Originally Posted by
Mission146
I think it's too conditional to make generalizations. I'm not one to, "Camp out," within a few chairs of someone, but I'll go far enough away that I can't even be perceived as hassling them. Maybe go to the other side of the casino, go to the bathroom if I need to take a leak, go to the bar and get a pop...etc.
That said, suppose you see someone leave a 10x multiplier on something like $2 denom UX and switch games. You're going to tell me that's not worth sticking around if you're low-level, especially if there might be other stuff on the machine? You can do all kinds of things. Go off and have a smoke, go to the food court and mess about on your phone for fifteen minutes, go play off some free play elsewhere if you have it, etc...
I'm not going to breathe down the person's neck, they'll never know I was waiting out the machine. If the person gets off and someone else who is more aggressive beats me to checking it, then it is what it is. Also, I don't know where anyone else is, but this isn't like Vegas or AC----there aren't so many hustlers/vultures that I always have to worry about missing a play if I'm not there within five minutes of the person getting off the machine. When there are hustlers/vultures, I usually recognize them anyway and know their tendencies. If you're on really good terms with someone, then you can just go and tell them what you saw and offer to chop the action on that machine...now nobody is racing for it or encroaching on a person.
And, the security/observation levels are going to differ from locale to locale and even casino to casino. My main two casinos I've been working for years with no problem.
I do agree about the $3.75 thing, in general, unless you know the tendencies of the other vultures. Most games I'm not going to bother, but one game at one particular casino I know I play more aggressively than someone else does, so I'm going to check it anyway.
When it comes to quick turnaround plays, one thing I see vultures/hustlers do that I don't think is a great idea is play with the card. I kind of get it if it's something like high-limit UX and you somehow know you're going to at least do a couple hundred coin-in, (I still wouldn't) but when you're doing card in/card out on two or three machines all side-by-side-by-side for what might be as low as $10-$20 in action on each, not good. I've seen people who put the card in before they even start checking them.