Louisiana Gamblers Confess – Here’s When a Slot Machine Will Hit

Over the weekend a Powerball lottery ticket sold in Alexandria, Louisiana matched the numbers needed to have a million reasons to be pissed off. That ticket matched every number needed to win the almost 1 billion dollars top Powerball prize but one. Yeah, they missed it by one number. Sure, they got one million dollars but I have to admit, I'd be a little salty about claiming that one million dollar prize.

That means that tonight, Monday, April 1, 2024, they will draw for a Powerball jackpot again. The top prize in tonight's game will be an estimated $975 million. The drawing is at 10 p.m. so, Good Luck if you're going to play.  And speaking of luck, gamblers will tell you they like "luck" but they'd rather have a bona fide advantage. That's why there are so many articles about how to tell when a slot machine is going to pay off or not.

There is no shortage of "experts" online and on various YouTube channels who are more than willing to offer you "advice" on how to choose the "right slot machine" for a big payoff. Some of those experts are liars.  About the best advice an expert in slot machines can suggest to you is how to read the machine for potential bonus payouts.

Granted, there are clues and other stats about each game that might suggest to a player that a bonus opportunity is more likely the next few times the game is played but there is no "guarantee" that a particular machine will pay off in a certain way.

Here's the Truth About Every Slot Machine You Can Play

Each spin is a single game. The machine doesn't look forward or backward as far as what just happened on the reels. So, each game has its own randomly generated outcome. So, you're just as likely to hit three winners in a row as you are to hit three losers in a row.

The "brain" of the slot machine also doesn't keep up with "when it last paid a big jackpot". So, a machine that just spits out a big payday is just as likely to spit out another one as a machine that hasn't made a big payout in a while.

Your best "option" in choosing a machine is to find one you like to play. One that you understand all of the rules. And, if you do a little research you can find out what the bonus triggers are on certain machines, this might get you closer to choosing a machine with a planned payout, but you have to research to know what those bonus triggers look like.