Casino Payout regulations

[asteroid]

I think we were just more spoiled (relatively speaking) in the old days because the randomization of yesteryear is inferior to the randomization techniques of today. We can image recording the tossing of a fair coin 200 million times to create a deterministic string and of course there may be some sub-string in the 200 Million byte string consisting of 20 heads in a row, or twenty tails in a row etc. If the 200 M byte string is wrapped around a wheel and the wheel is spun slowly, we might land in that 20 head cluster more than once for some big cash wins. But if the wheel is spun quickly (like today's much faster microprocessors can do), then it is unlikely that we land twice in that big cash cluster.Now it has been proven that casinos (and racinos,lotteries and gaming machine route operators) cheat (I've had it tried on me with an attempted short hand pay), so you could certainly be correct in specific cases. However I would think that the majority of operations have shown the differences between now and yesteryear that many players observed to be due to improvement in randomization described above and also described in the other 2013 thread with Williejoe's postings. I totally agree that there is a difference between then and now, no question about it as far as I'm concerned. IGT and the casinos are trying to make shorter term results more closely resemble longer term results with respect to the level of randomness.String manipulation does not mean things are more random now, except insofar as referencing the sequence within the length of a particular string. While the RNG is constantly "spinning", as you call it, it is happening within a specific string. String manipulation refers to multiple strings.