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MS Progressive

#1

I guess different people have different expectations when it comes to
vp. VP can be a lot of fun, but that doesn't mean one can't be serious
about it. I'm not wealthy enough to fritter away my money with poor
play so I've worked very hard to raise my skill level. Having put in
the effort I get more than just perturbed when the evidence suggests
some games may not be on the up-and-up. I'm not quite sure what lends
itself to humor when you start getting suspicious about being shafted
via gaffed machines. Reasonable people don't make such assertions
frivolously. Maybe the addicts can reasure themselves with "gee, I was
just unlucky again" whereas a knowlegable player in the same
circumstance would say "hmmm, hand frequencies way off for 7 royal
cycles, this is beginning to look fishy". There is humor in vp, but I
don't find any when discussing gaffing.

I related one very funny incident regarding the one $.05 JW2 machine
in the casino. One morning I arrived early at MS to play on this
machine. To my consternation a woman was already playing JOB on this
machine even though all the other $.05 JOB machines were available. I
offered her $5 to play on one of the other $.05 JOB which I knew had
exactly the same paytable. "Oh, no, no. This is my lucky machine. Why
do you want to play on it so badly?". I pointed out that this is the
only $.05 JW2 machine in the casino (originally identified by Howard -
good job). She responded incredulously that all the other machines had
joker wild too. I politely explained that they were clearly not the
same as can be seen from their paytables. To which she turned to me
with a dazed look and uttered "Paytables?".
:slight_smile:

--- In vpFREE_Chicago@yahoogroups.com, "Chandler" <omnibibulous1@c...>
wrote:

I have yet to consider a subject that cannot be joked about.

Gambling lends

itself particularly to humor. I laugh at the inherent silliness of

my own

···

pastime frequently.

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From: vp_nbi [mailto:nbi@w…]
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 2:01 PM
To: vpFREE_Chicago@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [vpFREE_Chicago] Re: MS Progressive

*
Gaffing is no joke.

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#2
#3

I've noticed that too, and have pointed that out to several
people...most who didn't see it that way...glad I'm not the only one
to see the image as clinton-like...it is pretty funny!

--- In vpFREE_Chicago@yahoogroups.com, "jaywilly240" <wha724@c...>
wrote:

-
Do you know what else is funny about that JW2 machine? ... the

little

joker dude looks a lot like Bill Clinton.

JW

>
> I guess different people have different expectations when it

comes

to
> vp. VP can be a lot of fun, but that doesn't mean one can't be
serious
> about it. I'm not wealthy enough to fritter away my money with

poor

> play so I've worked very hard to raise my skill level. Having put

in

> the effort I get more than just perturbed when the evidence

suggests

> some &#65007;game&#65007;s may not be on the up-and-up. I'm not

quite sure what

lends
> itself to humor when you start getting suspicious about being
shafted
> via gaffed machines. Reasonable people don't make such assertions
> frivolously. Maybe the addicts can reasure themselves with "gee,

I

was
> just unlucky again" whereas a knowlegable player in the same
> circumstance would say "hmmm, hand frequencies way off for 7 royal
> cycles, this is beginning to look fishy". There is humor in vp,

but

I
> don't find any when discussing gaffing.
>
> I related one very funny incident regarding the one $.05 JW2

machine

> in the &#65007;casino&#65007;. One morning I arrived early at MS

to play on this

> machine. To my consternation a woman was already playing JOB on

this

> machine even though all the other $.05 JOB machines were

available.

I
> offered her $5 to play on one of the other $.05 JOB which I knew

had

> exactly the same paytable. "Oh, no, no. This is my lucky machine.
Why
> do you want to play on it so badly?". I pointed out that this is

the

> only $.05 JW2 machine in the casino (originally identified by
Howard -
> good job). She responded incredulously that all the other

machines

had
> joker wild too. I politely explained that they were clearly not

the

> same as can be seen from their paytables. To which she turned to

me

> with a dazed look and uttered "Paytables?".
> :slight_smile:
>
>
> --- In vpFREE_Chicago@yahoogroups.com, "Chandler"
<omnibibulous1@c...>
> wrote:
> > I have yet to consider a subject that cannot be joked about.
> Gambling lends
> > itself particularly to humor. I laugh at the inherent

silliness

···

– In vpFREE_Chicago@yahoogroups.com, "vp_nbi" <nbi@w…> wrote:
of
> my own
> > pastime frequently.
> >
> >
> >
> > _____
> >
> > From: vp_nbi [mailto:nbi@w…]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 2:01 PM
> > To: vpFREE_Chicago@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [vpFREE_Chicago] Re: MS Progressive
> >
> >
> >
> > *
> > Gaffing is no joke.
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

#4

Well, life isn't necessarily binary. It isn't off/on, yes/no or 1/0. I
find it quite possible to be dead funny and deadly serious in the same
breath. I even find it enjoyable. I find it hard not to see the humor in a
bunch of educated adults entering what may be the perfect Skinner Box, the
casino, pecking ever more furiously to get that intermittent kernel. How
far are we humans removed really from that bucket of extra crispy? I find
it humorous that a cognizant gambler continues to gamble at a place in which
he strongly believes he may have been cheated, trying to divine which
machine might not cheat him this time. There is no offense intended there.
I find my own attitudes, idiosyncrasies and even mistakes especially
amusing. I've had a bit of fun with myself sometimes on those occasions
when I have been taken advantage of. Feel free to disagree, but I would
find life two dimensional otherwise.

Regarding gaffing of machines: I have not experienced anything that I would
describe as evidence of a non random machine.

···

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From: vp_nbi [mailto:…@…com]
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 3:32 PM
To: vpFREE_Chicago@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [vpFREE_Chicago] Re: MS Progressive

I guess different people have different expectations when it comes to
vp. VP can be a lot of fun, but that doesn't mean one can't be serious
about it. I'm not wealthy enough to fritter away my money with poor
play so I've worked very hard to raise my skill level. Having put in
the effort I get more than just perturbed when the evidence suggests
some games may not be on the up-and-up. I'm not quite sure what lends
itself to humor when you start getting suspicious about being shafted
via gaffed machines. Reasonable people don't make such assertions
frivolously. Maybe the addicts can reasure themselves with "gee, I was
just unlucky again" whereas a knowlegable player in the same
circumstance would say "hmmm, hand frequencies way off for 7 royal
cycles, this is beginning to look fishy". There is humor in vp, but I
don't find any when discussing gaffing.

I related one very funny incident regarding the one $.05 JW2 machine
in the casino. One morning I arrived early at MS to play on this
machine. To my consternation a woman was already playing JOB on this
machine even though all the other $.05 JOB machines were available. I
offered her $5 to play on one of the other $.05 JOB which I knew had
exactly the same paytable. "Oh, no, no. This is my lucky machine. Why
do you want to play on it so badly?". I pointed out that this is the
only $.05 JW2 machine in the casino (originally identified by Howard -
good job). She responded incredulously that all the other machines had
joker wild too. I politely explained that they were clearly not the
same as can be seen from their paytables. To which she turned to me
with a dazed look and uttered "Paytables?".
:slight_smile:

--- In vpFREE_Chicago@yahoogroups.com, "Chandler" <omnibibulous1@c...>
wrote:

I have yet to consider a subject that cannot be joked about.

Gambling lends

itself particularly to humor. I laugh at the inherent silliness of

my own

pastime frequently.

  _____

From: vp_nbi [mailto:nbi@w…]
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 2:01 PM
To: vpFREE_Chicago@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [vpFREE_Chicago] Re: MS Progressive

*
Gaffing is no joke.

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