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when do YOU request a check?

#1

while playing $1 VP, i frequently request a check when i hit any jackpot over 2K (4K and over while playing $5 coin.) sometimes i'll ask for a split payment, perhaps 3K in a check and 1K cash. it helps to protect my initial bankroll and prevents me from doing anything foolish if things head south (as they so often do).

what fascinates me are the check numbers... i will often hit early in the evening and ask for a check. then, six, twelve, twenty-four or even thirty-six hours later, i'll hit another big taxable event and request a check. invariably, the check numbers are sequential... or sometimes there will be a gap of just one or two numbers. in other words, it appears as if nobody (or sometimes just one or two people) has requested a check since my last hit.

this happens to me in "big" casinos in major gambling towns and in small casinos, too. most recently, at a midwest casino, i hit a 4K jackpot and then i hit again *almost two weeks later* and the check number was the very next in the sequence. i find this simply astonishing.

that particular casino regularly publishes a list of the top forty jackpots paid the previous week. three quarters of these are typically more than four thousand dollars, with at least 25% of them more than ten thousand dollars. most of the big jackpots were apparently hit while playing penny and five cent slots.

so, here's my question... am i really the only one asking for a check?

or do casinos routinely have more than one jackpot account they use for payouts?

and are the people that are playing penny slots really walking around with ten thousand dollars in cash?

#2

I've seen some of the pix of your nice jackpots, so I know
that you have many occasions on which you might request a
check. Congratulations on some very nice hits!

I find your question most interesting, because I believe that
you are stating that you've had no problem with the casino
honoring your request. In my own limited experience with larger
jackpots, I have on two occasions requested payment by check, for
handpays, once In LV and once in Reno. In both instances my
request was denied, even though it was made at the time that the
slot people came over to verify the jackpot, NOT at the cash was
brought to pay me. The reason given, in both instances, was that "The casino will not issue a check for slot payoffs of less
than $10K".

Onviously, you have not encountered the same problem.

~Babe~

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In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "ukstages" <takeme2london@...> wrote:

while playing $1 VP, i frequently request a check when i hit any jackpot over 2K (4K and over while playing $5 coin.) sometimes i'll ask for a split payment, perhaps 3K in a check and 1K cash. it helps to protect my initial bankroll and prevents me from doing anything foolish if things head south (as they so often do)......
astonishing........

                   ~BIG Snip~
.....so, here's my question... am i really the only one asking for
a check?..................

#3

wow! i've never heard of a casino not issuing a check, if requested. i wonder if state gaming rules allow them to do that. i've never won big in nevada; most of my check requests have been in new jersey, iowa, missouri and florida. i know the casino wants you to continue to play, but it seems to me that NOT issuing a check for four or five or six thousand dollars or more could become a major security issue for them. (there was fairly recently a large cash handpay in atlantic city, followed by a parking garage mugging.)

at the very least, it should be considered horrible customer service!

i generally have had no problems getting checks issued. while i usually request 2K or higher, i won $1600 on a $2 machine at caesars AC once and was on my way out the door that day, so i asked for - and received - a check. a couple of times playing $5 coin, when i was particularly well-bankrolled and the quads seemed endless, i've even requested checks for as little as $1250.

there was one time, however - just a few weeks ago at harrah's AC - when i asked for a 4K check. i had had a particularly good weekend - i was fortunate enough to get 11 handpays (including two royals) at bally's, caesars and harrah's... and i already had a lot of cash, far more than my initial bankroll.

it was around 6AM and the slot attendant kind of shrugged his shoulders and said there was a shift change and the computers were down, but he would see what he could do. personally, i think he just didn't want to wait for the check, so he, of course, brought cash... and i frittered a lot of that away with a run of bad luck and bad choices (which is exactly why i like to ask for checks!)

as for photos, i still take them, but haven't had the time to post them (or familiarize myself with the new VPfree self-posting method). i'll try to post a few of the more interesting ones soon (dealt deuces, quad aces with kicker when holding one ace, royal holding two).

