Well it's not a progressive

[pelotari1672]

I don't think I can top that one, but about 10 years ago at the Gold Coast, a woman playing at the 50 cent DB machine to my left was playing five coins (max) one hand, then four coins the next, then five, then four, and so on. Do I even have to tell you what happened? And then she was upset about it!

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Joel Fink <joel0457@...> wrote:

I'm playing at the bartops the other night and the woman sitting next to me
nudges me to show me she's gotten dealt 4A with a deuce. I notice that she is
playing DDB and only has the 4A held.

So I tell her hold the deuce, she says why should I hold the deuce. So I say
louder, HOLD THE DEUCE, she says I don't think I need to hold the deuce. She
hits the deal button before I could show her the pay table and draws a 10. Her
2000 credits go down to 800 and she looks at me and says, I guess I should have
held the deuce. What a freaken moron. I actually felt bad for her.

Can anyone beat that?

Joel

________________________________
From: mel3dmd <mel3dmd@...>
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, September 29, 2010 11:07:28 AM
Subject: [vpFREE] Re: Strange VP experience - the rest of the story

Â

Playing DDB accidentally held two 4's when I had 2 pair and got the other 4's
with a kicker for 2280. Sometimes it pays to be stupid
Mel
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "derfkark" <derfkark@> wrote:
>
> Was playing dollar 10 play STP DW and got the ducks 8 times....one draw
>produced 2 of them...but none had a multiplier. Kind of a good news / bad news
>story.
> >
>

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[Frank1]

I think I can top it. At the Circus Circus on a Rapid 5-Way quarter, I saw an enemy team player get dealt a pat royal flush. He held all five cards paused...considered...paused some more...un-held all 5 cards...paused again...re-held 4 of the five cards, and quickly hit deal draw.

My team hit the meter about 15 min later for $7,800 and a nice win. Apparently it was about a $15,000 loss for the Rock Opera, and was the last 5-Way play I ever saw them on.

To this day I don't know if it was an accident or deliberate, since Tommy's team only payed hourly, (no bonus for Jackpots) hitting a Jackpot just cut your hours.

~Choice is not guest, visiting us only at crossroads. It is our ever faithful companion. For even if we see only one path ahead of us, we can still choose not to walk it.

~Frank Kneeland, former manager of the largest Vegas slot team and Author of The Secret World of Video Poker Progressives--A History and How-To of Video Poker Slot Teams in Las Vegas. www.progressivevp.com

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "wishiwuzinvegas" <pelotari1672@...> wrote:

I don't think I can top that one, but about 10 years ago at the Gold Coast, a woman playing at the 50 cent DB machine to my left was playing five coins (max) one hand, then four coins the next, then five, then four, and so on. Do I even have to tell you what happened? And then she was upset about it!

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Joel Fink <joel0457@> wrote:
>
> I'm playing at the bartops the other night and the woman sitting next to me
> nudges me to show me she's gotten dealt 4A with a deuce. I notice that she is
> playing DDB and only has the 4A held.
>
> So I tell her hold the deuce, she says why should I hold the deuce. So I say
> louder, HOLD THE DEUCE, she says I don't think I need to hold the deuce. She
> hits the deal button before I could show her the pay table and draws a 10. Her
> 2000 credits go down to 800 and she looks at me and says, I guess I should have
> held the deuce. What a freaken moron. I actually felt bad for her.
>
> Can anyone beat that?
>
> Joel
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: mel3dmd <mel3dmd@>
> To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wed, September 29, 2010 11:07:28 AM
> Subject: [vpFREE] Re: Strange VP experience - the rest of the story
>
> Â
>
> Playing DDB accidentally held two 4's when I had 2 pair and got the other 4's
> with a kicker for 2280. Sometimes it pays to be stupid
> Mel
> --- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "derfkark" <derfkark@> wrote:
> >
> > Was playing dollar 10 play STP DW and got the ducks 8 times....one draw
> >produced 2 of them...but none had a multiplier. Kind of a good news / bad news
> >story.
> > >
> >
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

[TIMSPEED]

Weird..because I've got DEALT a Royal, and it instantly held the cards and started paying off, I wouldn't think it'd let you UNHOLD the cards...

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Frank" <frank@...> wrote:

I think I can top it. At the Circus Circus on a Rapid 5-Way quarter, I saw an enemy team player get dealt a pat royal flush. He held all five cards paused...considered...paused some more...un-held all 5 cards...paused again...re-held 4 of the five cards, and quickly hit deal draw.

