In Part I of this short series, The One-Armed Bandit: Slot Machines and Organized Crime in New York City, we looked at the origins of the slot machine in Brooklyn and the technological manipulations ...

The history of the slot machine industry in the United States, like many activities operated by organized crime syndicates, is a story of shrewd entrepreneurism and opportunism functioning amidst a ...

[Kyle Kroskey] just finished his first Arduino project, adding web control to a slot machine. He started with an IGT S+ model which were extremely popular in Vegas and Atlantic City casinos for years, ...

Imagine you’re a gambler and you’re standing in front of several slot machines. Your goal is to maximize your winnings, but you don’t actually know anything about the potential rewards offered by each ...

Slot machines have evolved over the last century from the clunk of a one-armed bandit to the smooth touch of a smartphone ...

The more you play slot machines, the more you will lose. It’s common wisdom, but still it bears repeating. I wasn’t three minutes into one of the slot tournaments that can be found throughout this ...

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