I know for sure that any amount $1200 or over at the Peppermill in Reno, the
redemption machine returns your ticket with a message to take it to a cashier cage.
There are enough cages there that this has been only an extra 2-3 minutes bother.
Usually the cashier says something innocuous like "oh, you hit a big one?" and I
usually answer, "no, just a lot of little ones". Now that I think about it, after reading
the other cashier stories, maybe they are obliged to ask some question to make sure
there isn't an errant $1200+ W-2G form requirement -OR- that you are an evil
money laundering gambler-terrorizer. More likely, they want to give an employee a
chance at a tip.
I've gotten $1000 jackpots at Peppermill that just get added to my balance, no
handpay. ( 25c Royals and 50c quad A w/kicker on DDB. ) This is great of course.
Another reason I don't mind going to the cage for $1200+ tickets is that there's the
slight chance that the redemption machine will JAM or a hundred will get stuck in the
feedout mechanism. If the amount is something like $1075, I usually grab off the
100's as the machine slightly hesitates after spitting out the 100's, just so there's
room for the 20's and 5's.
On the other hand, at Silver Legacy in Reno, my other haunt, I do know that the
$1000 royals on all machines (TITO and coin-droppers) are hand pays, and the
attendants get $10 from me <sigh>. Any hand that puts your balance over $1200
will spit out a ticket (or coins on coin-droppers) for the amount of that hand. So there
is never a ticket or a balance over $1200. I can't say what happens in the high limit
area, but it just MIGHT be the same on the $5 machines (I should ever be so lucky).
Ah well, babbling away....
~MARK
--- bjaygold wrote:
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Thanks to you and to theolflash for the info. I really didn't see the logic
of an $800 max on these machines.
Perhaps $3000 is the true legal max?
Brian