Went to two of the better-known San Diego casinos overnight to use their free play.
At casino #1 (not my favorite, but I'll take the free play, thank you) my goal was to run through the $100 free play once in $1 Bonus Poker, and leave. I was lucky and hit a bunch of two-pairs and once 3oak -- but nothing big. That returned $115. I also had an extra $1 of free play from "points" that I downloaded onto the machine--- played the $1 and was dealt a pair of queens which returned the $1 as cash.
I hit the cash out button and took the $116 ticket to the ticket cashing machine.
Ticket for $116 goes in but only $115 comes out. I tell a passing slot attendant the machine short changed me. They call someone -- and about ten minutes later they open the machine and find my errant dollar bill "hanging inside." I get my dollar.
That's when the guy using the cash machine next to me (he was getting cash with his ATM card) said "you waited around for a buck?"
And I said -- it's hard to get a buck out of this place. You bet I waited for it.
The real moral of the story is while I was waiting those ten minutes I watched others cash their tickets and NO ONE bothered to count the cash coming out. They just picked up the money, and left.
I wonder how many other people have been shortchanged by these machines?
Then on to casino #2 but that's a different story.
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