My understanding is that this occurs every 99 or 100 hands on IGT machines,
after you press DEAL, and before the cards appear. The machine is writing the
results of the previous 100 hands to nonvolatile memory.
Brian
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In a message dated 4/12/2005 5:23:10 AM Pacific Standard Time,
jaydavidson118@yahoo.com writes:
perhaps this is what is happening when machines seem to
pause every now and then during extended play.
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