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Originally Posted by Ray Zee
yep the machines changed but the casino knew about them as they would tell you to leave or just pull the handle and let go, if you wanted to play.
I think we are talking about two different kinds of rhythm players. According to Jackie Shirley, he and his cohorts weren't manipulating the handle. They were timing the variator to control the speed of the second reel to get a certain symbol to land on the line. This increased the odds of certain pays. It turned a low nineties, percentagewise, machine into a 110% machine.
The variator was developed to thwart players from manipulating the handle to control the speeds of the reels. Basically the variator sent the reels spinning at 5 to 7 different speeds. The speed changed every couple of seconds. They could tell what the next speed would be by the speed of the current spin. There was no manipulation of the handle. And as Jackie explained to me, they never got caught because of it.