Its been awhile, and I hope that everybody is well. I am not a conspiracy theorist (and have heard every story in the book I/E “They tighten them on the weekends”, “They are set to pay a certain amount”, but what is ridiculous is that at a couple of our local casinos here near Sacramento, the odds are significant that they are. The casinos here do not have to report their revenue/numbers to the state. There is no reason for them not to manipulate the machines above and beyond the profit built into their pay tables (I am talking multi card keno – basically any keno game on relatively newer versions of game kings). Even though they have eliminated class two machines as of late and have class three, I have multiple friends (or associates/spouses of techs, administrators, etc) that have said that the games are server based. I didnt know that was possible with class three machines – but apparently it is.

I am far from a pessimist. I have hit tons of things (particularly at Jackson Rancheria). Hundreds of 7 spots, a couple of handfuls of 8 spots. I play mystic there frequently. However, as conspiracy-esque as it sounds, I think that they pick and choose certain times to make things a bit more difficult. I have literally been there late at night (lets say, 4am) and played 13-15 machines on a non volatile pattern and not had 30 minutes of play on a single machine? Im not talking a hit. I am talking nothing.

I have noticed that people do discuss (and show) hits at many other casinos in CA in particular, but have always seen poor paytables .. It just is interesting that this casino has the second best paytable on all of their machines, yet they behave much different than in nevada (Reno is a 2 hour drive from our area). Where I play, they have the 12/810 5 spot, 70/1600 6 spot, 21/400 7 spot table, etc. Not to whine, but it just is discouraging that this would happen at any casino that already make a significant profit and is always busy. The vast majority of the time we do much better in reno. Mind you , we go to the two places that has all full pay machines (Cal neva and western village) which makes a difference, but the machines behavior is just different.

Has anybody had this type of experience either in Northern CA or other jurisdictions as opposed to legal gaming territories?