Vegas Story.. #2

[Diggin4copper]

I played a penny slot machine yesterday and won 10,000 pennies! They had the audacity to pay me in paper! Yuk! I gave it right back to them! Not all at once, but I left it there...

[ed_vantage17]

Wouldn't be fair if you actually kept the money.

[fb101]

they'd have been all zincs anyway

[creshka46]

I've been wondering about those penny slots. Do you actually put physical pennies into those, or is it all digital?

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

What happens in Vegas.....stays in Vegas......especially winnings!

[Silver Addict]

I've been wondering about those penny slots. Do you actually put physical pennies into those, or is it all digital?

Used to be physical pennies in the old downtown the first time I went, about 15 years ago. I think pretty much everything in the main casinos are switched over and don't actually take pennies now.

[JadeDragon]

I only saw coin slots in downtown a couple years ago, not on the strip. Maybe also in some grocery stores etc. I went through a bunch of nickels - feed bills in, cash out the nickels. Found one war nick but nothing else. There were 1/2 slots too but no silver I could find. 1/2s were really worn but I was able to buy them in rolls to check and dump in bulk.

On the strip some casinos use 1/2s on the blackjack tables. I was able to buy from the cash cages, but no silver.
Only found silver 1/2s at a bank I visited. It was easy to dump 1/2s loose in some of the casinos, which is great because at home I have to roll everything I dump.

[Copper Catcher]

Heading to Vegas soon...

All the real silver strike machine tokens are no more...There are a few machine that remain downtown but the coins don't contain silver anymore. That sucks...

There is a machine where you can buy gold ....at the Golden Nugget. Called Gold To Go, it is neat but huge premium http://www.goldennugget.com/amenities/g ... go_atm.asp
They have one and five gram bars and larger one onuce coins and bars.

The pennies machines do not pay out in pennies, almost all the slots everywhere pay out a little reciept that you can either feed in the other machines to play more or take to a redemption machine for cash and it also takes larger bills and makes change. The machine has basically done away with having to pay people to make change all day.

[Doctor Steuss]

Someone told me yesterday that the Eastside Cannery has a section of old-style coin payout machines. I don't know what denominations though. I'll hopefully make it over that way Saturday if I have time after the dog park.

Stratosphere used to have a section of nickel machines that paid out in coin, but they removed it about 5 years ago (:sadpanda:)

[Thogey]

I played a penny slot machine yesterday and won 10,000 pennies! They had the audacity to pay me in paper! Yuk! I gave it right back to them! Not all at once, but I left it there...

Don't feel bad. I once bought into a craps game in an indian casino in North Dakota. I bought in for 60 bucks, a few hours later I had about $4000 in green and black on my rail, and this was a single odds game too! Any craps player would understand how hard that is to do. I was so lucky. I called hard 10 on the hop twice and won both times. It was the hottest table I'd ever seen. The table limit was only 50 bucks. A player once sevened out one roll after I called all my place bets off. They were loaded up with full odds I saved about $400 in one roll. Those big Sioux Indians were looking at me like I was the great spirit.
It was amazing.

But the game got real cold, real fast.

I left the casino with 0, and enough gas to make the 90 mile ride home in the dark. I believe to have repeated the F-word during that drive home more than I've used it since, and this was 25 years ago! If I would have bought silver with that money it would be worth over 30K now. But I keep telling myself I only lost 60 bucks

[SilverEye]

I remember when all the casinos on the strip still had coin slot machines. It's been all paper for years. I've never seen a penny slot that actually took pennies ever. Wow if there was such a beast! I would wheel in zincs by the pallet load, pour them into a machine, drink for free, maybe even win a jackpot here and there.

Figure if you sat down at one of those penny machines with a 98% payback then they are only keeping 2% on average. That beats the heck out of Coinstar, and like I said Free Drinks!

[everything]

I was looking at old mechanical penny slots, they want $5000 for them. They seem to be some of the more expensive, probably being older as well. Some of you guys out west have first dibs on grabbing these up. I saw a really cool dime slot machine for $1900 on a website, with lots of other inventory, next couple of weeks everything he had was sold. Mechanical nickel and dime slots seem pretty reasonably priced but getting back into the quarter and half machines the prices look like they go up again. These things don't lose value, and I think collectors are starting to acquire them more. My grandpa has a 5 cent mills slot machine, played it since I was five years old.

[Diggin4copper]

I saw an ad for an oldercasino on the tv while I was there that said "We are the vintage casino! We have real coin machines!" I thought that was kinda funny... I also won 2 Terry Fator Silver Strike ten dollar tokens.... but they are clad.... Kitchen sink auction? see my whole adventure here... viewtopic.php?f=23&t=12238

[penny pretty]

any slot machine nowadays ya gotta play max to have chance at the jackpot. penny slots sound cheap but max bet is 400 pennies a pull! the US dollar is doin fine, dont worry...

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

Many of the Indian casinos in California use half dollars at their black jack tables. Of all the times I have played there over the years, I have only found one 40% silver half. It was at a table with friendly dealer that knew what to look for. She spotted it a ways down in the stack and pulled it out for me.

[HoardCopperByTheTon]

I went to an Indian Casino up in Washington a couple of years ago and as I walked into the back I thought I was in heaven. There were 2 rows of penny machines with the name "Copper Dropper" I figured these were there just for me. Nary did a copper drop.. since they were all TITO. But I did win about 30 bucks (3000 pennies). I loved the design on the machines.. with pictures of lots of copper pennies. I would be happy to just get the back glass from one of those machines someday.