power cuts????

red22 · Post by **red22** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:00 am

he aint no player , hes a moron who dont even play fruits.

The Player · Post by **The Player** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:37 am

red22 wrote:he aint no player , hes a moron who dont even play fruits.

This moron is beating you to it time and time again
You go on thinking I am somone else and I will keep taking your money
I've even offered to meet you and you bottled it
Now who's the moron ?

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 2:59 pm

Another situation i had last weekend was with an Invincible, you can see it from the window and its been off about a fortnight, i can see a piece of White paper stuck to it so i assume its broke, nipped in for a pint anyway and had a read to see what the note said.

''Anyone who wants to play this machine then ask someone behind the bar to turn it on, bandits have been coming in taking the mickey, the landlord''

After i've got my pint i decided to ask her, the worse she can do is say no, was quite surprised when she turned it on, made just under £50 on it and it was ready from the off, its a pay and give so they can hear a full £35 spitting out then usually another one, i don't think it would be as on top if you could collect £3 here and there, soon as they hear £35 its gets everyones attention, i had a £50 mega streak out a deal wheel earlier and one old boy says 'if you take much more it will be empty' and i was £58 in at the time :x feel like shouting at the twats.

gambogaz1 · Post by **gambogaz1** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 3:24 pm

Made me laugh on saturday listening to some lads playing popeye. They got the DOND game and had £35/MS £6 £1 50p 10p left with a generous offer of £13 odd, he no dealt and it then knocked out the £35 and MS

he ended up no dealing all the way for a 10p box.
Next board he's back in the DOND game again and this time he has £35 £10 £4 £2 20p 1p with an offer of £10odd which he deals to find £35 in his box.
He then starts having a rant with his mate saying "There's 2 amounts on them reels!!! If id have no dealt it would have shown 20p or something not the jackpot!!! They think we're thick enough to believe that £35 was there!!"

sharky007 · Post by **sharky007** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 3:30 pm

this happens in a few places i goto switch the machines straight of even if you get a pint
so dont bother going in them now just stick to the pubs that are ok to go in
some of the pubs are getting well on top lately though

CrosbyRules · Post by **CrosbyRules** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 3:43 pm

had a turn off today...so tempting to pipe up..

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 6:28 pm

aaamusements.co.uk wrote:.. and that these are not the droids that you are looking for.

Well it would work for Mr Brown anyway!

Nixxy · Post by **Nixxy** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:18 pm

Stopnstep wrote:It's the toolers that have made it on top for everyone, as soon as landlords hear a lot of money come out they automatically think the machine is being done over.

This point seems to have gone unnoticed - but Stopnstep is absolutely right.

It's one thing people winning, manipulating or working out an emptier - it's quite another when the landlords are aware of tooling and that the security of the cabinet is being compromised. They start to think that having the machine AT ALL is becoming a bad idea and become over-protective of it.

Stop tooling and much of the problem will have been solved.

sir ratholer · Post by **sir ratholer** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 8:35 am

Been the victim of a few "power cuts" in my time, in the past I used to just tolerate it as an occupational hazard, now I call them out on it - my approach on the whole is much more confrontational if necessary which I find works far better...

Also when a machine switches off as soon as I walk in I will either accuse them of doing that on purpose straight away, or if the location is pretty valuable and they have a lot of different staff, I'll get a drink as usual and then go back a day or two later - if it gets switched off again then the gloves are off!!

As far as barrings go, haven't been barred from a pub since the summer when I got jammed in a couple of pubs, one for an unchipped 4 Reeler, one an unchipped P5 and one a first program CA, pretty understandable lol, tho I think I might have fired it up in the CA pub when I ordered 1/2 a diet coke (seemingly safe pub) and got charged £2.30 for it, when I promptly said "wouldn't advertise those prices" to the landlord!!

I haven't really noticed it getting more on top, in fact I've been hitting pubs harder and they seem to be just accepting it, and I'll go in all but the roughest pubs. One thing I've done lately which seems to work is to work on my friendlyness, i.e. making eye contact and saying take care, have a good evening or whatever when I leave the pub, works well in my pubs anyway.

Completely agree on the £70 JPs tho, wonder who is going to be the first player to be robbed/beaten up/kidnapped over a £210 roll if they are possible...

GaryChandler · Post by **GaryChandler** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:04 am

m well up for getting my head kicked in for a £210 top

trayhop123 · Post by **trayhop123** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:27 pm

tell you what gaz m8 ,,,,,, we will all hold a collection for 210 ,,,,,, then we can all give you a kicking :P

GaryChandler · Post by **GaryChandler** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:55 pm

Is that £210 per person?

harry2 · Post by **harry2** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 12:02 am

The last pub I got barred from for telling the landlord to "Stop putting beer in the water". He wasn't impressed.

Slammer · Post by **Slammer** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 8:31 am

GaryChandler wrote:m well up for getting my head kicked in for a £210 top

Even after you've put 340 in to get it?

red22 · Post by **red22** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 9:01 am

come on then ill meet you. you are shit if you are a player mate thats all im saying.