A number of years ago, before TITO, I was at Harrah's Tunica and for laughs
I was trying a penny slot. I was trying to cash out for $5.31 and the thing
dropped five $1 coins but the 31 cents had to be hand payed. Took 20
minutes.
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From: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vpFREE@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Brian Senkow
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 10:02 PM
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [vpFREE] New hand pays at Harrah's AC
Gee, I guess you sure wouldn't like the machines up here in Canada--here the
government-run places will lock up when a single hit of $150 happens...that
is a make-work project if ever I saw one
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Tom Valledolmo <coachvee@aol.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi Gang:
> Harrah's AC has changed its policy on hand pays. Beginning this week all
> single hits of $1,000 or more will be hand pays. Prior to this, only
> jackpots of $1,200 or more were hand pays. This was confirmed this past
> weekend when a friend of ours hit aces with a kicker on DDB at the 50-cent
> level and her machine locked up. We're not sure if this is for VP only but
> we're guessing it will be for all machines.
> The tech who came to pay off our friend said that the Borgata had gone to
> this policy and Harrah's has decided to do it as well. The tech said it's
> designed to create more excitement with the machine locking up and music
> playing more often. The drawback, of course, is that this will
significantly
> slow up play. Another friend of ours plays only at the quarter level and
he
> hit three royals the week before. He didn't have to stop playing once
during
> that trip but would have had his machine lock up three times if it had
> happened this past week.
> I guess this will also Impact players (VP and slots) who play at the
higher
> levels. Smaller hits may result in more machine lock-ups. The other thing
> this impacts, of course, is whether to tip the tech that handles the hand
> pay. More hand pays means more opportunities to tip. So, what's a player
to
> do?
> It will be interesting to see how this plays out over the next few months
> and to see if players start complaining.
> Regards,
> CoachVee & Hedy
>
> PS: The VP pendulum swung big-time this week as Hedy and I got beat up
> pretty badly. Only one set of aces, very few bonus quads and no hand pays.
> Thank goodness we had a nice cushion from the past three trips.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>
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