<guruperf@...> wrote:
> 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.
> 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.
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.
