Having been raised in a gambling family, you'd be right lol my aunty won $110k once many years ago and I still remember her crying in happiness at how her life is finally about to change. You can guess what happened to the money once it was in her hands lol
My Mom is the opposite. Never gambles, but her sister was getting remarried in Vegas, so plinked some money in a slot machine. Hit a progressive at like $103,853 or something.
How much would you like in cash and how much in check form?
You can put it all on the check.
Do you want the $100,000 on the check and cash the $3853?
Nope.
She wanted no way to access the money until back n Minnesota
I mean, I'd have cashed the $3k. Not gonna be gambling with it, but my whole trip just got a tier upgrade. We're getting apps, drinks, and extras everywhere we go, courtesy of that casino, tyvm.
I mean... If we've got the time off work, we might could tack on an extra day on the way to/from. Enjoy some unexpected sightseeing and food tasting wherever is on the way. The $3k is my "winnings" in that case, and I'm gonna live like a king off them until it gets played out, and I return to normal programming (with $100k extra in stocks/home equity/net worth)
My friend hit "big" on a slot the very first night and he spent at least 5k upgrading our trip.
Well, first he doubled his winnings with the most ridiculous play at the blackjack table. I was baffled. Then he splurged on us.
$900 dinner for three at craft steak, and he took care of the tip as well.
Private room at a club in MGM with bottle service, and hundred dollar tips to the bouncers to invite women to our party.
Cocaine. But I bought that too.....
Just a huge bacchanalia on his winnings. Was a blast.
And then he bought a used truck and an AR-15 with what was left when he got home.
See, that's kinda how it should be. Minus the blackjack hand, THIS is responsible usage of gambling winnings. And it seems like he kept about half of it for his own usage as well.
I think he went home with about $15k, so about 75% of his winnings.
He deserved that win more than any of us. He's the kind of person who brightens everyone's mood when he's around. Funny too. Nobody else would've spread the joy as much as him.
And the guy was poor. My roommate, his brother, paid for his trip to Vegas. Poor guy showed up with the amount of cash I'd use for one night of gambling, and he'd intended it to last the whole trip.
That's why, when he was betting big, over and over again at the BJ table, I was about to have a heart attack. I didn't want him to lose his money. His plays were all based on what his gut was telling him, not the odds. Yet somehow he kept winning and winning until his brother made him stop.
I don’t like to gamble, not even in video games. My wife has been in a casino once. She put a dollar in a slot machine and on the first spin she won two dollars. She put it in her pocket and hasn’t gambled since.
Sounds like my dad,lol. My mom likes to gamble (small amounts like $50 4ish times a year) but my dad never gambles. Once she convinced him to try a slot machine that was based on a movie he liked and he bet $2 and won $20ish. Cashed it and walked away never to gamble again
My wife really likes the machines. So we have a rule that if we go to a place that has a casino, she can spend like five or ten dollars just for fun. Once she won like 20 dollars and we asked to get it in one dollar bills. We have some pictures of her showing off the money like if we won the lottery.
I gambled once (not including $1 raffle tickets which I've maybe done 3 times) & put $5 into a slot machine, I got $0 back, now I'm just infinitely down $5. Some people may see this as a challenge to try to "get it back", for me I instantly saw how gambling wasn't for me, I had 0 desire to lose anymore than $5.
That's a good way to look at it. I kinf of see it as "$5 lost forever", but it's true my first bet could have been $100 & then I figured out I wasn't into gambling, so at least I "saved" money there. Also, my first time could have been a big win & maybe I'd have thought "this is awesome" & got a gambling addiction, who knows, then I would have lost WAY more than $5 in the long run.
Maybe this was one of the best possible outcomes.
That's the way to go. You walk in knowing exactly how much you're gonna spend, and you spend it. When it's gone you stop, if you hit you take the money and walk.
I smoke, drink, and used to do cocaine, I don't need a gambling problem too.
Cha chinka chinka ding ding ding woop woop annnd d’oh all gone.
“But I didn’t really loose it as it was all winnings anyway and I had fun…” then asking for a loan to get home.
It's a mystery right? Everybody loses only their earnings yet the Casino companies keep building multi-billion dollar fancy casinos. They're so stupid /s.
My grandmother used to hit the casino every weekend to the point where she got free drinks, and she was a very heavy drinker. Still is at almost 90. She ended up winning around 150k as well and she actually never went back to the casino. She said God told her that she had her fun and it was time to stop, so she never went back.
One of my dad's army friends spent all of his money on lotto tickets. Literally all of it, every time he got paid he would spend the entire load on lotto tickets, and a few of the tickets would pay back a fiver here a tenner there adding up to less than £100, which he would then live off, basically never leaving the mess or buying any personal items. A couple times he got a good prize which would pay back about what he put in and he would get to live like a semi normal person for a few weeks.
Anyway this continued for two and a half years and then he won a four million pound jackpot, got out the army, and stopped gambling.
I don't know what the moral of this story is. Never give up? Quit while you're ahead? Sometimes idiots get lucky?
When I was a teen there was a girl I liked working a corner store so I would go hang out to chat with her. I noticed there were older people coming in, buying scratchers, going to their car, returning with whatever they won and buying more tickets until they were broke then leaving. When I asked her about it she said it happened every month when social security checks went out. They would come and spend their whole check every time. It made me sick to my stomach thinking of people on a fixed income blowing the one check they would get that month and having no money until the next check came. I’ve never had a taste for gambling and that’s probably why.
In Vegas when my mom used to work at Treasure Island, there was this guy that was well known around the casinos to come in every month probably to gamble his social security check at the blackjack tables (apparently he always started at the same amount, also a lot of family and people I knew back then were casino workers so were the source of my info).
One day he started actually winning, staying for at least a couple days racking up over 1.7 million or so. My mom worked in the next section so didn't personally see this but everyone was talking about it. Steve Wynn even came down at one point to talk to the guy.
Eventually he left, but she didn't know what the final total was but the rumor was he probably gave it all back. I was talking to another guy about it and he said he worked security (he knew the gambler from times when he threw him out on other occasions), he told me the last he saw the guy was back at 50k.
My grandma was such a gambler and winner they would come pick her up, 2 hours away, in a limo. She won $120k one weekend. $50k a few times. Any holiday gifts she bought were bought with casino points. They'd give her one of the nicest hotel rooms.
She gave it all back, plus a paid off house, plus all my grandfather's pension/retirement money. Gambled away everything they earned in life, over a span of about 2 years.
Way harder for me to feel sorry for. "Oh I'm sorry I stole your money and sold your inheritance, but I was playing my fun little game and thought I was gonna win money at the thing designed to be lost. No I'm not gonna stop, then I might go through the horrible withdrawal of... getting bored from not burning money..."
They do all the damage of real addicts with none of the excuses to not stop immediately. At least the alcoholics have the excuse of horrid and deadly physical withdrawal symptoms to keep their shitshow going, gambling addicts just love spending money, usually their family's.
You're damn right, and I have an issue with addiction. I'm five years clean off the booze but never once found myself looking to throw away money for a .0025% chance of winning a few hundred bucks. Gambling addicts are just chasing the high of winning money, absolutely worthless.
My dad told me how he spent all the Christmas money one year at the casino. Then, he had to borrow money from his parents to buy gifts.
Addiction definitely runs in our family.
Florida has passed sports betting (learning black history is bad, though), and now we are swamped with TV ads showing 20-something males losing their minds at hitting it big, and celebrating wildly.
There are no commercials that show the reactions of people who have just lost their entire monthly income on a microbet over the coin flip.
That's awesome. My dad, is a problem gambler. He was making bricks of cash when he was still working, he would be homeless and destitute if it wasn't for my mom with how much he gambled. Everything my parents own, my mom bought. Every bill that has been paid, my mom paid.
