play to you for fighting back against the system!
