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Short-credits, how do you play?

#1

OK, we've heard the discussion of one coin vs five (full) coins and in between.

Those discussions (I think) assumed you have SOME money, and want to play for a little while (irrelevant to this question, but I guess those discussions also were assuming you shouldn't take your money away from the quarter machine and instead play full-coin on a nickel machine -- and of course the paytable might be worse for full coin on the nickels than one coin on the quarters, I suppose, too).

Anyway...

Let's say you're playing a $0.25 machine and you "always" play full coins, and you get down to less than $1.25 in credits, and you don't want to put any more money into the machines - about time to quit. What do you do with the remaining credits? Do you play 'em all, or play 'em one at a time, or cash out for a $0.25 to $1.00 TITO, come back another time, and only play for the full $1.25?

Anyone just leave the credits on the machine to try and trap some poor soul into getting arrested cashing them out? (just kidding).

Personally, even though I know better, it's the one time I'll play less than full credits, and I usually play as many as I can - and I'm never sure whether to hope for the royal on those particular hands (if that's the only one I'm going to get, I'll take it, but if I can "save it" for full coins, that'd be better). I just want to get some credits on the machine or else be done at that point, having usually lost my personal limit for the session.

--BG

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#2

Let's say you're playing a $0.25 machine and you "always" play full

coins, and you get down to less than $1.25 in credits, and you don't
want to put any more money into the machines - about time to quit.
What do you do with the remaining credits? Do you play 'em all, or
play 'em one at a time, or cash out for a $0.25 to $1.00 TITO, come
back another time, and only play for the full $1.25?

All too often, getting down to the last $1.25 or less is likely to
result in a final "game over" message and nothing happening when I hit
the draw button. I hate it when that happens.

Instead, credits down to one or two more bets, I hit cash out, redeem
the ticket, and put the proceeds in my pocket. In this way I am
pre-funding my tip supply for the next grapefruit juice, Diet Pepsi,
or Heineken that I am likely to order when I find another machine and
insert the next bill to start the process anew.

Along the same lines, any Kennedy halves that are obtained at BJ
tables from blackjacks go into the tip supply also.

Between servers, valets, and cocktail waitresses, I need $20 -$25 per
day for gratuities and if I can partially fund them by not losing
small amounts to vp machines, I feel frugally on top of my game.

"If we were'nt all crazy, we would go insane." -- J. Buffett