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

I find your question most interesting, because I believe that you are stating that you've had no problem with the casino honoring your request. In my own limited experience with larger jackpots, I have on two occasions requested payment by check, for handpays, once In LV and once in Reno. In both instances my request was denied, even though it was made at the time that the slot people came over to verify the jackpot, NOT at the cash was brought to pay me. The reason given, in both instances, was that "The casino will not issue a check for slot payoffs of less than $10K".

Onviously, you have not encountered the same problem.

~Babe~

#4

I have never asked for a check. My biggest Jackpot was only $7,000, although I have brought home $12,000 before. I love the feel of a roll of hundreds bound by a rubber band in my pocket.

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--- On Thu, 11/5/09, ukstages <takeme2london@nyc.rr.com> wrote:

From: ukstages <takeme2london@nyc.rr.com>
Subject: [vpFREE] when do YOU request a check?
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, November 5, 2009, 9:57 AM

while playing $1 VP, i frequently request a check when i hit any jackpot over 2K (4K and over while playing $5 coin.) sometimes i'll ask for a split payment, perhaps 3K in a check and 1K cash. it helps to protect my initial bankroll and prevents me from doing anything foolish if things head south (as they so often do).

what fascinates me are the check numbers... i will often hit early in the evening and ask for a check. then, six, twelve, twenty-four or even thirty-six hours later, i'll hit another big taxable event and request a check. invariably, the check numbers are sequential.. . or sometimes there will be a gap of just one or two numbers. in other words, it appears as if nobody (or sometimes just one or two people) has requested a check since my last hit.

this happens to me in "big" casinos in major gambling towns and in small casinos, too. most recently, at a midwest casino, i hit a 4K jackpot and then i hit again *almost two weeks later* and the check number was the very next in the sequence. i find this simply astonishing.

that particular casino regularly publishes a list of the top forty jackpots paid the previous week. three quarters of these are typically more than four thousand dollars, with at least 25% of them more than ten thousand dollars. most of the big jackpots were apparently hit while playing penny and five cent slots.

so, here's my question... am i really the only one asking for a check?

or do casinos routinely have more than one jackpot account they use for payouts?

and are the people that are playing penny slots really walking around with ten thousand dollars in cash?

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#5

so, here's my question... am i really the only one asking for a check?

Yes, pretty much. I've never asked for a check, and I don't recall any casino employee ever giving me the option of taking a check for a jackpot payout. I have never seen anyone else given a jackpot check either. I suppose if I ever hit a very large jackpot ($30,000+) I might consider a check.

or do casinos routinely have more than one jackpot account they use for payouts?

No idea, but probably not.

and are the people that are playing penny slots really walking around with ten thousand dollars in cash?

Only the ones who just hit a $10,000 jackpot.

EE

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "ukstages" <takeme2london@...> wrote:

#6

so, here's my question... am i really the only one asking for a check?

I ask for a check when I win $20,000 and up

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#7

i just got a $10K check from NYNY last week after hitting 4 aces with kicker on $5 DDB. At the time I had like $3,500 in my wallet so I knew the $10K wouldnt fit, plus it was a good self control mechanism, sure enough I lost everything BUT that $10K by the end of the trip and still came home almost a 5-figure winner

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--- On Thu, 11/5/09, Lucky9484@aol.com <Lucky9484@aol.com> wrote:

From: Lucky9484@aol.com <Lucky9484@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [vpFREE] Re: when do YOU request a check?
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, November 5, 2009, 1:24 PM

so, here's my question... am i really the only one asking for a check?

I ask for a check when I win $20,000 and up

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#8

I hit a $6000 pick 'em royal - told them "check, please" They didn't want to, wanted to do part, whatever - they knew they didn't have a shot at it once it was a check. They were right - it went home with me. Stay on 'em, they'll pay.

JW
"On some days, my head is filled with such wild and original thoughts
that I can barely utter a word. On other days, the liquor store is
closed."

"Love means never having to say, "Does that twenty include the spanking?"

