The great £2000 theory!

[Slammer]

I can't see how £2K would be that difficult given the right locations, and working very hard...

although what I would say is that I can't see this being the case in the future, machines are clearly going crap.

I agree 100% Ob - and its not very often that we do ;-)



cheers, Mark

[Slammer]

I stopped off in Bedford a couple of days ago and met a player from Eastbourne (he said), and then met two other players called Carl & Simon.

wasn't looking forward to working as a quartet, but as it was just social, went along with them. Glad I did as it was pretty good and ended up making £310 each, before expenses.

Assuming this would happen every day (but it won't), then 2K a week is achievable.

Lol - nice try ;-) You should have gone for a more realistic figure than £1240 profit out of a small shitty town. Toolers would probably struggle to make £1240 in bedford lol.



Dave (from Eastbourne) is a well respected player and would be welcome to play in Bedford, but I'm sure I or my colleague would get a phone call if he was passing through.

Carl from Daventry is a cluey that gets all his info off Dave when its 2nd rate. If you speak to Carl, all he ever goes on about is plugging 2p machines when he was yee-high. Not improved his playing since sadly.

Simon drives Carl 24/7 using matchsticks and proplus and usually makes money on the other stuff while Carl is burning the kitty in a cluedo that just wont wedge but insists its a sticky button.



cheers, Mark

[Slammer]

Mr P.

How much did you make per week playing slams ?

...and how many hours did it take, may I ask.

Well look at it this way. There was the original and 2 reglasses. There was 3 versions (2x £500s and a £1000) All of which could be emptied. After the machines were all chipped (several years later), they brought out a £250 version you could empty but sadly failed cos someone that I wont mention took the absolute piss out of them while it was on test [sigh].

Unfortunately, you'd often do £10k in the casino to try and keep your membership anyway. What the supermarkets would refer to as a 'loss leader'.

If this country was not bent, and you could use the facilities of a casino without threat of being barred for winning then I dread to think.

Anyway, this is off topic. Start a thread in the club machines channel if you wish and I'll pop along?


cheers, Mark

[Slammer]

Gamblers, like people suffering from any addiction (there's another can of worms) tell lies to themselves as well as to others. Of course it's possible to make a profit from machines but anyone claiming to make £300 a day, whether that's a minimum or an average, I believe is in full addict delusion mode. If someone showed me their records, or their Porsche in the pub carpark, I'll take it all back.

If you had money, why the hell would you buy a porsche? Most fruit machine players are under 40 (infact under 30 [lol- sorry RD]), I think they'd choose something a bit more 'with it'.


Anyway, forgetting the choice of car - What you dont realise is, people who earns lots and lots of tax free money are very bad at keeping money in their pocket. I have known a lot of players over the years, who DID used to make 200+ a day, everyday BASIC and frequently a hell of a lot more. Even £1000 a day used to happen 'back in the day' now n again and im only talking AWPs here. Thats just straight %age playing, not including the extra you'd make from emptiers like SuperPots, On the Buses, Flashback, King Kebab and so forth. Sadly, most of these people are now skint, including myself.

I have SPENT thousands in strip bars, restaurants, hotels, takeaways, taxis and god knows what else that most people would find mind-boggling. If I go out in Leicester (my roots), I sometimes get the train there and a taxi home which costs £100 rather than crash on the floor at a m8s or get a hotel, just to keep the mrs happy. Thats before you even mention the word casino, OMG. Have you ever done £12k in one night and got your m8 to take you home to pick up more cash and drive back?

Even now, I dont have a 'porsche' but I spend over 3k a month and I live an extremely basic lifestyle. I could get a 'porsche' on finance and make my outgoings 3500 a month? I dont think the extra 500 at the end of the month would make any difference to me, but apparently, having a porsche in a pub car park would make you think that I'm telling the truth?

Madness in a bottle


Seriously - Its another world. Ive lived in it for 11 years, had a barrel of laughs and some painful kicks in the nuts along the way, but now im getting old and moving to a normal lifestyle. It was fun while it lasted, but sometimes you gotta make a change.


