It is my pleasure to announce that a VPFree member hit the Jumbo
Jackpot at Santa Fe Station last week for $113,917.
He lurks on this board and was too modest to post that he hit it. I
finally convinced him to let me make this announcement. He's a stay
at home dad in LV, not a fulltime pro, so he isn't concerned with
possible implications of my post.
JJ and I first met through Player's old board and have corresponded
on a regular basis for the past few years. When he called me from SFS
to tell me, I about fell off my stool.
Here's the 'trip report' for those who are interested:
JJ decides to swing by SFS to cash a coupon on a NON-multipoint day
(which he rarely does). While there, he decides to run ~$3K to keep
his mailer coming. He sits down at a 10 play nickel joker and after
about 15 minutes the machine starts to slow down (as they sometimes
do when the chip is `catching up'). Then, his card reader beeps. He
looks up, sees "Please wait for an attendant to verify a Jumbo
Jackpot of
.(now he's waiting for a $10 or $20 instant prize)
.$113,917.
He stops for a moment and looks to his left
.looks to his
right
.looks back up at the card reader (still beeping). Hmm, he
thinks. `If I just won, why isn't there anyone surrounding me???' He
sits for another 15 seconds. Finally he turns and sees a change
attendant and flags her over, points to the card reader, and
says, "Can you tell me what this means?" (Keep in mind, only the card
reader was beeping no bells and whistles). She exclaims, "Oh my
gosh, you just hit it!". She gets on the walkie and tells him, "There
are going to be a LOT of people here REAL soon." Sure enough, within
another 30 seconds every suit in the place was surrounding JJ.
The suits then start congratulating him and JJ is sitting
(relatively) calmly. One suit asks, "Aren't you excited?". JJ
replies, "I worked in a mental health institution for 15 years. It
takes a lot to get me going. I'll be excited when someone verifies
this and tells me it's not a malfunction." Suit inserts card, makes
more cell phone calls, has surveillance tape checked, punches some
buttons on the reader and says, "It's a done deal, congratulations."
Other suit says, "Can we get you anything?" JJ says, "I'll have a
Bloody Mary!"
After doing all the paperwork, a suit asks JJ how he would like the
money. "What do you mean?" JJ replies. "Well, we can pay you in cash
if you'd like", the suit states. "Unless you want my shorts falling
around my ankles, I'll take a check." says JJ.
Finally, they take JJ's picture with an oversized check, give him his
real check and off he goes into the sunset in his '92 Escort "deuces
mobile"
.