"clearing" the machines after a big win

I found this to be very curious in Dancer's current column:

"When I started to feed $100 bills into the machine on Saturday, I couldn't help but notice the machine was entirely lime green. The last person who played that machine was dealt a $6,250 straight flush, was paid by hand after signing a W2G, cashed out and left."

At EVERY casino where Ive had a hand pay or saw a handpay, the player was asked to "play it again" to clear the jackpot off of the screen/reels. This has happened in both slots and VP. Twice I saw a player decline to play the machine again after a handpay, and the slot person called in to security to tell them that he was inserting money into the machine (single coin value) to "clear the machine."

But the Palms allows hand pay jackpot results to remain after a handpay?

$LA,

While the SOP of having players "play it off" after jackpots seemed to be universal at all casinos in the past, this no longer seems to be the case. In the last couple of years I have had W2G RFs at a couple places including the Palms where they simply keyed off the jackpot, did the paperwork and hand pay and walked away without asking my to play a hand to clear off the winning hand. It may be that the changes in technology have made this casino procedure an anachronistic extra step.

Many years ago I was in a casino late at night and the lady on the next machine had hit a $300 jackpot win.
After being hand paid they asked her to play it off. She was very hesitant as she just wanted to take her winnings and head up to bed but did as they asked.
On her payoff spin the machine hit the same jackpot again.
She almost collapsed and started crying.
She asked them to call the room and have her husband come down to help her.

Since that day I have always cleared off my big wins. Unfortunately I have never had the luck of a repeat jackpot but there is always hope since I did see it happen ONCE.

I've had back to back quads numerous times so I always play it down to an even amount (once had a run of 12 quads on the same machine in 20 minutes...but with zero kickers).
Did have back to back royals last year, but they were on adjoining machines (I had moved to the next machine while waiting for the handpay, fortunately had also increased my play from .50 to a 1.00).

I haven't been asked to "clear" a machine after a handpay for a few years now. In my experience they just key it off now and you're done.

My Uncle was a slot manager at several Vegas casinos and told me that after a win, just chuck enough for one play and clear the machine. He said at one time people tried to scam them when a winner wasn't cleared. (pre TITO's)

Twice, while playing Broadway Poker, I've had the bartender hit big hands on the " clear the machine hand". Once, after playing $5 a hand, he hit for 5OAK, and after playing for $2 a hand he hit for a Royal Flush. As your next hand in BP is determined immediately after you finish your last one, both wins would have been mine if I'd played one hand more.

Pardon my ignorance, but what is "Broadway Poker"? Is it machine based, or with a deck or shoe of cards?

What is the casino or house strategy for clearing the hand? It would seem to me that if you have a machine with a jackpot showing on it from a prior player, that you would be happy to keep it to lure other people to it. Perhaps, people avoid it because they think the same machine can't hit again?

The main concern and the reason for the policy (which still exists at some casinos) is to prevent any chance of a person (either the original person who hit it, or someone else who later walks up to the machine) from claiming that they hit the jackpot and were never paid.

Today, there's generally better surveillance, better bookkeeping, and better records kept by the machine iteself which makes the policy obsolete.