"...> Here is one thing that is absolutely certain about "pulling the card": there is now a way that is being used to prevent your wins from being hidden by the card pull. I discovered this on one of the Norwegian cruise ships..."
Four ways you discovered this on the cruise:
1) The card reader displayed a message to effect: "WTF don't bother."
2) You asked
3) Another player mentioned it to you.
4) Casino security surrounded you as constant card pulling was picked up by cameras and you didn't have your lucky rabbit feet displayed. Where would they put you if your on a cruise ship and have been read the trespassed paragraphs?
When this software option became widely available, several casinos activated the message display option. Most don't display the message even though pulling your card has no effect.
Laughlin River Palms had the WTF message displayed after several years into our many visits to gamble at the 10/7 Double Bonus multi-strike; the crack cocaine of video poker. 10 years ago. We were dissapointed.
Advances in casino software is interesting. There's little deep knowledge on the internet. There's also casino mgmt/staffing human resources factors which can provide a gambler an advantage.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, <vp_a_gogo@...> wrote:
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> <guruperf@> wrote:
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> > Here is one thing that is absolutely certain about "pulling the card": there is
> now a way that is being used to prevent your wins from being hidden by the card
> pull. I discovered this on one of the Norwegian cruise ships. As long as there
> are credits left in the machine, pulling the card does not matter. All plays,
> wins, and losses will continue to accrue to the person whose card was last in
> the machine. So pulling a card with trip Aces won't have any effect- you might
> as well leave it in. Only cashing out the machine will stop their following of
> your play, and you can't do that in the middle of a hand.
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> > When this will hit land-based casinos, I don't know - I haven't seen it there
> yet, but it is definitely there on at least one Norwegian ship, more probably
> all of them.
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> The card readers at the Rampart Casino in Las Vegas act just the way you described it. If you remove your card while there are still credits on the machine, the card reader says "Carded Session in Progress". The Palms also used this system for a few years, but I'm not sure if they still do. There are probably other casinos doing it also.
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