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3 hours ago, vectra666 said:

Does Red Hot dond do the same trick as that has similar spin’ features too?

I have it on £100jp so may amend the original dx to decal 100 as it’s only the top cash decal to change afaik?

On DOND Red Hot when you need 2 more red boxes for red matrix, the machine can spin a 12 to land on the phone which opens the top board and that square changes to spin. Also I think the bonus can give taxi when you need 1 more red box.

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I'm aware the emptier for this has (a) Been covered elsewhere already and (b) Is fairly basic and not particularly exciting - however, the main focus of this video is how much money it can take after it's been done to recover.....

 

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@Chopaholic Just watched the low ebbs 4 video. Enjoyed it thoroughly.     Does this pics ring any bells regarding the cascade at the Lancaster bus station ? 

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entrance is middle left of the pic,9 o'clock so to speak.

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Where the lady is stood. 

or finally 34 sec's into this video 

https://youtu.be/6N4_2B7FG_s

Am I on the right track ?

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Yes I think that'll be one of the arcades char, I do remember one of them being adjacent to the bus station.

Excellent detective work on finding some pics of the area and the video too!

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Another good yarn to listen to.

Every one of them, makes me think, that while I was addicted and eventually in a lot debt, I could have been in a much worse off situation.

It's very true, with family/friends, it's bad enough. But without them, it's even worse. It's a very lonely addiction, because it's just you and the machine.

While I didn't do the student thing, I went straight to work at a station, I still managed to play them, when I should have been working. At first, being late back from breaks or saying I'm off to the toilet and then break and using that extra 5/10 minutes before to gamble.

Things progressed even worse, when still at the same station, I got a job, involving roaming around the station to stick up posters/passenger charter figures and fill leaflet racks etc...I'd then disappear off site for an hour or more, up in the arcades.

I'd occasionally get asked where have you been and I'd always make a flimsy excuse, but definitely several people knew what I was doing. I was always the one in the group in the pub, who would be playing the machine, while everyone else was chatting/laughing. So people knew I was hooked (sounds better then addicted lol) on playing machines.

Never shit myself, during my addicted period though lol. That bit at the end did make me chuckle, played it back several times and still giggle now when writing this.

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I can still remember it so vividly, seeing this pretty young lass holding up my shit-filled boxer shorts and swearing like a proper trooper demanding to know which dirty fucker had stuffed their soiled underwear down the side of the toilet cistern.

That whole time period was a complete fuck-up in all sorts of ways, but the core of it all was fruit machines. The drugs and the drinking weren't great in terms of lifestyle choices, but they were a sideshow compared to the fruit machines, it was the fruit machines that were capable of stealing day after day, week after week, month after month - and leaving me feeling, time and time again, like a total piece of shit.

I stick by what I've been saying in some of my recent videos that people were failed on a biblical scale by the manufacturers and the regulators, by a systemic and ongoing inability for them to get these machines right over many decades.

People got hurt, badly hurt, I'm lucky because I'm still here to talk about it.

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10 hours ago, wearecity said:

Another good yarn to listen to.

Every one of them, makes me think, that while I was addicted and eventually in a lot debt, I could have been in a much worse off situation.

It's very true, with family/friends, it's bad enough. But without them, it's even worse. It's a very lonely addiction, because it's just you and the machine.

While I didn't do the student thing, I went straight to work at a station, I still managed to play them, when I should have been working. At first, being late back from breaks or saying I'm off to the toilet and then break and using that extra 5/10 minutes before to gamble.

Things progressed even worse, when still at the same station, I got a job, involving roaming around the station to stick up posters/passenger charter figures and fill leaflet racks etc...I'd then disappear off site for an hour or more, up in the arcades.

I'd occasionally get asked where have you been and I'd always make a flimsy excuse, but definitely several people knew what I was doing. I was always the one in the group in the pub, who would be playing the machine, while everyone else was chatting/laughing. So people knew I was hooked (sounds better then addicted lol) on playing machines.

