My History in Video Poker (cont'd)

[jm002546]

  It's said that it is illegal to cash out a tito that is not yours.  I would not care to be scrutinized on the surveilance tapes taking repeated advantage of an overpayer, either. The casinos can be mighty mean about such things. Things are different now. 

[Lazyace]

 
  

[anthonybaresi]

Lazyace,
 
Your kidding but I'll post here for you if I see anything good. I'm in the Indian Casinos in So Cal alot plus Vegas about once a month.  What State are you in?

[anthonybaresi]

Lazyace,
It's me Charlie by the way, I'm just at a different computer. 
 
Charlie

[Lazyace]

 
  

[Lazyace]

                  

[wilcoxfun]

Love the history lessons and the stories that you are sharing here.  Just wish I could have walked around with you and found those types of machines! It sure would help my income.

[royal flush]

to bad its not that easy where are the losses such details from 5+ years ago- 3 years ago even when i played 21 professionally i had some losses atleast mickeys stories are fun and make sense as i played similar games

[dcfas]

     The post about the Tropicana reminded me of one of my first trips to Atlantic City. As a matter of fact, this happened while I stayed at the Tropicana.
 
     Barely past 21 and a little naive about casino gambling (no one would confuse me with a hustler), I searched the floor for quarter 9/6 Jacks or Better, thinking it the best gamble for my woeful bankroll.
 
     After awhile I finally found an upright machine with a 25 on it and the red Draw Poker face plate. I approached it with my bucket of quarters and fed one in there.
 
     Plink! It fell into the tray.
 
     I grabbed a few more quarters and tried again.
 
     Plink! Plink! Plink!
 
     Great. I locate an unoccupied quarter machine after looking for one for forever and it does not work.  While I stood there cursing my misfortune, the voice of a man nearby snapped me out of my self-pitying reverie.  
 
     *That is a twenty-five DOLLAR machine.*
 
     Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Well, no wonder my quarters fell through.
 
     I sheepishly stooped down to recover my ducats when my hand brushed against something else in the tray. What is this? I peered into the corner of the tray to discover someone had left a stack of ten 25 dollar tokens behind.
 
     Nut, this is blind squirrel. Blind squirrel, this is nut.
 
     After nine hours of waiting time (two minutes in real time), I determined I had given the original owner enough time to realize his mistake and return to the machine.
  
     Never having a windfall like this, I could not just take the tokens and immediately cash them. I brought them up to the room just so I could bid them good morning (Hello boys!) before redeeming them when I left the next day.
 
     Unfortunately, this would remain my biggest win on a trip for about ten years.
 
    
    

[Lazyace]