Fruit Machine Chat

When I first stumbled onto the scene just over a decade ago I thought I was the business. Impressing family members and girlfriends with my source of income, I seriously thought I was inventing the future.

In 2010 my attituide is a lot different and I realise how immature I was. I still love the game, but its for different reasons these days. The freedom is the main thing compared to a normal job or a career, because I have a choice, a choice to do what I want which is a great place to be in mentally. The money is obviously still unreal and that again gives you more choices in terms of lifestyle and luxuries. But is what I do important?
I used to think it was, but time and experience brings you to your senses.

The fact is 99.9% of the population could be an AWP pro, as there is hardly any intelligence or skill needed. Many players would struggle to do anything else if it wasn't for slotting. That is why you'll often see drug users, and society cast offs adopting the profession of fruit playing. We all like to think were a bit special when we get a nice roll or have a bumper day, but that is the 'buzz' playing its role and is the reason we all stumbled into the game.

Back in the day, I would quite happily announce I was a pro fruit player to anyone enqiuring about my living. I stopped doing that when my sister once said to me 'your not one of those scruffy drop outs who goes round pubs playing the fruits are you' Even though in principle I wasn't and Im not, its easy to see why all fruit players get labelled like that. I now quite happily say Im an IT worker or Administator but most definatly not a pro fruit player!

Yeah I dont say what I do well to some birds i have but other not! we do get a bad name but thats just it!!

I'm proud to know what I know, in competition with most public I reckon I could have the skills and knowledge to outwit them...whether born with them or learning them...

However I do agree the same where todays machines really do not allow scope. Say, if you are on a cash on a 1...higher adds +1, next spin is to cash and that also adds+1...But say you don't gamble higher on that 1...It might still spin to the next position and add+2....Thus leaving you in the same position.

For reflexes and skills I am happy for what I am. But for general forcing consesus, IE when to and signs... I know I'm not at all good, and I will leave it to all you others out there.

Not particularly. Many people have been massively unimpressed, more than those who were impressed anyway.

To be honest, it's only the money that keeps me doing it. I find the job scummy, because for most of the working day you are hated, viewed with suspicion, worried that you'll be barred from the pub at any time. Furthermore, most of my colleagues/competition are basically lower class/pikeys and essentially scumbag who'll do anything for a pound no matter what. Obviously there are exceptions, and the people I've met from here are mostly not like that. I must just be unlucky where I live.

It's embarrassing mentioning it to most people I meet. I find the less posh they are, the more they like it. Until you get to a point where the person is so thick that they really don't get it.

I'd love to do something else which is more fulfilling to my intelligence and is not perceived to be negative by others. I don't really care what others think but it's difficult for my family etc, I mean the other day my step daughter brought her friend over and it turns out her mum worked in a certain pub, and I know who she is, she was moody about the empire in there. It's just embarrassing from that perspective. Even if I explained it to her then she wouldnt understand, and she will probably think I'm a criminal.

But until I find something which pays the money I'm not stopping.

RE:If people ask what u do for a living?

Tell them ur a freelance investor in gaming technologies!!

If they enquire further tell them it's dull and boring and offer them a pint!

"Freelance invester in gaming technologies"...Brilliant

I tend not to mention it now (although to be fair it's no longer my living anyway). The main reason is, if you mention to nearly any male (or the occasional female) aged 16-35 that you can make money from fruit machines, you tend to get one of the following responses (feel free to use this as a checklist from your own experiences):

1) "How do you know when it's going to pay out?"
2) "Yeah my mate does that, he put £1 in a machine once and won £250"
3) "Do you just wait until someone's put loads in and jump on?"
4) "So, if I give you a tenner can you make me some money?"
5) "Can I come out playing with you and we can both make some money?"
6) It response to a previous question as to how much you have made that day..."Oh yes, but how much did you put in?"..Aaarrgggghh!
7)"You can't win on those things"
Finally....they will inevitably refer to some minor piece of information they once overheard in a pub and use it to, momentarily, up their status from 'Punter' to 'Pro'. It's normally something like knowing that a red board on a Homers Meltdown can repeat or knowing the data dump code in ancient maygays that 'reset the machine and guaranteed a payout'

