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[olds442jetaway]

I have no idea what it is, but something changed around August 2011. That is the same time Mohegan Sun put stickers on the 99 percent machines saying they do not pay momentum dollars. Since then, my returns on the 99 machines are way below 99 and in fact around 95 to 97 depending on the year. My returns on the lower paytable machines have been in the 98 range. Coincidence.....maybe, but I'm talking about 10 million or so hands here.

[FloridaPhil]

To be honest, I do not know what's going on with AC video poker. I know what we observed and it was enough for us to decide that we don't want to play there again. I am not qualified to tell if the games are rigged. I will say that of all the machines I have ever played, those were the only machines where I actually observed anything suspect. It was so blatant and obvious, we left as soon as we were able.

I prefer to believe the extreme poor maintenance of the machines was to blame. Whatever the actually cause, I don't need any help from the casino to lose. I can do that well enough on my own.

[DaBurglar]

To be honest, I do not know what's going on with AC video poker. I know what we observed and it was enough for us to decide that we don't want to play there again. I am not qualified to tell if the games are rigged. I will say that of all the machines I have ever played, those were the only machines where I actually observed anything suspect. It was so blatant and obvious, we left as soon as we were able.

I prefer to believe the extreme poor maintenance of the machines was to blame. Whatever the actually cause, I don't need any help from the casino to lose. I can do that well enough on my own.

While most casinos will usually have, on any given day, a couple games with some sort of 'minor defect or problem', like a broken or sticky button, or defective screen touch sensitivity etc., by and large in places like Vegas or Reno & elsewhere they keep their games functional and do not allow such dysfunctionality to permeate multiple machines for extended periods of time.....AC however has had many properties over the past decade (including the so-called Top Property of AC, the Borgata) that have had MANY machines in terrible condition, and it has lasted quite often for several weeks to several months! I do not, nor have I ever understood this about AC, why they think it is "ok" to have video poker and slot games with buttons that do not function properly. And why, or where, is the NJ Gaming regulators on such an issue?? (rhetorical question of course, we already know where they have been since 2011, GONE! Well, 80% of them gone, with NONE present on the actual casino floor like they used to be from 1979 thru 2010! Back then if a player encountered a machine with perpetually defective buttons, they could go up to the booth of the Casino Control Commission, tell the agent(s) on duty of the offending machine, and then the agents would compel the casino either to FIX the game ASAP, or shut it down completely until fixed!)

Again, I ask the question: How is it that the NJ Casino Gaming Authorities and their supervisors, the NJ Government itself, and the actual casino executives all agreed and went along with having an actual presence in EVERY AC casino of a booth staffed with at least 3 agents (many more during busy periods) from the Casino Control Commission 24/7/365, starting in 1979 when gambling was allowed in AC all the way until 2010? And then suddenly, in early 2011......poof. The booths in each casino....gone. Agents on each casino floor....gone. 80% of the total agents in the actual Gaming Control Agency....retired, laid off or fired. What happened in 2011 that changed, that convinced Governor Donut meister and the state legislature, et al, that everyone associated with and working for AC casinos was now 100% honest and incorruptible to the point that the oversight they saw fit to have in place for 32 years was now.....NO LONGER NEEDED?!?! Did underage drinkers and gamblers disappear from society? Did cheaters amongst the customers disappear? Money Launderers? All the people whom in house gaming agents (and their out of house compadres) used to investigate and guard against.....poof. No more.

It just does not add up folks.....I never ever received anything remotely like a legit answer!

[Tedlark]

And based on the title, I thought this was going to be about Ruffles and Pringles. My mistake.

[olds442jetaway]

Speaking of which, check the dates on your Pepperidge Farm Goldfish crackers on their website. According to the company, one of their suppliers had Whey or Whey powder that was contaminated. See their site for the detail. It was user friendly and easy to check. Mohegan Sun took no chances and pulled them all from the shelves in the concession stands at the Arena. I found that out at a nice show we attended Friday night. If anyone hasn't seen Lindsey Sterling yet, she gave an awesome performance at Mohegan Sun. I didn't know much about her until the show and I am so glad we went. I missed my Goldfish to go with the beer though.