Cheers, Mark

[harry2]

Sounds like me, but on a lesser scale. Played full time 1983-1995. Won about £200k on the horses, fruit and quiz machines but blew about £300k on roulette. Had to take a step backwards and get a proper job, house, car (life) etc. So much wasted time. Once lost £8k on a horse called Pebbles at Ascot !!!!

[Slammer]

Sounds like me, but on a lesser scale. Played full time 1983-1995. Won about £200k on the horses, fruit and quiz machines but blew about £300k on roulette. Had to take a step backwards and get a proper job, house, car (life) etc. So much wasted time. Once lost £8k on a horse called Pebbles at Ascot !!!!

Roulette has been the death of many, including people who work fulltime in good jobs I might add. Seen a few lose families, houses etc over the years, many on 80k+ a year jobs.


Ive done my bolox on sports betting and horses over the years. Even lost thousands on shares.


Thats the trouble, when you've made so much money from one form of gambling, you look for other avenues along the same line.



cheers, Mark

[uber-pro]

Quite right Mark,

Its been a blast, some amazing amounts of money made, and some amazing amounts of money spent.

If I'd worked harder when it was good, not spent so much on booze, strippers, cars and supporting skint mates (No regrets mind) then I, and many others, with some sound investments could be sitting with a cool million in the bank.

Its a stretch, but think about it... who really worked as hard on ziggys/cabins before every man and their dog jumped on them? It was good money, and you didn't have to work too hard. If you'd put in the hours then, that most of us put in now, you'd have made double, and have had less time to spend it!!

Thats one small example out of a list as long as my arm.

We could probably bank an average of 5k a month when there is good stuff about.

Anyway, my point. I heard a quote on a TV show, cant remember where - "nothing is more rock and roll than living the lifetsyle and surviving" (or along those lines).

We've done the strippers etc etc etc, we've had a rock n roll lifestyle, and we are very lucky to have had that chance. But there comes a time to grow up. I'm sure some people have a trick right now and are making fortunes still, good luck to them, its a young mans game.

Another quote - if your not a rebel by the time your 20, you've got no heart. But if you've not turned establishment by the time your 30, you've got no brain.

So, we could be millionaires right now, but we never got into this game for the money!

[Been-Grant-Mitchell'd!]

That came out a bit wrong Mr Pine, sorry. It wasn't all on AWP's. Ring DB up and he might divulge what happened, but I doubt it. As for slams, I gather you brought DB onto them, and he done very well from it. Though i do know you done much better through hearing from the welsh. I walked in on you when you were on a lock 'n load opposite an arcade - i think you were with someone called "Badger".

[Slammer]

That came out a bit wrong Mr Pine, sorry. It wasn't all on AWP's. Ring DB up and he might divulge what happened, but I doubt it. As for slams, I gather you brought DB onto them, and he done very well from it. Though i do know you done much better through hearing from the welsh. I walked in on you when you were on a lock 'n load opposite an arcade - i think you were with someone called "Badger".

I'll give DB a ring later, im off into town shortly to do some fruits before I go out tonight.

Ive never played any fruits with Badger. What town was this lock n load in that I was doing when u walked in?


cheers, Mark

[Been-Grant-Mitchell'd!]

i'm sure it was bedford mate. There was a card shark in another pub just up the road and a hilowatha with a growling barman there too.

[Been-Grant-Mitchell'd!]

DB just rang me and said you called him. Dunno why he said we weren't there though. I'll shut up.

[betchrider]

i'm sure it was bedford mate. There was a card shark in another pub just up the road and a hilowatha with a growling barman there too.

A card shark?FFS!

[harry2]

A Growling Barman?

Is the latest Deal Or No Deal machine ?

[Slammer]

i'm sure it was bedford mate. There was a card shark in another pub just up the road and a hilowatha with a growling barman there too.

Hm... that could be any town!!!

I dont remember a lock n load in bedford town centre though. There was one in a shit hole on an estate called the Bricklayers Arms?

More likely to have been Jamie you met doing LNL's in Bedford. I was still playing mostly up north and birmingham in the days of LNL's.


cheers, Mark

[Been-Grant-Mitchell'd!]

jamie? Aka reg hollis?! He now works for . . . . . I . . .I . . . . I can't bring myself to say it . . . . . Leisure Link! . . Pah! Yes is most probably was actually. DB Says that Badger definately was there though.