"My MACHINE!!!!!"

About six months ago, I was playing a DDB vp machine at caesars, and did poorly, losing a bundle. I got up to go to the restroom. When I came back a few minutes later I went back to the machine I was playing and the machine was locked up showing quad aces with kicker for $10K. The player who was to my left looked up at me and said "Im sorry, I didnt know you were coming back."

I looked at him and smiled and said "congratulations, good for you."

he looked at me, puzzled. He must have thought I would be angry.

He said something like, "you dont mind I played it?"

I said no, and told him that even if I had been sitting at that machine, I might not have gotten the jackpot unless I hit the button at the precise moment he did. You can never be envious of someone hitting on a machine you played before or will play again.

Later, I hit quad aces with a kicker on a different machine. Karma.

Its 1998, I'm playing a dollar WOF machine in Caesars, AC. I'm into it for $100 and put a second Hundred dollar bill into it. Guy comes along and sits down next to me. starts talking and tells me he came from upstate NY to play the machine I'm on. It's a Triple diamond machine and he tells me he dreamt he hit three Triple diamonds on this exact machine. I'm yessing him but pretty much blowing him off. I'm down to my last $30 and am considering to quit after I lose or put in another $100. Suddenly I hit Triple Diamond- Triple Diamond- Seven for either an $1800 or $2700 payoff, honestly don't rember the exact amount. He goes crazy, saying he saw it in his dream. More he talks, the madder he gets. Attendant comes by and he starts telling her how he came 300 miles to play this machine, and how I was a prick for not getting up after he told me his story.
Security comes over and tells him to walk away. While I'm still waiting to get paid, a jackpot bell goes off an aisle away. I look over and he had hit $1000 on a WOF spin. He sees me and says he only hit it because of me and now he's my newest bestest friend.

thats a funny story, bill. next, you should have sold him your seat and told him the big one was coming.

I LOVE IT!!!!!!

If the previous player comes back and tell you "that's my win" and the amount isn't that large you could try, "I put $300 in to get that $250 win so you owe me $50".

My father recently had an incident with one of these weirdos at a casino here in the Vancouver area. He had just started playing a slot machine when a middle-aged woman came up and informed him that it was "her" machine. She said she had been playing it for hours, so anything that he won should be half hers since she had worked the machine up to it. My 80+ year old father just ignored her and kept playing. She continued to stand behind him, yapping away. Then he hit a $400 pay. She became very belligerent at that point, demanding he share the win with her. He told her to go away, as did a few people playing machines around him. She was having none of it - insisting it was HER luck that brought the win and he owed her money. My ultra polite father was at the point where he was about to suggest where she should go, when security showed up. One of the other players had gone to get them. They escorted the woman off the property, then came back with a manager and apologized to him for the inconvenience. They also gave him a voucher for a small amount of free slot play. The other players around him told him the woman had played the machine off & on for the past couple hours, but never more than a couple spins at a time. She had also pulled the same routine on other older players that had played it , and they had seen enough of her bullying people, trying to intimidate them into giving her a share of their money. Some people have a lot of gall!!

yeah...as ive stated before, i have never, nor would i ever, do anything that has been stated in this thread.

if someone is on MY machine, i will play another and come back and check. if i play one where MY machine is in eyesight, i will silenty wish for the person on it to win a jackpot big enough that they cash out so i can grab it.

ive never had anyone ask me to leave because i was on their machine. i have had those "i put so much money in there" types and i hate them and wish them death. dont talk to me, about anything...ever.

i also hate when someone gets up from a machine and tells you "this one is hot, you should play it" and when you dont, they keep trying to make you play it. go away.

That's the same person that will be looking for a cut if you hit something on the machine they recommended.


What about bartenders that warn you away from a cold machine or dealers that warn you off of a cold seat?

Years ago, when NYNY first opened, the $1 WOF machines were very popular. One night the machine at the end of the bank was hitting like crazy, and this nice lady sitting there was stacking up the one dollar tokens in trays. this was before TITO. She must have had a thousand or so in coins, plus some handpays when she hit a thou on the spin.

so after a few hours she had a crowd standing behind her, and when she decided to leave she announced "Im leaving, who wants to buy my seat!" And three people behind her started offering her money... and a bidding war developed. She finally got $300 to give her seat to a young guy. the guy sat there and played and played and gave up after losing about 500 in the machine that he paid 300 to play at.

people will do crazy things when they are set on sitting at a certain machine.

Wow...a bidding war!

I do have machines I think of as "mine" but I am not delusional enough to try to impress that idea on anyone else.
I just lurk...quietly.