Pesky bar staff loitering

megastreaker · Post by **megastreaker** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:01 am

I played a Road 2 Riches on New Year Eve in a Hogs Head. I put £40 in and it gave me £35 and then a few quid. Anyway, the bar manager who had finished his shift waltzes over and £10 later drops the Road To Riches for £52 quid or something. He then watches me win £10 on a Bucks bunny and then goes on and get £15 off it and then he played another one that some guy had played.

Feel like reporting him as he shouldn't really do this. He told me he watches all day long and then he gets the key and checks the hoppers before deciding whether to play it.

Is this allowed? I won't be playing machines as part of my new years resolution but he was just wrong. I ended up telling one guy not to play R2R as the bar manager was watching him. The munter thanked me and walked away leaving the manager a bit peeved that I'd burst his bubble.

RUDE · Post by **RUDE** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:07 am

This isn't really right but more to the point, why did you take £10 on a 'Bucks' and then leave it?

megastreaker · Post by **megastreaker** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:15 am

I don't play machines that seriously these days. I was with my mate and his GF and she was not happy I was playing so I just figured the £10 was a round of drinks etc. Would you have forced it further? Is it a good machine?

Dunhamzzz · Post by **Dunhamzzz** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:23 am

Also ask yourself, why accept a flat £35 on R2R and leave it? Ive never had theses just go in once then dead.

Had 35/35/90 the other day.

RUDE · Post by **RUDE** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:24 am

Fair point, I'm always very careful not to come across as anti-social when I'm out with non-playing mates (so much so I don't really do it at all anymore).

Bucks is a reasonable machine if you know how to play it (hi-lo'ing on bonuses and shots etc.) and can be worth a force if offering £10 pretty quickly and they can run / do £105 tops.

Given your situation though, you did the right thing as they can take a while!

megastreaker · Post by **megastreaker** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:28 am

Yeah I get sucked in easily. I was on a deadline to catch the last train to my mates house. If I get committed then I end up missing train and then spending the winnings on a taxi.

As for the R2R I sometimes do recycle the £35 but I get bored and find that ur just recycling for an eternity and never end up winning too much.

ma71lda · Post by **ma71lda** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:39 am

Was this the Hogs Head on Deansgate M/C, megastreaker?

megastreaker · Post by **megastreaker** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:45 am

No mate. What makes you think that? I'm not from Liverpool

megastreaker · Post by **megastreaker** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:55 am

Sorry meant not from Manchester but from Liverpool

ma71lda · Post by **ma71lda** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:06 pm

I thought I'd read somewhere that you play in Manchester or are from the area, especially when I read about the Manager beng a knob because a couple of years ago I had the same problem with a Chef

(If you can call pressing a microwave button being a chef). Could be the same bloke, promoted like.

megastreaker · Post by **megastreaker** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:14 pm

No not me mate. Liverpool for me

Dunhamzzz · Post by **Dunhamzzz** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:53 pm

There is an Edit button. Use it.

megastreaker · Post by **megastreaker** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 1:40 pm

WTF?????

Why?

bigv038 · Post by **bigv038** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 2:43 pm

megastreaker wrote:WTF?????

Why?

That's why:

megastreaker wrote:No mate. What makes you think that? I'm not from Liverpool

megastreaker wrote:Sorry meant not from Manchester but from Liverpool

Two posts are not better than one :P

megastreaker · Post by **megastreaker** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 2:58 pm

True but he could have asked nicely.