Many players out there don’t quite understand how slots actually work and they tend to blame their losses and even some of their winnings, on myths or false ideas. These ideas can only add to your frustration and prevent you from becoming the good online slot player that you want to be. Some of the most common misconceptions about free online slots are:

1. Someone has hit a jackpot on your online slot machine right after you left. You think that that jackpot was yours and that only if you continued playing for a little while you would’ve won it. As a matter of fact, this is not the case. All online slot machines have a chip inserted into them called the Random Number Generator. The RNG works to make all play fair and every time a player hits the spin button, the RNG will pick a combination of numbers to the closest microsecond. The RNG will cycle through thousands of new combinations in a matter of seconds, hence making it very unlikely for you to have pressed the spin button at that exact moment when the winning jackpot combination was created.

2. A slot machine that has not hit in a long time is due to pay out. This statement is false since there is no possible way to determine when a machine is going to pay out. Once again, the RNG will determine the odds of hitting a jackpot or a paying winning combination and new spins do not have a memory as of what happened during previous spins.

3. Betting with more than one coin will increase your odds of winning. When a player bets with more than one coin on his spin, they will definitely add to their winning amount but not to their chances of hitting a winning combination. The Random Number Generator does not know how many coins were inserted and leaves the winning patterns to pure chance. Betting three coins on a spin will not guarantee that you can hit that special jackpot.