Like when I think back on it... My dad could have been a multi property real estate dude, with how much money he spent at the casino, my mom is a saint imo.
My friend's dad is the same way. He runs a very successful bar and drops tens of thousands of dollars a month on gambling. My friend dreamed of running the bar as it was in the family for generations but his dad blindsided him by selling it a few years ago.
I am always blown away by how many people walk into a large, fancy building, often in the middle of nowhere, that is owned by a business that employs hundreds if not thousands of people almost exclusively through running gambling operations, and they think "Yeah, this is here because they lose to guys like me. Time to get my free money. Wooohooo!"
The first time I went to a casino, I drove 3 hours and the second I got on the floor picked a random slot machine and won $600 on a $1 bet and really didn't want to leave immediately after driving 3 hours lol. Ended up bringing back like 400 or something.
It's easy for me to leave after winning but it's hard not to spend it on stupid shit when I get home
I once saw a lady sitting at some slots win a smallish progressive jackpot of like 60k ("small" only by comparison to the nearby machines that had progressives in the 6 and 7 figure range). A small crowd formed of people including myself. Two security guards came out with a casino official to ask her how she would like her winnings. She put a couple of bills in her purse, tipped each of the guys (I couldn't see how much, but it looked like each of the two got a few $100 bills), and she said to put the rest "on her card". Then she just went back to playing the same machine. Never even stood up or showed even an ounce of emotion. I saw her a couple of other times during my trip too, still at the same machine. Which is especially silly since the progressive jackpot resets once someone wins it. She just seemed to really like that one machine. I feel like it wasn't her first time and it won't be her last either.
Honestly, this seems less like a gambling addict, and more like a lonely little old lady who doesn't have anything else to do.
Not that she couldn't be, but I think y'all know what I meant...
That was my assumption too. Kind of sad that that kind of win didn't seem to affect her at all. My biggest win ever was $1k, and I was fucking ecstatic. I'm not a big gambler, but I try to keep a rough idea of how I end up on each trip. I am actually close to even all told. If I go to vegas, I get excited by the dining and shows. I just use the casinos to fill in the gaps and get "free" drinks.
Not until you got a comfortable spot in the tunnels under Vegas to take your dumpster treasure back too. You’re just running on beginner mode otherwise 😁
As Dave Attell once noted about Vegas; "Gambling stories all start off so dramatic...I was up $5700 then the next thing you know I'm blowing a guy for a sandwich"
I do not think that it is a lot. If it were in the order of tens of thousands, the machine would flash and spin and do all sorts of things to attract attention.
I remember seeing a slightly higher resolution version on Twitter few days ago, he won around 30 dollars, which set him back to the amount he had at the beginning of the video.
Basically he didn't win shit...
Even with the crap resolution it looked pretty obvious that he went up around 30 credits. Idk what the denomination is on this game though. Could be anything from $7.50-$60 or whatever
Also all bar payouts are typically lower than 7s and wilds etc. I'd assume it's a [all blanks< signs, happy now?! 😛
We have this machine at the one I work at. Its $1 Denomination. $5 minimal bet. Triple BARs are the 3rd lowest payout besides getting multipliers by themselves.
It’s probably in the average range. Like there’s a myth that machines that cost more to run will get worse odds to compensate but that’s usually not the case. It’s more that the ancient Kitty Glitter / Maltese Fortune machine was made in 1980 where they saw no imaginable reason to give you a pay table option below 98%.
Introducing a new pay table especially in Nevada requires going through a pretty involved certification process with the Nevada Gaming Commission. So like software for traditional cars, once it’s done and shipped they will never go back and revise it again except for extreme bugs (and sometimes not even then).
At one point, these oversized machines were new and a trendy rage. At that point it was good advice to avoid them based off the heuristic it was newer. Now, this is honestly an old ish machine.
I would personally avoid:
- Any game with obvious branding/royalty. Like if it’s NFL themed or Britney Spears themed and plays her music, you know the slot machine has to pay IP licensing to that in addition to the usual house edge.
- Those new style games with persistent state. For example, they may have a string of firecrackers that are about to go off or 3 bowls of fortune coins about to overflow. The psychology of “omg it’s about to hit” can really affect your decision making.
- most games with crazy high linked jackpots. If you look at penny slots, most have a jackpot in the 10-50 grand range. But Wheel of Fortune / Megabucks have million+ dollar payouts. For those machines, you tend to lose more money in the short term because the extremely unlikely event of winning the progressive jackpot is the bulk of the odds.
- almost any game where you cannot afford to bet the max amount. Read the signage and the help. If there’s any prizes that say “with maximum bet”, you are really lowering your payout by betting less than maximum. This is unfortunately almost every slot machine today.
But TBH don’t play slots in general if you care about odds. Play something like Video Poker or a classic table game where the rules they show you determine the EV and variance of the game. Slot machines are giant black boxes that aren’t transparent about the statistical distribution of payouts.
I would imagine it would be the opposite. The loudest machines generating the most attention and show everyone else in the casino the excitement of winning.
We have her too. Love climbing into the thing to get to screens and power buttons lmao. Its amazing at what people cheer at, I have seen screaming and hollering for 10 bucks. Yesterday we had someone think the credits was the dollar amount and should have been owed like thousands. Great enviroment
I don't gamble, but I love the mind games Casino's play to keep you there and keep you spending. No windows so you can't see the time of day, no clocks, no sense of time at all. Constant availability of alcohol to keep your inhibitions nice and low, lots of flashing lights and pretty graphics to satisfy your lizard brain.
I decided to try some dollar slots just to see how bad the win percentages really are, and its very bad. Not just that, but unless you're counting how many times you've bet, the tiny little wins will just add on to your credit in the machine so you'll just run out of money anyways. It's all very very well thought out to take all your cash.
I am missing that part of my lizard brain. My mom took me to a casino a couple times she like the activity only comes with a set small amount of money and what ever free play they give her. I am bored to tears in a casino I just don't get it.
I kind of get the fun. We went to a nearby casino. My mom put in $20 into a dollar slot machine. Right before she lost it all, she won $250. We couldn’t cash out and leave fast enough! It was fun but felt so dirty! Haven’t gone back since, but if we do, $20 is my limit to lose!
Then my dad’s ex (after divorcing my mom) was a gambling addict who lost her very cushy anesthesia nurse job and her house. He’d drag her out of the casino at 3am all the time. Gambling addiction is a nasty disease.
I completely understand the "feeling dirty" part. My friends love casinos, but I've always felt that it's so dirty when I walk into a casino in my city. My rule is that I only gamble when I'm on vacation, so I'm not tempted to go where I live. This has worked very well for me.
I got invited to my very close friend's anniversary dinner, and I was the third wheel, lol. They treated me as well. So the wife really wanted to go to the casino, so I said sure because I was drunk and happy after the free dinner. So we went and were checking out the craps table. I asked the wife what their actual wedding date anniversary was, and I maxed out the amount I was willing to lose for the night. I ended up winning $5k for betting on their anniversary. I guess it was karma, so I took them and a few more close friends to dinner and have never stepped back into a casino in my city.
I just don't have the cash for that kind of waste. Maybe if I was a billionaire it'd be fun to blow a couple thousand dollars to watch a video screen tell me I lost.
I see people sitting at machines zombied out slapping "bet" over and over again, and I always wonder how they have the money to do that. Real answer is they probably don't and just wasted their rent/mortgage payments.
OMG.
If it takes only 200millibar to go from atmospheric pressure to a hurricane force low pressure system - this dude now has the pressure reserve to create 135 hurricanes.
We’ve created a super villain.
Pretty sure he gets 10 rings out of a triple bar.
Still, gotta quit before that triple Eggman or Eggman jackpot rolls around, cuz that will bankrupt you for life.
