Pay Cycle and Take Cycle

If you have played slot machines in the casino before, or have studied any of the various slots playing strategies out there, you have probably heard of the terms pay cycle and take cycle.  If one stops to not think too hard about it, the names of the terms themselves are pretty obvious as to alluding what they mean.

Technically, for a pay cycle, this would stand for the time frame that a slot machine begins paying out larger sums of money after not having paid out large amounts for a prolonged period of time.  It is commonly thought that these are programmed into the machine themselves (in meeting with the acceptable payout percentage), although most serious slots players will tell you they aren't, and that they really do not exist, aside from coincidence.  On the other hand, most will say that slot machines are primarily in the take cycle.

Take cycles - again, in technical terms - stands for the opposite of a slot machines pay cycle.  It is the amount of time that a machine continuously does not award larger than normal payouts to its players.  Some players believe that if you get wind of what a particular machines take cycle is, you can strike when the time to win is most ripe - during the pay cycle.

While it is fine for slot players to believe in the take and pay cycle theory, remember that it is just a theory.  Most slot machine experts will advise to not believe in take and pay cycles, and that it would be very improbable for a machine to change its random number generator (RNG) on a dime.  This is why RNG's are called random.  On the other hand, it has been documented more that slot machines primarily operate in a taking mode, and switch to the pay cycle very rarely.  The key then, is to find the slot machines that switch to that pay mode more often, albeit won't be predictable as to when it will hit.

 

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