Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 3989 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Monday, March 16, 2009 - 12:36 pm: | |
Buddy of mine was wandering through the Wynn Casino on the Las Vegas Strip yesterday heading for the buffet when he saw a lot of excitement at a slot machine. He wandered over to see this, and the lucky winner allowed him to take this photo.
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Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 9628 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, March 16, 2009 - 12:47 pm: | |
$100 hands of video poker! Some people are crazy. |
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 3662 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Monday, March 16, 2009 - 1:16 pm: | |
I didn't think photography was permitted in casinos. |
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup
Post Number: 5396 Registered: 06-2004
| Posted on Monday, March 16, 2009 - 1:52 pm: | |
only if you get caught |
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 6807 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Monday, March 16, 2009 - 2:39 pm: | |
Last I heard video poker has a player's edge if the player knows what he's doing. I recently read they've been having a lot of trouble lately with cheats using cameras at blackjack tables. I suppose they try to use them to see the hole card. |
Eriedearie Member Username: Eriedearie
Post Number: 3876 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Monday, March 16, 2009 - 2:42 pm: | |
OMG! Wonder how much money that person had already put in there? That is a beautiful picture though! |
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 3990 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Monday, March 16, 2009 - 3:59 pm: | |
Well, the credit meter shows 4025, so he had 25 credits in there when he hit for the 400k. At 100 a credit, that's 2500 he had in there. And of course he's playing 5 credits at a crack, so that's $500 a hand. Photos in casinos used to be a no-no, but with the advent of digital cameras and all, enforcement is impossible so they don't worry about that any more. I play nickle machines, five nickles a hand. That same hand at my rate would have rewarded me with $200. I have a hunch that would make me as happy as the guy that hit the 400k. |
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 9631 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, March 16, 2009 - 4:44 pm: | |
I like the multiple hand games, lowest denomination. Fun to play 50 hands of poker for 1 cent a hand. Not easy to find, Caesar's has some near the entrance to the Forum Shops. |
Raptor56 Member Username: Raptor56
Post Number: 817 Registered: 05-2007
| Posted on Monday, March 16, 2009 - 5:14 pm: | |
playing $100 per credit still blows my mind. Still can't personally justify pissing away that much money (even if I did make hundres of thousands a year). |
Cheddar_bob Member Username: Cheddar_bob
Post Number: 1880 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, March 16, 2009 - 5:54 pm: | |
Or this guy playing max credits (which has the best odds) which makes it $500/hand. |
Eriedearie Member Username: Eriedearie
Post Number: 3879 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Monday, March 16, 2009 - 7:07 pm: | |
One night at Windsor Raceway I hit 2 jackpots in a row on 2 different quarter machines by playing the max - 75 cents. I hit for $2,500.00 each machine. I took a hundred dollar bill from my wins and put that in a dollar machine and played max - $3.00 each push. I did NOT line up a damn thing - 33 pushes and got zilch, zero, nada! When I think of doing that now I get a sick, sick feeling; and if I could get my foot there, I'd kick my own self in the a$$. The guy who won the jackpot shown in the picture must have had money to burn or guts of steel. More power to him. I hope he took the money and run! |
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 3992 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Monday, March 16, 2009 - 8:50 pm: | |
My buddy didn't have any details on the guy that hit the aces, so I'll have to just wonder along with you. One other thing to note...there are no 'held' cards. The player drew five junk cards at the start of the hand and dumped them all, picking up the aces with the kicker on the draw. I did that once....dumped all five and drew a royal flush on the draw. But was only playing quarters, so I had to settle for a thou. And, Erie, there's an old gambler's adage...when you're hot, push it. Well, you did and it didn't work, but I'd likely would have done as you. |
Cheddar_bob Member Username: Cheddar_bob
Post Number: 1883 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, March 16, 2009 - 10:21 pm: | |
So, you won $5,000 and then put back in $100? What's that, 2% of your winnings? Ray's right, when you are on a winning streak, keep it going until it's no longer a streak. If you had given back say, 50% of your winnings I could see you kicking yourself, but 2% is nothing to worry about. |
Eriedearie Member Username: Eriedearie
Post Number: 3886 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 12:02 am: | |
Ray & Cheddar I agree - yep all the way, push it, when you're hot okay. But now that I'm not working, I can't afford to play with a hundred dollar bill like that. I want to - but I know better! - For now I'm sticking with the nickle and quarter slots! LOL |
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 3993 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 12:55 pm: | |
Erie, to paraphrase your line...."now that I'm retired, I can't afford to play with a hundred dollar bill like that." But the glory days gone by were sure fun. |
Eriedearie Member Username: Eriedearie
Post Number: 3890 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 7:49 pm: | |
Yes they were Ray! |
Bearinabox Member Username: Bearinabox
Post Number: 1326 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 9:12 pm: | |
For some reason, this thread reminded me of this:quote:In the Trop World casino, around midnight, the scene was exactly the same as it had been at two in the afternoon except that by now many of the players had developed a certain glazed expression quite different from the earlier look of intense self-absorption. With bankruptcy the small muscles of the face go slack. At Caesar's I watched one man of middle years play a slot machine for a good ten minutes. He had completely lost interest in the various fruits and gold bars that his machine displayed and was looking everywhere but at it. His head turned this way and that way, in quick jerks rather like a parrot's, but his eyes were as blank as Little Orphan Annie's. All the while, he fed silver dollars into the machine from a plastic cup and yanked the lever with a precision that was robotic. Every so often, he hit a minor payoff. He could tell without looking because the machine would noisily spit out ten or twenty coins into a steel trough below. He would reach down, scoop them into his cup, and resume robotically feeding the machine, the perfect industrial man at his leisure, having "fun." -James Howard Kunstler, "The Geography of Nowhere"
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Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 3997 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 10:52 pm: | |
Not especially uncommon, Bear, except that now the slots are all coinless. |
Ccbatson Member Username: Ccbatson
Post Number: 19759 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Sunday, March 29, 2009 - 4:56 pm: | |
Can you get a shot of cumulative losses? |