It seems like my imagination has the same dreams. The Reno airport seemed to be a big money pit. I played $20 and didn't hit a thing, not to ignore not many cherries either.

However my experience at Sid's was just the opposite, the easiest win for the whole trip.

I had someone from Las Vegas, who works at a casino, tell me that "all silver strike machines have the same chip" so the payoff is the same everywhere.

I don't know if this is fact or what he was told by IGT. IGT runs the concessions (slots) at the Reno Airport, so they could do anything they wanted with their own machines.

They are just a machine, and following the theory that they are all the same, and nothing but a RNG with a clock, and no brains... some days we are going to make it look "hot" and some days the machines will be tight.

The machines don't change, it's just our view of them at any particular time.

A friend of mine used to crack me up when we went to casinos, because he'd say that a machine was "ready to pay" because it had to make the averages and it wasn't paying out enough.

Ever see someone hit back to back Jackpots. Oh that's a hot machine? Next day the same player dropped $800 back in that same "hot machine" and hardly got anything back. Now it's a "cold" machine? The point is that the payouts are random and the machine doesn't know if it just paid $1000 on the last spin, or nothing for the last 1000 spins.

Nope, I don't think you're crazy Norm, I've had the same feelings about the Silver Strike machines for about four years. Maybe they did adjust the payouts down on all of them? Maybe it's just me?