Racinos.. argh

I am not sure what to make of these strange new hybrids. VLT's, a slot machine that's really not legally supposed to be called a slot. right? The way in which you win or loose is generated by a pattern of bingo patterns or some computer generated win, loss, code?

We have the newest racino here in our area Miami Valley Gaming, notice its not called a casino. Guess that's not legal.
Its a nice building and I have seen some nice handpays and wins. But I have noticed that it seems to me that if you are playing in a bank of machines and your getting nothing
and a couple out of the banks is getting it all literally that does not seem to change, meaning you are screwed. It seems like machines are picked to be the winners along the way
and if you aren't in that, no matter what the bet, how long you play, you spin your wheels. Does anyone else know really how these compare to real slots?

I think of them like scratch off lottery tickets - but you play the machine and that gives you the result, you don't have a physical ticket.
So like with scratch offs there's a whole pile of tickets for each type of ticket that has winners in various amounts and losers. Whereas scratchoffs have maybe 10 or 12 different payment possibilities, VLTs have 100s or 1000s of possibilities. Each spin on a VLT takes one of those "tickets" out of the pile, then the reels tell you what you won.

I play at both racinos and casinos. VLTs "feel" way less random. They seem like they either pay or they don't, and by pay I mean any win however small, and that can vary based on the bet size at the machine moreso than it "feels" like they do on regular slots. So it's almost like they sold all the winner tickets already and are just trying to get rid of the losers. Whereas regular slots are just working with the RNG with an overall payout percentage behind it, so it's whatever the RNG decides to dish out irrespective of what specific amounts have been won before.

So I don't think your observation is so much that those banks that are winning is so much that that bank was picked to win. But rather that, to use the lottery analogy, there are just more winners in their pile at that particular point in time than there is in the pile for your bank of machines.

I agree with both of you.........so I guess I'm not needed, lol. If they (results) are part of a finite game set, at what point is the new game set loaded? Does each game set have to meet RTP or is the long term RTP an aggregate of multiple game sets. Do all game sets have the same number of results? And more, blah blah.

Be very observant and hope you just don't gamble for the sake of gambling.