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Fruit Machines in casinos

cartoonpcartoonp
edited January 2010 in The Shed

If you play your live poker at A casino do you ever play the friut machine if so what you biggest win

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  • loonytoonsloonytoons
    edited October 2009
    In Response to Fruit Machines in casinos:
    If you play your live poker at A casino do you ever play the friut machine if so what you biggest win
    Posted by cartoonp
    I remember going to a night club many moons ago. Pints were well less than a pound, and the pound was a note. I got into the lobby and paid my £2 entrance(expensive then) and while waiting for the coat room, i put 10p in the one and only fruit machine in the lobby. You got 5 spins then (2p)lol and i won the jackpot of £20. I thought id won the lottery lol, that was my whole night paid for plus the chippy on the way home.
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  • apollo_11apollo_11
    edited October 2009
    Don't bother trying to play them at the bingo hall. The queue is too long.
    I haven't played a fruit machine for years. Could never get a decent tune out of it.
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  • FlutNushFlutNush
    edited October 2009

    When I got married to my incredibly lucky wife, we went on honeymoon to Verona. It might have been Florence actually, it was quite a long time ago and I can't be expected to remember everything you know...

     

    Anyway, whilst in Italy, I insisted that we visit the local casino. As I'm known to have an addictive personality, my betrothed agreed to accompany me, on the strict proviso that we only cashed in small denomination chips to the value of £30 GBP. Even then, my wife insisted on holding the balance of chips and letting me have £2-worth at a time.

     

    We hit the roulette table, and I appeared to experience a little bit of what gamblers call 'beginner's luck'. Within forty minutes and five, I had amassed a fortune of £900 from our original stake.

     

    Needless to say, Management reversed her 'chip-embargo', and started lobbing the plastic at me like it was burning her fingers. We eventually paid for the entire honeymoon with the proceeds of that wonderful night.

     

    I know this has got naff all to do with Fruit Machines, but it's one of the few moments of glory I've experienced in a casino, and I never tire or recounting the tale.

     

    *sigh*

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  • FlutNushFlutNush
    edited October 2009

    Oh and by the way, when I was at school, Michael Mitson (with the gammy leg), had an electronic lighter with some wires coming out of the top. If he wore a woolly glove and inserted the contraption into the coin-slot of arcade and fruit machines whilst clicking the lighter mechanism, he could rack up endless credits.

     

    It's pretty much what made me a world-class expert at Donkey Kong.

     

    If there's any members of Her Majesty's Constabulary reading this, Michael still lives in Wanstead and I can furnish you with his last know address if you need it.

     

    Thanks for reading.

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  • MachkaMachka
    edited October 2009
    Not in casino's but I (mis)spent my youth in arcades playing fruit machines.  Crazy Streak, Rat Race, Masterspy, Chase the Ace, Tupenny Nudger, ah, happy days.

    Lend us 10p?  This machine is Happy!

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  • 35suited35suited
    edited October 2009
    Again not at a casino but I use to have a probelm with fruit machines, regulary id put £200+ in trying to win a £250 jackpot.

    Try not to play them now but fater a few pints cant help stick a few quid in them

    Gareth
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  • repton3repton3
    edited October 2009
    I won $450 from one spin on 'wheel of fortune' in McCarran Intn'l Airport in September.  Not strictly a casino, but it might as well be.
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  • OMahonyOOMahonyO
    edited October 2009
    I used to play the bandits quite a bit.  Those ones in casinos though, what are they all about.  I would need to go on a training course just to know what the winline was.  I have only played those when first joining a casino and they give you free credits.  I didnt have a clue what was going on, I pressed 1 button and it did it all for me.  Drawing winlines that looked like ecg heart monitor readouts and stuff.  My £10 free play got up to about £30 and I cashed out my ticket, still not knowing what had just happened.

    ps, If in doubt, hold your plums
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  • NICONNICON
    edited October 2009
    In Response to Re: Fruit Machines in casinos:
    Not in casino's but I (mis)spent my youth in arcades playing fruit machines.  Crazy Streak, Rat Race, Masterspy, Chase the Ace, Tupenny Nudger, ah, happy days. Lend us 10p?  This machine is Happy!
    Posted by Machka

    Ahh the memory of rat race and the tupenny nudger. Add to that the 777 heavens, Each way nudgers, Step & Skip and oh so many more and you have my entire life between 11 and 16 (apart from the odd friday night drinking in bus shelters on the promanade)

