10 play machines..

[Carcounter]

Wish the Bellagio still had the $1.00 9/6 JOB 10 play that they had years ago. Great way to run up coin-in with comfortable variance. I once played that machine all night with an $800 buy-in and eventually cashed out at $ 880.

[FAA]

Now that was an excellent session! Did you ever lose 50% of your BR and get close to quitting? Hell of a lot to risk. But I suppose that's basically an $80 buy in at one line version dollar JOB. Either you replenish or walk away with the loss. I really cheap out at $150 or so buy in. It's pretty exciting anyway; you'd be surprised.

[Carcounter]

Think I was down to $ 200 at one point.

[Carcounter]

Just seemed to stay in a narrow range of plus or minus $500

[FAA]

That's living dangerously. I prefer 60% BR retention at all times. You were getting roughed up. I'd have been in panic mode.

[Carcounter]

It was my last night there so l wasn’t worried. I was prepared to lose it if that happened

[Sea Lion]

I live in Vegas  and I will only play these at one place in Summerlin that has 9/6 DDB, 9/7/5 DB, 8/5 BP, 9/6 TDB in denominations from 5 cents to $1, and these 10 plays are freaking brutal. Long gone are the days of when  you can play 7 - 8 hours on a $100 bill on a 7/5 progressive DDB 10 play. 95% of all hands dealt will be crap, and the draw as well, on any game. You will get a good hand from time to time, but the best I see these days is maybe breaking even, and that's after hitting 4AWK or getting a quad dealt. Even after a 9 hour session today, not one person on any bank I played on hit a 2,3,4 with a kicker. Not one. Why do I continue to play these? The entertainment value, and that precious 5% chance of hitting something...No the machines are not rigged, but there are 2 words that do have my attention and they are... "software update".

[BobDancer]

The last several posts on this are using the term "bankroll" in a way that I feel confuses two different things.A total bankroll is the amount of money you're prepared to lose before you quit gambling. A session bankroll is the amount of money in your pocket when you go into the casino. It should never be greater than your total bankroll, and for most of us it's a small  part of our bankroll. That is, someone with a $10,000 total bankroll may go into a casino with a $500 session bankroll.But the session bankroll is there for investing! That's why you brought it! If you're not willing to lose it all, don't bring it!If you bring $500 and will not let yourself lose more than $250 before you quit, then your session bankroll is $250, not $500. If you have it on you but are unwilling to spend it, only bad things can happen. Usually it just sits in your pocket --- but it could be lost, stolen, or your resolve weakens and you end up spending it and hating yourself the next day. All are bad things. Don't do it!

[billryan]

Do you recommend a percentage of the total BR for a session BR?
For example, if your overall BR is $5,000, is ten percent for a session good?

[DaBurglar]

The last several posts on this are using the term "bankroll" in a way that I feel confuses two different things.A total bankroll is the amount of money you're prepared to lose before you quit gambling. A session bankroll is the amount of money in your pocket when you go into the casino. It should never be greater than your total bankroll, and for most of us it's a small  part of our bankroll. That is, someone with a $10,000 total bankroll may go into a casino with a $500 session bankroll.But the session bankroll is there for investing! That's why you brought it! If you're not willing to lose it all, don't bring it!If you bring $500 and will not let yourself lose more than $250 before you quit, then your session bankroll is $250, not $500. If you have it on you but are unwilling to spend it, only bad things can happen. Usually it just sits in your pocket --- but it could be lost, stolen, or your resolve weakens and you end up spending it and hating yourself the next day. All are bad things. Don't do it!



The first portion of Bob's post above is spot-on....the definition of total vs. session funds available for play...

The second portion, about not bringing or having money "on you" in a casino that you are not looking to put in a machine, is strange... especially the part about it possibly being "lost or stolen".... I'm not in favor of people having the mindset that they better hurry up and gamble their money on them before it gets lost or stolen...or "simply sits in their pocket"...! Seriously, when was the last time, or any time really, anyone here actually lost or had stolen inside a casino the money they had in their wallet or purse? That can happen anytime, anywhere if you are careless, but is decidedly less likely in typical modern casinos...

Or when has anyone honestly walked out of a casino with 50 bucks in their pocket that perhaps they did intend to gamble, but for whatever reason did not, and said "oh crap, I meant to gamble this money! I better go back..."????

I fail to see why it's so hard for an intelligent person, like every person on this forum, to have in their wallet 800, 900 or 1000 bucks, and simply have it in their head that half of this money is for playing VP, the other half is not....?!?! If this simple exercise in both arithmetic and self control is beyond you, then do not set foot inside a casino.