You're at the casino playing a quarter slot machine. You have a bucket of quarters that you're using to feed the machine. You've been playing for an hour and haven't really hit anything big. You're friend comes over to ask how its going. You explain that you haven't been very lucky. So your friend reaches into your bucket, grabs one of your quarters, puts it into the machine you've been playing and it hits for $250,000.
What do you do? Keep all the winnings for yourself? Split it with your friend? Give your friends a small portion? Give the whole thing to your friend?
2007-06-14 01:54:40 · 13 answers · asked by talker628 2 in Games & Recreation ➔ Gambling
I keep the money, and take him out for a nice meal and plenty of drinks. He bet my quarter in my machine that I am sitting at. He didn't work any magic, play a different machine or anything else. He also placed the bet with my money.
So I'd treat him nicely, buy him a present, that kind of thing, but I am not about to split my winnings with him.
2007-06-14 09:09:05 · answer #1 · answered by ZCT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Having worked over 12 years in the casino biz, I will offer the cold, hard truth. Slot machines are run by RNG's (random number generators). I will not go into detail about how the RNG works, just that slot machines are random. There is no way to predict if the next spin will be a winner or a loser. Even the casino doesn't know. In the long run the casino will come out ahead. I promise you that. But in the short term the player can and often does win. There is no skill involved in playing a slot machine. You can't outguess the computer. In your example, you got lucky in the short term. You played for 2 hours and won. Then you lost it back. The machine was not set to max out at $38. You could have won the top jackpot. Switching machines wouldn't have changed your expected result either. There are hundreds of slot "strategies" out there. But I can assure you none of them work. There is no way to overcome the house edge in the long run. You can, however, limit your losses by playing higher payback machines...and playing enough coins to cover all the paylines (on multi-line games). If there was a way to predict slot payouts, I wouldn't have had such a good paying job for so long!
2016-04-01 07:10:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since you are playing the machine it does not matter who put the quarter in, it would be your win. However, a lot of people go in a group with the intention if anything is one big they would split it. I probably split the winnings or the amount after taxes.
2007-06-14 02:04:32 · answer #3 · answered by I got 2 points for this answer 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You can tell egocentrics from selfless people here.
Your head would be filled with Rotten garbage thoughts like "my quarter = my win". I don't know what I would do. My nature would want the money, my mind would want the friend, but he would buy a motorcycle and find new friends to ride with and leave you behind, or you would do the same. Do not ever let that happen.
2014-06-30 22:01:18 · answer #4 · answered by Rick 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your quarter, your machine and your friend did this without asking, I'd say these are all your winnings and you are entitled to do what you want.
Personally, I'd split the winnings 50/50. Would not want to lose a friend over money.
2007-06-14 02:08:37 · answer #5 · answered by huff300 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Split it 50/50
2007-06-14 17:10:33 · answer #6 · answered by paul s 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't matter what quarter you use, whose quarter, what machine. IT'S LUCK. Odds are, you probably wouldn't have gotten the $250,000 jackpot on there if you did it. It's all LUCK. The quarter isn't lucky, all he owes you is a new quarter.
2007-06-14 02:08:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
split 50/50
2007-06-14 03:43:26 · answer #8 · answered by bingobum 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ya split it 50/50
2007-06-14 03:35:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was is choice and his luck. All he really owes you is a quarter. I hope he is a good enough friend to give you some.
2007-06-14 02:03:25 · answer #10 · answered by kevrigger 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