Whether you pull handle slow or fast, whether you use handle or play button, whether a jackpot has recently been paid on that machine or not, none of these has any bearing on result. It's randomly determined each time by computer. The casino can set payout high or low simply by changing computer program, although they are carefully regulated by state to ensure numbers are truly randomly generated and that overall payout percentage is what casino says it is.

Since results are completely random with each play, fact that a machine hasn't paid a jackpot for a long time doesn't mean that it's "ready" to pay. Conversely, a machine can pay several jackpots in a row. It's simply impossible to tell if a machine is ready to pay a jackpot.

As saying goes, "You pays your money and you takes your chances."

Good luck!

To illustrate, let's assume you want to play a machine that has a three coin maximum bet. Should you play maximum? Look at payout information. If jackpot amount for one coin bet is 1,000, for two coins 2,000 and for three coins 5,000, then jackpot is bigger proportionally for three coins and you should bet maximum coins. This is because maximum coins to bet is three times minimum but maximum coin jackpot is five times amount of minimum coin jackpot. This means your jackpot odds are better if you play maximum coins.

In this same example, if three coin jackpot was 3,000 instead of 5,000, then you should only play one coin at a time because there is no odds advantage to playing maximum coins.

One disadvantage of playing maximum coins, even if jackpot is proportionally larger, is that smaller, less-than-jackpot payouts are usually not proportionally larger for maximum coins played. It's only jackpot that is proportionally larger. For this reason, we recommend only playing minimum coins on machines that do no have a proportionally larger jackpot for maximum coins. This way, you money will last longer and you increase your odds of winning smaller jackpots and maybe coming away a slight winner.

Good Luck!