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  1. #21
    You schlepp $400 of coins? That's 40 rolls of quarters to get $40 of free play. Really?

  2. #22
    $400 in change will get you $440 free play.

    Let me fix this. $400 change will get you $400 in bills + $40 free play.
    Last edited by jbjb; 01-26-2016 at 10:15 PM.

  3. #23
    Would I carry $200 in coins 50 feet for $20? Unquestionably.

    Ellis Island, which was recently renovated, has one of the LVA's top 10 values with their coffee shop steak special.

  4. #24
    Originally Posted by redietz View Post
    Would I carry $200 in coins 50 feet for $20? Unquestionably.
    The question really is where are you carrying the coins from? Did you schlepp them from home and then to the airport and then to the casino? Or did you stop off at the Bank of America at Flamingo and go into the bank for $400 worth of quarters and then schlepp them to the casino? Or did you happen to have $400 in change in your ashtray from all of the drive-thrus you visit and carry that change from the car to the cage?

  5. #25
    I'd get them from the nearest bank. Basically free money.

  6. #26
    I'm somewhat surprised you're so interested in the coin origins, but I'll come clean and admit that I'm a slightly overweight dancer in a "scrappy and unsavory" strip club somewhere between the El Cortez and the Blue Angel. The clientele are too cheap to stuff my gold lame with two dollar bills, so they throw coinage of various denominations, which is why I wear a kevlar cup and sport an eye patch. I scoop the coins up after closing hours and take them to the coin exchange machine at Ellis Island because the banks refuse to take coins dripping with the various fluids sticking to the coin surfaces. The Ellis Island coin machine, because it is conditioned for unsavory coinage, usually handles all but the most viscous quarters, although I did jam the machine twice in two visits. I blame the wooden nickles.
    Last edited by redietz; 01-26-2016 at 11:01 PM.

  7. #27
    The last time I saw someone at a casino cage cashing in coins they needed tip money for the valet. Previously it was my girlfriend's girlfriend who had buckets of quarters that she collected from the coin-op laundry she owned. I was driving from LA and she came along with four big buckets of quarters. I think she said she had about six thousand dollars in the four buckets. This was in the old days before TITO.

  8. #28
    Wait till Singer reads about this coin trick. OMG what it's going to start!

  9. #29
    Anyone that listens to what Singer has to say has a screw loose.

  10. #30
    Originally Posted by jbjb View Post
    Anyone that listens to what Singer has to say has a screw loose.
    I'm not disagreeing with you... but just wait till Singer reads about this. That's all I'm saying. LOL

  11. #31
    Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson View Post
    Wait till Singer reads about this coin trick. OMG what it's going to start!
    Surely Rob will appreciate a gambler taking advantage of casinos, don't you think? Playing the free play through once and leaving and all that seems the very soul of discipline. Plus I've seen the heft of 57K, and I can assure you, if carrying $200 in coins seems a schlep, lugging 57K to win $2500 is an even bigger schlep.

  12. #32
    $400 worth of quarters, according to figures from the US Mint, weighs 20-pounds.
    Below is a photo of a $25 mini-bag of quarters sold by the US Mint. These particular quarters are the South Carolina quarters from the Philadelphia mint and they were sold in these mini-bags as collector items. (They aren't really worth more than face value, though you will find them on eBay for $35 a bag -- asking price.)

    I have the mini-bag next to an autographed Pete Rose baseball for size comparison.
    In one photo I folded the bag just to illustrate the mass that the quarters inside actually represents.

    To have $400 of quarters I would need 16 of these mini bags, and again they would weigh 20-pounds.

    Just one bag would put a bulge in my pants where I wouldn't want it. Two of these mini bags might tear a pocket.

    The other option is to go to a nearby bank and purchase a box of quarters -- if they were readily available. Many banks require a special order for more than a roll or two of coins.

    (P.S. I knew this mini bag would come in handy one day. I almost used it for the drive-thrus.)
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  13. #33
    Speaking of which, I'm hoping to stop in Pete Rose's new restaurant on the strip this week.

    So $200 of quarters weighs 12 1/2 pounds. That's not very heavy. My cats weigh more than that. Have you ever tried to carry 57K in cash? Do you know what that looks like?

  14. #34
    jbjb, then you must have a whole lotta screws loose.

    How funny is this? A dump like Ellis Island reeling in self-proclaimed "advantage players" for up to $40 in free-play IF they are stupid enough and stupid-looking enough to haul $400 worth of coins into that hole!

    "Free money"? Yeah right. It's not money until it's played & cashed out, and no AP just walks in and plays anything thru once. They don't have the discipline required to do that.

    I like how redietz is trying to justify going to EI twice since Dec. Their coffee shop has a steak special? The place is "renovated"? They take coins and hand out peanuts for free play? You travel across the country for that?

    I can see a penny-pinching phony like jbjb being broke enuf to go to a bank and trade for coins. And RS__ would do it at the drop of a hat. After all, "vulturing" makes the man. But only desperados would waste their time on such frivolous nonsense.

    I'm beginning to see redietz more clearly. He pretends to be some mysterious gamer who "only" plays quarter vp "occasionally" when it doesn't interfere with his big-time stuff. jbjb has been claiming to play his beloved nickels under the same circumstances. All this says to me is the one reason red makes his few yearly trips to LV if absolutely FOR playing quarter vp, which is his only reason for taking the trip. He's no different than the collection of minions on vpfree who save up many months for their sweaty-palm trips, only to stay in one of the low-life hotels when they finally arrive.

    Good luck guys.

  15. #35
    I knew Rob would come through. LOL

  16. #36
    Originally Posted by redietz View Post
    Speaking of which, I'm hoping to stop in Pete Rose's new restaurant on the strip this week.

    So $200 of quarters weighs 12 1/2 pounds. That's not very heavy. My cats weigh more than that. Have you ever tried to carry 57K in cash? Do you know what that looks like?
    You apparently don't.

  17. #37
    Originally Posted by redietz View Post
    Have you ever tried to carry 57K in cash? Do you know what that looks like?
    I've carried $35K in cash into the BofA on Flamingo in Vegas. The collection of strapped notes fit into my inside jacket pocket that has a zipper and in one motion I removed the bills and slid them under the bullet proof glass to the teller.

  18. #38
    And you were safer carrying that much cash to a bank than $400 worth of silly coins into Ellis Island. Plus you didn't have to eat in their coffee shop.

  19. #39
    Originally Posted by Rob.Singer View Post
    And you were safer carrying that much cash to a bank
    I don't remember if I talked about this before on the forum... this was the weekend AFTER I hit the $100K royal and I was playing the $25 game again and got quad aces for $10K plus some other assorted quads, and I won at video poker. I didn't want to drive home with the cash. Jason was also in Vegas with his girlfriend so I asked him to drive to the BofA with me. The BofA we go to is in suburbia as if we were driving to Summerlin -- takes about 15 minutes but we also stop for gas and go to Jack In The Box out there (okay, another story for next time). Anyway the cashier at the bank had to do a cash transaction report -- which was not a problem for me EXCEPT the cashier asked for my occupation and that's what was put on the cash transaction report.

    That, I thought was bad news. I didn't want the IRS to see a "TV producer" making a $35,000 cash deposit. I did want the report to show "gambling winnings" but the bank cashier said no -- the form asked for my occupation. So now I am prepared for an inquiry from the IRS when I file my 2015 return.

  20. #40
    Idk if EI is still doing the 10% bonus on FP for coins, although they might be. (I heard it stopped.) IIRC, for $400 in coins you get $440 in FP and no cash. It may have changed or I could'a been told (by someone whom I know that played it) incorrectly.

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