Elise Marsh

About Elise

Elise Marsh writes about the psychology of slot design for this review site — the near-miss effect, losses disguised as wins, the pace of a session and the beliefs that grow around all three. Her approach is to start from published work and from the plain arithmetic of a paytable, because those are the parts a reader can check independently. She writes for this site and has no connection to any casino operator, which is also why her articles explain how a mechanism works rather than recommending where to play. Where a popular claim does not survive the research, she says so and shows what the evidence is.