When legalized casino gambling dawned in America, in the era of Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky, primitive slot machines—those one-armed bandits—served as little more than mechanical babysitters for the wives and girlfriends of high-roller card and dice players. Its rapid-fire reinforcement schedule clinical jargon for fast pacing and frequent payoffs is an accelerant to addiction. I settled on Mr. I was hooked. You cannot select the denomination or the reel layout.
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