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Pachinko!

March 30, 2020   Game guide   No comments

Pachinko is an arcade or slot machine game that is particularly popular in Japan. There it is played in special rooms called Pachinko Parlors where you can find rows and rows of Pachinko Machines.

Pachinko is a similar kind of game to pinball, but played on a vertical machine, and without the flippers you get on the sides of a pinball machine.

The player buys their pachinko balls and drops them into the loading area. They then start launching the balls, propelling them into the play area. The play area looks rather like that on a pinball machine, with a pattern of upright pins and a number of pockets or gates into which the balls can fall.

Vintage machines use a spring loaded metal flipper or lever to launch the balls. But modern machines fire the balls electronically. The player turns a dial that just controls the frequency with which they are launched.

Once launched the balls bounce around the playing area, hitting against the pins. Unlike in pinball, where the player can bat the ball around the play area using the flippers, in pachinko the player has no control at all over what happens to a ball once it has been launched.

Usually the ball will fall through the pins to the bottom. But sometimes it falls into one of the winning pockets. This gives the player a number of extra balls.

Most modern machines include a slot game which is triggered if a ball falls into a particular pocket. It is this game that gives the big jackpot wins, ie large numbers of extra balls.

Players can choose to use the balls they win to keep playing, or exchange them for tokens or prizes such as pens or cigarette lighters. In Japan, cash gambling is illegal, so cash prizes cannot be awarded. To circumvent this, the tokens can usually be taken to a convenient exchange centre – generally located very close by, maybe even in a separate room next to the pachinko parlor.

As you can tell, there is very little skill involved in pachinko, especially in the modern machines where the only thing the player controls is the frequency with which the balls are shot onto the playing area. Apart from that it is purely a game of chance!

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UK Horse Racing – The Staking Machine Review (Page 1 of 2)

March 26, 2020   Personal game   No comments

It is quite often in horse racing and sport in general, that once you have got through most of the hype surrounding a tipping service, or piece of software, it is nowhere close to what you predicted. So it was a shock to turn up across software that does exactly what it says on the tin, and much extra. Most of what I evaluate commonly turns out to be utter hogwash so it never gets a reference from me on the web.

That software is The Staking Machine, and is by far the greatest bit of kit I have discovered for staking research, not just that, the bloke in charge of it, Dave, is approachable to fresh ideas for the software, and has already implemented a number of additions I put forward, which makes it easier to import the results from system buidlers like RSB, Raceform Update, and other related research tools.

The Staking Machine is simply software which allows you to process historical results (or randomly selected with the software), alongside many staking plans, making it painless to compare them to increase your profits. The software is exceedingly flexible, and gives you more than an adequate amount of data so you can undoubtedly see the top staking plan for whatever system/method you are using. You will be shocked how much prospective profits you may possibly be missing out on by ignoring this software, which is now part of my own professional portfolio, and I have been a professional gambler for over 10 years.

Not only can this sports gambling software be used as a betting calculator to analyse your back, lay and each way gambling, it can in addition be used to track your previous bets and their performance. Once you have chosen your staking plan the sports betting software automatically calculates the next stake in the chosen staking plan so that you do no labor at all.

To help in your research there is an indepth research screen that compares all staking plans side by side. The research includes ROI, Profit, Drawdown, Sequences confidence test, graphs, Odds Frequency and more.

Everyone is aware the more data you have the better. You can use the special editing features to Reverse or Randomise your data and check if the results are the same irrespective of the order your wins came in. You can moreover multiply the data you have to generate up to 30,000 bets. Used along with the random bet generator to fully test your strike rates and staking plans.

This software probably has a lot more than you’ll probably require, but it includes all the staking plans you have heard of, and many you have not. When checking the research results, please pay attention to the maximum stake column so you know the risks, as well as the drawdown.

I have listed a good number of the functions below, but you will unearth more, and extras are added in every new version:

* This staking software has 19 Back Staking Plans including Level, 1326, Dalembert,Fibonacci, Percentage, Parlay, Pro, Secure, Fixed, Kelly, Square Root, Labouchere, Retirement, Bookies Bank, the infinite settings of XYZ, Up X Down Y, L.P.28, Recovery and Stop at a Winner.

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