I was playing a £250 club Bobby Dazzler yesterday. (My first personal experience on a club machine).
It cost me £40 for a board. Was absolutely seething. In the end i just couldnt walk away without at least one board. When it finally did come, it offered £8 before killing me off. Is this normal for club machines??? Why on earth would any one play them when it takes £40 for a board????
(I should point out that during the £40 it did spin in a 3 cherry win but offered the exchange point at £10. The high-low gamble killed me on the gamble that would have climbed me up to £2...)
Still, i look on the bright side. At least now they will getting a new machine, although, i wont be there to see it. I'll let your imagination run wild with that...
i went for a board on a club cops n robbers. stopped just short of £50 and still did'nt get a board. was full from the off too. think most club machines can be this nasty and i aint played one since that day about 2 years back.
£36 for a board on a Great Escape £250 jackpot.
£46 for a board on a £15 jackpot Mazooma Blue Rinse.
£62 for cherries for £1 on Casino Crazy Fruits £15 jackpot.
£86 for XXX £10 on a Magic 10.
£120 in an 8 Liner £4 spin for £5 on cherries.
I know the latter two can take over £200 for a win sometimes.
So what did happen? A crafty glue in the coin mech or a flying chair?
why are you shocked? The top end prizes are much higher than a standard AWP. where do you think that money comes from? as well as saving up for bigger prizes, clup AWPs often run at a lower % as well.
I checked the percentage after my first £20 - 74%. If this is the norm then why do people ever play them? Surely they would be better off offering £3 boards every £5 or so. I understand that the jackpot is much higher but as a player i dont really expect a machine with a jackpot of that size to 'bank' money and then just drop a high win. Much more satisfaction would be got from progessive playing, but say the machine taking £3 for every £10 put in to a secret pot that when full enough will offer a high win such as £50, £75 or jackpot. A bit like the cashpot on Extremes.
I hit the machine with a chair that was behind me. Smashed it striaght into the board section in rage (i hate losing money). Hit it three times before i was ejected from the building. First time i've actaully been physically removed from a building. The alarm was weird though, a robot yelling check out or something at full volume. Made £120 at the casino though, so i was happy by the end of the night.
Oli wrote: I understand that the jackpot is much higher but as a player i dont really expect a machine with a jackpot of that size to 'bank' money and then just drop a high win.
thats exactly how they work. infact it's pretty much exactly how ALL AWPs work.
It's the lure of the big jackpots and other big wins that make people play them. I think they have to run at slightly lower % to cover the fact that when it pays a big lump, the club owner is out of pocket and also the cost of them and I think also the license is higher.
it didn't cost you £40 for a board because of the %. it cost you £40 for a board because someone had recently dropped a big win and it was on it's arse.
The minimum % is the same as the smaller s34 £5-£35 jackpots on UK land, i.e 72%
I believe machines on cross channel ferries can be set to lower than 70% due to different laws, so I guess an unscrupulous owner could do the same with a club machine on land.
On a Mazooma Eclipse S4 the alarm for strim/feed, unauthorised access and wireless violation is a continuous whooping. So the alarm you mentioned is an anomaly. There is no robot voice. Perhaps you saw that episode of casualty where the guy smashed a front of a Shark Raving Mad and got the Barcrest "Hey! Check it out!" which is used for numerous things. That also is innacurate. Good old BBC sound effects team.
I suspect you lost £40, banged the machine in disgust, exchanged words with the barman and walked out harbouring thoughts of destruction.
It's a good job you weren't playing an old club TIJ, that could have been painful.
If you go to a clubber with £40, there's a fairly real chance you could lose it all with very little action. I mean there are plenty of £25 machines where the same applies.
Gambling is horrible and stressful at times. If you're throwing chairs at £40 in, perhaps it's time to up the dose of diazepams.
Streakypoos wrote:The minimum % is the same as the smaller s34 £5-£35 jackpots on UK land, i.e 72%
I believe machines on cross channel ferries can be set to lower than 70% due to different laws, so I guess an unscrupulous owner could do the same with a club machine on land.
On a Mazooma Eclipse S4 the alarm for strim/feed, unauthorised access and wireless violation is a continuous whooping. So the alarm you mentioned is an anomaly. There is no robot voice. Perhaps you saw that episode of casualty where the guy smashed a front of a Shark Raving Mad and got the Barcrest "Hey! Check it out!" which is used for numerous things. That also is innacurate. Good old BBC sound effects team.
I suspect you lost £40, banged the machine in disgust, exchanged words with the barman and walked out harbouring thoughts of destruction.
It's a good job you weren't playing an old club TIJ, that could have been painful.
If you go to a clubber with £40, there's a fairly real chance you could lose it all with very little action. I mean there are plenty of £25 machines where the same applies.
Gambling is horrible and stressful at times. If you're throwing chairs at £40 in, perhaps it's time to up the dose of diazepams.
I think cross channel ferries can only go to a minimum of 68%. I did have more than £40 on me, i just wasnt prepared to put it in the machine when it cost that amount for one board. Alarm may have been check it out, i wasnt really listening. It was definetly a voice though and not a 'standard' alarm sound. Not too clued up on the technical side of machines, but perhaps they use different alarms for different machines? Or maybe the owner gets to choose or something???