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--- On Thu, 11/5/09, eecounter <eecounter@hotmail.com> wrote:

From: eecounter <eecounter@hotmail.com>
Subject: [vpFREE] Re: when do YOU request a check?
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, November 5, 2009, 11:16 AM

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com,
"ukstages" <takeme2london@...> wrote:
>
> so, here's my question... am i really the only one
asking for a check?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Yes, pretty much. I've never asked for a check, and I
don't recall any casino employee ever giving me the option
of taking a check for a jackpot payout. I have never
seen anyone else given a jackpot check either. I
suppose if I ever hit a very large jackpot ($30,000+) I
might consider a check.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or
do casinos routinely have more than one jackpot account they
use for payouts?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

No idea, but probably not.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
and are the people that are playing penny slots really
walking around with ten thousand dollars in cash?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Only the ones who just hit a $10,000 jackpot.

EE

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#9

I turned about $200 into $2,500 in blackjack once and when I went to the
cashiers cage I asked for a check because I was walking home that night
(yeesh).

They said, "Oh, no, you have to talk to the pit boss."

I said "OK" and went back to where I played and said, "Hi, I'd like a check
for my winnings please, and the cashier told me to come over here."

To which the pit boss said, "Oh, well, to get a check we'd have to go in the
security room and verify your play hand-by-hand (I later found out this is
an anti-money laundering measure)."

"Yes, well, a check would be more convenient for me."

After about a 15 minute chess game of exchanging overly-polite one-liners
with the pit boss trying to get me to accept cash and me trying to push him
towards getting me a check, the pit boss finally caved with a not-so-subtle
sigh and a slight rolling of the eyes.

It took about 45 minutes which I didn't mind at all. Incidentally, it killed
my play at this particular casino - within 2 or 3 visits, I was backed off.

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On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Jigger Woodruff <bayfieldkent@yahoo.com>wrote:

I hit a $6000 pick 'em royal - told them "check, please" They didn't want
to, wanted to do part, whatever - they knew they didn't have a shot at it
once it was a check. They were right - it went home with me. Stay on 'em,
they'll pay.

JW
"On some days, my head is filled with such wild and original thoughts
that I can barely utter a word. On other days, the liquor store is
closed."

"Love means never having to say, "Does that twenty include the spanking?"

--- On Thu, 11/5/09, eecounter <eecounter@hotmail.com<eecounter%40hotmail.com>> > wrote:

> From: eecounter <eecounter@hotmail.com <eecounter%40hotmail.com>>
> Subject: [vpFREE] Re: when do YOU request a check?
> To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com <vpFREE%40yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Thursday, November 5, 2009, 11:16 AM

>
> --- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com <vpFREE%40yahoogroups.com>,
> "ukstages" <takeme2london@...> wrote:
> >
> > so, here's my question... am i really the only one
> asking for a check?
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> Yes, pretty much. I've never asked for a check, and I
> don't recall any casino employee ever giving me the option
> of taking a check for a jackpot payout. I have never
> seen anyone else given a jackpot check either. I
> suppose if I ever hit a very large jackpot ($30,000+) I
> might consider a check.
>
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> or
> do casinos routinely have more than one jackpot account they
> use for payouts?
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> No idea, but probably not.
>
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> and are the people that are playing penny slots really
> walking around with ten thousand dollars in cash?
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> Only the ones who just hit a $10,000 jackpot.
>
>
> EE
>
>
>
>
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#10

I've been discouraged from waiting for a check, being told once by a slotling that it would take "at least two hours" (which I declined to wait), but I've only asked a few times and was otherwise always accommodated.

Which leads me to ask: has anyone had experience depositing cash through the new ATMs that read and record cash? Can you make deposits at Nevada ATMs if your bank is located in another state (same bank name)?

Drew

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "ukstages" <takeme2london@...> wrote:

wow! i've never heard of a casino not issuing a check, if requested.

#11

I don't want to sound dumb... Can't the Casino someway just transfer money into your acct.or will that be as big a hassle as cutting you a check at the cashier? Richard from Ca.

