Coin Pusher Videos

I didn't see much on this, searching the firum, so I wanted to ask. I'm getting all these videos in my feed with coin pushers, huge stacks of ridiculously large denom chips, that these people take down with quarters. One did claim they had to do a buy-in for 20million, but they took it down for, like, 675million.

I think these have to be faked-up, like someone has their own machine, bogus chips, etc, and makes the videos for whatever reason..
But I don't know one way or the other. Do these machines exist in the US? Anywhere? I've seen small denoms in arcades, cruise ships, etc. But millions?

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I didn't see much on this, searching the firum, so I wanted to ask. I'm getting all these videos in my feed with coin pushers, huge stacks of ridiculously large denom chips, that these people take down with quarters. One did claim they had to do a buy-in for 20million, but they took it down for, like, 675million.

I think these have to be faked-up, like someone has their own machine, bogus chips, etc, and makes the videos for whatever reason..
But I don't know one way or the other. Do these machines exist in the US? Anywhere? I've seen small denoms in arcades, cruise ships, etc. But millions?
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Fake.Search coin pusher on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuW7zWW-c7w

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I haven't watched that channel in years. The "gold bars" were suspect to me, then I found they could be purchased for under $20. (The video claimed they were worth... more.)


The Hales channel might be legit. The nature of the interruptions, the background sounds, the machine, and the statements about the game all seem plausible. I seem to recall we traced the probable location to Cincinnati or maybe Wheeling.

Vast majority are absolute bullshit.

When those videos started appearing a few years ago I tried to find out more but came up empty. I concluded they weren't a real thing, or else I'd be able to find out more about them. At that time the prizes were in the thousands, not millions.

On a related note, a professor told me he used my article on quarter-pusher games in his game theory class at MIT. I wrote that like 20 years ago. At one point, I think it was the only article on Wizard of Vegas not written by the Wizard.

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On a related note, a professor told me he used my article on quarter-pusher games in his game theory class at MIT. I wrote that like 20 years ago. At one point, I think it was the only article on Wizard of Vegas not written by the Wizard.
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I titled that game Push It at WoO. Your article is proudly still there. I do think it was the first game analysis article there by a guest writer. There are a few others now, like Three Card Whist.

I must say that the article on Flip It was among the first articles I saw on WoV and made me become a loyal member!

Where else could I get insanely detailed information on an intriguing game that was never discussed in the ocean of gambling articles?

And it's still relevant, as on our Caribbean cruise just this past summer, my 18-year-old son and his grandma were pumping quarters into a coin pusher!

An interesting ending to that experience: they spent most of their time monitoring a 20-dollar bill moving its way closer to the edge. After one lady pushed it next to the edge but gave up, my son put in the quarters to get it to separate from the stack. But shock and dismay! The edge of the bill was caught on the lip of the bezel holding the glass! After a couple minutes of feeling helpless, I thought, why not argue our case to the attendant? After all, if that's not a winner, then it's cheating the players! So we did, and the attendant quickly and happily opened up the machine and gave it us the $20!