Retyrement!

[Scott]

I've had plenty of barrings where the gaffer is fine, but his 'kid' ie the 19 yr old who is addicted to fruits is reporting every move to his Dad, and adding a bit of bull shit in for good measure :x

[sir ratholer]

I bet the s&p was huge, everyone is barred from there. They've had tons of playables too.

The esb/amazing pub is far too ontop for me now. The bald guy with the diy tattoos was fine but turned after a few successful hits...

[deano8177]

Im in my "lucky pub" now! Did the dead mans, had a meal with the wife and a couple of drinks, chat with grumpy landlord and all sweet but been here an hour and a half! Do that everywhere and you will be a 30 stone alcoholic and fit in about 4 pubs a day!

there is no pleasure with out the pain. I don't see why people always look on the bad side.

There is alway the option of getting a proper job if you think times are that bad.

[Matt Vinyl]

That's it mate - the bald chap is still OK with me, for now... Don't know what was up with the other guy though. He kept saying, look, I don't mind people knowing what they're doing / knowing how to 'scam' the machine - just don't do it in this pub...?!

I rolled into the Yacht as they've changed the frontage, so I thought there might have been new staff there. Nope. lol. I imagine it will only be a few visits before he clocks on and I join the bannings list. :x

[jeffvickers]

Most pubs have receieved "fruit machine fraud" alerts nationwide.

Hense the reason there is so much shit around at the moment.

Landlords are being urged to get descriptions, how much money they are winning, ie. if they are winning too much, they could be "fraudsters".

Theres a pub on the road from Horwich to Bolton who have placed these machine company handouts (sceptre) on their machines.

You'll find the most heat in pubs with machines with no security.

[Matt Vinyl]

if they are winning too much, they could be "fraudsters".

I may remind some staff that their regulars drink too much, they may be drunkards. Whom I believe, it is illegal to serve.

[BFK]

Im in my "lucky pub" now! Did the dead mans, had a meal with the wife and a couple of drinks, chat with grumpy landlord and all sweet but been here an hour and a half! Do that everywhere and you will be a 30 stone alcoholic and fit in about 4 pubs a day!

Well obviously you can't do that in every pub, but do that in one of them each day for example. Call in and quickly neck a bottle of becks in ur 'lunch break' or 'after work' without even touching the machine. I'd rather layout an extra £50 a week on this kind of thing to make an extra £200-£500.

Simples.

[harry2]

Im in my "lucky pub" now! Did the dead mans, had a meal with the wife and a couple of drinks, chat with grumpy landlord and all sweet but been here an hour and a half! Do that everywhere and you will be a 30 stone alcoholic and fit in about 4 pubs a day!

Well obviously you can't do that in every pub, but do that in one of them each day for example. Call in and quickly neck a bottle of becks in ur 'lunch break' or 'after work' without even touching the machine. I'd rather layout an extra £50 a week on this kind of thing to make an extra £200-£500.

Simples.

Some of the so-called pros would be losing money if they actually spent cash on drink, food or the pool table though.

[Scott]

You need to see the bigger picture, a small slice of something is better than nothing!

[sir ratholer]

All this is true but you can't eat in every pub as said by others, and those driving can have 2 drinks max before you're over the limit. Yes, you can chuck it down the toilet but that's not always easy.

To be honest, I just drink what I want in the majority of places and engage in conversation with the staff. I do get barred sometimes but not too often.

[tommya]

Agreed there. A good bit of acting goes a long way.

acting hey even had a player fooled once as he was sipping his coke whilst i was doing esb then boom jactpot he tutted and walked out left half his coke, two hits later over the space of a month barred.

[Mattb]

I just ventured out to a re-opened pub now owned by 2 french people, got approached by lés lándloúrde on my way out and ended up talking to him for 15 minutes as he wanted to know why i was in there late on a cold evening drinking a soft drink etc. Got out of it with some old spiel about the old landlord etc and got away with it.

However...I now either need to drink a bit in there (difficult when i can't get there without driving), go in there and eat a few bits, spend more time there, or a few visits without playing. Difficult sacrifices, more annoying that i didn't make a lot either. Effort required here.

[moterwayplayer]

Got a fair few playables in spoons

[Been-Grant-Mitchell'd!]

I have a gift for getting away with playing the fruit and not getting barred.
How you dress helps. Plus what you carry.

However, only yesterday, I went into Hell - a pub in London, and hit the fruit. Very good touch and I collected out my wages.

No-one looking. Great! I'll make good my escape!

But no. The landlady appears out of nowhere (she's getting on a bit so she might have even died some years ago, and is really a ghost as it seamed she must have come through the wall) "Right!" she says with a 'You will listen' scowl. "You can't just come in here, buy one drink, fleece the machine then leave. You've got to stay for a while cos the regulars don't like it otherwise"

I talk for a few minutes and she agrees that I can still play the fruit in future, but tells me: "I'm no facking mug!"

Debating whether it's actually worth going back to really.

[pickareel]

just bung her a few quid or ask if she wants a drink when you order one