charlz
Elite Member
I have had a few decent runs similar to but not as big as Bigkrank mainly before I lived in Vegas. Start out with $10 in quarters and walk out with $1200. Once you live there you either have a gambling problem or you don't. It is pretty much that cut and dried.
In the late 80's/early 90's the machines were pretty loose and you could gamble all night on $.25 slots with a $20. The machines would give you just enough to keep going and maybe a big score once in a while. They then tightened up the machines and these days you are lucky if you get even $.25 back for putting in a $20 So I pretty much never gamble if I head back to Vegas for some reason.
Overall I am too much of a cheap bastard to gamble. However, one of the things I liked to do was start out with quarters but if you hit say $100 or $200 then move up to dollars. 'Found money' and all that. Once I hit $400 so I moved to $5 machines. I about gave myself a heart attack every time I pulled the handle with $20 (4 coins max bet) on the line and nothing, nothing, nothing. I got lucky and about on my last $20 I hit $400, I took the money and never went back to $5 slots again
Overall I think I am still up $100-$200 dollars.
Supposedly you can make money playing video poker if you strictly follow some set of rules for playing. There is/was an illegal job you could get where you played video poker all day for some 'shadow' type company. Something for retiree's I guess.
In the late 80's/early 90's the machines were pretty loose and you could gamble all night on $.25 slots with a $20. The machines would give you just enough to keep going and maybe a big score once in a while. They then tightened up the machines and these days you are lucky if you get even $.25 back for putting in a $20 So I pretty much never gamble if I head back to Vegas for some reason.
Overall I am too much of a cheap bastard to gamble. However, one of the things I liked to do was start out with quarters but if you hit say $100 or $200 then move up to dollars. 'Found money' and all that. Once I hit $400 so I moved to $5 machines. I about gave myself a heart attack every time I pulled the handle with $20 (4 coins max bet) on the line and nothing, nothing, nothing. I got lucky and about on my last $20 I hit $400, I took the money and never went back to $5 slots again
Overall I think I am still up $100-$200 dollars.
Supposedly you can make money playing video poker if you strictly follow some set of rules for playing. There is/was an illegal job you could get where you played video poker all day for some 'shadow' type company. Something for retiree's I guess.