    My parents always worried id end up addicted to gambling in later life if i carried on. i told them not to worry as i would obviously grow out of it and i did :) ................... oh wait a min. I play poker don't I DOH ! (who ever thought your parents could be right eh)
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  • cartoonpcartoonp
    edited October 2009
    thanks all to answer my own question LOL I never played them in a casino but all ways used tpo play them in Pubs and Arcades use to have a big big prob.I'm very lucky know as I dont play them as much as I've got better things to do with the money.Manly poker and Holiday Lol But have won 30 pound out of party time (25p) ago and just got lucky I think and I was in A pub with my partner not played for over a year.My partner gave me a tener said treat yourself I know you like a few gos whent on 30p ago machine and won 175 pound Lol
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  • BuistyboyBuistyboy
    edited October 2009
    i used to love the 2p machines where you had to get a certain number to enter the feature.  Sometimes you would get a "?" and use skill to fill the feature and be in the money.

    I also remember years ago whilst doing my paperround, discovering a vast number of 10p tokens scattered on the pavement.  Abandoning my paper round, I committed my efforts to the retrieval of said tokens, planning to make a tidy sum in the arcade that afternoon.

    After a lengthy period of scavenging, i had secured a vast bundle of tokens, and hastily made my way to the local arcade. Much to my disappointment, however, I arrived to discover that the 10p tokens had become obsolete and 20p tokens had taken over the fruit machine world. 
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  • Sky_DaveSky_Dave
    edited October 2009
    One of the funniest things I have ever seen was when a group of friends and I headed to an APAT event in Cardiff. Disco Dave (one of the finest chaps you'll ever meet) looked bored. "Why am I here?" he said. "I am dead money in this tournament. I might as well just burn the entry fee!".

    With 20 minutes to go before the kick off of the tourney, he sat down at a fruit machine and stuck in a tenner. As the rest of us headed to our seats, Disco was still stood there as the machine worked it's way through the 300-odd free spins it had accumulated. He finally sat down just as the cards went in the air, £300 richer. That was more than he would have got for making the final table!

    Disco Dave - we love him but hate him at the same time. Lucky sod.
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  • silentbobsilentbob
    edited October 2009
    When I used to work at Currys we all used to go for a drink in the bar across the road from the shop after work on a Saturday evening for their happy hour (£1.20 a pint which actually lasted 4 hours!). Anyhow, I had £1.50 on me and decided that rather than going to the bar I'd chuck it in the fruity expecting to go home beerless & pennyless. 10 minutes later I walked away with over £60. I spent the rest of the night happily getting wasted & watching everyone else refill the machine.
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  • TorryladdTorryladd
    edited October 2009

    When I went to my local pub in 70s the bandit was 5p, I won the jackpot of a £1 (pints were 30p then)

    This staked me to play 3 card brag and went on to win another 18 quid which was just about a weeks wages then.

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  • nirvana29nirvana29
    edited October 2009
    got 28 win spins once, got 78 quid, put bout 20 in.
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  • cartoonpcartoonp
    edited January 2010
    Sorry  not been on for a while just like to thank all who replyed
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  • DiggerManDiggerMan
    edited January 2010
    I've only just seen this thread, ahh the memories! lol
    Fruit machines pretty much funded my pre-work youth! There were two chip shops that I regularly invaded!
    I don't actually go anywhere near them anymore so I don't know the tricks to make them payout anymore. Oh yeah, and apparently the younger generation don't call them fruit machines anymore, they call them Gamblers! Ask 'em where the fruit machine is and all you get is a blank stare! lol
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  • DiggerManDiggerMan
    edited January 2010
    In Response to Re: Fruit Machines in casinos:
    Oh and by the way, when I was at school, Michael Mitson (with the gammy leg), had an electronic lighter with some wires coming out of the top. If he wore a woolly glove and inserted the contraption into the coin-slot of arcade and fruit machines whilst clicking the lighter mechanism, he could rack up endless credits.   It's pretty much what made me a world-class expert at Donkey Kong.   If there's any members of Her Majesty's Constabulary reading this, Michael still lives in Wanstead and I can furnish you with his last know address if you need it.   Thanks for reading.
    Posted by FlutNush

    Hi FlutNush,
    How many times did the game give up on you? I was also rather good at Donkey Kong and once you got somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000 points the machine would just shut down! I did it 7 times (if I remember correctly - it was a very long time ago) on various different machines! Most annoying because my goal was 500,000 and I never ever reached it! lol     456,000 was the best score I managed before a machine meltdown! Sad but true! lol
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