oh ok then: gambling stories it is then:redgamer wrote:matt can u sort this madness out its a fruit machine site to share ure gambling storys not to rip the piss out of each outher
once upon a time, in the mid to late 1990's, i walked into a pub and there was a fruit machine, being played by a guy who i knew from school,
hadnt seen him for a while, and so, i went and said hi,
he was concentrating on the machine, but had enough time inbetween pressing buttons to look up at me and say hello.
unknown to me at the time, my friend was using "severe percentage manipulation" to ensure the machine paid him a few quid more than it should do,
after five minutes of watching, he'd finished, the machine spat out nearly 90 quid...
"wow, that mad!! i thought they could only pay out £15"
"yeah, a lot of people think that, but they pay out a lot more sometimes, do you fancy a pint next door?"
"yeah, ok, BUT ITS YOUR ROUND(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)"
we went next door, and as we went through the door, he said, right, watch me on this machine, stand so the bloke on the bar cant see me...
he put a handful of coins in my hand, and said "mines a fosters"
so i stood, and watched made sure i was inbetween the barman and the machine... my friend used a key on the machine...
he then played it while i was getting the drinks
i took him his pint, he said thanks and put it on the table next to him
a few words of converation about what we'd each been doing for the last couple of years we spoken, and from this talking i found out that my friend considered himself "a professional fruit machine player", eh? what? thats not possible! they're just a bandit, you press it and you either win or lose? surely you cant make a living from them?
he showed me this key he'd used, and explained,
it doesnt make you win, but it tells you how much is is the machine, you can see is anyone else has taken much money out, therefore, you have a slight advantage
WOW! i was really suprised, i didnt really understand, so he continued explaining, that the machines were just like a computer game, but ther was a certain point in which the "computer" makes it impossible to progress through the game, only by plaing more credits would you be able to progress, and the jackpot was the end of the game...
he then told me, that it wasnt all about the normal gameplay, although if you knew the game it was possible to win every now and again...
it was more to do with the "cheats"... NO, wait a minute, there aint cheats... its not like playing a game and pressing up and dwon on the loading screen with the firebutton pressed...
no, he replied... its to do with the programmers either messing up, or putting stuff in for you to find...
whatever....
right he said: wait a minute, and watch...
he played a few minutes, and i didnt really understand what he was doing... apart from putting just about enough money in for enough drinks for a weekend!!
i was starting to get board when: RIGHT, hold down those three buttons.
eh? which ones?,... "these 3"
oh ok...
all i remember was the machine making noises like farm animals...
every now and again hed press a button too, and then it'd do the farm noises again, but for longer...
the machine had numbers of money written olong the bottom of the glass, 1 1.20 2 2.40 3 4 5 6 10 15...
the money went all the way to the £15 and the machine started flashing all the lights...
i had NO IDEA what was happening... but it said jackpot on the little screen
the £15 added up and the machine made loads of noise...
£15 quid? yeah, big deal, you put more than that in it!
my mate pressed a few buttons, and it all started again...
we stood for about 20 minutes, with the machine making noises as if you were killing pigs and chickens, then every couple of minutes it'd tell him he had another jackpot..
he took about £100 out, then said to me... right, its your go...
he got me so the reels werent spinning and so we were playing on the board bit at the top... and he insisted i pressed collect...
the middle reel span really really fast and he told me to press the button..
i did and it stopped and i won £3
i laughed and said sweet £3... "you can have that dave" he said
we'd finished our drinks nearly anyway so we drank up, he pocketed the rest of the money and we left the pub..
outside he explained that that machine was made with a fault, a fault that let you win the jackpot over and over again the machine didnt even know it'd given it...
ive moved away dave, i dont come round here much anymore, gimmie your number, ill ring you when im next down here...
we swapped numbers, god, putting a new name in a motorolla 201 took about ten minutes... but he took mine and it went in his nokia 702 in about 3 presses.. wow, nice phone!
after meeting an old school friend, and getting a fast track guide to playing a fruit machine, i just went about my everyday buisness, id been out about an hour and a half, it was saturday, about 4pm, id only gone down the street to see if matt was in, he'd supposed to have got some new pirate videos in.. but he wasnt there, or in the pub, strange.. usually in about this time.. oh well, i wandered home, had to get ready, was going out that night
got the bus to town, meeting everyone in our regular starting point, got a pint and found everyone.. told them who id bumped into, and what we'd done that afternoon...
had my hand in my pocket, and there was the £3 from the bandit...
my exact words were "well, it came from nothing, might as well have a shot"
me and a few lads stood around the machine... funnily enough, it was the same one as earlyer that day.. id never realised they were the same or different or anything... just a lit up box in the bar
so i put the £3 in, and i pressed the button, between the three of us we managed to work it all out, getting a win, gambling it with the start button, the exchange button lit up but we didnt know what that one was and we got lose.... £1 was still lit, and exchange... and collect... we tried exchange.. not sure what it did to start with, oh.. it let us on the top bit...
we lost... it ran out of money and we just stood...
oh well.. there goes the £3..
come-on dave, lets have another drink...
yeah, ok... but wait a minute, im gonna ring him, im sure this is the same, he won a hundred quid earlyer.. he might tell us how to do it
ring ring,
ring ring
"alrite mate, how you doing?"
