7c. Re: LVA Question of the Day - 9 MAY 2008
Date: Mon May 12, 2008 4:24 am ((PDT))--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, bjaygold@... wrote:
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> The one thing not mentioned in the article is, she tipped NOT ONE
PENNY.
>Hard to really know but I wonder if someone
could be in such shock that they just don't
think to do it. I suspect at a moment like
that a lot of things are going through
your mind.
When I first started playing VP, I had never had a winning session, and (who knows why, I think maybe the full-pay $1 were gone) was taking my first shot at a $5 machine. After it had sucked up a couple thousand and I was getting close to quitting the session and thinking of never playing VP again, I hit a royal. Because I was a beginner, I had been pulling a strategy card out frequently, and I was playing VP because I'd just been barred again at blackjack and had decided to give it up - so when they came and started opening the machine and having a technician check it, etc., I started to get scared that they were going to somehow void my win - I was just very nervous from everything that had happened to me recently.
So, when I finally got paid, I pocketed the money and rushed to my room. I didn't realize until later that day that I should have, but did not, tip anyone at the time - and I didn't recognize any of them when I played again, so didn't know what to do. I never tipped for that one. I have always done so since.
Another factor, implied above, in addition to the surprise, was that this was my first hand-pay jackpot at anything - so ALL of it was new and distracting - my first request for SS card, my first W2G, and so on - and NO previous experience of having had such a jackpot where a tip would be expected.
The point is, the surprise, as well as other circumstances, CAN affect your thinking. It's entirely possible that a Megabucks player has never hit a big jackpot before and doesn't know anyone who has, and so doesn't even know that tips are customary for such hand-pays / big wins.
--BG
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