Peter wrote:
>On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 10:19 AM, 007 <007@embarqmail.com> wrote:
>> Many progressive meters won't display the current jackpot amount until
>> past jackpots have been played off
>
>Huh, where have you seen this? Any time I've seen a progressive hit, if
>there is a meter displayed above the bank, that resets immediately
>(sometimes/always? it flashes between something like "$4821.39 #3" and
>"$4000.01" for example). The meter on other players' machines reset
>pretty much immediately too (as soon as they complete the hand they're in
>the middle of when it hits, I would think).
There's a lot of variation regarding this. Many are as you describe,
in which case I assume management wouldn't want the jackpot to flash
along with the current meter longer than it takes to pay the jackpot.
The current meter not being displayed at all until the jackpot has
been played off is a minority. I think, on the $1 multi-meter
progressive at Terrible's, only jackpots, and not the current meter,
flash on the screen above the machines until they're played off. I've
had to look on a machine to see the current meter there.
>It would seem to be to be such a weird and trivially fixed bug that they
>would have changed it a long time ago, plus, I've been asked to "play it
>off" on non-progressive machines too, so I'm a bit skeptical that's the
>reason.
>
>> and, when it's a hand that pays something without locking up the
>> machine, such as, say, a promotion on a 4 of a kind, they want to avoid
>> the possibility of someone else trying to claim it.
>
>Could be, but it's really simple for them to key in and pull up the last
>few hands that have been played, and I know of at least one casino whose
>slot personnel do this maybe 60-70% of the time when paying off a quad
>bonus.
>
>> I've seen casino personnel playing off jackpots, so some players either
>> refuse to or aren't asked. I've never refused.
>
>Something I witnessed once: on a non-progressive $5 bank they paid a
>player who didn't want to play it off, so the slot attendants opened up
>the hopper and put in a single coin to play it off, except they kept
>hitting winning hands :-) I think it took them like 7-8 plays to get rid
>of it. I always wondered what internal paperwork would have been incurred
>had they hit a $1250 royal...
I heard of a technician in Atlantic City who was working on a machine
and, with max coins played, was dealt 4 to a royal. For the thrill, I
assume, he drew to it and hit it, which, considering the greater
strictness there than in Nevada, was probably quite an administrative
mess.
