Video Poker Forum

 I live about an hour north of the Nevada border in south central Idaho. I frequently travel to California to visit my brother and stop to spend the night in Las Vegas on most trips. I love Vegas!! Something about driving south at night and seeing those incredible lights shining from miles away just gets my heart pounding. Only one problem, I never win when i'm there. I do much better at all the small towns along the way. My favorites are Jackpot Nv. and Ely Nv. I use to live in Elko during the mid 1980's and played alot in Winnemucca. What do all these have in common, they are all old cowboy casino towns and have still retained many of the old style machines. I love playing machines that you can insert coins and keep feeding and build up credits. They don't take bills and they don't spit out some ticket that you have to take to a redemption booth. I love to play Joker Poker with the double down feature. Nothing like getting 100 coins for a four of a kind or 50 coins for a full house on a 5 coin bet and then doing a double or triple down. I can tell by the sound of the coins dropping into the hopper when it's time to feed it some more or just play off some credits. It's awesome when you're ready to cash out and there are not enough coins in the machine and an attendant has to come refill it or pay you in person. Also it might seem too "old school" for most players these days but I enjoy carrying my buckets full of coins to a cashiers cage and grabbing some packets of wet-wipes to clean my coin stained hands while they count my winnings!!!!  

Also it might seem too "old school" for most players these days but I enjoy carrying my buckets full of coins to a cashiers cage and grabbing some packets of wet-wipes to clean my coin stained hands while they count my winnings!!!!  
 
All in all, I prefer TITO.  I never did like waiting twenty minutes or so for a coin fill on a busy night, or standing in a long line to cash out buckets of tokens.  I do remember fondly those times when I had enough buckets of $1 tokens that I'd ask to have a cart brought over to take them to a cashier's cage.   I never complained about waiting on those. 

I still play some coin droppers myself and can relate to what is being said. I think a big difference is the amount of hands that can be played. This may account for some of the differences you have noticed. You can go through a lot more money on the newer machines.

Thomas, NE of Vegas is the town of Pahrump,Nv which also has a bunch of the old coin acceptor machines. They're great to play as they bring back memories(some not so good) of old. Shadow is 100% correct in pointing out the reduced # of hands played per hour and the reduced amount spent to play them.