Some zealous slot machine players have long searched for the optimized way to play these one-armed bandits. Since the late 1990th when IGT introduced slots, they’ve gained their undisputed popularity. There is a belief prevalent among machine gamblers that casino parlors place low-paying machines next to the high-paying ones. It is not entirely void of truth as casinos do tend to place slot machines with different payouts next to each other, in spite of their identical layout. For the most part, payout differences are negligible and can rarely be more than 5 percent.
These premises are enough for some gamblers to reach their own conclusions on this regard and decide to play simultaneously on both machines to ensure getting at least one high-paying machine. Not to forget that even high-paying machines are still programmed with a house advantage and playing two slot machines at once means betting on more spins and thus risking more.
To straighten out all the uncertainties once and for all, some arithmetic is needed. On the extreme edge, lets assume that the two machines a player is about to play are discerned by 8 percent and player is seated at the lower-paying one playing 500 spins per hour with the average lose of $42.25. Had the player been seated at the high-paying machine the average lose would come down to only $11.25. If the player sets to play both machines betting on the second one while the reels of the first are still on, the average lose would be $41.25 plus $11.25. The results obviously do not favor the two machines options
