--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Tom Robertson <007@...> wrote:
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> johnnyzee48127 wrote:
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> When a $5 machine, I believe at Caesars Palace something like 10 or 15 years ago, gave 20 credits for each $20 bill that was inserted, there was no written rule violated, but I believe the people who took
> advantage of it faced criminal charges. If I had been one of them and if the people in this case don't face similar charges, I'd scream
> bloody murder.
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A slot tech mistakenly put a dollar denom bill acceptor into a $5 machine.
This phenomen happened from time to time when I was in Nevada and greedy dimwit hustlers would take a couple of fills then haul ass.
It happened to me one time at the Riverside in Laughlin. I was spinning off a dollar Diamond Mine and the machine quit taking bills. I needed some tokes so I shoved a twenty into the machine on my left and went to hit the cashout button, but the credit meter started zooming up and didn't quit until it got to 400 credits. Some slot tech had mistakenly put a nickel bill acceptor into a dollar machine.
I leaned back in my chair,thinking about what I should do, for a few seconds. I glanced up at the ceiling without moving my head. Eyes in the Sky's were everywhere. I sat there until a floor person came along.
"I got a problem with this machine" I said "I stuck a twenty in it and it racked up 400 credits. I need my twenty dollars back."
"Oh, my!" she said. "I'll go get someone."
A few minutes later an assistant slot manager showed up and asked me what the problem was.
"I put a twenty in this machine and it racked up 400 credits. I need my twenty dollars back."
"Wow!" he said. "It would have taken us forever to figure that out! You're an honest guy. I'll get your twenty to you in a few minutes."
He opened the machine and shut it down, sticking the log book in the window. Yeah, sure I'm an honest guy. Little did he know. I was making a good living in the Riverside and wasn't about to blow it for some short end money.
In those days, anytime a machine took a fill, the floor attendent recorded the date and time in the log book of the machine. Three fills in a 24 hour period and the floor person was required to get a slot mechanic to check the machine to see if it was overpaying, or if anything else was causing a problem. That's why most of the cowardly hustlers would just take two fills then haul ass.
But the sharper and braver crooked hustler played it a different way. He played for hand pays. He's getting a $3 spin for 15 cents. A 90% machine becomes an 1800% machine. In those days a $400 jackpot or higher was a handpay. He played for handpays as long as he felt like he could get away with it. Then he hauled ass without taking a single fill.
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