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I don't know what rules are in place in Ontario so this may or may not apply to you, but everything I've read over the past few years indicate that your selection does make a difference, provided you are playing on a 'Class III' machine which is what is used in Las Vegas and most other casino's. Some districts use 'Class II' machines which are more like bingo and are also referred to as 'Video Lottery Terminals' in which case the results is predetermined. In this article a Williams Gaming VP said this about the 'Jackpot Party' game:

When Jackpot Party multi-tier progressive first started appearing in casinos in the Chicago area, Rob Bone, vice-president of marketing for WMS told me: 'Giving players a sense of control, and allowing them to determine what progressive they qualify for is a huge attribute of the game'.
'It is based purely upon what symbols and what presents the player picks to determine what progressive award they achieve,' he added.

Other articles I've read have also stated this.
(Edited to add, since you state the employer is 'Ontario Lottery and Gaming' I'd guess there is a pretty good chance that the games are Class II, in which case your friend is correct and your selections make no difference.)The Wizard answered that question in a video about slot machines he did for The American Casino Guide on YouTube. In Las Vegas, your choices do indeed make a difference, but I don't know about how they are programmed in Canada.
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How to Win at SlotsMathExtremist (ME) would be perfect to address this. Unlike him, I have not worked directly for a slot maker. I can only go off of PARS sheets and what I've been told. That said, it is my understanding that in bonus rounds where to pick icons on the screen the player does indeed control his destiny. The game shuffles the prizes and you pick them, like on Deal or No Deal. It also may be that the game is continuously shuffling them until you do make a choice, much like the rest of the deck while the game is waiting for the player to discard. I'd be interested to hear what ME says on that.
Even if the players win is predetermined, the PARS sheets I've seen indicate that every prize has equal odds. So, mathematically, it wouldn't matter if the player had free will or not. All this is my answer for class III games. Class II slots (bingo based) would not allow for free will, because the outcome must be determined by the draw of the bingo balls.

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I'm not sure how the OLG does it. If the slots are centrally-determined virtual pull-tabs like they are in New York racinos or Washington tribal locations, then everything (not just the bonus round) is predetermined by the central computer managing the set of tickets. One thing you can ask your friend is whether the slot game gets its results from a remote server or whether it does a random determination within the machine. On the other hand, gaming regs usually don't address whether bonus round outcomes may be fully determined at the beginning of each play or whether the player's interaction must have something to do with it. There are 3 or 4 different ways to handle it, but basically all of them are mathematically equivalent. For example, a 12-spot pick-until-pop bonus can be evaluated by the average total value before 'collect' under random picking, or by a predetermined number of picks to reveal. It's actually easier from a coding standpoint to do the random method.Based on my 13 years of answering questions from gamblers, I can tell you that most slot players are not satisfied with the 'it doesn't matter,' or 'it can happen different ways' answer. Same as for video poker. It is true that it doesn't matter mathematically, but the players truly want to know if they are they are in control of their own destiny. Trust me, I've been asked this question for 13 years. I would love to have somebody say, 'I program these games for company X and here is how we do it...' The WMS quote seems to answer the question for WMS, but I'd love to hear from IGT, Ballys, Aristrocrat, or anybody else.
Also, as was mentioned, sometimes the games show you what was behind the unchosen prizes. I would call it lying if that information was not truthful. Maybe there isn't a regulation against it, but I would call it dishonest, at the least.I have some knowledge of OLG's operations, but more from a 30,000 foot level.
Their slots are Class III and do not operate any differently than any other Class III game. If the player isn't experiencing good bonus rounds, the player has to remember that bonus rounds are highly volatile. As well, the payouts on these games might be set in general to be low. OLG's payback on slot machines is not atypical from other jurisdictions.

I have some knowledge of OLG's operations, but more from a 30,000 foot level.
Their slots are Class III and do not operate any differently than any other Class III game.

I'm pretty sure I know what you mean, but just to be clear, Class III is an IGRA designation that's related to what's allowed/not-allowed in tribal locations without a state-tribal compact. Class III means anything that's not Class II or Class I, so unless a gaming machine is actually bingo-based, it's Class III even if it's centrally-determined. E.g. New York racino machines would still be Class III, but it doesn't matter because the racino isn't on tribal land, and it's state statutes and not the IGRA that controls there.
There have been some interesting court decisions on what is or isn't Class II. See Cabazon v NIGC: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=14878425114969219817

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Wired is reporting on a new slot machine hack. A Russian group has reverse-engineered a particular brand of slot machine — from Austrian company Novomatic — and can simulate and predict the pseudo-random number generator.

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The cell phones from Pechanga, combined with intelligence from investigations in Missouri and Europe, revealed key details. According to Willy Allison, a Las Vegas­-based casino security consultant who has been tracking the Russian scam for years, the operatives use their phones to record about two dozen spins on a game they aim to cheat. They upload that footage to a technical staff in St. Petersburg, who analyze the video and calculate the machine’s pattern based on what they know about the model’s pseudorandom number generator. Finally, the St. Petersburg team transmits a list of timing markers to a custom app on the operative’s phone; those markers cause the handset to vibrate roughly 0.25 seconds before the operative should press the spin button.

“The normal reaction time for a human is about a quarter of a second, which is why they do that,” says Allison, who is also the founder of the annual World Game Protection Conference. The timed spins are not always successful, but they result in far more payouts than a machine normally awards: Individual scammers typically win more than $10,000 per day. (Allison notes that those operatives try to keep their winnings on each machine to less than $1,000, to avoid arousing suspicion.) A four-person team working multiple casinos can earn upwards of $250,000 in a single week.

The easy solution is to use a random-number generator that accepts local entropy, like Fortuna. But there’s probably no way to easily reprogram those old machines.

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