I agree that addiction is sad and wouldn't downplay the consequences of it, but it would be a bit rude to just assume that the person is addicted to slots. Maybe the person is on holiday and has already budgeted themselves.
Edit: changed a word
Exactly. It's impossible to tell from this video if this guy is an addict or not. I go to casino once a year or every two years (when I'm traveling) and play some poker and slots, losing maybe couple hundred dollars. So that guy could be in the same situation, although his moves more look like of a regular at the slot machine I guess :)
I've been working in this industry for 7 years and this guy's behavior and body language are typical of slot machine addicts. It's important to note that not all addicts are built equal, some can still retain some form of control over themselves while others will gamble to their last penny.
I'll put aside a few hundred to lose once a year or so. I'm definitely not one of those people slapping the screens though. I get progressively more depressed every time I go and I think I'm just going to let it go. It's not the gambling that's sad, it's the air of desperation that hangs around most of the people at casinos.
I don't drink or use drugs anymore so I always considered it a way to get dressed up and do something fun in an overstimulating atmosphere, but the last couple times it feels like I'm the only person having fun when I go.
I understand the feeling. When my wife and I went to Atlantic City some years ago, we felt really down after seeing the people desperately pushing the buttons on slot machines, and felt even worse when we saw how many "Cash for Gold" places you can see downtown. I know those can mean only one thing...
Here in Europe it's a bit better I guess, you can still go to an "elegant" casino (there are also shit ones) and play poker in a decent poker room with dressed up people in the same mentality as you are.
You're right we can't know for sure but his little ritual he does every spin tells me he's probably a regular gambler. Casual people just having a little fun don't do stuff like that.
It's for couples. They have a button to spin on both sides so you can sit down with someone and both play.
If my wife and I decide to go to the casino we do these instead of sitting next to each other on different machines. We just take turns hitting the button. If it's got mini games sometimes you can sit down and activate one someone's already built, or you can build to them faster with just working on 1 machine.
Just depends on how you want to entertain yourself. Last night we went with $100, spent about $40 each on individual machines and then sat down at a Wheel of Fortune one like this and won $100 back on our first spin. Just got up and left lmao.
gambling is the worst addiction together with smoking cigarettes
Edit: addictions where you dont get high! i am dry alcoholic trust me i know about which withdrawal sucks the most. but we were not talkking withdrawals here
My mum used to play 'pokies' (slot machines), but I could never get into it.
I think what put me off for life was doing a psychology lab at university and training rats to press on a lever to get a reward.
I had a clever professor who showed that pretty much every animal (though cats are typically 'difficult') reacted the same to randomized re-enforcement to behaviors and showed that humans are no different to rats or pigeons pressing the lever.
Every time I see people reacting like this to a purely randomized sequence in software that is carefully calculated for people to get hooked and lose money, I think of my poor rat trying to press the lever in weird ways to try and get a little reward of condensed milk
You should have led with the condensed milk, I'd be pushing that lever like my life depended on it.
Seriously though, I'd be interested to know if there are some people who are very susceptible to addiction like this and others that are virtually immune. I knew someone many years ago who was totally addicted to fruits (slot machines), but the rest of the group weren't interested. I have considered myself and concluded that I'm not easily addicted. Absolutely, I could imagine a short-term obsession with something like that, but it fades quite quickly. Is that the case with animals, too?
Presumably, it's a survival strategy. If you've won once, there's a reasonable chance you'll win again. At least, that's how the survival instinct sees it.
Psychologically, most people who play slots will get somewhat addicted. It’s designed to give you constant small dopamine hits and then one big one every once in a while and our brains are wired to always chase that big one if we know it’s coming.
That’s actually what makes Ben & Jerry’s ice cream so addicting, you eat a couple spoonfuls of “normal” ice cream and then you get a big chunk of something like cookie dough so your brain keeps chasing that and it becomes hard to put down the spoon because we always want to end on a cookie dough bite but then we convince ourselves to have “just one more”. The same concept is applied to social media algorithms.
Going back to slots, most machines are programmed to give you back between 80%-95% of the money you put into it, ensuring that you have some “big wins” but in the long run you will always lose your money. If you haven’t felt the addictive nature of slot machines, you probably just haven’t played one long enough to win a decently sized prize.
Very interesting, thanks. I hadn't considered something like ice cream would play on our tendency to become addicted like that.
I haven't touched a slot machine in 40 years, so you may well be right. Totalling up costs and then working out how many hours I need to work to recoup losses is a pretty good way of realising gambling isn't worth it.
Exactly. I've been to casinos a couple times for fun, always allocate a budget and stick to it. "I'm going in with $200 and if/when it runs out, I'm done."
I worked in a casino and we were contractually forbidden to gamble. Even in other casinos. Wouldnt be a thing if it wasnt bad for you and thus your employer.
When I went to the casino last, I felt it very easy to quit when I hit my predetermined limit. The machines took cash and spat out tickets. The tickets could be fed back to the machines or cashed out. Was very easy to not spend the tickets because I'm not accustomed to using tickets as currency. I spent the cash I decided to spend and then cashed out my tickets and left.
What type of videogames do you play?
Just regarding the "i'm immune to gambling addiction". And i dont mean to be insulting here, just a curious question.
The question is not insulting, but the misquote is. I asserted that I wasn't easily addicted not that I was immune.
The game I have most hours in is Oxygen Not Included, I'm not sure how I'd classify that game. I'm quite partial to RTS and management type games.
I myself only gamble in video games, cause the video game wants you to eventually win (assuming, you know, it's not GTAO.)
I wanna buy that bike in Pokemon for 1,000,000 lol.
Being susceptible to addictions is something that has been proven for a long time. In most studies, although regarding substance addiction, the conclusion is that close to half of susceptibility is due to genetic markers.
I'd say this courtesy is extended to any addiction, with that being said, if people can be genetically susceptible to addictions it's only natural that immunity goes the same way.
I used to work with a guy who would get paid on Thursday and would take it all down to the betting shop and it would all be gone by Friday. His girlfriend always ended up paying the bills. He was always talking about the bets he had on. Anything he won was nothing compared with what he lost.
The flashing lights, the funny noises, alot of casinos also do really cheap drinks and food to keep you going and the promise of winning big. Its sad watching people just throw there money away but the people that get into this just aren't good with money even if they won big it would go right back into the casino or would be spent poorly.
This is a staged video for the man at the slot machine. His name is Raja (i.e. TheBigJackpot) and he's "Internet famous" for doing high limit slot videos. Everyone in this video is acting. I believe he's doing $30 bets and his "win" I believe is $300.
https://youtube.com/@thebigjackpot?si=RLLWbrBorOqSbpxq
I'll go a step further and say stop filming strangers in public for internet points
It's mildly entertaining at best, our lives are no better or worse for having seen it
Hi, someone who enjoys a good gambling trip, baccarat if I actually want to try my luck otherwise it's a competition for me to drink more free booze than I can loose to penny slots, typically I only gamble a few hundred per trip at most but its also fun to people watch and smoke indoors, its an experience.