Never shit myself, during my addicted period though lol. That bit at the end did make me chuckle, played it back several times and still giggle now when writing this.

this is me to a "tee" i started work as a spud basher in chipshop est '1989' its my brother's fault he studied the machine at the time it was barcrest's topstop  £2 cash, he thought he had it sussed, he'd write down all the hi lo reel numbers when they landed, he had sheets of hundred's of combinations of course it didn't work but how was we to know i was 14yrs old when i first started playing that topstop and it went downhill from there, next it was cashzone then cashcounter of course my favourite at the time take two and many many others. i used to peel spuds weekends work for a hour book down three and play the fruities for two, then came the criminal side of things

a mate "offered" me a key for a fiver and some free chips of course i jumped at the chance to find another way of playing them, this time basically for free as i'd open thecashbox and take the 50p's knowing they'd drop to the bottom and do it over and over again till i emptied the pound tubes on a few occasions, i'd of course then have enough plus wages (£1 a hour at the time) to play machines in other locations mainly two arcades in the town near me (stroud) this carried on for a while luckily i didn't get caught as the boss was known to be a harsh boss to say the least!!!

 next i moved jobs to burnham on sea holiday park (big mistake) more machines more gambling, this time i helped in the restaurant kitchen and park shop, i'd work long hours sometimes upto 16hrs a day but again i funded my habit by fiddling the till at the shop and selling food in the resturant after the    co-owners went home. i'd then spunk it all in the park arcade the likes of cash attraction, chain reaction, twice as nice etc. and i'd cycle the four miles to burnham beach or brean more arcades to lose on!! so i'd steal more. eventually i was caught i had a choice. leave my job immediately or they'd call the bill.

of course i couldn't drive then as was only 17 so tail between my legs my parents came to collect me, the drive home i was bollocked and more bollocked, longerst hour of my life. then more bollocking when we got home.

 did that stop me! hell no!!! back upto chippy to get my old job back and it was back to square one, playing machines when the shop shut, fiddling the tills etc. Fast forward to now post 2000, since i've had kids (they're 8 & 13 now) the land based gambling has practically stopped only the odd binge down weston super mud even then its only £5 jackies

my problem now is online although i always pay the bills and get food for the week first but even now its approx £40 a week online sometimes it lasts hours sometimes like the real machines its minutes. but i don't Steal anymore so thats a blessing also i think finding Mfme has curbed my Addiction a bit more as i now still get the "buzz" from playing the retro or modern machines but without the financial costs and of course its a great feeling making the machines form my past memories even though those were hardly good ones at times

as for chop shitting himself, got to admit that was funny, i haven't been that low, although i did once puke up in the bfm's Easy Moneys cash tray. 

Is that pound coins or carrots in their lol!!!!   

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I'm just grateful, that largely from 2009, I stopped playing online and offline, to the extent on being an addict.

I still occasionally play online and I do go to land based casinos a few times a year, but nothing major. It's all very restricted by either limits I have in place or limits I impose on myself, when offline.

Still hoping to go to Vegas in October though, but looking doubtful, I'll probably be 52, before I get to celebrate my 50th in Vegas, as was the intention last year.

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This is an online slots video but the main game I feature is very much a UK fruit machine style design (albeit in a random online game), in particular it has a strong Lite A Nudge vibe about it.

 

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On 12/06/2021 at 18:20, Chopaholic said:

Latest Gambling Low Ebbs video has been added to the channel.

 

Interesting video thanks Chop, although I watched it feeling rather guilty wondering how much of your cash I pocketed on my road trips to empty Ace Coin machines in the early-mid 90s...

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On 13/06/2021 at 17:43, Chopaholic said:

I can still remember it so vividly, seeing this pretty young lass holding up my shit-filled boxer shorts and swearing like a proper trooper demanding to know which dirty fucker had stuffed their soiled underwear down the side of the toilet cistern.

That whole time period was a complete fuck-up in all sorts of ways, but the core of it all was fruit machines. The drugs and the drinking weren't great in terms of lifestyle choices, but they were a sideshow compared to the fruit machines, it was the fruit machines that were capable of stealing day after day, week after week, month after month - and leaving me feeling, time and time again, like a total piece of shit.

I stick by what I've been saying in some of my recent videos that people were failed on a biblical scale by the manufacturers and the regulators, by a systemic and ongoing inability for them to get these machines right over many decades.

People got hurt, badly hurt, I'm lucky because I'm still here to talk about it.

