This led to the fact that the fall of the highest winning combinations (for example, the Royal Flush) was minimized, turning these machines into a profitable business.ĭue to the wild popularity of poker machines, the German mechanic Charles Fey embodied this idea in a new quality – the 4-11-44 machine. It is absolutely known that dishonest owners cheated, replacing significant cards from the deck. At that time, slots were not yet able to give out automatic winnings, so if they got a successful combination, players had to ask the bartender for it. It was necessary to throw a coin into the machine, after which, pulling the lever and watching the rotation of 5 reels – as you know, combinations of 5 cards are played out in poker. In 1891, mechanics Sitman and Pitt invented the poker machine with 5 reels and 50 playing cards.
The very idea and principle of operation of slot machines came from poker. However, this industry experienced a real boom when, at the end of the 19th century, the first “one-armed bandits”, known today as slot machines, were invented and presented in gambling houses. The craving for gambling has led to the invention of many games of chance, some of which are thousands of years old.