My team hit the meter about 15 min later for $7,800 and a nice win. Apparently it was about a $15,000 loss for the Rock Opera, and was the last 5-Way play I ever saw them on.

To this day I don't know if it was an accident or deliberate, since Tommy's team only payed hourly, (no bonus for Jackpots) hitting a Jackpot just cut your hours.

~Choice is not guest, visiting us only at crossroads. It is our ever faithful companion. For even if we see only one path ahead of us, we can still choose not to walk it.

~Frank Kneeland, former manager of the largest Vegas slot team and Author of The Secret World of Video Poker Progressives--A History and How-To of Video Poker Slot Teams in Las Vegas. www.progressivevp.com

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "wishiwuzinvegas" <pelotari1672@> wrote:
>
> I don't think I can top that one, but about 10 years ago at the Gold Coast, a woman playing at the 50 cent DB machine to my left was playing five coins (max) one hand, then four coins the next, then five, then four, and so on. Do I even have to tell you what happened? And then she was upset about it!
>
> --- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Joel Fink <joel0457@> wrote:
> >
> > I'm playing at the bartops the other night and the woman sitting next to me
> > nudges me to show me she's gotten dealt 4A with a deuce. I notice that she is
> > playing DDB and only has the 4A held.
> >
> > So I tell her hold the deuce, she says why should I hold the deuce. So I say
> > louder, HOLD THE DEUCE, she says I don't think I need to hold the deuce. She
> > hits the deal button before I could show her the pay table and draws a 10. Her
> > 2000 credits go down to 800 and she looks at me and says, I guess I should have
> > held the deuce. What a freaken moron. I actually felt bad for her.
> >
> > Can anyone beat that?
> >
> > Joel
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: mel3dmd <mel3dmd@>
> > To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Wed, September 29, 2010 11:07:28 AM
> > Subject: [vpFREE] Re: Strange VP experience - the rest of the story
> >
> > Â
> >
> > Playing DDB accidentally held two 4's when I had 2 pair and got the other 4's
> > with a kicker for 2280. Sometimes it pays to be stupid
> > Mel
> > --- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "derfkark" <derfkark@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Was playing dollar 10 play STP DW and got the ducks 8 times....one draw
> > >produced 2 of them...but none had a multiplier. Kind of a good news / bad news
> > >story.
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>

[Lone_Locust_of_the_A]

That's always been my experience too, but it may not always have been
the case. In particular a slot tech once told me it was a configurable option on at least some machines, and he had witnessed a high-denomination dealt royal where the player had to hold the cards manually. This conversation was maybe 7-8 years ago FWIW.

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On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, TIMSPEED wrote:

Weird..because I've got DEALT a Royal, and it instantly held the cards and started paying off, I wouldn't think it'd let you UNHOLD the cards...

[Gilbert_Escobar]

A friend of mine saw a better one...
He saw a vegas visitor playing $1 DDB single play. The guy was dealt AAAA2 and got so excited that he held all 5 cards and hit the DRAW button. The lights went on and the music started playing so the guy said "Oooops! Why did I held that 2?" and had to run away as fast as he can. Turned out the guy is WANTED and does not want to go back to jail or get deported back to his country.

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Frank" <frank@...> wrote:

I think I can top it. At the Circus Circus on a Rapid 5-Way quarter, I saw an enemy team player get dealt a pat royal flush. He held all five cards paused...considered...paused some more...un-held all 5 cards...paused again...re-held 4 of the five cards, and quickly hit deal draw.

My team hit the meter about 15 min later for $7,800 and a nice win. Apparently it was about a $15,000 loss for the Rock Opera, and was the last 5-Way play I ever saw them on.

To this day I don't know if it was an accident or deliberate, since Tommy's team only payed hourly, (no bonus for Jackpots) hitting a Jackpot just cut your hours.

~Choice is not guest, visiting us only at crossroads. It is our ever faithful companion. For even if we see only one path ahead of us, we can still choose not to walk it.

