58 million.....

Quote from: kforeman on January 10, 2012, 12:49:19 AM

Quote from: stayouttadabunker on January 10, 2012, 12:08:47 AM

What and why are they trying to make a player "play it off"?
The machine ends that game - when it is reset by the attendant key? Scratch Head

Trying to force a player to make another bet is ridiculous.

What if the machine's Min. bet is a $100 dollars? or one penny - it doesn't matter.
No casino is allowed to force a player to make a gambling bet of ANY kind.

If a casino wants to remove the winning combo, then they should use their own money and the "pull" does not count.
However, I don't see any valid reason to "play off" the winning combination.
The number of the game played when the winning combination was hit, is all that's needed
to be recorded - to eliminate anyone else claiming a false hit.

Also, anyone claiming a false hit should be prosecuted to the full extent of gaming laws -
the shoe can fit into either mouth.

however it is policy at my casino to ask the winning guest to play off the winning combination. we only ask and would never threaten nonpayment if refused, that's a bit extreme and without warrant. the reasoning is to avoid disputes; a small percentage of casino patrons are a little shady Shifty

and will look for machines with winning combinations on them and ask to be paid. these are the same guests who search out as many 3Â¢ tickets as they can find to shove into the 1Â¢ keno machines and end up playing for hours off of a few bucks that wasn't even theirs to begin with. they also like to sit down at a machine with a flashing candle light - top or bottom, it doesn't matter - and grab the nearest casino employee and ask for help; usually they find a new security guard who knows zero about the machines so said security guard calls a floor person or slot tech for assistance and we spend 20 minutes trying to explain to the guest that we don't owe them any money for them having to "wait an hour for help."
the playing off of a winning combination is simply to reduce the situations that these types of guests look for. several years ago i had a guy cussing me out because i showed him on the machine that the royal flush displayed on his machine was won 3 hours prior to him sitting down. in his defense he was totally wasted and reeked of booze but he still should have understood the basic principals of time... Plastered Buddies

this would have been avoided had the royal been played off.
if our guests refuse to play off a winning combination we will check out a few bucks and play it off ourselves; its a PITA and theres a mile long paper trail so its much easier on us if the guest will do it. Cool Thumbs-Up

With us as well it is not required that the guest play off the win, be it $.01 or $100 minimum bet the casino will play it off if the guest does not plan to continue playing the machine. And its like kforeman says its all about avoiding unnecessary guest disputes.