Not as badly hurt as the nation of addicts growing up with supposedly innocent video gaming, like FIFA Ultimate team packs or other games' ways to steal your money, graduating to online gambling with still very loose controls on spending. 

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On 14/06/2021 at 09:44, wearecity said:

I'm just grateful, that largely from 2009, I stopped playing online and offline, to the extent on being an addict.

I still occasionally play online and I do go to land based casinos a few times a year, but nothing major. It's all very restricted by either limits I have in place or limits I impose on myself, when offline.

Still hoping to go to Vegas in October though, but looking doubtful, I'll probably be 52, before I get to celebrate my 50th in Vegas, as was the intention last year.

I don't dare sign up to play online in the same way I don't dare try charlie - I know I'd love it too much and lose everything

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7 minutes ago, Boulderdash said:

I don't dare sign up to play online in the same way I don't dare try charlie - I know I'd love it too much and lose everything

Yes it's very dangerous unless you put strict limits in place and find sites that if you want to change the limit upwards you need to wait a few days or a week before it comes into effect. 

A few times I've upped mine, either through my choice to have a bit of a bigger gamble or because I'm doing our syndicate betting on Cheltenham Races. 

I soon reduce it back, because I feel it could very easily get out of hand. Or while not rabidly out of hand, once or twice, I've gambled more than I intended to. 

The trouble is gambling can be fun and thrilling, but when you hit a bad run, it really hurts. 

I do watch some of Degsys video of real gambling and some other youtubers video, ok they do seems to be a bit jammy quite often and of course everything is rosey in the garden.

But when there not winning, you can hear in their voice and the way they speak, exactly what most gamblers think. It's that what an utter waste of money and time, playing these slots for zero entertainment is. Why the fuck do I still keep giving these vulture companies my time and money.

Thankfully I either have that attitude before I play, so don't, or after 10-15 of utter boredom, stop playing and think, nah not wasting my time and money. That even goes when I'm in Vegas, not doing well, just go to the bar or a walk. 

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4 hours ago, Boulderdash said:

Interesting video thanks Chop, although I watched it feeling rather guilty wondering how much of your cash I pocketed on my road trips to empty Ace Coin machines in the early-mid 90s...

I don't blame other players, at the end of the day they were only playing the machines in front of them. The manufacturers and especially the regulators however, I have rather less charitable feelings towards.

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8 hours ago, Boulderdash said:

Not as badly hurt as the nation of addicts growing up with supposedly innocent video gaming, like FIFA Ultimate team packs or other games' ways to steal your money, graduating to online gambling with still very loose controls on spending. 

Well yes but that's a whole other topic and outside the scope of my videos, FIFA Ultimate Team in particular is abhorrent, absolutely gambling aiming directly at children in a game rated as suitable for ages 4 and up.

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Plenty of us guys here were sucked in to a world of fruit machine addiction. I myself have many a time where I got paid, spunked it through the fruit machines in the local arcade and then having to ring my partner to say I've lost my wallet and I haven't got money to get home, as my excuse for wasting the family budget.... My addiction was once so bad I'd even punt my bus fare home. No bus fare, meant a 3 mile walk home. And not an ordinary walk but a truly dejected walk of shame back home. Trying to think of ways I could explain away to my then partner how I lost my money. Mugged..... for the 3rd month in a row? Lost my wallet.... that happens sooooo many times.... Those 3 miles got me thinking about suicide. Doing myself in. And the way I was feeling at that time, it wouldn't be all that difficult to follow that through. That was the early 1990's

 That walk leaves you with some strange stuff going through your head. How can I explain away how I've come home with no money on pay day.... I let my family down and most of all i let myself down.

 These days I work in North and North East Lincolnshire. That covers Grimsby, Cleethorpes, Scunthorpe and Immingham. In Cleethorpes, I see families who clearly have saved lots of money for some time for their 'Grand Day Out'. Wasting their cash on machines and pushers. Their kids watching and learning.... Future addicts...