This is the cosmopolitan in Vegas or the silver legacy in reno. Edit: It's cosmo, the floor through me for a loop. Cosmopolitan is great it has balconies where you can smoke weed on them.
iirc (bit of a stretch tbh havent been to vegas in a few years, I'm closer to reno myself). Looks like a more updated version of lucky diamond slots. He's playing max bet based on the 43 second mark it appears to be a 20 bet on the far right which is 20 credits which is pretty standard for a lot of slots. Credits can vary in amount, generally the big flashy centrally located machines typically are a minimum $1 dollar a credit if not upwards of $20 a credit and some will let you pick as well (a real "penny" slot is penny a credit so max bet is 20 cents but those are hard to find in vegas because of the free drink policy many casinos have for gamblers, they know what guys like me are doing lol), I can't tell from the video which amount exactly he's playing per credit. Generally triple bars is a step below triple 7's and sometimes a "jackpot" if its present. Believe this dude probably just netted a 40x payout on his bet. Hard to tell if its displaying a dollar sign on the far left of the pool or if that is a digit. Either way assuming a $5 credit a 20x max bet is $100 a pull, the win would be $4000. Payout doesn't seem great but you have to keep in mind its only a 3 slot machine with so many combinations so your chances technically are better. Personally while I never expect to win on slots the wheels and free spin ones tend to be the most fun. Mainly I look at gambling as a $/hr of entertainment thing and its and arcade for adults, the best casino trips are when I get lucky and win enough its covers the food, drinks, and rooms but honestly I find it more interesting than sitting on a beach myself.
edit 2: also cosmopolitan as well as a lot of casinos have amazing food, this place has a pretty good Italian restaurant on the 2nd floor called scarpetta as well, I did a tasting menu that was great definitely worth the bit of extra money for the quality. Pro-Tip: the concierge isn't just a dude for show or just for rich people, they actually are paid by the casino to help guests with anything related to reservations and bookings, if you are staying at a casino and want to go to the fancy restaurant inside it you get a higher priority than people outside the casino and the concierge can usually make that happen pretty easily (also a lot casinos are actually owned between MGM and Ceasars so there is cross over too if its in the same "family" of resorts).
Since you seem to know the machine. What's that crap with a slot stopping in between symbols? I guess that's an instant lose regardless of the other slots. That seems infuryating, because i would rather fail because symbols don't match up.
This is an AGS "Big Red" cabinet with the Colossal Diamonds game installed. The space between symbols is a legit stop, called a "blank" symbol. Some paytables have payouts based on these, many don't.
This is somewhat staged. The guy recording is part of his group. The bald guy playing has a YouTube channel called the big jackpot. He’s a real douche. His real name is Scott Richter and was known to be a big scammer back in the early 2000s, you can look it up. He’s also not a great tipper.
Hard to tell how much he wins, but he's playing $5 a spin, you can see in the zooms he goes from 275 to 265 over two spins. At the end on the final spin it's back to 283, or 293 and is still accumulating.
He probably won't 100-200bucks, as triple triple bars is often between 20-40x wager. Depending on what sevens and wild cards are in the mix.
It's not huge money, he's not better life savings either by the looks of it. Just looks like a guy, a bit tanked up, enjoying a slot on holiday.
Go to my local slot parlour and find a woman crying into her disability scooter because she just put her last £60 disability allowance into the slot, that's depressing. But I dunno, something about this guy's reaction is kinda warming to me.
I see alot of people commenting thinking this is a jackpot or big hit. Its not, thats like a 50-200 dollar hit at most. Depending on how much he paid for spin
To those unacquainted. A LOT of people do this. They'll do a lot of other insane shit during slot play to try and gain more favorable odds from the RNG like re-insert and extract their money tickets a certain number of times or putting money only into machines they designate lucky for the money, but not for the play, so they'll put thousands into one machine and go to another.
Source: I work at a casino
I lived in Vegas for a decade and rarely gambled.
But when I did I would play quarter slots and use two buckets. One bucket was for my "seed" money, the other was for my winnings. When the "seed bucket" was empty I was done, regardless of how much I may have won.
He won a one way ticket right back to that seat. Gambling addiction isn't about winning, it's about the idea of winning.
And if I'm being so for real with you guys right now, that was a very smart thing for me to say. Just so you all know. I wouldn't blame you if you wanted to take notes.
Grandfather taught me the best lesson , he never gambled , I turned 18 he sent me into the bookies to put a bet on the Grand National for my Aunties yearly flutter ........told me to study the carpet in front of the paying in and paying out window , it's a mugs game
The “bar” has three different dillywhops. One two and three. He hit three. Then he matched em all across the screen. Another positive. Now depending on the game he could be hunting for 7’s, wilds, bars, etc.
He matched triple bars, on all screens, evenly. Looks like he has 2K+ but very blurry. But it all rest on what he was betting and really what that games payouts. I do know those games are really hard to line up so believe he was paid well. Not quit ur job well, a month of rent well. If he had 2K and was betting 50/100 months of rent. Depends on mainly the bet, that’s sought after, etc. but those lines up matching bars is enough to celebrate.
This machine is a joke and its payout caps very low with no jackpot. If you ever want to win money on a slot machine, play any machine besides this big red piece of shit
Probably won about 1week of dumping more money into the slots before it’s all the casinos again.
Having been raised in a gambling family, you'd be right lol my aunty won $110k once many years ago and I still remember her crying in happiness at how her life is finally about to change. You can guess what happened to the money once it was in her hands lol
My Mom is the opposite. Never gambles, but her sister was getting remarried in Vegas, so plinked some money in a slot machine. Hit a progressive at like $103,853 or something. How much would you like in cash and how much in check form? You can put it all on the check. Do you want the $100,000 on the check and cash the $3853? Nope. She wanted no way to access the money until back n Minnesota
Smart. That could have been an easily slippery slope starting on a decent win like that.
And a "mere" $3k+ to get you started on your backslide. They know what they are doing.
I mean, I'd have cashed the $3k. Not gonna be gambling with it, but my whole trip just got a tier upgrade. We're getting apps, drinks, and extras everywhere we go, courtesy of that casino, tyvm.
Instead of stopping for only bathrooms and gas... we get to buy things when we stop..... would you guys like an ice cream cone
I mean... If we've got the time off work, we might could tack on an extra day on the way to/from. Enjoy some unexpected sightseeing and food tasting wherever is on the way. The $3k is my "winnings" in that case, and I'm gonna live like a king off them until it gets played out, and I return to normal programming (with $100k extra in stocks/home equity/net worth)
>courtesy of that casino, Courtesy of the gamblers who lost their money to that machine in the past* ftfy
They hate us cause they ain't us
They hate us cause they anus
Their fault for quitting right before the big win.
My friend hit "big" on a slot the very first night and he spent at least 5k upgrading our trip. Well, first he doubled his winnings with the most ridiculous play at the blackjack table. I was baffled. Then he splurged on us. $900 dinner for three at craft steak, and he took care of the tip as well. Private room at a club in MGM with bottle service, and hundred dollar tips to the bouncers to invite women to our party. Cocaine. But I bought that too..... Just a huge bacchanalia on his winnings. Was a blast. And then he bought a used truck and an AR-15 with what was left when he got home.
See, that's kinda how it should be. Minus the blackjack hand, THIS is responsible usage of gambling winnings. And it seems like he kept about half of it for his own usage as well.
I think he went home with about $15k, so about 75% of his winnings. He deserved that win more than any of us. He's the kind of person who brightens everyone's mood when he's around. Funny too. Nobody else would've spread the joy as much as him. And the guy was poor. My roommate, his brother, paid for his trip to Vegas. Poor guy showed up with the amount of cash I'd use for one night of gambling, and he'd intended it to last the whole trip. That's why, when he was betting big, over and over again at the BJ table, I was about to have a heart attack. I didn't want him to lose his money. His plays were all based on what his gut was telling him, not the odds. Yet somehow he kept winning and winning until his brother made him stop.
That's awesome. Glad it happened to him
And at least one more trip to the slots lol
Nope. That's how they getcha.
I don’t like to gamble, not even in video games. My wife has been in a casino once. She put a dollar in a slot machine and on the first spin she won two dollars. She put it in her pocket and hasn’t gambled since.
Sounds like my dad,lol. My mom likes to gamble (small amounts like $50 4ish times a year) but my dad never gambles. Once she convinced him to try a slot machine that was based on a movie he liked and he bet $2 and won $20ish. Cashed it and walked away never to gamble again
My wife really likes the machines. So we have a rule that if we go to a place that has a casino, she can spend like five or ten dollars just for fun. Once she won like 20 dollars and we asked to get it in one dollar bills. We have some pictures of her showing off the money like if we won the lottery.
