Well "go figure".
Up until this moment, here on Google Blogspot, I have not had a Subject Index or a Label or a Category titled Slot Machine(s), or Shamrock.
Yes Oh Yes! Over on dotnet I have slot machine(s), Rocky and Shamrock at the Edgewater!
The Edgewater Casino Hotel is a member of the True Rewards network, a system where members get various discounts (depending on how active your are) on room rates, meals, etc.
For more information you can check out the below link:
https://www.truerewards.com/
I have found that the easiest way for both Patti and I to build our True Rewards accounts is via the slot machines. You play $1 and you get 1 True Rewards point.
But on some days, usually a Tuesday or a Thursday, for each $1 you play, you earn 4 True Rewards points. So we always try to play on a 4x Tuesday or a 4x Thursday.
To keep your True Rewards Account active you must have at least some activity on your account at least once every thirteen (13) months. Just $1 of activity each 13 months, will keep your True Rewards account open.
Since we are here at the Edgewater several times a year, it is no problem.
So yesterday Patti and I went down to the Casino and played on Shamrock.
To play a game, or to spin the slot machine, you can either pull a handle on the side of the slot machine..
Or you can simply press a PLAY button on the slot machine.
In this modern era, the majority of slot machines only have a PLAY button and no handle. Some years ago, all slot machines had the handle on the side of the machines.
I FAR prefer pulling down on a handle like the one Shamrock has.
I reach out and firmly grasp the handle..
And pull it down and towards me.
You can see in the below photo that Rocky and Wonder Woman, along with all of the other slot machines at the Havasu Landing Casino near Lake Havasu City, Arizona, all have PLAY buttons.
All of you who read dotnet understand how I play the slot machines. I sit down with a fixed amount of money (usually $20) and only play that fixed amount. I kind of alternate between playing 50-cents a spin (so for my $20 I get forty spins) or $1 a spin. I do not play until all of my $20 is spent!
So yesterday evening, a 4x Tuesday, Patti and I went down to play on Shamrock.
Sitting side by side in front of Shamrock, I played $10 and Patti played $10.
I won $2 with my $10. Patti won $26 with her $10. So with our $20 we won $28!
Then Shamrock said very quietly (so no one else could hear him) won't you play just $1 more Cap and Patti?
And this is exactly how you end up losing your money by listening to the "Siren Calls" of Slot Machines.
"Patti what do you think?"
"Cap we can afford to play an additional $1."
So into Shamrock went an additional $1!
Smiling to himself Shamrock said to us..
"See? I paid you $5! I told you to play just $1 more!"
So our bottom line for yesterday, Tuesday the 22nd of April 2025, was a net winning of $12!
We bet $21. We went home with $33.
Ah yes. Then after we had returned to our room, after resting for awhile, I decided to go down and snap some photos of Shamrock.
When I arrived at Shamrock, a well dressed and groomed elderly man, perhaps age 65 years, was playing the adjoining slot machine to the left of Shamrock.
He was tapping the PLAY button fairly quickly. Then I noticed that he was playing $10 for each spin! So figuring he was playing 15 spins a minute, one spin each 4 seconds, he was spending $150 a minute!
Well (he was VERY laid back, polite and relaxed) we got to talking and he paid 100% attention to me.
I asked him how he was doing. He smiled and calmly replied.. "I'm trying to win back "a Grand" ($1,000)."
Now I can say that I have met a "Real Gambler"!
He said that he lives in Orange County, California.
Amazing!
He also said that sometimes he plays Shamrock.
So back up in our room, after a short nap, I asked Patti to join me and back down we went to Shamrock.
My friend THE REAL GAMBLER was gone.
On Shamrock however we noticed his last payout was $800! It could have been him playing $9 a spin, one that covers all 9 of Shamrock's 9 lines.
As we passed the payout counter, I told one of the payout clerks about MY GAMBLER acquaintance.
She said that one night, at a slot machine close to the payout counter, she and the staff were watching a man play $36 per spin on a slot machine.
Big Smiles.
Cap and Patti
"Aw, c'mon, Cap. Play just one more..... " And that's how it begins. BTW, I do not understand the statement you wrote above: "I do not play until all of my $20 is spent!"
ReplyDeleteDo you or do you not play all of the $20? "Not" is the operative word.,
Drat. Double Drat. Triple Drat. How did I miss your comment here of 23 April 2025 Gullible?
DeleteYou asked: "I do not play until all of my $20 is spent!" Here is what I mean. I go with $20 and I play $20. As you play, you accumulate winnings. I do not play and spend my winnings. Many, if not most people, play until their initial $20 plus any additional winnings are spent! I go with $20. I play $20 and I come home with any winnings. So I NEVER lose 100% of my initial $20. See? So sorry to be so remiss in answering you Gullible.
Well, April the 24th we flew home and I was very busy packing out the days leading up to April the 24th including April the 23rd the date of your above comment. Cap