About Slot Machines In Online Casinos

In order to play the slots online, it is desirable to have at least a general idea of how they work.

For a start, it is important to understand that the gambling machines in online casino are not the same thing as “one-armed bandits”, which wait for you in the usual gambling hall. In ancient times, when everything was different from now, gambling machines were mechanical. Their functioning was provided by a real rotation of several barrels. In our time there are no barrels in fact, there is only a program, which in a certain way calculates the probability of winning. Such a machine is called a video slot.

Accordingly, before the probability of winning was mostly determined by balancing of the barrels. In those days appeared quite a lot of legends about the people, for a long time watching the specific machines. These observations provided the opportunity to accumulate statistics, from which it was possible to make a conclusion that one or another machine with a certain probability gave a sequence of combinations. Sometimes it enabled to make good profits. In a modern online casino this principle will not work. In our time, the result of each game is determined by a computer program, designed to simulate the occurrence of random combinations. Then the result is displayed on the screen. The rotation of the symbols on the screen of your computer is no more than a tribute to tradition.

Are the slots in the internet casino different from their real predecessors from the point of view of probability of winning? In fact, they don’t differ. The probability of occurrence on the screen of one or another combination is also specified by the program. Similarly, there is no difference whether to count the combination from the left to the right or from the right to the left.

Some gamblers seriously believe that the bonus game is a result, which can be achieved using a certain skill. In fact, everything is much simpler. The bonus appears on the screen according to the same rules, with the help of which the winning combination is calculated. That is, the probability of the bonus game depends on the same programs that manage machines and the skill of the player plays no role here. Moreover, about what kind of skill can we speak in the game of slots online? There may be a skill of a football player, the skill of a hockey player; something really depends from their actions in the game. A client of an online casino only puts money and clicks the button, after which the above-mentioned programme, calculating the probability of winning, does its work. It is impossible to influence its work. However slots online, in which there is a bonus game, affect the psychology of the gamblers in a rather clever way. They gradually inspire them faith in their own abilities, in fact, that they supposedly have some skills. And now the players strive again and again to use their non-existent skills, generously filling the pockets of the owners of the casino with money.

The same applies to the frequency of falling out of bonus games, and after what spin they fall out. Some machines have, by the way, limitation: the bonus game can appear only after the gambler has played a certain number of spins.