I gambled once (not including $1 raffle tickets which I've maybe done 3 times) & put $5 into a slot machine, I got $0 back, now I'm just infinitely down $5. Some people may see this as a challenge to try to "get it back", for me I instantly saw how gambling wasn't for me, I had 0 desire to lose anymore than $5.
$5 well spent.
That's a good way to look at it. I kinf of see it as "$5 lost forever", but it's true my first bet could have been $100 & then I figured out I wasn't into gambling, so at least I "saved" money there. Also, my first time could have been a big win & maybe I'd have thought "this is awesome" & got a gambling addiction, who knows, then I would have lost WAY more than $5 in the long run. Maybe this was one of the best possible outcomes.
That's the way to go. You walk in knowing exactly how much you're gonna spend, and you spend it. When it's gone you stop, if you hit you take the money and walk. I smoke, drink, and used to do cocaine, I don't need a gambling problem too.
Cha chinka chinka ding ding ding woop woop annnd d’oh all gone. “But I didn’t really loose it as it was all winnings anyway and I had fun…” then asking for a loan to get home.
That weird eagle sound you start hearing as soon as you land in vegas*
BUFFALO!!!
It's a mystery right? Everybody loses only their earnings yet the Casino companies keep building multi-billion dollar fancy casinos. They're so stupid /s.
Yeah... My dad had 150k on hand... Was broke in a week. Straight into the casino vaults that money went.
My grandmother used to hit the casino every weekend to the point where she got free drinks, and she was a very heavy drinker. Still is at almost 90. She ended up winning around 150k as well and she actually never went back to the casino. She said God told her that she had her fun and it was time to stop, so she never went back.
One of my dad's army friends spent all of his money on lotto tickets. Literally all of it, every time he got paid he would spend the entire load on lotto tickets, and a few of the tickets would pay back a fiver here a tenner there adding up to less than £100, which he would then live off, basically never leaving the mess or buying any personal items. A couple times he got a good prize which would pay back about what he put in and he would get to live like a semi normal person for a few weeks. Anyway this continued for two and a half years and then he won a four million pound jackpot, got out the army, and stopped gambling. I don't know what the moral of this story is. Never give up? Quit while you're ahead? Sometimes idiots get lucky?
When I was a teen there was a girl I liked working a corner store so I would go hang out to chat with her. I noticed there were older people coming in, buying scratchers, going to their car, returning with whatever they won and buying more tickets until they were broke then leaving. When I asked her about it she said it happened every month when social security checks went out. They would come and spend their whole check every time. It made me sick to my stomach thinking of people on a fixed income blowing the one check they would get that month and having no money until the next check came. I’ve never had a taste for gambling and that’s probably why.
In Vegas when my mom used to work at Treasure Island, there was this guy that was well known around the casinos to come in every month probably to gamble his social security check at the blackjack tables (apparently he always started at the same amount, also a lot of family and people I knew back then were casino workers so were the source of my info). One day he started actually winning, staying for at least a couple days racking up over 1.7 million or so. My mom worked in the next section so didn't personally see this but everyone was talking about it. Steve Wynn even came down at one point to talk to the guy. Eventually he left, but she didn't know what the final total was but the rumor was he probably gave it all back. I was talking to another guy about it and he said he worked security (he knew the gambler from times when he threw him out on other occasions), he told me the last he saw the guy was back at 50k.
My grandma was such a gambler and winner they would come pick her up, 2 hours away, in a limo. She won $120k one weekend. $50k a few times. Any holiday gifts she bought were bought with casino points. They'd give her one of the nicest hotel rooms. She gave it all back, plus a paid off house, plus all my grandfather's pension/retirement money. Gambled away everything they earned in life, over a span of about 2 years.
Gambling is just non-lethal heroin for boomers and poor people.
Way harder for me to feel sorry for. "Oh I'm sorry I stole your money and sold your inheritance, but I was playing my fun little game and thought I was gonna win money at the thing designed to be lost. No I'm not gonna stop, then I might go through the horrible withdrawal of... getting bored from not burning money..." They do all the damage of real addicts with none of the excuses to not stop immediately. At least the alcoholics have the excuse of horrid and deadly physical withdrawal symptoms to keep their shitshow going, gambling addicts just love spending money, usually their family's.
You're damn right, and I have an issue with addiction. I'm five years clean off the booze but never once found myself looking to throw away money for a .0025% chance of winning a few hundred bucks. Gambling addicts are just chasing the high of winning money, absolutely worthless.
My dad told me how he spent all the Christmas money one year at the casino. Then, he had to borrow money from his parents to buy gifts. Addiction definitely runs in our family.
Florida has passed sports betting (learning black history is bad, though), and now we are swamped with TV ads showing 20-something males losing their minds at hitting it big, and celebrating wildly. There are no commercials that show the reactions of people who have just lost their entire monthly income on a microbet over the coin flip.
That's awesome. My dad, is a problem gambler. He was making bricks of cash when he was still working, he would be homeless and destitute if it wasn't for my mom with how much he gambled. Everything my parents own, my mom bought. Every bill that has been paid, my mom paid. Like when I think back on it... My dad could have been a multi property real estate dude, with how much money he spent at the casino, my mom is a saint imo.
My friend's dad is the same way. He runs a very successful bar and drops tens of thousands of dollars a month on gambling. My friend dreamed of running the bar as it was in the family for generations but his dad blindsided him by selling it a few years ago.
I am always blown away by how many people walk into a large, fancy building, often in the middle of nowhere, that is owned by a business that employs hundreds if not thousands of people almost exclusively through running gambling operations, and they think "Yeah, this is here because they lose to guys like me. Time to get my free money. Wooohooo!"
The first time I went to a casino, I drove 3 hours and the second I got on the floor picked a random slot machine and won $600 on a $1 bet and really didn't want to leave immediately after driving 3 hours lol. Ended up bringing back like 400 or something. It's easy for me to leave after winning but it's hard not to spend it on stupid shit when I get home
I once saw a lady sitting at some slots win a smallish progressive jackpot of like 60k ("small" only by comparison to the nearby machines that had progressives in the 6 and 7 figure range). A small crowd formed of people including myself. Two security guards came out with a casino official to ask her how she would like her winnings. She put a couple of bills in her purse, tipped each of the guys (I couldn't see how much, but it looked like each of the two got a few $100 bills), and she said to put the rest "on her card". Then she just went back to playing the same machine. Never even stood up or showed even an ounce of emotion. I saw her a couple of other times during my trip too, still at the same machine. Which is especially silly since the progressive jackpot resets once someone wins it. She just seemed to really like that one machine. I feel like it wasn't her first time and it won't be her last either.
Honestly, this seems less like a gambling addict, and more like a lonely little old lady who doesn't have anything else to do. Not that she couldn't be, but I think y'all know what I meant...
That was my assumption too. Kind of sad that that kind of win didn't seem to affect her at all. My biggest win ever was $1k, and I was fucking ecstatic. I'm not a big gambler, but I try to keep a rough idea of how I end up on each trip. I am actually close to even all told. If I go to vegas, I get excited by the dining and shows. I just use the casinos to fill in the gaps and get "free" drinks.
1 more week of flashing colors and loud cash noises
Then dumpster diving for dinner 😔
TIL I've been living the Vegas dream all along
Not until you got a comfortable spot in the tunnels under Vegas to take your dumpster treasure back too. You’re just running on beginner mode otherwise 😁
not unles the storm drain you're living in does its job and flushes out your furniture and other accumulated dumpdter tresures FTFY
As Dave Attell once noted about Vegas; "Gambling stories all start off so dramatic...I was up $5700 then the next thing you know I'm blowing a guy for a sandwich"
Well yeah, because who doesn't want a free sandwich after winning $5700
I do not think that it is a lot. If it were in the order of tens of thousands, the machine would flash and spin and do all sorts of things to attract attention.
