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Etiquette Regarding "Locking up" a machine?

#1

If there's a promotion underway that causes more players to want to play than there are machines, there will be players waiting in the wings for a machine to become available. When someone does leave a machine, what is the etiquette regarding what "waiting" player gets the machine?

Is there an unofficial queue that forms for each machine (or bank of machines)? Is it first come first serve? I assume the latter is more likely. If that's true, would it be proper etiquette for a player currently on a machine to "pass" it to a partner/friend when done playing even if the player wasn't there before the others waiting for the machine?

#2

Unless you are in a casino that runs a waiting list, like the Old LV Club did, you can pass your machine to whomever you want--taking preference over anyone waiting.

If you give up your machine and just leave, the next person in line gets it.

We also had special deals with the other teams to handle any situation and avoid squabbles in a casino.

~FK

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Mr. Hogua" <ckonwin@...> wrote:

If there's a promotion underway that causes more players to want to play than there are machines, there will be players waiting in the wings for a machine to become available. When someone does leave a machine, what is the etiquette regarding what "waiting" player gets the machine?

Is there an unofficial queue that forms for each machine (or bank of machines)? Is it first come first serve? I assume the latter is more likely. If that's true, would it be proper etiquette for a player currently on a machine to "pass" it to a partner/friend when done playing even if the player wasn't there before the others waiting for the machine?

#3

An implicit waiting list is getting more popular. If someone is waiting for a machine and a player gives it to someone whom the person waiting was there before, a complaint to management can get the machine, even at casinos which are aren't explicitly anti-AP.

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----- Frank <frank@progressivevp.com> wrote:

Unless you are in a casino that runs a waiting list, like the Old LV Club did, you can pass your machine to whomever you want--taking preference over anyone waiting.

If you give up your machine and just leave, the next person in line gets it.

We also had special deals with the other teams to handle any situation and avoid squabbles in a casino.

~FK

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Mr. Hogua" <ckonwin@...> wrote:

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> If there's a promotion underway that causes more players to want to play than there are machines, there will be players waiting in the wings for a machine to become available. When someone does leave a machine, what is the etiquette regarding what "waiting" player gets the machine?

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> Is there an unofficial queue that forms for each machine (or bank of machines)? Is it first come first serve? I assume the latter is more likely. If that's true, would it be proper etiquette for a player currently on a machine to "pass" it to a partner/friend when done playing even if the player wasn't there before the others waiting for the machine?

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#4

And in some cases the complaint to management will be in the form of ratting out the play itself.

A story about Harrahs Laughlin, and a well published AP, comes to mind on this one.

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Tom Robertson <007@...> wrote:

An implicit waiting list is getting more popular. If someone is waiting for a machine and a player gives it to someone whom the person waiting was there before, a complaint to management can get the machine, even at casinos which are aren't explicitly anti-AP.

#5

In my cases a veiled threat to bring management in on the decision usually did the trick. If that didn't work then an outright threat did.

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Tom Robertson <007@...> wrote:

An implicit waiting list is getting more popular. If someone is >waiting for a machine and a player gives it to someone whom the person >waiting was there before, a complaint to management can get the >machine, even at casinos which are aren't explicitly anti-AP.