For the sake of clarity, let's use a $1 VP machine for an example ($5 per
hand). If you put $20 in it, and keep playing with the credits you got for small
wins like a high pair or 3-of-a-kind, perhaps you might play 100 hands before
your $20 is gone. You lost $20, but you played 100 hands at $5 each, which
means you "cycled through" $500. If you'd played 200 hands, then it would be
$1,000. That total is called "coin-in," and it's what the casinos look at when
they're evaluating your play for comps, cashback, mailed offers, etc.
Last year, in the Detroit venues of Motor City and MGM, I ran a total coin-in
of a bit over $1/2 million on quarter machines (!), yet my bankroll never
strayed from between $1,000 and $3,000. They think I'm a fairly big gambler for
the quarters level, yet I never really risked very much cash.
- Brian in MI
In a message dated 4/16/2005 2:44:24 AM Eastern Standard Time,
patriciainca@sbcglobal.net writes:
Can you clarify something for me. On your first trip you seem to have 'fed'
the machine $500 overtime &when you were done, you had 'cycled through'
$13,000? And you went home $273 ahead (plus comps) ..so you 'got back' your $500
+ another $273? I am only asking because it still intrigues me how one can
cycle so much money through a machine on so little out of pocket cash,
relatively. Seems impossible. I have heard of it many times before, just seems wierd
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