Do you have any funny stories about Slot Machines?

Question

Please share your funny personal experience just for fun.

Answer 1

I once saw a guy constantly caress the machine he was playing like a lover. I mean really stroking it and getting into it. I kept expecting him to start french kissing it.
Once a guy who was very drunk hit four aces on a bonus poker machine and then played the double up bet and won it. As he waited for a floor cashier I stared at him bug-eyed and finally said "Don't take this wrong but how the hell can you go for double or nothing with four aces?!?" He looked at me bleary eyed and slurred, " it's called gambling."
I also liked the old lady who would play one quarter at a time and start sqealing and oooooing everytime she hit even a pair. At first other players would pause and look at her screen as she'd yell "Weeeeeeee I won!!!!!" until they realized it was for two pair or three of a kind. She did this for a long time. Just shows it doesn't take much to make some people happy.

Answer 2

This one was funny for the person who saw it, not for the person who played it. She was sitting at the machine next to a guy who was playing one of those Wheel of Fortune games in which if you are lucky all kinds of lucrative features turn on when the right combo appears on the reels. All of a sudden the guy started screaming with joy because the right combo was showing on his machine. A crowd gathered there including a casino employee who looked at the machine. He started to yell that his coins were not coming out as per the symbols. The employee pointed out to him that those features only paid off if you had put the maximum three coins in and he had put in only two. He had no idea that the number of coins made a difference and was hysterical that he was not going to be rich.

Answer 3

I have a good one involving a video poker machine. Years ago I was on vacation in Vegas with my parents. I was only 14 at the time but I still sneaked onto the video poker machines. I was playing a .25 deuces wild machine and hit four deuces, the max payoff for a few hundred bucks. The machine started dumping out quarters but ran out of money close to the beginning so the bells and lights starting going off to alert the cashiers. Luckily, my brother was with me, I had him run and get my mother who managed to get to the machine and sit down in my place before any casino employees made their way over. She collected the money for me, my first big win in a casino at 14, sweet.