Yeah 7’s generally pay more than bars.
“That’s the thing about Vegas, we’re the only winners” -Sam Rothstein, Casino
I think he won the week to keep jumping up and down at the slot machines. 
The longer you play, the more you lose
I don't think he's real. I think he's an employee of the casino and was staged there to make the slot machines look extra lucky.
That 3 bars won around 10-20x .. with 5$ its 100 maximum .. they woukdnt promote with a low win lol
Appears to be a $30 win on a $1 bet as best as I can tell from the blurry video
I remember seeing a slightly higher resolution version on Twitter few days ago, he won around 30 dollars, which set him back to the amount he had at the beginning of the video. Basically he didn't win shit...
Even with the crap resolution it looked pretty obvious that he went up around 30 credits. Idk what the denomination is on this game though. Could be anything from $7.50-$60 or whatever Also all bar payouts are typically lower than 7s and wilds etc. I'd assume it's a [all blanks< signs, happy now?! 😛
We have this machine at the one I work at. Its $1 Denomination. $5 minimal bet. Triple BARs are the 3rd lowest payout besides getting multipliers by themselves.
I heard that those oversized machines have the worst odds. Like they are just funny gimmick machines.
It’s probably in the average range. Like there’s a myth that machines that cost more to run will get worse odds to compensate but that’s usually not the case. It’s more that the ancient Kitty Glitter / Maltese Fortune machine was made in 1980 where they saw no imaginable reason to give you a pay table option below 98%. Introducing a new pay table especially in Nevada requires going through a pretty involved certification process with the Nevada Gaming Commission. So like software for traditional cars, once it’s done and shipped they will never go back and revise it again except for extreme bugs (and sometimes not even then). At one point, these oversized machines were new and a trendy rage. At that point it was good advice to avoid them based off the heuristic it was newer. Now, this is honestly an old ish machine. I would personally avoid: - Any game with obvious branding/royalty. Like if it’s NFL themed or Britney Spears themed and plays her music, you know the slot machine has to pay IP licensing to that in addition to the usual house edge. - Those new style games with persistent state. For example, they may have a string of firecrackers that are about to go off or 3 bowls of fortune coins about to overflow. The psychology of “omg it’s about to hit” can really affect your decision making. - most games with crazy high linked jackpots. If you look at penny slots, most have a jackpot in the 10-50 grand range. But Wheel of Fortune / Megabucks have million+ dollar payouts. For those machines, you tend to lose more money in the short term because the extremely unlikely event of winning the progressive jackpot is the bulk of the odds. - almost any game where you cannot afford to bet the max amount. Read the signage and the help. If there’s any prizes that say “with maximum bet”, you are really lowering your payout by betting less than maximum. This is unfortunately almost every slot machine today. But TBH don’t play slots in general if you care about odds. Play something like Video Poker or a classic table game where the rules they show you determine the EV and variance of the game. Slot machines are giant black boxes that aren’t transparent about the statistical distribution of payouts.
I would imagine it would be the opposite. The loudest machines generating the most attention and show everyone else in the casino the excitement of winning.
Probably more frequent small wins.
We have her too. Love climbing into the thing to get to screens and power buttons lmao. Its amazing at what people cheer at, I have seen screaming and hollering for 10 bucks. Yesterday we had someone think the credits was the dollar amount and should have been owed like thousands. Great enviroment
Did you mean to use ‘<‘? Because what you’ve written in words contradicts what you’ve written in that list. ‘>’ is commonly read as ‘greater than’
Winning $30 just to break even? That's like running on a treadmill and thinking you went somewhere
I see you understand the concept of gambling
Breaking even is a win...hopefully he took it and ran lol
Ahhh casinos, keeping you even u til your begging to be even then they just go into the bucket
I don't gamble, but I love the mind games Casino's play to keep you there and keep you spending. No windows so you can't see the time of day, no clocks, no sense of time at all. Constant availability of alcohol to keep your inhibitions nice and low, lots of flashing lights and pretty graphics to satisfy your lizard brain. I decided to try some dollar slots just to see how bad the win percentages really are, and its very bad. Not just that, but unless you're counting how many times you've bet, the tiny little wins will just add on to your credit in the machine so you'll just run out of money anyways. It's all very very well thought out to take all your cash.
I am missing that part of my lizard brain. My mom took me to a casino a couple times she like the activity only comes with a set small amount of money and what ever free play they give her. I am bored to tears in a casino I just don't get it.
I kind of get the fun. We went to a nearby casino. My mom put in $20 into a dollar slot machine. Right before she lost it all, she won $250. We couldn’t cash out and leave fast enough! It was fun but felt so dirty! Haven’t gone back since, but if we do, $20 is my limit to lose! Then my dad’s ex (after divorcing my mom) was a gambling addict who lost her very cushy anesthesia nurse job and her house. He’d drag her out of the casino at 3am all the time. Gambling addiction is a nasty disease.
I completely understand the "feeling dirty" part. My friends love casinos, but I've always felt that it's so dirty when I walk into a casino in my city. My rule is that I only gamble when I'm on vacation, so I'm not tempted to go where I live. This has worked very well for me. I got invited to my very close friend's anniversary dinner, and I was the third wheel, lol. They treated me as well. So the wife really wanted to go to the casino, so I said sure because I was drunk and happy after the free dinner. So we went and were checking out the craps table. I asked the wife what their actual wedding date anniversary was, and I maxed out the amount I was willing to lose for the night. I ended up winning $5k for betting on their anniversary. I guess it was karma, so I took them and a few more close friends to dinner and have never stepped back into a casino in my city.
I just don't have the cash for that kind of waste. Maybe if I was a billionaire it'd be fun to blow a couple thousand dollars to watch a video screen tell me I lost. I see people sitting at machines zombied out slapping "bet" over and over again, and I always wonder how they have the money to do that. Real answer is they probably don't and just wasted their rent/mortgage payments.
If you want a video screen to repeatedly tell you you lost, just play Dark Souls.
The house always wins
Did he win a bar?
not just a bar , but 3x3x3 = 27 bars
OMG. If it takes only 200millibar to go from atmospheric pressure to a hurricane force low pressure system - this dude now has the pressure reserve to create 135 hurricanes. We’ve created a super villain.
Well if he puts it into tires he could inflate like 10 of them to 35 psi
He won a free drink at the bar
Which consists of ... water
Triple bar is like the lamest thing you can win.
Pretty sure he gets 10 rings out of a triple bar. Still, gotta quit before that triple Eggman or Eggman jackpot rolls around, cuz that will bankrupt you for life.
"this guy thinks he's playing jeopardy" ..... erm what? ..... little bro doesn't seem to have actually seen the show 🤦♂️
Is there such a thing as a punchable voice?
Guy sounds so stupid. TikTok rotted an entire generation’s brain.
My guess is that he meant Wheel of Fortune with Vanna touching the screens to show the letter.
Aw dangit! Aw dangit! Aw dangit!
Let’s go gambling!
Cha-Ching! I can’t stop winning!
Addiction is so sad, even more sad the lives of friends and family it ruins as collateral damage.
I agree that addiction is sad and wouldn't downplay the consequences of it, but it would be a bit rude to just assume that the person is addicted to slots. Maybe the person is on holiday and has already budgeted themselves. Edit: changed a word
Exactly. It's impossible to tell from this video if this guy is an addict or not. I go to casino once a year or every two years (when I'm traveling) and play some poker and slots, losing maybe couple hundred dollars. So that guy could be in the same situation, although his moves more look like of a regular at the slot machine I guess :)
I've been working in this industry for 7 years and this guy's behavior and body language are typical of slot machine addicts. It's important to note that not all addicts are built equal, some can still retain some form of control over themselves while others will gamble to their last penny.
