Every so often you’re going to bound to come across mention of pokies ‘cycles’ or slots ‘cycles’. Chances are you may even have done so already.

Normally the story goes that although slots or pokies claim to be random they go through certain cycles whereby the combinations repeat themselves. So for example a cycle might be ‘no win, 2 cherries, no win, 3 bars, no win, no win, 3 cherries, no win’ before it repeats itself once again.

Granted when most people talk about pokies or slots cycles they tend to imply something more complicated than that – but you should get the general point.

The core idea behind cycles is that if you could actually learn how to spot them when you’re in a casino or on a online gambling website then you could (theoretically) cash in on them. After all, if you know when a game is going to land a winning combination you could wait and bet big when it does.

Before you get too excited and start dreaming about walking into a casino and being able to predict when games of pokies are going to pay out, or winning a huge jackpot in online gambling websites for slots just because you knew when the jackpot was about to hit – don’t.

The simple fact of the matter is that pokies cycles do not exist.

No matter how much some may like to think otherwise, the truth is that at the heart of every game of slots is a random number generator that is churning out numbers at a fantastic rate and it is it, and only it, that determines the results of any given spin of pokies.

The idea that these games go through ‘cycles’ is really rather absurd – just think what it would mean for a casino or online gambling website if it were true. Assuming players actually could predict when a game of pokies or slots was going to pay out they’d be able to take the casino for everything that it had.

Make no mistake, there is no way such a situation would be permitted.

And let’s face it, assuming there even was a way to predict pokies cycles and cash in on it – don’t you think more people would be millionaires by cashing in on it by now?

At the end of the day, the only thing that you need to know about slots ‘cycles’ is that it is a claim most often used by various pokies systems in order to get people interested. Frankly speaking, it is all just a mix between a rumor and a scam, and all said and done it is best to steer clear!