Originally Posted by kewlJ View Post
Mission, you spend enough time in casinos that you ought to know that there are amounts of wins that people HAVE to answer for. Different amount based on games and casinos and probably time of day/day of week. But there are amounts that trigger scrutiny. And a guy walking in a casino playing 45 minutes and walking out winning 35k is going to draw attention and every second of his visit and play examined.

I mean this is exactly the principal that I base what I do on. It is why I adopted a short session, which equals smaller wins, and play amounts that are better tolerated when I have the bankroll to play much larger. Big wins are going to draw attention and be looked at. Anyone who doesn't think so, really doesn't know much about the casino business.
It's video poker, people hit jackpots. If you spread the action around, even in terms of a lifetime machine performance, what you're doing doesn't meaningfully change the overall actual payout percentage one way or another. Certainly not more than what could just be attributed to normal variance. I'm also going to suggest that, even if you're just taking down smaller jackpots, you would want to structure your playing such that you are there during times as busy as possible so that they don't really have a ton of time to look into what you're doing. Yeah, if you're the only guy in the house, I could see where that might be a problem. When the place is packed wall to wall on a weekend evening...they're just trying to get you paid and on to the next.

I'll tell you this, in general, the eye in the sky is more concerned about you counting cards than it is with the machines. Like Singer pointed out, Kane was taking down multiple jackpots in a short period of time, which is what I think got them even looking at the video to begin with. There's absolutely nothing unusual about a video poker jackpot or jackpot of any other kind.