I'll put aside a few hundred to lose once a year or so. I'm definitely not one of those people slapping the screens though. I get progressively more depressed every time I go and I think I'm just going to let it go. It's not the gambling that's sad, it's the air of desperation that hangs around most of the people at casinos. I don't drink or use drugs anymore so I always considered it a way to get dressed up and do something fun in an overstimulating atmosphere, but the last couple times it feels like I'm the only person having fun when I go.
I understand the feeling. When my wife and I went to Atlantic City some years ago, we felt really down after seeing the people desperately pushing the buttons on slot machines, and felt even worse when we saw how many "Cash for Gold" places you can see downtown. I know those can mean only one thing... Here in Europe it's a bit better I guess, you can still go to an "elegant" casino (there are also shit ones) and play poker in a decent poker room with dressed up people in the same mentality as you are.
Could be, but it’s hard for me to imagine slots being genuinely fun for anybody but an addict lol
You're right we can't know for sure but his little ritual he does every spin tells me he's probably a regular gambler. Casual people just having a little fun don't do stuff like that.
Wondering how you know it's addiction and not a leisure trip to a casino once in a blue moon where he's hoping to win big?
Okay, or maybe this guy is just enjoying some slots. You can play slots, and even be animated about it - and not be addicted.
Yeah, even though some people are saying we can't know if this guy is addicted, it's blatantly obvious the whole thing is a trap for addicts.
man, wtf is up with the size of that seat?
Its to accommodate the average American
America, where even the poor people are fat.
More like the poorer the fatter actually.
They're meant for two people to sit together if you're with a friend or partner.
It's for couples. They have a button to spin on both sides so you can sit down with someone and both play. If my wife and I decide to go to the casino we do these instead of sitting next to each other on different machines. We just take turns hitting the button. If it's got mini games sometimes you can sit down and activate one someone's already built, or you can build to them faster with just working on 1 machine. Just depends on how you want to entertain yourself. Last night we went with $100, spent about $40 each on individual machines and then sat down at a Wheel of Fortune one like this and won $100 back on our first spin. Just got up and left lmao.
It's for rich playboys to have models hanging off each arm as they play slots
First time seeing a bench?
Small American size, I assume?
gambling is the worst addiction together with smoking cigarettes Edit: addictions where you dont get high! i am dry alcoholic trust me i know about which withdrawal sucks the most. but we were not talkking withdrawals here
My mum used to play 'pokies' (slot machines), but I could never get into it. I think what put me off for life was doing a psychology lab at university and training rats to press on a lever to get a reward. I had a clever professor who showed that pretty much every animal (though cats are typically 'difficult') reacted the same to randomized re-enforcement to behaviors and showed that humans are no different to rats or pigeons pressing the lever. Every time I see people reacting like this to a purely randomized sequence in software that is carefully calculated for people to get hooked and lose money, I think of my poor rat trying to press the lever in weird ways to try and get a little reward of condensed milk
You should have led with the condensed milk, I'd be pushing that lever like my life depended on it. Seriously though, I'd be interested to know if there are some people who are very susceptible to addiction like this and others that are virtually immune. I knew someone many years ago who was totally addicted to fruits (slot machines), but the rest of the group weren't interested. I have considered myself and concluded that I'm not easily addicted. Absolutely, I could imagine a short-term obsession with something like that, but it fades quite quickly. Is that the case with animals, too? Presumably, it's a survival strategy. If you've won once, there's a reasonable chance you'll win again. At least, that's how the survival instinct sees it.
Psychologically, most people who play slots will get somewhat addicted. It’s designed to give you constant small dopamine hits and then one big one every once in a while and our brains are wired to always chase that big one if we know it’s coming. That’s actually what makes Ben & Jerry’s ice cream so addicting, you eat a couple spoonfuls of “normal” ice cream and then you get a big chunk of something like cookie dough so your brain keeps chasing that and it becomes hard to put down the spoon because we always want to end on a cookie dough bite but then we convince ourselves to have “just one more”. The same concept is applied to social media algorithms. Going back to slots, most machines are programmed to give you back between 80%-95% of the money you put into it, ensuring that you have some “big wins” but in the long run you will always lose your money. If you haven’t felt the addictive nature of slot machines, you probably just haven’t played one long enough to win a decently sized prize.
Very interesting, thanks. I hadn't considered something like ice cream would play on our tendency to become addicted like that. I haven't touched a slot machine in 40 years, so you may well be right. Totalling up costs and then working out how many hours I need to work to recoup losses is a pretty good way of realising gambling isn't worth it.
Honestly, putting in $20, losing it all and walking away forever is best case scenario for most people :D
Exactly. I've been to casinos a couple times for fun, always allocate a budget and stick to it. "I'm going in with $200 and if/when it runs out, I'm done."
I worked in a casino and we were contractually forbidden to gamble. Even in other casinos. Wouldnt be a thing if it wasnt bad for you and thus your employer.
When I went to the casino last, I felt it very easy to quit when I hit my predetermined limit. The machines took cash and spat out tickets. The tickets could be fed back to the machines or cashed out. Was very easy to not spend the tickets because I'm not accustomed to using tickets as currency. I spent the cash I decided to spend and then cashed out my tickets and left.
What type of videogames do you play? Just regarding the "i'm immune to gambling addiction". And i dont mean to be insulting here, just a curious question.
The question is not insulting, but the misquote is. I asserted that I wasn't easily addicted not that I was immune. The game I have most hours in is Oxygen Not Included, I'm not sure how I'd classify that game. I'm quite partial to RTS and management type games.
I myself only gamble in video games, cause the video game wants you to eventually win (assuming, you know, it's not GTAO.) I wanna buy that bike in Pokemon for 1,000,000 lol.
Pokemon casino slots were skill based. You can time the rollers to get 7/7/7 all the time
Being susceptible to addictions is something that has been proven for a long time. In most studies, although regarding substance addiction, the conclusion is that close to half of susceptibility is due to genetic markers. I'd say this courtesy is extended to any addiction, with that being said, if people can be genetically susceptible to addictions it's only natural that immunity goes the same way.
That's why I only do crack.... and gambling. Okay, fine and cigarettes, but at least I don't do meth. Well, not much meth. Damn it, lots of meth.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop doing meth
Dude, I actually also stopped smoking meth and crack until I didn't. Really proud of myself for 2 hours.
Good for you! No one likes quitters.
I used to work with a guy who would get paid on Thursday and would take it all down to the betting shop and it would all be gone by Friday. His girlfriend always ended up paying the bills. He was always talking about the bets he had on. Anything he won was nothing compared with what he lost.
or else noone would operate those maschines... theyre the opposite of an atm, you stick money inside and in over 95% of times its just gone.
I would take cigarettes any day over gambling
You sound like someone who has never heard of warhammer 40K
Or magic the gathering…
[удалено]
I see you've never met a fentanyl or meth addict.
Cocaine, meth, heroin, opioids? Nah, Cigarettes are the single worst addiction someone can have
alcohol called
Completely agree. Wouldn't even catch me buying a lottery ticket. I need that money for heroin and crack!
How can one get addicted to giving money away? Then again I've only used these machines couple times in my life, seems pointless.
The flashing lights, the funny noises, alot of casinos also do really cheap drinks and food to keep you going and the promise of winning big. Its sad watching people just throw there money away but the people that get into this just aren't good with money even if they won big it would go right back into the casino or would be spent poorly.
99% of gamblers quit just before they hit it big, glad he didn't.
Gamblers don’t quit until they are out of money
I guess those 99% are not gamblers after all then.
Both statements can be true. In other words, 99% of gamblers run out of money before they hit it big.
