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).
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...
