breezyhill
04-24-2009, 10:10 AM
first, i just want to say that i so much enjoy reading this forum. i love everybody's stories, about the wins and the losses, and all the different theories about how to play.
yesterday was my second trip to our closest casino, Hollywood, in grantville, PA. the first time, DH and I went. yesterday, i took my mom. her first time.
so, we each had $20 dollars that we were willing to spend on this excursion, and this is what happened...
it wasn't busy hardly, and we went to the buffet first to eat. they're always advertising on the radio about this Epic Buffet place. well, it was $12.99, plus tax, per person, which is about what you'll pay at one of the local eateries/diners around here. we each left a dollar for the server. so, that left us each $5 bucks to play.
my mom wanted to play a penny progressive slot, grand prize $23,000.00, but i told her that unless you played the "max bet", which would have amounted to something like $2.50 a spin, you didn't have a chance at the jackpot. [i learned all about that pitfall to winning big from reading here].
so, she played anyway, 9 lines, for 1 bet, and believe it or not, she got her $5 up to $7, but then when it got down to below $5, i showed her how to cash out the ticket.
we then wandered some more. i was looking for the white orchid machines that i played the first time we went to the casino, but couldn't find them.
[why don't they have a directory, like at the malls, for what and where all the machines are located?????]
i played the survivor game, nada. cashed out.
saw the wizard of oz machines, all booked, no one looked like they were leaving.
my mom picked a game to play right behind WOZ, can't remember what it was, and i sat down at a reels of irish??? game. put in my ticket. it was a penny machine, 9 lines, i believe. i bet 1.
on my second spin, I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED, but i got some bonus thing where the machine spinned free for me 15 TIMES. there was music and noises and flashing lights. my mom came over, [her money gone], and we just watched this machine doing it's thing.
nothing changed in the win led window while the reels were going, but after the spins it started going up and up and up, all the way to 9,700 points, or something. and then it started converting the points to money. i'm frantically trying to do math in my head. can't think straight. remember my callphone has a calculator on it, so i was trying to calculate what it was going to ultimately be. gave that up, because i wanted to watch the light show and numbers on the machine.
I WON $97 dollars!!!!!!!!
at that point, i felt like i could really "gamble", so i hit the max bet button. i learned a very valuable lesson then, to never hit max bet unless you've done the math. that bet cost me $6 bucks, or maybe it was $6.50. it didn't pay anything.
i cashed out my ticket went to the cashier and got my $91.00 and we hightailed it out of there.
i had different feelings about the money after i got the cash. on one hand, i felt like i could indulge myself and play without a guilty conscience all the games i'd previously walked by. on the other hand, i felt like i should get out while the getting was good, and that's when we decided to leave. and also, because we didn't want to be caught in rush-hour traffic on the expressway going home.
if you've read all this, thank you for indulging me in my telling of my trip to the casino yesterday.
breezyhill
yesterday was my second trip to our closest casino, Hollywood, in grantville, PA. the first time, DH and I went. yesterday, i took my mom. her first time.
so, we each had $20 dollars that we were willing to spend on this excursion, and this is what happened...
it wasn't busy hardly, and we went to the buffet first to eat. they're always advertising on the radio about this Epic Buffet place. well, it was $12.99, plus tax, per person, which is about what you'll pay at one of the local eateries/diners around here. we each left a dollar for the server. so, that left us each $5 bucks to play.
my mom wanted to play a penny progressive slot, grand prize $23,000.00, but i told her that unless you played the "max bet", which would have amounted to something like $2.50 a spin, you didn't have a chance at the jackpot. [i learned all about that pitfall to winning big from reading here].
so, she played anyway, 9 lines, for 1 bet, and believe it or not, she got her $5 up to $7, but then when it got down to below $5, i showed her how to cash out the ticket.
we then wandered some more. i was looking for the white orchid machines that i played the first time we went to the casino, but couldn't find them.
[why don't they have a directory, like at the malls, for what and where all the machines are located?????]
i played the survivor game, nada. cashed out.
saw the wizard of oz machines, all booked, no one looked like they were leaving.
my mom picked a game to play right behind WOZ, can't remember what it was, and i sat down at a reels of irish??? game. put in my ticket. it was a penny machine, 9 lines, i believe. i bet 1.
on my second spin, I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED, but i got some bonus thing where the machine spinned free for me 15 TIMES. there was music and noises and flashing lights. my mom came over, [her money gone], and we just watched this machine doing it's thing.
nothing changed in the win led window while the reels were going, but after the spins it started going up and up and up, all the way to 9,700 points, or something. and then it started converting the points to money. i'm frantically trying to do math in my head. can't think straight. remember my callphone has a calculator on it, so i was trying to calculate what it was going to ultimately be. gave that up, because i wanted to watch the light show and numbers on the machine.
I WON $97 dollars!!!!!!!!
at that point, i felt like i could really "gamble", so i hit the max bet button. i learned a very valuable lesson then, to never hit max bet unless you've done the math. that bet cost me $6 bucks, or maybe it was $6.50. it didn't pay anything.
i cashed out my ticket went to the cashier and got my $91.00 and we hightailed it out of there.
i had different feelings about the money after i got the cash. on one hand, i felt like i could indulge myself and play without a guilty conscience all the games i'd previously walked by. on the other hand, i felt like i should get out while the getting was good, and that's when we decided to leave. and also, because we didn't want to be caught in rush-hour traffic on the expressway going home.
if you've read all this, thank you for indulging me in my telling of my trip to the casino yesterday.
breezyhill