1: a machine whose operation is begun by dropping a coin into a slot. 2: an originally coin-operated gambling machine that pays off according to the matching of symbols on wheels spun by a handle also: an electronic version of this machine. The showman looks grieved: the interruption throws him out of gear, like a bent penny in a slot machine. You talk like a dollar's worth of nickels rattling out of a slot machine—right straight to the point. It is as hopeless to look for immediate relief as it is in the case of a slot machine.
noun
1British A vending machine selling small items.
‘The slot machine sells sex toys, erotic lingerie, massage oil and condoms.’- ‘I remember on a rare trip to the seaside (the beach was out of bounds, full of barbed wire and gun emplacements) gazing at a long-empty slot machine that had once held chocolate bars and now appeared as a rusting icon from outer space.’
- ‘The reason I'm thinking about this, whilst I sit in the pub, drinking my pint - sorry, I'm in a pub - is because I can see a girl standing next to the slot machine, dressed in pink.’
- ‘The only other two in operation were DIY, where the hapless customer is expected to swipe groceries past an electronic eye and then fiddle about feeding credit cards or cash into a slot machine to pay for them.’
- ‘The ordinary idea of a slot machine logically involves the idea of a device in which some mechanism or other is set in operation by the coin, which in some way delivers the appropriate goods.’
- ‘If the government's central concern was the reduction in teenage pregnancies, the sensible thing would be to make the morning-after pill available cheaply - perhaps via slot machines in easily accessible places.’
- ‘A motorway service station may seem an odd place to remember 12 murder victims, but yesterday the bugler's Last Post called out amid the slot machines and coffee bars with haunting beauty.’
- ‘I suppose we ought to shut down every library, then find a way of building slot machines into books so that you have to keep putting 10p pieces in every few minutes in order to keep the pages turning.’
- ‘But let them run around cobbled streets, put old pennies in Victorian slot machines and try on historic costumes, and you'll find a very different reaction.’
- ‘And I finally found out during a visit to Old Penny Memories, a working collection of antique slot machines in Bridlington.’
- ‘The Bishop of Durham, the Rt Rev Tom Wright, says: ‘Prayer is not a penny in the slot machine, you can't just put in a coin and get out a chocolate bar at the bottom.’
- ‘Will you admit that you've been treating me like some kind of slot machine?’
- 1.1North American A fruit machine.‘Pachinko is a combination of slot machine and pinball game; players can control only the speed at which small stainless-steel balls are fed into the devices.’
- ‘It's a very special relationship and I've seen it on both video game players and on slot machine players and the industry will say that gambling problems are purely from within the individual.’
- ‘As time progressed, computerised versions and all sorts of clever entertainments have been merged into the basic game so that a Pachinko machine is often more like a Fruit Machine or slot machine than a ball game.’
- ‘Delaware Park plans to incorporate a new player tracking component in its racing and slot machine gaming systems.’
- ‘I fail to see how risking your hard-earned money on the outcome of a sporting event, the random machinations of a slot machine, or the numerical suicide of a lottery makes life more interesting.’
- ‘At the conclusion of each level the player is presented with the chance to play a slot machine game for extra men.’
- ‘As a result, shares of the slot machine and video game manufacturer edged up from $33.48 to $34.63.’
- ‘I put some money in a slot machine, and I won my first try.’
- ‘They would, he warned, use bingo as a ‘loss-leader’ and encourage players to try their hand at more addictive slot machine games.’
- ‘This is not some sort of con game or high tech slot machine.’
- ‘In my opinion, nobody has ever had a gun held to his head and been forced to go into a casino and put money into a slot machine.’
- ‘You get what you pay for, Petal, and in the bar scene it is very much a case of putting the money in the slot machine and waiting to see if you win a prize.’
- ‘Players know that it determines the symbols that land on the pay line on a slot machine and the cards they're dealt on a video poker machine.’
- ‘As far as the slot machine goes, it really is an easily understood game, simple without being boring, with well laid out pay tables and easy to understand bonuses.’
- ‘Since the modern slot machine is programmed to select number series at random, no amount of finessing of the handle can change what has been decided.’
- ‘The basic premise of a slot machine is randomness to the extreme.’
- ‘I took a look at products from all the major slot machine manufacturers, and will give my impressions on new games over the next several weeks.’
- ‘I used to put minutes, quarter-hours, half-hours into this game, like ever larger sums into a slot machine.’
- ‘Collier is not alone in his fondness for the slot machine, an electronic poker game known locally as a ‘pokie’.’
- ‘This is my retirement money and if I want to put it in a slot machine, it's nobody's business but my own.’
Appeals court reduces sentence of Russian slot machine cheat at Singapore casinos.
Have you ever tried to cheat a slot machine? I know I sure have. A few years back, I was playing a classic one-armed bandit – the kind with the coin hopper. In anger, I banged the side of it hoping it would erroneously drop some of my coins back to me. Then I got yelled at by a floor manager, apologized and stopped.
Some people take it way further than that – not that my hammering on the machine would have done anything. They aren’t pinball machines, ya know! But a few years back, a Russian syndicate not only attempted cheating slot machines, they succeeded. They won hundreds of thousands of dollars fro casinos in the US, Europe and Macau, China.
When the authorities finally caught up to some of them in Singapore, three men were arrested. They all pleaded guilty to cheating at the casinos, and were each sentenced to many months behind bars. Now, one of them will be serving less time.
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In April of 2017, 42 year old Vladislav Logachev was sentenced to 48 months in prison. It was determined that he and two other members of the syndicate, fellow Russian Andrei Egorov, and Czech native Radoslav Skubnik, were guilty of cheating the slot machines at two casinos in Singapore.
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The courts heard how these men used their smartphones to record slot machine playing patterns at the Marina Bay Sands and Resorts World Sentosa. That information was sent back to the syndicate and analyzed. Then, using high-tech computer programs, the data was used to tell these men when the slot machines were likely to hit their next “mass” payout.
The sophisticated technology gave the men a 60-65% probability of winning. Logachev was able to win S$105,000 during the spree. His accomplices, Erogov and Skubnik, cheated the casinos out of S$55,000 and S$20,000 respectively.
Pleading guilty to 16 charges, Logachev was sentenced to a total of 48 months in prison. The first 24 month sentence was for charges of cheating the slots on his own, and the next 21 months for doing so with accomplices. There’s no question that cheating at a casino is a serious crime, but apparently not as serious as the original judge in that case felt.
Reduced Sentence for “Master”, Logachev
On Friday, the appeals court heard Vladislav Logachev’s case. Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon ruled that the sentence was excessive, reducing his jail time to 38 months.
He deiced that the original sentence “offends” the totality principle, which requires a judge to adjust sentencing when multiple charges are involved, so that individual charges do not result in excessive sentencing.
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The adjustments were modest however, as Logachev was the “master” behind the slot machine cheat at the Singapore casinos. Chief Justice Menon said the defendant, “doubtlessly committed serious offences which must be met with a correspondingly substantial custodial term.”
As accomplices in the illegal casino scam, Erogov and Skubnik were given more appropriate sentences of 30 months and 22 months respectively. The results of their court trials have not been appealed.
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