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--- On Thu, 11/5/09, vpdeuces <vpdeuces@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: vpdeuces <vpdeuces@yahoo.com>
Subject: [vpFREE] Re: when do YOU request a check?
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, November 5, 2009, 1:53 PM

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups. com, "ukstages" <takeme2london@ ...> wrote:

wow! i've never heard of a casino not issuing a check, if requested.

I've been discouraged from waiting for a check, being told once by a slotling that it would take "at least two hours" (which I declined to wait), but I've only asked a few times and was otherwise always accommodated.

Which leads me to ask: has anyone had experience depositing cash through the new ATMs that read and record cash? Can you make deposits at Nevada ATMs if your bank is located in another state (same bank name)?

Drew

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#12

I happened to hit a 12k royal flush at the Harrah's the Phoenix Ak-Chin several years ago on the $2.00 DDB progressive machine. My wife and I opted for a check. We went to our bank the following day (which is located in the Phoenix area) and deposited it in to our checking account.

We noticed the deposit never showed on our account. We called the bank and they stated the individual who signed the check at Harrah's was not on record in the bank's data base as an authorized agent of Harrah's to issue checks. Apparently the supervisor who signed the check was a newbie and Harrah's had not sent the paperwork to the banks indicating she was authorized to issue Harrah's checks. We called Harrah's Phoenix Ak-Chin and they stated they may not have sent the appropriate paperwork to all of the banks indicating the new supervisor was an authorized agent of Harrah's to issue checks.

After this experience, we always opt for cash. IF and I mean a VERY BIG IF, we ever win a Megajackpot we would go the electronic deposit route directly from the casino to our bank. We will never opt for a check.

Imagine if you are an out of state visitor to a casino and decide to take your winnings via check. You wait until you return to your home bank and deposit it and lo and behold the check is not honored at your bank.
We frequent Las Vegas and Laughlin on a regular basis, besides a couple of AZ Indian casinos and always get our winnings in cash.

Sorry, but one bad, or should I say one inconvenient experience was all it took for my wife and I.

P.S. I pack protection in my car, just in case we our accosted by highwaymen on our return home.

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From: ukstages <takeme2london@nyc.rr.com>
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, November 5, 2009 7:57:02 AM
Subject: [vpFREE] when do YOU request a check?

while playing $1 VP, i frequently request a check when i hit any jackpot over 2K (4K and over while playing $5 coin.) sometimes i'll ask for a split payment, perhaps 3K in a check and 1K cash. it helps to protect my initial bankroll and prevents me from doing anything foolish if things head south (as they so often do).

what fascinates me are the check numbers.... i will often hit early in the evening and ask for a check. then, six, twelve, twenty-four or even thirty-six hours later, i'll hit another big taxable event and request a check. invariably, the check numbers are sequential.... or sometimes there will be a gap of just one or two numbers. in other words, it appears as if nobody (or sometimes just one or two people) has requested a check since my last hit.

this happens to me in "big" casinos in major gambling towns and in small casinos, too. most recently, at a midwest casino, i hit a 4K jackpot and then i hit again *almost two weeks later* and the check number was the very next in the sequence. i find this simply astonishing.

that particular casino regularly publishes a list of the top forty jackpots paid the previous week. three quarters of these are typically more than four thousand dollars, with at least 25% of them more than ten thousand dollars. most of the big jackpots were apparently hit while playing penny and five cent slots.

so, here's my question... am i really the only one asking for a check?

or do casinos routinely have more than one jackpot account they use for payouts?

and are the people that are playing penny slots really walking around with ten thousand dollars in cash?

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#13

Agreed, I always took cash. If in Las Vegas I got postal money orders, and mail home what I did not want to carry. The spending cash I kept was usually overspent on the girlfirend, and what ever treats or gambling we wanted to do.

When I won in my home state I always took cash. Cash don't bounce, and everybody acceipt it.

philip j.

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To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
From: carlboy101@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 16:20:31 -0800
Subject: Re: [vpFREE] when do YOU request a check?

