REAL highly improbably casino situations

[AxelWolf]

Glitches in Casinos that last for years on end or even weeks or months. I am always surprised when they last so long.

Reaching into the hopper deflecting coins at certain bars on certain machines.
The friend who taught me was much better at it and never seemed to bang up his hand.
Another friend couldn't deflect them... most likely from fear of getting caught.

They call it fingerfucking the machine.

That's not a glitch really, its a design flaw in the mechanics. Depending on who makes the machines the reason it worked on bartops is that there's an escalator used to force the coins upwards from the hopper.
flicking the coins would either block the eye so other coins could pass through without being counted or it would force the mechanical lever and spring to stay up and not count down the coins coming out.
It's definitely a felony each time you get an extra coin and I think its a felony even when you attempt it.

I don't know how many machines it would work on or how well it worked, but if it worked as well as people let on, I don't know how some local bars didn't get raped silly since many of them had CO machines at one time.

The glitches I was talking about were separate from deflecting the coins. My long time friend was showing me at a bar on the strip and it worked on certain machines and always at the bar. I could be wrong but i think it worked on the Floor as well but at the bar you could position your body so that the camera wouldn't see what you were doing and you were constantly feeding the machine coins and cashing out or we would get the machine full of credits so it would spit. We tried never to let the hopper get empty as I am sure you know. We actually went up to Reno doing it as well. Those days we were always drunk and burning through money and we were at the tail end of it anyway. From what I understand it was all over the country and many places did get raped. Some people did this with their finger as you say and banged up their hands pretty good. My buddy showed me how to use a coin to deflect which worked pretty good. As you say this is a felony for sure if you get caught which we never did. With the combination of getting in on the tail end and not getting too greedy we got away with it but we didn't make enough money from it either. Easy come easy go in those younger days for me. Heck you want to talk felony and crazy we used to know this guy who would go into Circus Circus with what they called a snake and rape the machines. That's a little crazy and ballsy!

Now at that hour on the Strip when we were doing it we were fighting off the ladies of the evening shoeing them away.
It is funny at that hour they come down drastically in price telling us that this is the time for the special rate!

When I mentioned glitches I meant more recent things after TITO came about. I just get surprised when things last for months on end and even years especially in this modern era.
I suppose one example is when I find Comp Glitches and they I can swipe for days on end.

Sorry Dan Druff I thought you said you made it... now I am even more depressed lol!
Can you guys not resize those pictures lol... it's so big on my computer screen!

I don't know if it could work on upright machines, I suspect not with your hand since they work differently and use gravity to drop coins from the spinny thing. The escalator would push forward on the coins even if you pushed them back they would jam up often(I would always cram my cup in there to capture coins and it would jam up easy). I think most slant tops would be sesptibale to this. I think the key was also that there was a long travel shute the coins traveled on so you manipulate the coins from right there where you put your hand to get coins. The tray shute is significantly smaller on a bar top than an upright machine, perhaps its only a bit bigger than 7" x 7". Even if it was technically possable on an upright, it would look obvious since you would have to have your hand and arm up the machine. I'm not even sure if it would fit up there or you could reach what was needed to achive this. On a bar machine, I dont even think you would have to position yourself to really block anything. Your hand and arm would block what your fingers were doing. It was natural for someone to have their hand in the tray shute to caprure their coins as they were being spat out. To look absolutely natural, I think you would have to go back and forth to your cup with coins and that might mess up your hand positioning and have to readjust before your credits were at zero. There would be no good reason for someone to have their hand in the tray receiver just sitting there and not pulling out coins. I never heard of anyone getting busted for this and I never saw anyone doing it. I would definitely notice if someone was keeping their hand in the tray longer than necessary.

[AxelWolf]

I know someone that got back to back Royals for 1k each. The 2nd Royal was hit while the hand-pay was being played off. The casino floor person inserted the quarters. She gambled daily for years.

[tableplay]

Long bad weekend of craps at the Flamingo years ago. My friend had an earlier flight and had left. I am taking one last shot and the table sucks and the two "don't" players are whoopin it up. I have $30 left in my rack and I pick it up to head for the airport. The don't guys pass the dice and they come to me. So I may as well blow my $30.

An hour and twenty minutes later I seven out at a little over $75,000. I have missed my plane. A couple cowboys (was during the rodeo) made a few 100 k. They get me a suite for the night and invite me to a crazy party in their suite that night.

Great story! What did you end up doing with the Big Win... did you blow it on drugs and hookers like most of us? It makes me think of a famous quote from someone who had made a fortune. They asked him what did he do with all that money and he said something like well... half of it I blew on Fast Women, Drugs and Gambling (or something like that) and they asked him ok what did you do with the other half? He said I blew it. I am sure someone knows the quote better than I am trying to explain it lol.

Soccer great George Best put it this way: "I spent most of my money on wine and women, the rest of it I wasted".
As for weird stuff at the casino, nothing much, this will rank way lower than most of the stories: I got 5 wilds on Deuces and Jokers (drawn to, not dealt) for a whopping $50 off a nickel bet.

[mickeycrimm]

Glitches in Casinos that last for years on end or even weeks or months. I am always surprised when they last so long.

Reaching into the hopper deflecting coins at certain bars on certain machines.
The friend who taught me was much better at it and never seemed to bang up his hand.
Another friend couldn't deflect them... most likely from fear of getting caught.

They call it fingerfucking the machine.

That's not a glitch really, its a design flaw in the mechanics. Depending on who makes the machines the reason it worked on bartops is that there's an escalator used to force the coins upwards from the hopper.
flicking the coins would either block the eye so other coins could pass through without being counted or it would force the mechanical lever and spring to stay up and not count down the coins coming out.
It's definitely a felony each time you get an extra coin and I think its a felony even when you attempt it.

I don't know how many machines it would work on or how well it worked, but if it worked as well as people let on, I don't know how some local bars didn't get raped silly since many of them had CO machines at one time. No security or eye in the sky watching. Perhaps after the fact after someone caught on they might be waiting for you if you kept going back to the same places.

I could always tell the finger fuckers by the bandaids on their fingers.

[regnis]

Long bad weekend of craps at the Flamingo years ago. My friend had an earlier flight and had left. I am taking one last shot and the table sucks and the two "don't" players are whoopin it up. I have $30 left in my rack and I pick it up to head for the airport. The don't guys pass the dice and they come to me. So I may as well blow my $30.

An hour and twenty minutes later I seven out at a little over $75,000. I have missed my plane. A couple cowboys (was during the rodeo) made a few 100 k. They get me a suite for the night and invite me to a crazy party in their suite that night.

Indeed a great story....If I recall, you said you won $300,000 on the Kentucky Derby this year, and now this....do you ever lose?

I lose much more often than I would like. And the Flamingo story was at least 20 years ago.

[mickeycrimm]

Years ago I was spinning off a blue screen bingo at the Red Lion in Elko. The lady next to me was playing keno betting a nickel a game on a 10-spot. I chuckled to myself thinking the poor lady was reduced to betting just a nickel a game. A few minutes later her machine locked up. I looked over. She had hit the solid ten. An 8.9 million to 1 shot. The lady never even cracked a smile. They came and got her information then payed her $5000. She didn't tip, stuck the money in her purse, and went back to playing a nickel a game.