~Frank Kneeland, former manager of the largest Vegas slot team and Author of The Secret World of Video Poker Progressives--A History and How-To of Video Poker Slot Teams in Las Vegas. www.progressivevp.com

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "wishiwuzinvegas" <pelotari1672@> wrote:
>
> I don't think I can top that one, but about 10 years ago at the Gold Coast, a woman playing at the 50 cent DB machine to my left was playing five coins (max) one hand, then four coins the next, then five, then four, and so on. Do I even have to tell you what happened? And then she was upset about it!
>
> --- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Joel Fink <joel0457@> wrote:
> >
> > I'm playing at the bartops the other night and the woman sitting next to me
> > nudges me to show me she's gotten dealt 4A with a deuce. I notice that she is
> > playing DDB and only has the 4A held.
> >
> > So I tell her hold the deuce, she says why should I hold the deuce. So I say
> > louder, HOLD THE DEUCE, she says I don't think I need to hold the deuce. She
> > hits the deal button before I could show her the pay table and draws a 10. Her
> > 2000 credits go down to 800 and she looks at me and says, I guess I should have
> > held the deuce. What a freaken moron. I actually felt bad for her.
> >
> > Can anyone beat that?
> >
> > Joel
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: mel3dmd <mel3dmd@>
> > To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Wed, September 29, 2010 11:07:28 AM
> > Subject: [vpFREE] Re: Strange VP experience - the rest of the story
> >
> > Â
> >
> > Playing DDB accidentally held two 4's when I had 2 pair and got the other 4's
> > with a kicker for 2280. Sometimes it pays to be stupid
> > Mel
> > --- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "derfkark" <derfkark@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Was playing dollar 10 play STP DW and got the ducks 8 times....one draw
> > >produced 2 of them...but none had a multiplier. Kind of a good news / bad news
> > >story.
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>

[Frank1]

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "TIMSPEED" <corvetteracing87@...> wrote: Weird..because I've got DEALT a Royal, and it instantly held the cards and started paying off, I wouldn't think it'd let you UNHOLD the cards...

Modern machines lockout on dealt royals. These were first generation Bally's 5000 6-coin rapid 5-way's. This is going back about 17 years.

~Frank Kneeland, Author of The Secret World of Video Poker Progressives--A History and How-To of Video Poker Slot Teams in Las Vegas. www.progressivevp.com

[The_Wild_Joker]

LOL! That one made my day!

Ned C.
The Wild Joker

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--- On Thu, 10/14/10, Gilbert <gilbert_616@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Gilbert <gilbert_616@yahoo.com>
Subject: [vpFREE] Re: The Stupidest Play I've Ever Seen
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, October 14, 2010, 9:20 PM

A friend of mine saw a better one...
He saw a vegas visitor playing $1 DDB single play. The guy was dealt AAAA2 and got so excited that he held all 5 cards and hit the DRAW button. The lights went on and the music started playing so the guy said "Oooops! Why did I held that 2?" and had to run away as fast as he can. Turned out the guy is WANTED and does not want to go back to jail or get deported back to his country.

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Frank" <frank@...> wrote:

I think I can top it. At the Circus Circus on a Rapid 5-Way quarter, I saw an enemy team player get dealt a pat royal flush. He held all five cards paused...considered...paused some more...un-held all 5 cards...paused again...re-held 4 of the five cards, and quickly hit deal draw.

My team hit the meter about 15 min later for $7,800 and a nice win. Apparently it was about a $15,000 loss for the Rock Opera, and was the last 5-Way play I ever saw them on.

To this day I don't know if it was an accident or deliberate, since Tommy's team only payed hourly, (no bonus for Jackpots) hitting a Jackpot just cut your hours.

~Choice is not guest, visiting us only at crossroads. It is our ever faithful companion. For even if we see only one path ahead of us, we can still choose not to walk it.

~Frank Kneeland, former manager of the largest Vegas slot team and Author of The Secret World of Video Poker Progressives--A History and How-To of Video Poker Slot Teams in Las Vegas. www.progressivevp.com

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "wishiwuzinvegas" <pelotari1672@> wrote:
>
> I don't think I can top that one, but about 10 years ago at the Gold Coast, a woman playing at the 50 cent DB machine to my left was playing five coins (max) one hand, then four coins the next, then five, then four, and so on. Do I even have to tell you what happened? And then she was upset about it!
>
> --- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Joel Fink <joel0457@> wrote:
> >
> > I'm playing at the bartops the other night and the woman sitting next to me
> > nudges me to show me she's gotten dealt 4A with a deuce. I notice that she is
> > playing DDB and only has the 4A held.
> >
> > So I tell her hold the deuce, she says why should I hold the deuce. So I say
> > louder, HOLD THE DEUCE, she says I don't think I need to hold the deuce. She
> > hits the deal button before I could show her the pay table and draws a 10. Her
> > 2000 credits go down to 800 and she looks at me and says, I guess I should have
> > held the deuce. What a freaken moron. I actually felt bad for her.
> >
> > Can anyone beat that?
> >
> > Joel
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: mel3dmd <mel3dmd@>
> > To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Wed, September 29, 2010 11:07:28 AM
> > Subject: [vpFREE] Re: Strange VP experience - the rest of the story
> >
> > Â
> >
> > Playing DDB accidentally held two 4's when I had 2 pair and got the other 4's
> > with a kicker for 2280. Sometimes it pays to be stupid
> > Mel
> > --- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "derfkark" <derfkark@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Was playing dollar 10 play STP DW and got the ducks 8 times....one draw
> > >produced 2 of them...but none had a multiplier. Kind of a good news / bad news
> > >story.
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Frank1]

