The Roaring Silence
With apologies to Mannfred Mann. We’ve all been there - plugging away at our favorite slot machine for hours - without a whiff of a win - while all around us others are making plenty of noise racking up jackpots. The cacophony of winning slots in some casinos can be overwhelming at times. Clangs, beeps, bells, spinning wheels, singing choruses - for everyone else – while our machine just sits there, unresponsive to our every whispering wish that something – anything – would hit for us. How is it that everyone else is winning, except me? A reasonable question. The only worse thing is when almost nobody is winning anywhere in the casino. Do you even have a chance then? Fuhgeddaboudit. When it happens occasionally it’s no big deal. Wins and losses come in cycles. But when it’s a repeat occurrence -day after day, play after play – it’s worth sitting up and taking notice. Maybe they HAVE tightened the machines. It’s possible. The key is to be aware of it and plan your play accordingly. Thi...