Casino-anyone ever win??

[chloemonkey]

I love to play video poker, but I am wondering if the machines pay on cruise ships??

 

I ONLY play video poker and have won a few times on Carnival, RCCL and NCL. Usually hit at least one Royal Flush per cruise and I play dollars and not quarters but have also had cruises when I have not won. But despite the fact that the pay schedule is not that great, I have managed to win on most trips. But I play for HOURS and usually Double Bonus which has much larger "swings" so the losing streaks are sometimes hard to endure!

 

Last trip on Carnival, they did not have many dollar machines (unlike now with the Multiple Game machines) and hit a Royal Flush on a Progressive quarter machine for over $4500.....but did play the game all week long before hitting it. Haven't seen progressive machines in ages on any lines though.

 

Bottom line is that our entire family has not found the layoffs to be that much worse than Vegas and trust me.......my family plays a LOT when we are on a cruise! If you love video poker like I do- then you are going to play anyway.....regardless of what anyone tells you the odds are! Same as land based casinos......sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. My problem is that even if I win big I don't want to stop playing so I always put a lot -If not ALL of it back! But again....I just love the game!

[marsh-angler]

Originally Posted by marsh-angler

My mom won back-to-back progressive jackpots on the same poker machine this past January on the Victory. After the payoff from her first win my mom asked me to put her winnings in my stateroom safe. By the time I returned back to the casino they were paying her again, her second win on the same machine minutes apart. Earlier my DW and I hit a royal flush for $500, betting max on quarters, should have been betting dollars. If you think my mom was lucky, you are right. She won a progressive jackpot on a poker machine at the hotel/casino we stayed at in San Juan the night before we boarded the ship.

 

If you were betting max you would have won more then that.....check out the photos that were previously posted.

 

I know what I won, not all machines/games has the same payout. I spend too much time and cash in casinos, land based and on ships. Not a one time gambler here.

[iTouch]

Originally Posted by marsh-angler

My mom won back-to-back progressive jackpots on the same poker machine this past January on the Victory. After the payoff from her first win my mom asked me to put her winnings in my stateroom safe. By the time I returned back to the casino they were paying her again, her second win on the same machine minutes apart. Earlier my DW and I hit a royal flush for $500, betting max on quarters, should have been betting dollars. If you think my mom was lucky, you are right. She won a progressive jackpot on a poker machine at the hotel/casino we stayed at in San Juan the night before we boarded the ship.

 

 

 

I know what I won, not all machines/games has the same payout. I spend too much time and cash in casinos, land based and on ships. Not a one time gambler here.

 

I'm not saying you didn't win $500 what I am saying is that if you played max bet on a quarter video poker machine and hit a true royal flush your payout would not be $500. It use to be that max bet on the quarter machines on the ship was $1.25 a bet (like Vegas) now some machines like the ones pictured in this thread the max bet is $2.50. For a royal flush $1.25 bet the payout is $1,000.00. The $2.50 max bet is $2,000.00.....now if it was a progressive machine it would be even more.

So the least you would win is $1,000.00. Now you will have different payouts on hands depending what game you were playing on the machine. Such as dueces wild, jacks are better, bonus poker etc....but on the true royal flush the payouts stay the same unless your bet is different.

[marsh-angler]

I'm not saying you didn't win $500 what I am saying is that if you played max bet on a quarter video poker machine and hit a true royal flush your payout would not be $500. It use to be that max bet on the quarter machines on the ship was $1.25 a bet (like Vegas) now some machines like the ones pictured in this thread the max bet is $2.50. For a royal flush $1.25 bet the payout is $1,000.00. The $2.50 max bet is $2,000.00.....now if it was a progressive machine it would be even more.

So the least you would win is $1,000.00. Now you will have different payouts on hands depending what game you were playing on the machine. Such as dueces wild, jacks are better, bonus poker etc....but on the royal flush the payouts stay the same unless your bet is different.

 

Funny that you know so much about this particular win I had, I was wondering who was the person veering around looking at the machine while the payout was counting down. Well what I remember was $0.25 x 5 bet = $1.25 for 2000 credits. If you do the math comes to $500.00.

Thanks so much for your view on machine payoffs.

[Gail & Marty sailing away]

If I break even I am happy.

