Out for a few beers with a mate last night since it's a bank holiday here today (Tynwald Day for the win!) and I largely avoided the fruities (I'd say I'm basically retired these days despite there still being money to be made, just can't be arsed with the overall hassle of it, I certainly don't load up on pound coins and go out for a round any more and haven't done for months).
However in one of the last pubs we went to there was a Hot Hot Hot with the cashpot sat at £70, which to me may as well be a big FREE MONEY HERE sign.
(The 'method' on this machine is very simple, in essence the cashpot is a 'semi-free' win, so if the cashpot is high (over £60 or so) you force out the cashpot off the top zone, and then force out again for a jackpot off the top zone. The idea being that as the cashpot is semi-free you'll have got the machine pretty happy during the force as you're not collecting anything, then the cashpot won't knock it back much, so it'll still be close to jackpot happy afterwards. If the cashpot isn't high then you don't have the cushion so it's not worth doing. The cashpot seeds at around £15-£25 and then slowly builds up over time, being funded from a small percentage of overall money staked, hence it being 'paid for' mostly upfront thus not being accounted for as a normal win.)
The pub was pretty busy and the machine had been played a little bit on and off whilst we were there (all playing it completely wrong and indeed on the wrong stake), but there was no one playing it when I approached and there hadn't been for 10 minutes or more. Since it had a note acceptor I bunged a £20 note in and rattled through it on £1 play. As I'm (a) On £1 per spin and (b) Ignoring everything except the top shots zone I burned through that very quickly. (I really do play at a very rapid rate of knots.) It was climbing to the mega shots zone though which means it's not too far off. Another £20 note and then another followed, I was about a tenner through the third £20 when it caved and gave me a skill shot for the cashpot on the top shots zone for £70. (So £20 profit at this point.)
A little ripple went through some of the folks nearby, 'He's got the fucking jackpot already, people have been playing that all weekend and it's not paid jackpot' (that sort of thing). Of course I'd only just started 'cause I was now after my follow-up jackpot since the cashpot is (semi) paid from a different 'pool' than normal wins. True enough about £30 back in of the £70 and it gave a skill for jackpot, to make a bank of £110.
This caused rather more consternation, comments along the lines of 'another fucking jackpot' and suchlike. Collecting the bank I went to drop my glass off on the bar and the barman asked if I wanted to change the coins down, which I didn't really as it's a bit like 'flashing the cash' but it's also rude not to so I acquiesced. So then of course I dump £110 onto the bar in coins which he counts out and then gets £110 in notes from the till.
As we walk out there's a (mostly) jokey 'Kick his head in he just won a hundred quid!', but no actual aggro as such.
Of course my actual profit was only £60 as it was £50 in for £110 out, but to everyone in there I'd 'won' £110. (People never seem to account for what you have to put in, for some reason.)
Either way it reminded me why I don't really bother these days, when you're seen as 'stealing' everyone else's money it tends not to make you massively popular.
Still, free night out and a bit of a bonus money too.
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