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Re: Off Strip Local Casinos

Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2020 1:14 pm
by Sea Lion
onemoretry wrote:
Tue Jun 09, 2020 12:07 pm
Sea Lion wrote:
Tue Jun 09, 2020 11:30 am
Main Street Station for me as well. They also have "fish tickets" as we call them, for every quad you hit.
I've never heard that term for them - I've always just called them scratch cards. What's the thinking with that term - you're "fishing" for that $5000?
Going "fishing" is what we call going to play Video Poker. A "pond" is a bank of machines. "Lure" is the money inserted into a machine. A "fish" is a quad. We have different names for each quad value. A "fish ticket" is what we call those scratchers as in catching a quad or "fish". I started to give names to the "fish ladies" and "fish men" that hand them out, but my wife gave me that "don't you dare" look as I started to come up with names such as "Sea Bass" :lol:

Re: Off Strip Local Casinos

Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2020 7:23 pm
by eggbeater
Main Street and the California had lots of machines with good paytables last time I went

Re: Off Strip Local Casinos

Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2020 9:47 am
by snooze
Sea Lion wrote:
Tue Jun 09, 2020 1:14 pm
onemoretry wrote:
Tue Jun 09, 2020 12:07 pm
Sea Lion wrote:
Tue Jun 09, 2020 11:30 am
Main Street Station for me as well. They also have "fish tickets" as we call them, for every quad you hit.
I've never heard that term for them - I've always just called them scratch cards. What's the thinking with that term - you're "fishing" for that $5000?
Going "fishing" is what we call going to play Video Poker. A "pond" is a bank of machines. "Lure" is the money inserted into a machine. A "fish" is a quad. We have different names for each quad value. A "fish ticket" is what we call those scratchers as in catching a quad or "fish". I started to give names to the "fish ladies" and "fish men" that hand them out, but my wife gave me that "don't you dare" look as I started to come up with names such as "Sea Bass" :lol:
I refer to the scratch off tickets as "tipping money" because they are usually $2, collect a few and use the cash to tip the cocktail servers

Re: Off Strip Local Casinos

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 3:55 pm
by mba75
South Point. Yet, I've been unsuccessful there.

Re: Off Strip Local Casinos

Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 10:28 am
by FAA
How does that even work, btw?

Re: Off Strip Local Casinos

Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 2:05 pm
by onemoretry
FAA wrote:
Fri Oct 30, 2020 10:28 am
How does that even work, btw?
What, exactly, are you asking about?

Re: Off Strip Local Casinos

Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 10:53 pm
by Tedlark
onemoretry wrote:
Fri Oct 30, 2020 2:05 pm
FAA wrote:
Fri Oct 30, 2020 10:28 am
How does that even work, btw?
What, exactly, are you asking about?
Having watched a few television shows on the efforts of the Poles to successfully break the Enigma Key, I think I can decipher what FAA was talking about:

FAA, some casinos in Las Vegas hand out scratch cards of varying denominations when a video poker player hits a specified four of a kind on a given day.

I may be wrong though as I am still not 100% back from the Chinese Virus.

Re: Off Strip Local Casinos

Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2020 6:51 pm
by tech58
Clever joke.
Lucid scratch card description.
You are back Ted.

Re: Off Strip Local Casinos

Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2022 5:24 pm
by Randolph65
Main Street Station has plenty of full pay VP as well as a lot of progressives.

Re: Off Strip Local Casinos

Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2022 6:59 pm
by case
Have you been to Main Street lately Randolph...you are in for a shock

(of course Randolph will probably never post again)