I was telling the other day that the video lottery games are not truly random. Of course, I have no proof of this, but here's what I've learned in the past year, which, inicidentally, is confirmed by my partner, our secret gambling friends, and the fellow compulsive gamblers we meet out and about in all of Portland's finest seedy gambling locales: 

Take a video lottery game, like, for instance, Money Storm. You play it one day and, holy spinning cow, you hit the bonus, you keep getting tornadoes, and you rake in the dough. Hundreds of bucks make your pocket bulge as you whistle your way out the door, feeling smart and like you finally beat the system.

The next day you play again, and maybe the day after, too. But eventually the game stops paying. Maybe in a day or two, maybe after a few weeks. Maybe it slow down a bit