"yeah, yeah, im ok, hey, i was wondering... you know that machine from earlyer... the same ones in our local, tell me how you did all that earlyer?"
ok, ok,, .....ok , no of course, i promise, yeah, ok, yeah seriously ok..
he made me promise i wouldnt tell anyone, not even my mates who i was with,
he said to put about a fiver in, and play, look for the bars he said, theres a 3 a 2 and a 1, get them in that order, press this, press that, see what happens, 321 123 213 231 321 1231 123123123 12god, it was so confusing, but i think id got what he was saying...
anyway, i put another few quid in, and id actually managed to get the bars, and id pressed the 321 slowly, making sure the buttons had pressed then i held all of htem down, the machine started counting up the money again... i had to let go when it was on £15
all the light went on.. the hairs on the back of my neck stood on end... i was stood with a few mates, in the pub, playing on a fruit machine, cheating on a fruit machine WINNING on a fruit machine...
i got 4 jackpots on the machine, thats the most he told me to get.. he said, dont be greedy and then i wouldnt get into trouble and to ring him in the morning and he'd come down and see how things went..
me and my mates got wasted.. too wasted to go to the club, after all it was quite early on, we all drank till we were really drunk, then the rest of the machine money paid for all of us to get a taxi home instead of walking like we usually did..
about 11 the next day, he showed up at mine, my dad let him in, and we sat for a bit.. then we went out to the pub....
he told me this machine was a one off, it wasnt going to do it forever as theyd mend it sooner or later (he actually rang me about a month after and said not to try it anymore as it wouldnt work) he told me that if i stayed playing certain makes of machines and played them in a certain way id learn the ropes, and if anything interesting showed up he'd give me a ring, and he also said, that if i saw a lad we knew from 2 years above us at school, not to play the machines as he'd have battered them.
i went out from out little meeting (£30 richer as he showed me EXACTLY how to do what id done the day before) and didnt really intend to play the machines very often, just when i was there...
but i found myself going to the pub in the week, just to play the machine, i won too, more or less every time... cause i was only playing this one machine.. in my local and using the "cheat" id been told
they changed the machine about 2 or 3 weeks later...
one phone call and i knew that this machine was ok too, but just not s realiable to win on, just watch and see when people lose on it, then play and dont collect anything apart from the jackpot, when it gives it to you, dont press the button to collect it, jsut keep going till you lose, do this a few times then collect the jackpot... DONT TELL ANYONE HOW TO PLAY IT
ok...
it went from there... by now, id worked out that if you held 3 times it span in
id played a few where you could get symbols instead of wins
id played one and it'd gone red, and let me gamble to the end of the board
id played a few an lost
id had repeat jackpots
id had quick steals
id actually managed to work out what eleventh heaven was.. all you had to do was hit the 11, and it got the £15
i stayed in touch with him, not just for the fruit machines, he'd been a good mate at school, just lost touch, then randomly met again...
it wasnt something many of my other mates approved of, and my mums words were "what the fuck are you wasting your time and money on those for" but all in all, it was a good thing, i was winning... in the beginning i was winning.
i did an online search (internet wasnt that good back then 56k modem and a 386 on a tiny screen) and i found a few bits and bobs on the internet for gambling.. there was actually a use for the internet afterall...
"r-cadia" "where the pros go"
after a few weeks of posting i knew a few people dotted around the country, found a lot of really good tips, and managed to get myself a "refill key"...
i played at weekends, i was young and working horrific shifts and in my spare time i was too busy fucking one of my mates girlfriend, never really made any money after the tricks id learned stopped working, every few months or so id find something worth knowing, but never really bothered searching out the machines, i gradually started recognising faces, well the backs of other players heads, i did at one point for a couple of years make a very fair amount of money through a mass of information from my mate before he moved away, havent seen or spoke to him in years now,
and another bloke i knew, well, he started playing poker.... he gave up the fruit machines, but he kept me well informed to what was going off in the "scene" he died of pneumonia a few years back, i then took a step back and started to play less and less, i went for about a year and a half without playing at all, apart from one machine that was too simple to ignore, nowadays i look at the internet sites, and i say fareplay to anyone who still makes money, its a little better for you now, as theyve stopped smoking in pubs, its healthyer, apart from theres no way you're suing anyone when you all get bad backs, i work now, trained into a trade, and although its fun to play... sometimes i even enjoy losing a few quid, sometimes i have a blowout and run a few hundred through the machines, sometimes get drunk and lose a heap of money in one go...
married now, getting on a bit, looking for a proper career, making profits from fruit machines or a living without having to work doesnt look good on a cv...
you'll see me one day.. pumping a machine you know how to empty, and you'll just be looking waiting for me to move on so you can rip all the money back out, hopefully i wont be too far into it!
a few things to remember:
the official word for someone playing without knowing what they are doing is a mug punter "munter"
it will go away eventually, but just not yet
there is always someone better than you at fruities
if you ever meet "bus pro" from arcadia, she gives a wicked blowjob
you're not the first and you wont be the last.
and your all fucking chavs
