A Decent Saturday ...

[Nixxy]

For once I beat my rivals into town, and made £258 profit today, despite a bad start:

Invincible (Red) - £155 in £140 out
Manic Miner (BFG) - £20 in £45 out
DOND HoF (BFG) - £11 in for a £29 deal

Vortex (Red) - £33 in £105 out
Monster Cash (GM) - £65 in £60 out

Cash Attack (Barcrest) - £48 in £95 out
Warped (GM) £125 in £105 top (argh!)
Lucky Strike (Barcrest) - £35 in £34 top
Flashback (video AWP) - £14 in £32 out

Money Magic (GM) - £23 in £70 top
SMTM £45 in £85 out

into final pub ...

Lucky Devil (Red) - £38 in £70 top.

Minus off two oyster card fares (£2 in total), 5 pints (totalling just shy of £15) and an XL Bacon Double Cheeseburger meal (£4.79) and I returned home with approx. £230 I didn't have this morning. It's been a VERY long time since a Saturday in this part of London went so well ... anyone else have any joy today?

[ma71lda]

Nice result Nixxy, if you don't mind a cock saying so.

I played my first HoF yesterday, £6 in, £27 deal, even though I had £35 in my box (allegedly). Do you have more than one to play on? If so whats your impression of it. I can't really have an opinion after only £6 worth of play but they're trying to copy the Red formula, and I can't see the phones being as closely placed again as they were, strangely enough I'm looking forward playing this DOND again soon.

As for today, I was happy with yesterdays result so I stayed in, plus she was working and I don't think Social Services would take kindly to a 3 year old kid waiting outside 'Spoons for Daddy!! Unfortunately today a 90th minute goal cost me £118.xx in a 4 draw accy, never mind eh.

[anfield road]

You play some shite machines

[Mattb]

Watch out for HOF, as when its dead there is a £4 and huge phone block, as well as expensive boards. Once you are through the £4 block then phones should be nearby.

[Nixxy]

I played my first HoF yesterday, £6 in, £27 deal, even though I had £35 in my box (allegedly). Do you have more than one to play on? If so whats your impression of it. I can't really have an opinion after only £6 worth of play but they're trying to copy the Red formula, and I can't see the phones being as closely placed again as they were, strangely enough I'm looking forward playing this DOND again soon.

I can think of about 4 places with HoF - but it's very unlike me to actually play it. The first time I saw one I played it out, and lost about £20 in my quest for a JP. I was only playing one today because someone else stuck a pound coin in and I heard it back, which given the pub and it's location is very unusual for 4pm on a Saturday. I can see the Red resemblence to a point; but really it isn't a good machine - you pretty much know when you're about to lose on the hi/lo so I was hoping for one good board - and fluked 3 phones to play the DOND board.

Without wishing to put a dampener on things, I wouldn't look forward to your next grapple with HoF *too* much.

[gambogaz1]

Watch out for HOF, as when its dead there is a £4 and huge phone block, as well as expensive boards. Once you are through the £4 block then phones should be nearby.

Down to a tee that is. This beast will think nothing of taking £10 - £15 for a nudge board with no win on if dead. Play it like Manic muncher. Try and get 2 phones off nudges with a win on thats got a phone lit on it.

[itsme]

Good result Nixxy

[ma71lda]

Cheers for the advice.
I half expect this machine to go downhill in my opinion next time I play it. Expect a 'bloody HoF' post in the near future!

[Mattb]

Watch out for HOF, as when its dead there is a £4 and huge phone block, as well as expensive boards. Once you are through the £4 block then phones should be nearby.

Down to a tee that is. This beast will think nothing of taking £10 - £15 for a nudge board with no win on if dead. Play it like Manic muncher. Try and get 2 phones off nudges with a win on thats got a phone lit on it.

Yeah to a degree you can prise the phones in, but its hard. If you get 2 on nudges and it doesn't want you to have the third, it'll keep shuffling to a win 1 below phones where the gamble will always lose.

[Matt Vinyl]

Good stuff! I managed to double my £180 in my pocket to £360 (just over, actually!) from a combination of playing my few good machines, and a few duff ones as well. A pub had replaced all three of it's machines that morning (Friday) and they were all good for profit (RtR, Money Spider, DOND WIYB). It was an enjoyable day, even with the supposed 'guff' like Gold Rush, Money Spider, JPTRR.

Just remembered that Sppns owe me a crisp £20 after putting it into an ItBox to play Monopoly, I got to ~4000 points and it froze on me.

[bigv038]

DOND HoF (BFG)

why are you playing this muck?

[pickareel]

very lucky on the stuff u played,take it the vortex n cash attac were in quicksilver

[RUDE]

There's a lot of rubbish machines there! However, I'm partial to doing a bit of swede on something completely stupid so I'm not one to talk!

[Nixxy]

very lucky on the stuff u played,take it the vortex n cash attac were in quicksilver

The Vortex is brilliantly located in one of those studenty 'Its a Scream!' pubs, and isn't visible from the street; consequently the vast majority of people who stick change in it are tax-dodging students who can't afford the force.

I found another Vortex today well-located in a Toby Carvery which is almost totally inaccessible other than by car. I am happy to make the 20-min walk from the nearest station if it's gonna pay dividends! The vast majority of people who seem to spend money on fruities in these places aren't familiar with what they have to do; and half the time they only stick their money in after perpetual nagging by their 5-yr-old kids just to keep them happy. All they succeed in doing is loading them up

Apologies in advance to all students who took offence to the previous comment - no offence intended!

[Mattb]

Pretty much a good generalisation :P

I was of course an exception at uni as i wasn't a swede like like the majority - who like nixxy says get pissed up and think nothing of lobbing £0-£20 in a machine for a laugh. I remember once back at uni there was a 50p/£25 OAR in a club that i ended up forcing 3 times in 4 hours! So much play!