sir ratholer wrote:I personally feel that there is NOTHING that you can do to avoid getting barred from certain locations.
I have a stakes and prizes that I have to myself, I order food, talk to the staff, and still the guy sits next door to me whilst I'm on it yesterday. I hit wild thing in front of his face and he is screwing. Says I'm ruining his machine take, and is in liason with Ivor Thomas about the machine. Which is interesting as I'm sure they were well aware of the machine's limitations before it was sited.
Some people are just too money obsessed not to have an issue with someone taking £70+ out of their fruit machine. They don't, however, usually notice the money going in. It's a very one sided relationship.
What really gets my goat is the chain pubs. Why do they give a fuck? Apart from jealousy, I suppose. As we have discussed, 2 for 1 pubs, and also wetherspoons have definitely had some sort of meeting about players and to try and get rid of them. I don't understand why chain pubs have an issue. A free house, maybe. Taking out a big win immediately before a collection could cause problems, I suppose.
As for me, I don't really care any more. I'll draw the line at some places but for the rest, I'll just do them relentlessly until I'm barred. If you want to blame someone for that, it's the machine companies. If they sited enough playables and less noels/tioli's/bank jobs etc then I wouldn't have to. Furthermore I have concrete evidence that they are telling sites to bar me (Ivor Thomas there). You would think that it's crazy that pubs take the advice of other companies to bar someone, but there you go.
If anyone accuses me of fraud, I'm going to accuse them of being a paedophile. Because one groundless accusation deserves another.
If anyone tries to quietly come over to me and bar me (hence without the rest of the pub noticing), I'm going to shout 'How many times do I have to tell you, I'm not gay!' at the top of my voice.
Fed up with it all, and now I'm going to fight fire with fire.
sir ratholer wrote:I personally feel that there is NOTHING that you can do to avoid getting barred from certain locations.
I have a stakes and prizes that I have to myself, I order food, talk to the staff, and still the guy sits next door to me whilst I'm on it yesterday. I hit wild thing in front of his face and he is screwing. Says I'm ruining his machine take, and is in liason with Ivor Thomas about the machine. Which is interesting as I'm sure they were well aware of the machine's limitations before it was sited.
Some people are just too money obsessed not to have an issue with someone taking £70+ out of their fruit machine. They don't, however, usually notice the money going in. It's a very one sided relationship.
What really gets my goat is the chain pubs. Why do they give a fuck? Apart from jealousy, I suppose. As we have discussed, 2 for 1 pubs, and also wetherspoons have definitely had some sort of meeting about players and to try and get rid of them. I don't understand why chain pubs have an issue. A free house, maybe. Taking out a big win immediately before a collection could cause problems, I suppose.
As for me, I don't really care any more. I'll draw the line at some places but for the rest, I'll just do them relentlessly until I'm barred. If you want to blame someone for that, it's the machine companies. If they sited enough playables and less noels/tioli's/bank jobs etc then I wouldn't have to. Furthermore I have concrete evidence that they are telling sites to bar me (Ivor Thomas there). You would think that it's crazy that pubs take the advice of other companies to bar someone, but there you go.
If anyone accuses me of fraud, I'm going to accuse them of being a paedophile. Because one groundless accusation deserves another.
If anyone tries to quietly come over to me and bar me (hence without the rest of the pub noticing), I'm going to shout 'How many times do I have to tell you, I'm not gay!' at the top of my voice.
Fed up with it all, and now I'm going to fight fire with fire.
Fucking love that 'if anyone tries to quietly..................' bit!!!
The trouble now is that while 12 months ago you could get decent stuff in city centre pubs that were no trouble at all....it just doesn't happen any more. Generally the only good playables are out of town in quiet pubs that give you shit. You just have to grin and bear it now, and keep going until you get the boot. If you don't, you won't make.
"Sixty percent of the time, it works, every time!"
sir ratholer wrote:I personally feel that there is NOTHING that you can do to avoid getting barred from certain locations.
I have a stakes and prizes that I have to myself, I order food, talk to the staff, and still the guy sits next door to me whilst I'm on it yesterday. I hit wild thing in front of his face and he is screwing. Says I'm ruining his machine take, and is in liason with Ivor Thomas about the machine. Which is interesting as I'm sure they were well aware of the machine's limitations before it was sited.
Some people are just too money obsessed not to have an issue with someone taking £70+ out of their fruit machine. They don't, however, usually notice the money going in. It's a very one sided relationship.
What really gets my goat is the chain pubs. Why do they give a fuck? Apart from jealousy, I suppose. As we have discussed, 2 for 1 pubs, and also wetherspoons have definitely had some sort of meeting about players and to try and get rid of them. I don't understand why chain pubs have an issue. A free house, maybe. Taking out a big win immediately before a collection could cause problems, I suppose.
As for me, I don't really care any more. I'll draw the line at some places but for the rest, I'll just do them relentlessly until I'm barred. If you want to blame someone for that, it's the machine companies. If they sited enough playables and less noels/tioli's/bank jobs etc then I wouldn't have to. Furthermore I have concrete evidence that they are telling sites to bar me (Ivor Thomas there). You would think that it's crazy that pubs take the advice of other companies to bar someone, but there you go.
If anyone accuses me of fraud, I'm going to accuse them of being a paedophile. Because one groundless accusation deserves another.
If anyone tries to quietly come over to me and bar me (hence without the rest of the pub noticing), I'm going to shout 'How many times do I have to tell you, I'm not gay!' at the top of my voice.
Fed up with it all, and now I'm going to fight fire with fire.
The big chains now give a fuck because of the money. How much do you reckon spoons lost on p1 dial? The one in my town lost £240 a day for over 3 weeks. Also - and here is the main reason - how many players don't buy a drink? How many times have players posted on here you don't need a drink on a spoons? Of course we are not welcome! Also it not good for the pub image is it? I have a spoons and LLyods very local. I'm sound in both because i drink there regularly. Buy a few drinks - its not rocket science! Another point - how many times do you think Spoons / Yates etc have seen players - without drinks - arguing with each other when they clash. You all know what i mean - the needless abuse and threats which give all players a bad name. If i was a landlord - or just a paid manager for a chain - i would not want that sort of non-customer anywhere near my pub.
I work for a 'chain' pub, i can't see players as a head office headache, the only emails we get are for tooling, it's probably closer to home, you think chef's are bad for the machines, you should see the managers, the next time a manager bars you, likelihood is he has a vested interest in his own personal income, over the pubs!
Also, you think it's difficult hiding methods from staff, you should see what it's like when you work there and you're trying to hide it from you're workmates/managers, it's like a fucking spectator sport when i'm on the machine.
Garunteed Still a sore one on cowden's end though, the money they'll make on a tuesday night game is nothing like they would've made today, dirty celtic cunts who started it still got their game by lying to foriegn ref's!!
Still a sore one on cowden's end though, the money they'll make on a tuesday night game is nothing like they would've made today, dirty celtic cunts who started it still got their game by lying to foriegn ref's!!