Jackpot!!

I have this system,, my husband hates it, I take a certain amount such as $50 in one pocket, and what ever i win goes in other pocket, no touching it what so ever. so there are times if I win on slot i quit and put it the pocket, so if I put in $ 5 in the slot and win and win and win the start to lose then I cash out goes into pocket of winnings. the most we won on my system is about $200 on $25

Sue - there's something in this article that touched a raw nerve. I know someone who boasts of having "broken the house" manytimes!! - but lives in a rented apartment! Never was charmed by games of chance - life is a BIGGGG gamble anyways and thankfully, I've more than I could desire.

I've been to casinos twice in my life...I am not a gambler, 'cause I get bored too easily...I also don't win...I think the last time, I lost just under $5.00

I was in Las Vegas with my mom once on the last day of a tour we went on of the National Parks and just before it was time to go to the airport I won $100 playing the slots. That was back in the day before digitization of slot machines, so all the bells and whistles went off and $100 of 25 cent tokens came pouring out of the machine. I was thrilled. Of course, I don't know how much I had lost before I won, though...

Vinay- I don't like to gamble either. I don't see the fun in it, but many people do. I just don't understand it, yet it is a huge industry. Sorry I touched a nerve in you.

I don't get any joy out of losing money. We used to go once a year with maybe $200.00. My husband won once but not a lot. I think we went home a little over $100.00 ahead. I get bored too easily to just sit there feeding a slot machine or watching others win at a table game that has too high of a minimum bet for me.

I am with you Nana! I can't just sit there and feed a machine my money on a chance!

I'm with vinay on this one. Life offers enough of a gamble, I,m out. LOL

Treading lightly ... since this is one of the lifebloods of my area ...

First, people tend to focus on one or the other - depending which way the wind is blowing (or the chips are falling) - and often overstate their winnings or alternately their losses.

From personal observation, I find machine players are more inclined to report fantastic winnings ... ignoring the coins they poured into the machine before hitting their jackpot. Though machine players will lament losses to strangers in idle conversation.

As the industry continues to phase in coinless machines, most of the Tahoe casinos are already completely coinless, you will notice more and more machine players are less satisfied with their gaming experience. The machines have evolved. The One Armed Bandit is now a museum piece, the pull handle replaced with a push button. Gone are the days of repeatedly digging quarters out of the bin to feed the next pull. The machines suck tens, twentys, and hundreds out of the player's hand like a horse munching rolled oats. Players now longer get the intermittent rewards of hearing a few coins clinking and clanking into the coin bin after a minor win. The tactile connection between player and machine has almost been severed, and without the sensory feedback, players are literally and figuratively out of touch with their gaming.

Table players tend to have a more realistic and honest relationship with their chips. I hypothesize this is linked to their tactile fetish of fumbling with the chips, cards, and dice, and their greater sensory involvement with the games and the gambling process.

My conclusion is that a majority of amateur/casual players overstate their winnings, especially to friends, family and colleagues, and they downplay their losses to save face or worse, to cover-up a habitual problem. Whereas, Pro's know the games, the odds, and precisely where their money is.

On a personal note ... I have an odd relationship with the slot and poker machines at Reno/Tahoe airport ... I have been known to feed a machine a five while waiting at my gate to board. I have never won what you would call a jackpot ... but the machines seem to take a peculiar delight in slowly adding a few coins here and there until my row is called for boarding ... at which time I have to cash out ... in the past year or so the machines have been switched from coin to totes ... but many times previous I had to board the plane with 20 bucks worth of loose quarters jingling in my pockets!

I have won $250 on Nevada Nickels, and a few Bad Beat Jackpots at the Poker table (when you get beat with a 4 of a kind or better you get a share of a progressive jackpot). I much prefer poker at the tables to the machines.

My daughter and I used to go to Atlantic City every year when we went to the shore in New Jersey, They would charge $10.00 for the bus or van to take you there and when you got there, they would give you ten dollars in tokens as seed money, and a free bouffet dinner. Well, she loved to gamble. It was in her somehow, just always trying, Sometimes she would win big, and then put it right back in, she would draw a crowd because she got so excited. I think the Casino people notice that and suddenly she would win big, and then lose it again, I always ended up giving her my money to play because I just loved to see her having such a good time, I knew I couldn't win, but some people do. I have won, some good money though in another kind of gambling called office pools, on baseball and football during the series, I have won for baseball three or four times, averaging 500.00 each time, so about 2000.00 and you only put in five dollars so that was a kind of good win, and then every year we had a 10,000 dollar football pool and I won quarters several times, for 1250.00 each time, so the last time we played, they let me get the last numbers picked, lol, and that time I won the big prize $5000.00. I felt rich. I am lucky in pools, But I don't win at lotto, sometimes I do try, I would like to not worry about money, but hey you never know, lol. I am a gambling fool, I guess, but not in casinos, they are fixed. It is fun though and the food is grand.

I play for fun. It's nice to win but if you count on it, and don't, you're disappointed and it is no longer any fun. The biggest jackpot I have won was one thousand dollars at the quarter slots in Laughlin, Nevada.

I also have that system above...put the winnings away and don't touch them. And I never take more than I can afford to lose with me.

I can't bear to throw away money that I worked hard to earn. One time right after my divorce, I went to Palm Springs for a few days and came home through Las Vegas. I spent $10 in slot machines and won about $140. I quit at that point. We have casinos around here but I do not go to them.

A thousand bucks is pretty good Corina! I would be happy with $140 too Wilma, but I am too chicken to really play.

We loved to play the slots in Las Vegas back in the days when machines were mechanical one-arm-bandits with loud bells the went off as they poured out coins. Made for great fun and great memories! Those are gone now with the rest of that simpler time we affectionately refer to as "The Good Ole Days"...

Oh Carole! It isn't quite the same, when you don't hear the change pouring out of the machine.

I've never won a jackpost -- I have such terrible luck!

I pulled out 2-$100 pull tabs once and not to long ago I went to a casino and I just kept on winning 100 quarters at a time but it would go up and down. I was up to $144 but stopped once I reached $75. My boyfriend lost so we came out about even. I also won $60 in the Vegas airport once but when you look at all I've lost I'm probably about even or below. But I always have fun doing it even if I don't win. 21 is my favorite. Sat at a table for 5 hours and drank free beer and was down $40 when I finally left. To me that's winning if I can spend only $40 in that amount of time and get buzzed doing it! HA!

I'm not lucky at that kind of thing. I will occasionally buy a lottery or scratch off ticket, but more often than not, I'm just throwing my money away and that is how I consider it when I buy the tickets.

I've never been luck at the lottery or slots. My husband and I will buy scratch tickets every so often. I think we won $50 once.