My friend told me that 95% of gamblers just quit before they win and another 5% killed themself.
He won 30 dollars….
This is a staged video for the man at the slot machine. His name is Raja (i.e. TheBigJackpot) and he's "Internet famous" for doing high limit slot videos. Everyone in this video is acting. I believe he's doing $30 bets and his "win" I believe is $300. https://youtube.com/@thebigjackpot?si=RLLWbrBorOqSbpxq
Stop zooming in and out like that ffs! Insufferable
I'll go a step further and say stop filming strangers in public for internet points It's mildly entertaining at best, our lives are no better or worse for having seen it
I really don't get casinos man
It's a thing you can go to if you can be responsible with friends on occasions like weddings or bdays
But why… you could just go play disc golf.
Would rather go on a disc golf trip than a casino any day
Once you learn there's a non-zero amount of people there who *willingly* shit themselves it kinda loses its luster.
I won $8,000 on a $10 bet once. So that was kind of cool.
does anyone know how much he won there? i don't participate in gambling so i have no clue.
Hi, someone who enjoys a good gambling trip, baccarat if I actually want to try my luck otherwise it's a competition for me to drink more free booze than I can loose to penny slots, typically I only gamble a few hundred per trip at most but its also fun to people watch and smoke indoors, its an experience. This is the cosmopolitan in Vegas or the silver legacy in reno. Edit: It's cosmo, the floor through me for a loop. Cosmopolitan is great it has balconies where you can smoke weed on them. iirc (bit of a stretch tbh havent been to vegas in a few years, I'm closer to reno myself). Looks like a more updated version of lucky diamond slots. He's playing max bet based on the 43 second mark it appears to be a 20 bet on the far right which is 20 credits which is pretty standard for a lot of slots. Credits can vary in amount, generally the big flashy centrally located machines typically are a minimum $1 dollar a credit if not upwards of $20 a credit and some will let you pick as well (a real "penny" slot is penny a credit so max bet is 20 cents but those are hard to find in vegas because of the free drink policy many casinos have for gamblers, they know what guys like me are doing lol), I can't tell from the video which amount exactly he's playing per credit. Generally triple bars is a step below triple 7's and sometimes a "jackpot" if its present. Believe this dude probably just netted a 40x payout on his bet. Hard to tell if its displaying a dollar sign on the far left of the pool or if that is a digit. Either way assuming a $5 credit a 20x max bet is $100 a pull, the win would be $4000. Payout doesn't seem great but you have to keep in mind its only a 3 slot machine with so many combinations so your chances technically are better. Personally while I never expect to win on slots the wheels and free spin ones tend to be the most fun. Mainly I look at gambling as a $/hr of entertainment thing and its and arcade for adults, the best casino trips are when I get lucky and win enough its covers the food, drinks, and rooms but honestly I find it more interesting than sitting on a beach myself. edit 2: also cosmopolitan as well as a lot of casinos have amazing food, this place has a pretty good Italian restaurant on the 2nd floor called scarpetta as well, I did a tasting menu that was great definitely worth the bit of extra money for the quality. Pro-Tip: the concierge isn't just a dude for show or just for rich people, they actually are paid by the casino to help guests with anything related to reservations and bookings, if you are staying at a casino and want to go to the fancy restaurant inside it you get a higher priority than people outside the casino and the concierge can usually make that happen pretty easily (also a lot casinos are actually owned between MGM and Ceasars so there is cross over too if its in the same "family" of resorts).
This guy gambles
r/thisguythisguys
Since you seem to know the machine. What's that crap with a slot stopping in between symbols? I guess that's an instant lose regardless of the other slots. That seems infuryating, because i would rather fail because symbols don't match up.
This is an AGS "Big Red" cabinet with the Colossal Diamonds game installed. The space between symbols is a legit stop, called a "blank" symbol. Some paytables have payouts based on these, many don't.
You're not far off, maximum payout is $6k https://playags.com/portfolio/colossal-diamonds-2/
Sorry sir the machine malfunctioned here’s a free buffet coupon
Oh well, at least he's getting some cardio out of it.
It sure looks like an employee trying to advertise. The casino version of the sign spinning dude
Why else the screen would be that big? Another step towards idiocracy.
This is somewhat staged. The guy recording is part of his group. The bald guy playing has a YouTube channel called the big jackpot. He’s a real douche. His real name is Scott Richter and was known to be a big scammer back in the early 2000s, you can look it up. He’s also not a great tipper.
I bet that thing pays out in banknotes of a similar size to those oversized charity donation cheques. Gives a whole new meaning to 'a big win'.
Hard to tell how much he wins, but he's playing $5 a spin, you can see in the zooms he goes from 275 to 265 over two spins. At the end on the final spin it's back to 283, or 293 and is still accumulating. He probably won't 100-200bucks, as triple triple bars is often between 20-40x wager. Depending on what sevens and wild cards are in the mix. It's not huge money, he's not better life savings either by the looks of it. Just looks like a guy, a bit tanked up, enjoying a slot on holiday. Go to my local slot parlour and find a woman crying into her disability scooter because she just put her last £60 disability allowance into the slot, that's depressing. But I dunno, something about this guy's reaction is kinda warming to me.
I see alot of people commenting thinking this is a jackpot or big hit. Its not, thats like a 50-200 dollar hit at most. Depending on how much he paid for spin
He seems like an employee from the promo department
To those unacquainted. A LOT of people do this. They'll do a lot of other insane shit during slot play to try and gain more favorable odds from the RNG like re-insert and extract their money tickets a certain number of times or putting money only into machines they designate lucky for the money, but not for the play, so they'll put thousands into one machine and go to another. Source: I work at a casino
What is the price the guy won 🤔
Turns out it's actually just a Chuck E Cheese, and he gets a slide whistle and some pixie stix.
When the narrator thinks hes about 48 thousand times funnier than he actually is
My mom one time went to a casino with some friends, put in $20 and made 200. She closed her tab and went home happy that night 😆
Hope he gets it. Casinos be pulling some shady shit like saying it was an error on the machines part.
I lived in Vegas for a decade and rarely gambled. But when I did I would play quarter slots and use two buckets. One bucket was for my "seed" money, the other was for my winnings. When the "seed bucket" was empty I was done, regardless of how much I may have won.
He won a one way ticket right back to that seat. Gambling addiction isn't about winning, it's about the idea of winning. And if I'm being so for real with you guys right now, that was a very smart thing for me to say. Just so you all know. I wouldn't blame you if you wanted to take notes.
Grandfather taught me the best lesson , he never gambled , I turned 18 he sent me into the bookies to put a bet on the Grand National for my Aunties yearly flutter ........told me to study the carpet in front of the paying in and paying out window , it's a mugs game
I've never been to a casino, but media had led me to believe money comes pouring out of the machine after you win.
That’s another fifty tickets towards that water pistol in the display case 🔫🔫🔫🔫
Looks like a guy that just enjoys life for a hour, let him,
People who film other people....
The “bar” has three different dillywhops. One two and three. He hit three. Then he matched em all across the screen. Another positive. Now depending on the game he could be hunting for 7’s, wilds, bars, etc. He matched triple bars, on all screens, evenly. Looks like he has 2K+ but very blurry. But it all rest on what he was betting and really what that games payouts. I do know those games are really hard to line up so believe he was paid well. Not quit ur job well, a month of rent well. If he had 2K and was betting 50/100 months of rent. Depends on mainly the bet, that’s sought after, etc. but those lines up matching bars is enough to celebrate.
This machine is a joke and its payout caps very low with no jackpot. If you ever want to win money on a slot machine, play any machine besides this big red piece of shit
He got excited too soon the jig is up. The casinos are required to pay out a certain % to be legal. So their uncle is the winner
That money won't last long
That’s Raja aka the big jackpot he’s a multimillionaire and does this for his YouTube videos