I happened to hit a 12k royal flush at the Harrah's the Phoenix Ak-Chin several years ago on the $2.00 DDB progressive machine. My wife and I opted for a check. We went to our bank the following day (which is located in the Phoenix area) and deposited it in to our checking account.

We noticed the deposit never showed on our account. We called the bank and they stated the individual who signed the check at Harrah's was not on record in the bank's data base as an authorized agent of Harrah's to issue checks. Apparently the supervisor who signed the check was a newbie and Harrah's had not sent the paperwork to the banks indicating she was authorized to issue Harrah's checks. We called Harrah's Phoenix Ak-Chin and they stated they may not have sent the appropriate paperwork to all of the banks indicating the new supervisor was an authorized agent of Harrah's to issue checks.

After this experience, we always opt for cash. IF and I mean a VERY BIG IF, we ever win a Megajackpot we would go the electronic deposit route directly from the casino to our bank. We will never opt for a check.

Imagine if you are an out of state visitor to a casino and decide to take your winnings via check. You wait until you return to your home bank and deposit it and lo and behold the check is not honored at your bank.
We frequent Las Vegas and Laughlin on a regular basis, besides a couple of AZ Indian casinos and always get our winnings in cash.

Sorry, but one bad, or should I say one inconvenient experience was all it took for my wife and I.

P.S. I pack protection in my car, just in case we our accosted by highwaymen on our return home.

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From: ukstages <takeme2london@nyc.rr.com>
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, November 5, 2009 7:57:02 AM
Subject: [vpFREE] when do YOU request a check?

while playing $1 VP, i frequently request a check when i hit any jackpot over 2K (4K and over while playing $5 coin.) sometimes i'll ask for a split payment, perhaps 3K in a check and 1K cash. it helps to protect my initial bankroll and prevents me from doing anything foolish if things head south (as they so often do).

what fascinates me are the check numbers.... i will often hit early in the evening and ask for a check. then, six, twelve, twenty-four or even thirty-six hours later, i'll hit another big taxable event and request a check. invariably, the check numbers are sequential.... or sometimes there will be a gap of just one or two numbers. in other words, it appears as if nobody (or sometimes just one or two people) has requested a check since my last hit.

this happens to me in "big" casinos in major gambling towns and in small casinos, too. most recently, at a midwest casino, i hit a 4K jackpot and then i hit again *almost two weeks later* and the check number was the very next in the sequence. i find this simply astonishing.

that particular casino regularly publishes a list of the top forty jackpots paid the previous week. three quarters of these are typically more than four thousand dollars, with at least 25% of them more than ten thousand dollars. most of the big jackpots were apparently hit while playing penny and five cent slots.

so, here's my question... am i really the only one asking for a check?

or do casinos routinely have more than one jackpot account they use for payouts?

and are the people that are playing penny slots really walking around with ten thousand dollars in cash?

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#14

Nope - I've requested check payment on every W2 generating Royal Flush hand-pay & one drawing win I've had since Dec. '07. That's a total of 7 checks (6 in A.C. & 1 in Vegas). As someone else mentioned - don't want to be tempted to "play" it. I go with a specific bankroll & that's all I'll gamble with. Profit goes home. The only question I'm ever asked is, "All of it?" and the longest I've had to wait was 30 mins.

Neil M.

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "ukstages" <takeme2london@...> wrote:

so, here's my question... am i really the only one asking for a check?

#15

I always request a check for hand-pays because I once was
given a counterfeit $100 on a hand-pay, and when I went
to deposit it in the bank, they confiscated the fake bill
and I was out the money.

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "nemartin2002" <nemartin2002@...> wrote:

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "ukstages" <takeme2london@> wrote:
>
> so, here's my question... am i really the only one asking for a check?
>

Nope - I've requested check payment on every W2 generating Royal Flush hand-pay & one drawing win I've had since Dec. '07. That's a total of 7 checks (6 in A.C. & 1 in Vegas). As someone else mentioned - don't want to be tempted to "play" it. I go with a specific bankroll & that's all I'll gamble with. Profit goes home. The only question I'm ever asked is, "All of it?" and the longest I've had to wait was 30 mins.

Neil M.