Analyzing-Returning to the Past/

[Lucky Larry]

Last year was an incredible run of major hits but this year has seen limited big hits. So I decided to review my spreadsheet of hits and royals from the past years to try to analyze the difference.

Questions:
What is the difference between last year and the past years/current year? Has something changes or is this just a regular run of return to norm? Is it the luck of timing? Change in games being played? Change in machine pay tables? Is there a bank roll difference? Am I playing differently?

Data:
90% of my hits were on one 3/5 play machine. Four dealt multi-hand (MH) royals in one year and drawing Aces on the first hand of multi-hand Super Aces were skill!!! OK lots of timing luck. Only two G's were on multi-hand (MH) 5¢ which I've been playing a lot since I haven't hit on the 25¢ 3/5 machine.

Conclusions:
Pay tables are the same and I'm playing the same basic games. Being dealt a Royal on 3/5 MH 25¢ on New Year's Day gave me money to continue to play higher denominations. Catching another dealt RF on MH 27 days later boosted my bank roll considerably and funded a big portion of our play. (Sweet C and I are community players - whoever wins shares their bank roll with the other.) Playing the one machine (9/6 JOB/NSUD/9/6 DDB) meant my big hits and royals were significantly bigger than 5¢ MH. My overall bank roll has been a little smaller compared to last year but, I realized I often played for hours on the same machine and recently I've only played through a hundred or so, quit and moved back to 5¢ MH.   The incredible luck of timing is just that LUCK!

Decision:
I decided to play through most of my bank roll on my favorite 3/5 machine. Down a $100 I forced myself to continue but switched to JOB from NSUD and caught a RF within 15 minutes holding 4-RF. Within two hours I caught 4 Aces twice and 4s w/K and 2's w/K on DDB. Up for the night and the trip. Couldn't get my machine today and played through my morning allocation on 5¢ MH and never got a decent hit.    

While I understand the return to norm and streaks, analyzing my play has helped me better understand the factors that are impacting my results.

Best of luck to everyone this year.

LL

[shadowman]

Unfortunately for us all, there is no system of changing games/machines/denominations that influences our ability to hit big winners. Whatever works one day/year could very easily fail the next.  
It's called randomness.

[Lucky Larry]

Shadowman,
I understand randomness and the luck of timing. The RF could have been on9/6 or 6/5 JOB. But, I also believe in reviewing one's play occasionally to insure that the factors that I control don't negatively impact my chances. As a result I try to play high return, low volatility games and don't drink or play when I'm really tired. But, I sure will take luck anytime it wants to come my way.