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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Visited two casinos last week where the slot machines have no coins or tokens. You put in bills and it prints you a receipt for your winnings, if any, which you take to the cashier. Or it will put it on the player's card for you.
One of them was a kind of pretend casino in Shorter, AL, where the machines said the reels were just for fun, you were really playing bingo. I never did quite figure out how they worked that. Some weird strangulation to get around the gambling laws, evidently. But the other one was in French Lick, IN, and was a real casino with table games and a poker room, etc. But no coins in the slots.
Is this a trend? I don't play slots (you'll find me at the blackjack or stuffs tables), but I always put a dollar in a dollar slot machine to get a token, and also 50- or 25-cent tokens too, if they have them, just as souvenirs from the casinos I visit. Along with a chip or two from the tables.
I'd hate to think all casinos are going to the token-less slots. Anybody got any inside industry info on this?
Jan
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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It is like the modern slots that you just push a button to spin the wheels, yet they still have a working arm for those who like to go old school.
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New Member
United States
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That has been the trend in vegas for a while. Called ticket in-ticket out. You enter bills into the machine. You winnings come out on a ticket, which you can put in another machine or take to the cage to cash in.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The last time I visited a casino was in Marquette, MI, it had both ticket machines and coin machines. Apparently they are trying to cater to both there.
For casinos, coinless and tokenless means cost savings, like they don't make an egregious profit anyway!
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Valued Member
United States
367 Posts |
haha I agree they always want more...
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Valued Member
United States
239 Posts |
I was in Las Vegas last week, and not a single casino that I had been to had a coin machine. I think one of the reasons is to fix the problems of coins getting jammed in the machine.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
597 Posts |
Coins jammed in machines, and having to load them, empty them etc. It is a maintenance issue having coins or tokens, and is cheaper going coinless. But it is no fun for the rest of us.
Once in a casino in Sault Saint Marie I got a 1926 Buffalo in a payout, it must have been someones formerly lucky coin that I got.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Once in a casino in Sault Saint Marie I got a 1926 Buffalo in a payout, it must have been someones formerly lucky coin that I got.
Or some addicted gambler stole someone's collection. |
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Valued Member
United States
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And with the coin slots you could play some machines with your pocket change as you walked through the casino.
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08/10/2007 5:04 pm
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Posted 08/09/2007 01:22 am
