That happened to me at Foxwoods once. I called over a slot attendant, who then called over a suit. The suit called over three more suits. Then finally someone took his head out of, well, you know where it was, and they called over a slot technician, who actually could do something about it. It took a while, and two more techs, with the bottoms of the machines opened up with modems, routes and who knows what else being plugged, unplugged and re-plugged, before it finally got fixed.
The interesting thing was that the progressive jumped up by over $800 instantly as it apparently had stored the info, but just wasn't able to transmit it.
Guru
P.S. No, I didn't hit it ; (
Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win. -Lazarus Long
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. -Yogi Berra
There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe. -Robert Heinlein
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From: Bob Bartop <bobbartop@yahoo.com>
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2013 1:29 PM
Subject: [vpFREE] Defective Meter Rate on Progressives
I don't know how many times this has happened to me, but it's a significant number. I can remember exactly where I was and when.
I sit down at a bank or bar full of linked progressives, by myself, and start to clock the meter rate. It's usually simple, run $20 coin-in through the machine and note how much the jackpot went up.
But once in a while, I'm in like $18, and it has not gone up even ONE penny! And I'm thinking, "What kinda tightass deal is THIS?" Over time, I have learned that if this happens with the first machine I try, I move to the next machine and try it all over again. Almost without fail the second machine rises normally. So essentially, I probably picked the ONLY machine in the bank that was defective to start my tracking. And this has happened to me a lot.
Do you suppose this is by accident? Or should I be paranoid and start thinking that some casinos do this frequently on purpose, leaving one (or more) machines in a bank that will never add to the meter rise. I don't know why they would do that.
Like I said, I can't tell you how many times this has happened to me, which just seems odd and unlikely.
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