How We Verify Claims at Run the Slots
Run the Slots is a research publication for slot machine advantage play. This page sets out the editorial standards, sourcing rules, correction practice, and conflict-of-interest disclosures that govern every guide we publish.
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Editorial standards
Every number traces to a source record
Each guide is built from a source record for that specific machine — the trigger, the ceiling and the counter behavior as set down in advantage-play source material for that game. Every play threshold a member acts on has to appear in that record: an automated check runs on every build, and a threshold that is not in the record fails the build, so the guide does not ship. What we do not have is a dated inspection of one specific cabinet on one specific casino floor, and we do not claim one.
Trigger numbers from observable state
When we publish a sit-down number, it is anchored to a value visible on the machine display: the progressive counter, the accumulator counter, the disc position, the persistent symbol count. If we cannot observe it, we do not publish it.
Methodology in the open
The reasoning behind every recommended trigger lives in our pillar guides at /learn/must-hit-by-complete-guide, /learn/casino-floor-strategy-2026, and /learn/slot-machine-mechanics-explained. Readers can audit our math, not just trust it.
We update when mechanics change
When a manufacturer re-tunes a game, changes a ceiling, or ships a new version of a machine, the affected guide is rewritten in place. The number you read is the number the guide currently stands behind.
Sources & verification
- Pay tables: read directly from the machine info screen or from manufacturer-published documentation when available.
- Machine mechanics: trigger behavior, ceiling values, and counter logic are taken from the per-machine source record a guide was built from, and are reproduced as recorded rather than paraphrased.
- Math validation: every EV formula is cross-checked against established slot-math references in the public literature (apcalculators.com, wizardofodds.com, and standard probability texts).
Updates and corrections
- We do not run guides on a review calendar. What runs on every build is the accuracy check above: each play threshold has to match the source record for that machine, or the build fails and nothing ships.
- A reader report is what starts a re-check of a published number — tell us when something looks wrong, and the corrections route below is the fastest way to get a number looked at again.
- Published numbers are treated as fixed. A number changes when the machine it describes changes, or when we find we transcribed it wrong — never to make a guide read better.
Conflict of interest disclosure
Run the Slots takes no affiliate commissions from any casino — online or land-based. We have no referral relationships with gambling operators. Our only revenue is paid subscriptions to the research itself. There are no casino sponsorships and no “promoted machines” in any guide. If a guide recommends a specific machine at a specific property, that recommendation reflects the math, not a commercial relationship.
Corrections policy
If you spot an error in a guide — an outdated ceiling, a mis-quoted reset, an incorrect trigger range — email us through /support with the URL and the discrepancy. We read the report back against that machine’s source record, and if it holds up the guide is corrected in place. Corrections go into the guide itself rather than a separate change log.