True success

[betchrider]

Not quite fruity related, but won enough on Give Us A Break quiz machines to put a deposit on my first house, cost £49,000. Managed to make £7500 before they added thousands of questions. Basicallly it was one of the first generation quiz machines where you answered an easy red question for one point and then picked a colour from yellow (two points) to black (seven points). There was only about 250 black ball questions and it didnt take long to know all of the answers. After 5 reds and blacks you had to answer the six colour questions, again there wasn't that many. There was only myself and one other guy in Reading doing them. Lasted about three months. Probably wasted three times as much buying halves of coke.

How old are you harry?Did you ever go doncaster?

[harry2]

I'm probably the oldest git on here. Give Us A Break was 1985/6. Never went to Doncaster but won enough in Blackpool to stay in a four star hotel for three months.

[mr lugsy]

i remember the quizzer in question ,there was still one in the belstead arms in ipswich on the original q set in summer 1987, my dads mate knew practically every answer,he was a ludicrously clever man ,one of the 10 minute times crossword brigade,rarely took him over 8 minutes ,the guy could have been anything..............but he was a brickies labourer ...........his downfall was guiness and whisky chasers. i used to sometimes con him into going splits on it lol.
he wasn't interested in looking around for m/cs to play???????????

[harry2]

The bloody things were always empty though. None of this IOU on the display. Just paid short. You had to accept the loss or risk the machines being always turned off.

[mr lugsy]

i can't complain about the no iou's back in the glory days, i must have ripped thousands by "overstating" shortfalls in arcades.

[fmlad2002]

Got a good car, got a good ammount saved up, got a full wardrobe worth about 2K!

being on loads of holidays and am looking to get a flat!

and the lifestyle is superb!

Own 3 propertys, only one has a small mortgage, got a good car, and a high paid job..

Certainly didnt get there by playing fruit machines, though i did make around 60k over a 5 year streatch a few years back.

[betchrider]

I'm probably the oldest git on here. Give Us A Break was 1985/6. Never went to Doncaster but won enough in Blackpool to stay in a four star hotel for three months.

Ican remember being at school and seeing some 6 footer wi adenim jacket over his shoulder smash one and he even said i could have what he won on his last credit which of course was a tenner(sweet)

[redlinesman]

This games all about getting caught up in the momment for most people. We think were really clever (we aren't) because we can make money from the machines but lets face, nearly anyone can do it......its all about be shown and told what to do. Theres always the people who come out and say they worked that one out for themselves and no doubt in some situations they do, but at the end of the day we nearly all rely on somebody. I used to think it was the best thing in the world, making money off the bandits, I used to have the attituide that I was cleverer than everyone else and to a certain extent I'd treat some people like idiots. I was simply immature and today playing fruits for a living doesn't excite me like it used to. When people used to ask me what I did for a living I would feel a sense of pride with the answer I was about to give, even if people did give a some what puzzled look to my reply. That sense of pride evaporates with maturity and certainly when you have more life experience.

Saying all this I still really enjoy it and when it dissapears there will be some great memories to look back on. The ability to earn money when you want is a good feeling and I bet plenty of people in full time jobs would love to swap positions. All in all I think it's an adventure, a journey that will end soon in my oponion.

[trayhop123]

well mark pyne is right about me on another thread , about 8 years ago i had only ammased about 26k , but you have to bear in mind that i had also lived like a king , you know the lifestyle chinky kebab everynight , every latest game console , tv etc , clothes , car etc , not too shabby but nowt compared to some other players , then i bought my council house for 31k with a loan from another slotter , waited 3 years and spent 20kon it , then sold it for 118k , so after paying back the other player , legal fees etc , its left me 80k , i then spent around 12k on two one month hollidays to america and thailand ,

i now rent a flat , and stil have a nice car , designer cloths by the shed load and every electrical gadget you can name from ps3 hd tv psp mp3 tsb rac lol etc , and stil have the flush lifestyle of takeouts every night , and buy it now , dont need to save for it etc ,

after paying parents 36k towards their mortgage closeure,
and if i were to sell everything i owned from premium bonds , car etc everything , i could put my hands on 80k , not too bad ( i hope that answers your other post mark m

i think ive done very well , but its not even a drop in the ocean compaird with other players i know , i know of at least 3 that are 200k in front and there not toolers , ,,,,,, as for toolers i wont mention any names , but one particular tooler down south has around 3quarters of a million in property alone ,( those in the know , know who it is)

there are lots and lots of players that have done better out of this game than me though , and good luck to em ,,,,,,


dissapline is most definatly the key

[kidgloves]

Each to their own I say.
I couldn't imagine playing fruits full time, I simply love what I do as a full time job and that means that when I do play the machines, it's still an entertaining hobby which can yield profits that are more than adequate for me.
I've never been a full time player so I don't know the mindset required, however having just gone back to work after 6 weeks off and having a month of that to do as much slotting as possible, when I wanted, It only took me a couple of days of full days to yearn for a day off them. The only niggle was the 'daily ready' hits, you know the type - Cluedo's etc that were going begging, but I had to weigh that up against getting known in a location for going in every day anyway which I don't like so it all balances out.
Maybe I'm more polite, more paranoid than you full timers but I haven't got the guts to just go in, buy a soft drink and straight onto the machine. Maybe in my locals where they've known me for years, but not out of my own stomping ground. The thought of recently discussed posts involving ring rounds, dodgy Landlords giving you grief and getting barred from places which potentially sever you from a lucrative lifeline for the day/week and it all being the main income simply scares me.
Thinking about it hard, I don't have the discipline either. I play Anfield's unplayables quite often, but again there's entertainment in there and profit is a bonus. Never stick on them long but it wouldn't do for a full time affair.
I'm not talking the crap like Showtime which just puts you on uber tilt straight away, but things like Bucks, even Crazy Chair can be fun if it's in a good mood. That's all mixed with the stuff worth playing and I tend to only play the worse stuff in the same pubs as the better stuff. There - another reason I couldn't be full time - winning on the decent machine to lose half the profit in the one not worth playing, but It doesn't bother me that much.
As for banking it up over the years ? Well it's a big fat zero as far as machines go. The main job caters for the savings account, the machines are a healthy side line in lining ones pockets and on good rounds, putting a couple of hundred extra in the bank, and this I'm happy with and will stay happy with for the rest of my playable life.

[Istenem]

but you have to bear in mind that i had also lived like a king , you know the lifestyle chinky kebab everynight , every latest game console , tv etc , clothes , car etc ,

i think most kings have one or two more concessions to luxury

[JG]

Not at all. Many kings are unable to eat chinky kebabs. There are two reasons for this injustice. The first is that when they ring up the chinky kebab place, they are asked who is ordering, "King George" they say sheepishly. Then they are asked for their address, "The Palace" at which point the phone is put down sharpish. The second reason is that a king's lower digestive tract must contain stools of good consistency at all times. It is royal etiquette that a king should only have to use one sheet of toilet paper per bowel motion. Therefore a king's usual meal would be something like steamed haddock and potatoes and carrots. Even parsley sauce is considered a high risk additive to that meal. Breakfast is bran flakes and and maybe a hard boiled egg.

So to be able to eat a chinky kebab every night is a lifestyle BETTER than that of a king.


Cheers,

Not Mark

[trayhop123]

y oh y r u signing off as mark , george old boy ?????

[JG]

Identity crisis.

Cheers,

JG (once more)

[trayhop123]

anyhooooows , back to the topic in hand ,,

any more positive sucess stories?????????????