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slot club cards

#1

In a message dated 8/12/2003 10:51:36 PM Central Daylight Time,
hansjurgent16@hotmail.com writes:

<<
P.S. I saw the stupidest thing at Seneca Casino. I saw a guy playing
$10 slots without a club card. >>

I remember once a long time ago, I forgot to insert my card. The guy next to
me noticed and asked me if he could place his card in the reader. Of course, I
took mine and used it at that point and thanked him for reminding me. At the
time, it flashed through my mind that these slot cards must be very valuable,
and after using them religiously after that, I came to see why.
Question, has anyone in the group ever asked someone not using a card to do
this?

#2

I remember once a long time ago, I forgot to insert my card. The

guy next to

me noticed and asked me if he could place his card in the reader.

<snip> Question, has anyone in the group ever asked someone not using
a card to do this?

I do this often and always have a couple of extra cards on hand for
these opportunities. I like to have a conversation with those playing
next to me so if they are playing without a card and seem friendly, I
will ask if they forgot their card. If they say they don't have one I
ask them to use one of mine. The answers I get range from "sure, no
problem" to the occasional "oh no, I don't believe in those things
because they make the machine play bad."

Now that I think about it, my recent results suggest there may be
something to that line of reasoning.

Don Forsythe

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- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, carbfree@a... wrote:

#3

carbfree wrote:

> I remember once a long time ago, I forgot to insert my card. The
> guy next to me noticed and asked me if he could place his card in
> the reader.
> Question, has anyone in the group ever asked someone not using
> a card to do this?

donald_forsythe wrote:

I do this often and always have a couple of extra cards on hand for
these opportunities. I like to have a conversation with those
playing next to me so if they are playing without a card and seem
friendly, I will ask if they forgot their card. If they say they
don't have one I ask them to use one of mine.

Don, that's an "A" reply and a brilliant approach (and I'm not
suggesting that you're attempting to take advantage of anyone in this).

I'm very reticent to "intrude" on anyone's play, aside from a casual
conversation. But having established a rapport with someone at a
machine who isn't using a card, it would seem reasonable to offer some
encouragement to them to obtain a card and then discretely inquire
whether it would be okay for me to insert my card until they have one.

By the way, in reference to another post in this thread, this type of
activity is clearly against policy of most (all?) slot clubs and they
reserve rather harsh measures for those caught in violation.
Obviously it wouldn't be prudent to engage in this if you sensed that
your play were under even modest scrutiny by floor personnel.

- Harry

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "donald_forsythe" <DonBoats@a...> wrote:

#4

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Harry Porter" <harry.porter@v...>

By the way, in reference to another post in this thread, this type

of

activity is clearly against policy of most (all?) slot clubs and

they

reserve rather harsh measures for those caught in violation.
Obviously it wouldn't be prudent to engage in this if you sensed

that

your play were under even modest scrutiny by floor personnel.

- Harry

It's a definite no-no ... but I'm not sure how often it's detected
and enforced.

Asking a "new friend" to use my slot card would make me feel
uncomfortable ... some just might take offense.

An alternative is to find a relatively open bank and put a card in
the machine on either side of yours. If someone starts play on one
(or both) of them without a card, no problem. If someone has their
own card, then they'll remove yours. You can say nothing ... or
speak up and claim the card saying you were initially playing (or
were planning to play) that machine and forgot to remove your card.
Heck, this happens in real life!

But sprinkling your card all over the casino is going too far.
That's abusive ... and likely to get noticed and punished.

2-W