The Original Machine Pros

[WRX]

Mickey Crimm writes, "WRX, I wonder if anyone was ever prosecuted for rhythm playing under that law. I would have to say 'good luck proving your case' to any prosecutor who tried to get a conviction."

Mickey, I hear you, but based on what I've seen through my life, I would have to say to anyone charged with any crime, anywhere in this country, "Good luck escaping the clutches of the government." If the "authorities" really don't like you, you're usually going to jail. And that was nowhere more true than in Nevada in the old days.

The annotations to the Nevada Revised Statutes give the history of the section in question. It was revised many times. To determine when the language in question was added would require poring through a lot of volumes in a good Nevada law library.

Really interesting information that you've been posting here.

[Mickey]

WRX, years ago I knew three old time slot cheats. They were reformed by the time I knew them. They got reformed both by technology and jail time. Two of them did stretches at Indian Springs. The other one never got charged....but did take a viscious beating in the basement of the Horseshoe. It was very hard for the casinos to get convications on the slot cheats so Benny Binion exacted his own revenge on them by hauling them to the basement. It was his way of warning all the other slot cheats. Don't mess with the Horseshoe.

These guys were stringers, sluggers, drillers, they worked skippers and overpayers. And they referred to one technique as "handle popping" where they tweaked the handle when they pulled it to cause some sort of event. This may have been what the statute was written about.

The rhythm players didn't tweak the handle. There's was purely a timing thing. The variator was programmed to change the speed of the reels after each spin. Spin #1 was the fastest speed. Spin #2 was a little slower than spin #1. Spin #3 was a little slower than spin #2, etc. The typical variator had 7 speeds. With the object being to get the only plum on the second reel to land on the line....if the plum landed below the line they needed a slower spin to get it to land on the line on the next spin. If the plum landed above the line they needed a faster spin to get it to land on the line on the next spin.

If they were on spin #1....as soon as the third reel stopped spinning the variator was programmed to go to spin #2. But if they didn't pull the handle within 5 seconds the variator was programmed to go to spin #3. If they didn't pull the handle within 10 seconds the variator was programmed to go to spin #4, etc. So all the rhythm players were doing was timing when they pulled the handle. There was no manipulation of the handle at all. It was purely a timing thing.

According to Jackie Shirley the only thing that put the rhythm players out of business was technology. The RNG slots started showing up in 1988....and by 1990 all the old mechanical slots had disappeared.

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[Mickey]

One of the old time slot cheats told me about a skipper in the Pioneer/Laughlin. It was a very old 9/6 Jacks video poker machine. It was so old that you had to hand feed every time. When you hit a pay hand the machine dropped the quarters. There was no credit meter on the machine. I figured it was probably one of the original video poker machines.

I bought a few rolls of quarters and set down on the machine. The object was to fast feed 4 coins into the machine. By doing that, about every three games, I would get a 5 coin bet for just four coins. So, essentially, per every three games I was getting 15 coins of bet for just 14 coins. This put the game at about 106%.

But the problem I had with it was all the hand feeding. Grabbing coins and fast feeding them every time. Whenever I hit a pay hand I had to wait for the coins to drop. So I couldn't get out any kind of decent wager per hour and said the heck with it.

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[JH1]

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