[iTouch]

Funny that you know so much about this particular win I had, I was wondering who was the person veering around looking at the machine while the payout was counting down. Well what I remember was $0.25 x 5 bet = $1.25 for 2000 credits. If you do the math comes to $500.00.

Thanks so much for your view on machine payoffs.

 

 

You got ripped:D I played the same bet and received $,1000....4,000 credits do the math....never on any ships, land casino, even Vegas have I seen a machine with that payout for a true royal flush on a quarter machine.....if I did I sure wouldn't play it:p It's not that you should have been playing a dollar machine....you should have not played that machine.....being that you are not a rookie player......

[shoefly1960]

I always play, I never win - for me, "winning" is getting to 1500 points and drinking Thirsty Frog Red for FREE for the remainder of the cruise!! :D

 

how does that work?

[ginnyanne]

We were on the Liberty a few years ago and DH was playing Crazy Taxi which is a penny slot and hit it for $1000. That was lovely. And it was super :) nice getting my Phillip Stein watch in St. Thomas the next day because of it! :) then we walked into a casino in San Juan for giggles and won another $1200 playing Open the Vault which is a nickle slot. I've never won like that again on that machine, but it is still one of my faves.

[babebutters]

In January of 2010, I played Little Green men for about $ 1.80 a pull. The machine is one that the wilds spread to cover the entire reel. The center three reels all went to Wild and I won $8000+

 

I also usually can play for hours on the five reel penny or two cent machines with no blanks. I always play max and generally end up even for the cruise.

 

Hopefully my luck will hold for our upcoming November cruise.

 

Kathryn

[aprime23]

I'll play the first half of the cruise but not the second half. Flame me all you want but I swear the really tighten them up on the way back.

[iluvdoxies]

About 4 years ago, my husband won the slot tourney for 500.00

 

Then the next year I won it !

[curlydog]

sure people win all the time, they just forget about all the money they lost in between wins. Knowingly putting a dollar/quarter/nickel/penny into a device that you know is programmed to return less money than it takes in is kinda silly if you ask me. At least at the poker table the less stupid person wins.

[rh3]

On 7/16 Dream sailing, after losing about $200 just messing around in the casino, went down to the casino while waiting for my significant other to get ready and then join me for breakfast. Put $20 in a 2-cent machine (5 reels) and betting 75 credits ($1.50)/spin, hit a $7500.00 jackpot. Not progressive, regular payout. Was about 9 a.m. on Thursday, the first of two sea days before arriving back to Canaveral on Saturday. Casino staff weren't paying attention and a nice lady who was passing by went to get the host. (I wasn't walking away from the machine!) When she arrived, she looked at the reels, then to me, and said, "Nooooo." I asked her if it was her money, and when she said no, I said then be happy for me. CCL has gotten a lot of it back though--paid for 2 more cruises, starting with the Triumph out of Galveston for New Year's Eve sailing.

[cmorie]

On 7/16 Dream sailing, after losing about $200 just messing around in the casino, went down to the casino while waiting for my significant other to get ready and then join me for breakfast. Put $20 in a 2-cent machine (5 reels) and betting 75 credits ($1.50)/spin, hit a $7500.00 jackpot. Not progressive, regular payout. Was about 9 a.m. on Thursday, the first of two sea days before arriving back to Canaveral on Saturday. Casino staff weren't paying attention and a nice lady who was passing by went to get the host. (I wasn't walking away from the machine!) When she arrived, she looked at the reels, then to me, and said, "Nooooo." I asked her if it was her money, and when she said no, I said then be happy for me. CCL has gotten a lot of it back though--paid for 2 more cruises, starting with the Triumph out of Galveston for New Year's Eve sailing.

 

Too funny. lol

[gapearl]

I just got off the Valor this morning. There was a buzz on the ship that someone hit a jackpot on a slot machine. I'm not sure if this number is correct, but I heard it was around $11,000! :eek:

[iTouch]

sure people win all the time, they just forget about all the money they lost in between wins. Knowingly putting a dollar/quarter/nickel/penny into a device that you know is programmed to return less money than it takes in is kinda silly if you ask me. At least at the poker table the less stupid person wins.

 

Smart gamblers will tell you if they come back with more than they started with........they won.;)