Pokies are programmed to pay out less than you put into them, so the odds are you will lose.

 

Some forms of gambling such as ‘poker machines’ are influenced completely by chance – in other words there is no way to know what the outcome will be.

 

The more sessions you play on a poker machine, the more likely you are to lose.

 

The poker machine is always the winner. Think about these facts…

 

Myth:	‘I know that if I hit the button on the machine at just the right moment, I can stop the reels at a winning combination’
Fact:	Gaming machines use software that runs a Random Number Generator (RNG). The RNG continuously cycles through numbers. When you hit the play button the RNG picks a combination at random at that given microsecond. Anything you do after this initial press will have no influence on the outcome of the game.
Myth:	‘The person who played the machine after me won big. I should have kept playing as that win would have been mine’
Fact:	Each combination produced by the gaming machine is completely random. This means that the next winning combination on a machine is not predictable. Each spin is a random occurrence which has no bearing on what has happened previously or is about to happen.
Myth:	‘My gaming machine hasn’t paid out for a while, it is therefore due for a win’
Fact:	The outcome of a game is random and not predicable. You may win on your next spin, or lose the next ten. It is totally random.
Myth:	‘If you bet in a certain pattern you have more chance of winning’
Fact:	The outcome of each game is completely random.
Myth:	‘If I cash out after every win, it will increase my chance of winning’
Fact:	A player who cashes out after every win has exactly the same chance of winning as a player who does not cash out. Cashing out has no influence on the outcome of game.
Myth:	‘If you put enough money into a poker machine you will eventually win’
Fact:	Poker machines are programmed to pay out less money than is put into them
Myth:	‘Some poker machines are luckier than others’
Fact:	Each poker machine is simply a computer programmed to give random results.
Myth:	‘Gaming machines tend to pay out at higher amounts or more frequently at certain times of the day’
Fact:	The outcome of all games is random. Winning or losing combinations are not linked to clocks or calendars.

 

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