I used to play slot machines when I was overnighting in Vegas. I would get a roll of nickles and play with that for a few hours, usually winning around $100 - it was just fun, exciting and would pay for my meals on that trip.
Last year I went to York, PA to a family reunion and went with my family to a casino. The slot machines were basically video games - I put in $30 and won $.22.
Yep- twenty two cents. Never again. No pulling the levers - nothing. Just throwing money away.
Same here! I’d roam around the strip with my pocket full of nickels and just have fun. A little while back I was out on a job and got lunch at a little casino and I thought I’d drop a quarter in a slot machine on the way out for old times sake. I think I was suppose to go to the cashier and buy a card or something using my credit card, and then swipe that.
What is the fun of that if I can’t just drop in a quarter and pull the lever?
I don’t go to casinos with computer slot machines. Somebody is upstair working them, IMHO.
We win all the time at the local Indian casinos. We gamble much more than $30 at a time. You have to cycle enough money into the machine to have it pay off, but we usually come home with more than we took. You have to play the right machines and the right denomination to get those higher odds of winning. I prefer $1 machines and higher. I’m still skeptical that this guy won 10 jackpots in a 2 day trip unless he was sitting there for hours and putting in thousands of dollars, in which case it’s entirely possible.
After 9/11, I think the Vegas casinos made it a lot harder to win across the board.
I agree. The slots are now just big video screens. No physical interaction or spinning wheels. I was in Vegas a couple of months ago and could not bring myself to put money in one of those modern slot machines. I wound up playing a few games of roulette.