House would not pay me the win

Quote: Mosca

My guess is that you thought you were playing max lines, but you probably weren't. I've done that before myself, I thought I was playing $3 when I was only playing $2; I'd hit "repeat bet" to start, and had continued to hit "repeat bet", rather than "max bet", and the previous player had last played 2 units. When I got "POWER UP BONUS SPIN" and nothing happened, I was really pissed at the machine, and then I saw what I'd done, and then I was really pissed at myself, for careless play.

OR: you were playing a single line machine, with a $3 bet pay table? Most reel machines that pay multiple lines are 5 way, not 3 way.

In any case, I can't imagine a machine malfunctioning that way, not paying a valid pay line. It just doesn't happen, when a machine malfunctions it's pretty obvious. In some way, your actions were different from your intent.

On the other hand, sometimes you might overplay what you intended. I put $100 in a machine and hit max bet; I hadn't noticed it was 9 lines and $5 per line! Fortunately for me, I hit something on the first spin, and walked away with a few hundred dollars.

Quote: cclub79

Quote: Mosca

My guess is that you thought you were playing max lines, but you probably weren't. I've done that before myself, I thought I was playing $3 when I was only playing $2; I'd hit "repeat bet" to start, and had continued to hit "repeat bet", rather than "max bet", and the previous player had last played 2 units. When I got "POWER UP BONUS SPIN" and nothing happened, I was really pissed at the machine, and then I saw what I'd done, and then I was really pissed at myself, for careless play.

OR: you were playing a single line machine, with a $3 bet pay table? Most reel machines that pay multiple lines are 5 way, not 3 way.

In any case, I can't imagine a machine malfunctioning that way, not paying a valid pay line. It just doesn't happen, when a machine malfunctions it's pretty obvious. In some way, your actions were different from your intent.

On the other hand, sometimes you might overplay what you intended. I put $100 in a machine and hit max bet; I hadn't noticed it was 9 lines and $5 per line! Fortunately for me, I hit something on the first spin, and walked away with a few hundred dollars.

It sounded like he won on the 3rd line of a 3 line machine, and one excuse they tried to use was the bonus didn't engage, but the bonus wasn't part of the win that he scored, so it wasn't an issue.

Quote: Mosca

Quote: cclub79

Quote: Mosca

My guess is that you thought you were playing max lines, but you probably weren't. I've done that before myself, I thought I was playing $3 when I was only playing $2; I'd hit "repeat bet" to start, and had continued to hit "repeat bet", rather than "max bet", and the previous player had last played 2 units. When I got "POWER UP BONUS SPIN" and nothing happened, I was really pissed at the machine, and then I saw what I'd done, and then I was really pissed at myself, for careless play.

OR: you were playing a single line machine, with a $3 bet pay table? Most reel machines that pay multiple lines are 5 way, not 3 way.

In any case, I can't imagine a machine malfunctioning that way, not paying a valid pay line. It just doesn't happen, when a machine malfunctions it's pretty obvious. In some way, your actions were different from your intent.

On the other hand, sometimes you might overplay what you intended. I put $100 in a machine and hit max bet; I hadn't noticed it was 9 lines and $5 per line! Fortunately for me, I hit something on the first spin, and walked away with a few hundred dollars.

It sounded like he won on the 3rd line of a 3 line machine, and one excuse they tried to use was the bonus didn't engage, but the bonus wasn't part of the win that he scored, so it wasn't an issue.

I understand, but the machines just don't work that way. I don't design and build them, but the result as described is so far out of normal operation as to be incredible, in the most basic meaning of the word. Not paying on the 3rd line, with max units, if it's a pay line, would be the same as not paying on the center line with one unit. It just doesn't happen. It is far more likely that what the OP thinks he did is not what he actually did. The machines aren't infallible, but they're pretty damn reliable. When they go schitz you can tell. But people get brain farts all the time.

What machine was it, what was the name of it? Blazing 7s, Fireball Frenzy?

Quote: cclub79

I agree that it's exceedingly inconceivable, but aren't the number of coins bet right there on the digital readout, and it remains there until the next bet is made? What I'm saying is, if he bet 2 coins, isn't the LED "2" right there, which would seem to end all arguments? I can't imagine Gaming would support him seeing that he didn't bet the line.

Quote: NicksGamingStuff

Actually speaking of Caesars being shady, I was playing Pai Gow Poker there and all the players were betting fairly heavily on the sucker side fortune bonus bet (around $5-$25) and the machine malfunctioned, I suspect the 7 card straight flush was out there and the machine sensed it (like it does in Dealer Bluff) and purposely malfunctioned! Im not a fan of malfunction voids all pays and plays, a VP machine could give me a royal flush and say it malfunctioned.

Quote: NicksGamingStuff

Actually speaking of Caesars being shady, I was playing Pai Gow Poker there and all the players were betting fairly heavily on the sucker side fortune bonus bet (around $5-$25) and the machine malfunctioned, I suspect the 7 card straight flush was out there and the machine sensed it (like it does in Dealer Bluff) and purposely malfunctioned! Im not a fan of malfunction voids all pays and plays, a VP machine could give me a royal flush and say it malfunctioned.

Quote: SolidAU

Off topic, but I just cannot believe silliness like this persists...

Quote: Wizard

For example, there is the case of the Venetian rigging a drawing.