I'm sure there are may more that I have forgotten but personally I try to avoid telling anyone that would be interested as then you have to dodge all the inevitable and mundane questions.

i hate it :/
even tho i make a asda's weeks wage in a day when im out,
i just hate it ive got bored, and i just wish i could be like everyone else lol.
once you start playing its hard to stop tho so i will be doing it till i die lol.

although im in no way ashamed of what i do ,,,,,,,,,,,,, to avoid the inevitable munter questions , i say im a fruit machine engineer , i go around pubs emptying fruits .



well its partly true :P ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, and stops any more questions

When you talk to a pub regular in his mid-40s who has a bit of respect for you, he always mentions the time he used a put a £1 in attached with strimmer wire!

Ok i guess i will get slandered,barracked etc,but do you guys really make a living?
Fair play if you do,for that i hold you in high esteem,god i'd love to quit my job and acquire the skills you have.
Is there knowledge to it?different ways to play?I really have no idea!!

As one guy wrote,ask a guy in his 40's and he will tell tou about wire on the end of a coin,well i'm in my 40s(more cussing to come)don't know about the wire,but certainly was handy with a "clicker! especially on the arcade machines,maybe thats were i went wrong!!

currypot wrote:Ok i guess i will get slandered,barracked etc,but do you guys really make a living?
Fair play if you do,for that i hold you in high esteem,god i'd love to quit my job and acquire the skills you have.
Is there knowledge to it?different ways to play?I really have no idea!!

As one guy wrote,ask a guy in his 40's and he will tell tou about wire on the end of a coin,well i'm in my 40s(more cussing to come)don't know about the wire,but certainly was handy with a "clicker! especially on the arcade machines,maybe thats were i went wrong!!

Its a bit different now mate! Methods, different stakes, set ups, skill features! Most is down to having good contacts and decent areas to make the most of it!

With the new stuff coming out I can't really see there being much of a future in it tbh anyhow, although I wouldnt be dissapointed to be proven wrong.

The way I see it, the future of AWPs is:

Bfm - more shit
Barcrest - dond style games, no real value
Qps/global etc. - shit
Red - not much really, the odd attempt at a dond clone perhaps?
Electrocoin - erm the RARE dotted clone of the poor darts coin that most players vastly overate, as they wont be profitable unless they are left for ages/you get the RARE icons board.

Anyone care to invisage which company is going to make anything playable... I mean coins/empires/lg's/superholds it's all really old hat... yeh the odd one is kicking around and they are relatively common in shitholes, but these are on their way out...

Yeh some of u might say "something will come out"... well maybe.... I dont really see what... and then if its an emptier it will be over in a day or two anyhow... as for any "methods" coming out Im sceptical, although I'll be happy to be proven wrong as I said...

As a last point, I do it for the money and easy lifestyle (have worked a DECENT paying job in an office and its really hard work, although most of you will not realise this having never experienced it), which I imagine echos most people, and I agree with sir ratholer that most players are lower class/pikeys, with the odd exception such as our very selves sir rath :P

Glendale,then i guess i'll have to stick to my mundane job then!!!
God i remember winning the jackpot of 3 quid in tokens years back lol
Alas i have no contacts and info,guess thats why i don't play machines much anymore,except my own machine,but thats gone on the blink,hard life eh lol

Is there anywhere on this site that may suggest a few tips etc,i've had a look through but no success,but hey you guys are not going to divulge secrets,thats selling yourselves short,plus beady eyes watch although i don't know whats legal and whats not!!

I'd second that post ob. I cant see what could come out with the stuff thats been released. Really seems its coming to an end, I know we've thought this before but it just seems like were at the end of the cyle right now.

jeffvickers wrote:When you talk to a pub regular in his mid-40s who has a bit of respect for you, he always mentions the time he used a put a £1 in attached with strimmer wire!

1. No coin required.

2. Strimming didn't work on the plastic style Mars Electronics slots which were phased in around 1982. At at this point machines only paid and accepted 10p's, 50p's and tokens. Strimming worked on the old metal slots which were mainly redundant by the introducion of pound coind in early 1983. I worked in arcade at the time and it was easy to test nefarious techniques after we closed up.