[DaBurglar]

Someone make DaBurglar great again.

You know what's great about this statement, you concede and acknowledge that, at the very least, I was indeed "GREAT" at one point or during some period in the past! Thanks for the recognition and acknowledgement of my obvious and we'll established quality, although I must also express disagreement in that...well, I'm still great!

As for America being great again, this implies that she was great up to some point in time, then suddenly she was not great. Was this "not great" period during some period when young men were fighting and dying for her, like during the Vietnam War (men that do not include Mr. Trump due to his five deferments, four for college, then the fifth one due to a sudden and inexplicable onset of bone spurs in one of his heels)? Or during Gulf War one? Or was it during the period 2001 thru 2016, during the longest war(s) in USA history, in Iraq & Afghanistan, and technically the entire world since the ongoing and ceaseless war on terror spans the globe? See, no matter what way you slice it, Trump dumped on America and the young men who fought for her by saying she is no longer great, which covers one or all of the recent past periods mentioned, and which means the soldiers fighting and dying for her then, believing in America and believing in their hearts she was the greatest at that time....er, well not according to the Tweeter in Chief.

Instead of "hail to the chief", the song for Trump should be....HEEL of the Chief! *Rimshot* hahayukyuk....(ah you know what's next...).....giggl.....nah, I'll resist this one time and be satisfied with my rimshot. Treasonous, immoral, corrupt, extreme narcissistic tendencies, emotionally unstable....what a president.

He screams the investigation by Mueller, a lifelong Republican and one of the most respected men in D.C by all parties, is RIGGED. He claimed the election was rigged....until he won, lol. Well folks, if elections and presidential investigations by the most integrity filled man in the US government can be "rigged", how can any of you suggest that a measly little machine cannot possibly be screwed with, or that a state agency (NJ Gaming & Casino Commission) whose very existence is dependent on the survival of a handful of casinos in AC could never ever look away from or ignore shady practices by those very same casinos???? Get real....

[DaBurglar]

I have no idea what it is, but something changed around August 2011. That is the same time Mohegan Sun put stickers on the 99 percent machines saying they do not pay momentum dollars. Since then, my returns on the 99 machines are way below 99 and in fact around 95 to 97 depending on the year. My returns on the lower paytable machines have been in the 98 range. Coincidence.....maybe, but I'm talking about 10 million or so hands here.

You are 10000% correct olds, 2011 was exactly the year my own VP results in AC went from statistically reasonable to way way out there, and have remained statistically UN- reasonable to this day! This is when the NJ commission was gutted and the in house agents vanished, and when the info coming out of what was left of the NJ Gaming and Casino office, located on the corner of Tennessee Ave and the Boardwalk, turned into surreal gibberish. Since then, many many players ( including numerous seven stars) besides myself have consistently seen pathetic VP results that defy statistical logic but rather, suggest some type of manipulation and control on the part of casinos.

[Tedlark]

Quick! Someone slap the side of the record player.......

[FAA]

I may have the solution to our collective complaint. Do not play these damn stickered machines. I often forego the 9/6 Caesars quarter progressive since the $50: 1 TC dilution. Great odds. But a six pack ice box money pit reverse ATMs the likes of which you cannot believe.

[Vman96]

I may have the solution to our collective complaint. Do not play these damn stickered machines. I often forego the 9/6 Caesars quarter progressive since the $50: 1 TC dilution. Great odds. But a six pack ice box money pit reverse ATMs the likes of which you cannot believe.

IF you believe the machines are fair, this makes no sense. Unless, the non-progressive machines have a significantly better TC rate. By the tone of most of your posts, if you think they are fair, I'd be surprised. I do hope your extended Royal drought ends soon. But when you play ~1000 hands a session, you're usually not gonna get a Royal. Roughly one every 40 sessions in that case.