OK you win. New thread.

I've actually been privy to similar stupidity, but I believe that one takes the cake.

~Frank Kneeland, Author of The Secret World of Video Poker Progressives--A History and How-To of Video Poker Slot Teams in Las Vegas. www.progressivevp.com

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Gilbert" <gilbert_616@...> wrote: A friend of mine saw a better one...
He saw a vegas visitor playing $1 DDB single play. The guy was dealt AAAA2 and got so excited that he held all 5 cards and hit the DRAW button. The lights went on and the music started playing so the guy said "Oooops! Why did I held that 2?" and had to run away as fast as he can. Turned out the guy is WANTED and does not want to go back to jail or get deported back to his country.

[Mickey]

This was actually a pretty common thing in the heyday of advantage slots. Illegal Chinese emigrants worked the advantage slots in Nevada, Connecticut, New Jersey, Illnois, Michigan, Iowa, and probably other locations. They would monopolize entire casinos. And they had a problem with W2-G jackpots. When one of them made such a hit, if no one in their crew had I.D., they would simply walk away from the machine.

Other than the I.D. thing they were a fairly well organized and networked bunch. If one of them lost Motor City and another lost Foxwoods, they would simply swap locations. They were the bane of many American hustlers. Wherever there was a good bank of advantage slots they would camp out on the spot whether the machines were getting action or not. MGM Las Vegas was a prime example. They had someone posted up on every advantage slot bank in the casino--except for the wee hours of the morning when the action was slim to none. The short of it was no one else could get a play. Slot operations eventually got tired of them. One day Security rounded up about 20 of them and marched them all out the door.

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Gilbert" <gilbert_616@...> wrote:

A friend of mine saw a better one...
He saw a vegas visitor playing $1 DDB single play. The guy was dealt >AAAA2 and got so excited that he held all 5 cards and hit the DRAW >button. The lights went on and the music started playing so the guy >said "Oooops! Why did I held that 2?" and had to run away as fast as >he can. Turned out the guy is WANTED and does not want to go back to >jail or get deported back to his country.

[G_Lee]

You would think if they were smart enough to spot an advantage play, they
could figure out how to get paid on these hand pays since that is the ultimate
goal.

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________________________________
From: Mickey <mickeycrimm@yahoo.com>
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, October 16, 2010 1:57:27 PM
Subject: [vpFREE] Re: The Stupidest Play I've Ever Seen

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Gilbert" <gilbert_616@...> wrote:

A friend of mine saw a better one...
He saw a vegas visitor playing $1 DDB single play. The guy was dealt >AAAA2 and
got so excited that he held all 5 cards and hit the DRAW >button. The lights
went on and the music started playing so the guy >said "Oooops! Why did I held
that 2?" and had to run away as fast as >he can. Turned out the guy is WANTED
and does not want to go back to >jail or get deported back to his country.

This was actually a pretty common thing in the heyday of advantage slots.
Illegal Chinese emigrants worked the advantage slots in Nevada, Connecticut, New
Jersey, Illnois, Michigan, Iowa, and probably other locations. They would
monopolize entire casinos. And they had a problem with W2-G jackpots. When one
of them made such a hit, if no one in their crew had I.D., they would simply
walk away from the machine.

Other than the I.D. thing they were a fairly well organized and networked bunch.
If one of them lost Motor City and another lost Foxwoods, they would simply swap
locations. They were the bane of many American hustlers. Wherever there was a
good bank of advantage slots they would camp out on the spot whether the
machines were getting action or not. MGM Las Vegas was a prime example. They
had someone posted up on every advantage slot bank in the casino--except for the
wee hours of the morning when the action was slim to none. The short of it was
no one else could get a play. Slot operations eventually got tired of them. One
day Security rounded up about 20 of them and marched them all out the door.

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]