 Covering Immingham, theres no arcades there. The working class, poor pensioners, people on benefits, those not living comfortable lives are chasing their dreams a different way. I kid you not, I've seen a young mum or dad, get their benefits from the post office, only to exchange a rather large sum of money for National Lottery scratch cards. This seems to be the new gambling sin and you don't even need to go to the seaside. Have you seen the odds on these scratch cards? Claims of 1 in 4 is a winner... thats correct if you were to consider a 'money back' win as a win. I think it's more like 1 in 9 to actually win more money than the scratch card cost. But those win your money back, the WIN £3 but the scratch card cost you £3, you've not made anything on that gamble.

 Scunthorpe is the same. People buying scratch cards... Not just the odd card but buying £50 plus on the things...  After they have drawn their benefits or pensions.... (I've seen this stacks and stacks of times in Ashby Scunthorpe and in Immingham).

 All forms of gambling are easily accessible to all including those least able to afford it, the most vulnerable. Searching for that win, that dream, that life changing event...

 But the whole gambling industry can shake off their responsibilites where they ruin lives by saying...

 

WHEN THE FUN STOPS....... STOP!

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1 hour ago, Chopaholic said:

Well yes but that's a whole other topic and outside the scope of my videos, FIFA Ultimate Team in particular is abhorrent, absolutely gambling aiming directly at children in a game rated as suitable for ages 4 and up.

Well they drag them in then blame the parents for not having parental controls, they call this plausible deniability!!! 

 

 

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8 hours ago, CompostCORNER said:

Plenty of us guys here were sucked in to a world of fruit machine addiction. I myself have many a time where I got paid, spunked it through the fruit machines in the local arcade and then having to ring my partner to say I've lost my wallet and I haven't got money to get home, as my excuse for wasting the family budget.... My addiction was once so bad I'd even punt my bus fare home. No bus fare, meant a 3 mile walk home. And not an ordinary walk but a truly dejected walk of shame back home. Trying to think of ways I could explain away to my then partner how I lost my money. Mugged..... for the 3rd month in a row? Lost my wallet.... that happens sooooo many times.... Those 3 miles got me thinking about suicide. Doing myself in. And the way I was feeling at that time, it wouldn't be all that difficult to follow that through. That was the early 1990's

 That walk leaves you with some strange stuff going through your head. How can I explain away how I've come home with no money on pay day.... I let my family down and most of all i let myself down.

 These days I work in North and North East Lincolnshire. That covers Grimsby, Cleethorpes, Scunthorpe and Immingham. In Cleethorpes, I see families who clearly have saved lots of money for some time for their 'Grand Day Out'. Wasting their cash on machines and pushers. Their kids watching and learning.... Future addicts...

 Covering Immingham, theres no arcades there. The working class, poor pensioners, people on benefits, those not living comfortable lives are chasing their dreams a different way. I kid you not, I've seen a young mum or dad, get their benefits from the post office, only to exchange a rather large sum of money for National Lottery scratch cards. This seems to be the new gambling sin and you don't even need to go to the seaside. Have you seen the odds on these scratch cards? Claims of 1 in 4 is a winner... thats correct if you were to consider a 'money back' win as a win. I think it's more like 1 in 9 to actually win more money than the scratch card cost. But those win your money back, the WIN £3 but the scratch card cost you £3, you've not made anything on that gamble.

 Scunthorpe is the same. People buying scratch cards... Not just the odd card but buying £50 plus on the things...  After they have drawn their benefits or pensions.... (I've seen this stacks and stacks of times in Ashby Scunthorpe and in Immingham).

 All forms of gambling are easily accessible to all including those least able to afford it, the most vulnerable. Searching for that win, that dream, that life changing event...

 But the whole gambling industry can shake off their responsibilites where they ruin lives by saying...

 

WHEN THE FUN STOPS....... STOP!

Very well put and the time I gambled in the early 90’S I felt the same as you many times and yes that excuse “I lost my wages” came up twice

if I’d of not gambled I’d of had my own house , nice car and money in the bank

i bet (pardon the pun) I’ve lost over £250k since 1990 

and yes those scratch cards are everywhere even rammed in your face at the end of the tills in wilkos, it’s all for charity -and good causes,? Yer right most of the money lost goes into the fat cats pockets of Camelot 

you read about these online sites paying out over £50million last week well how much did they profit from that then well over the odd 4% left over from the rtp of the slots

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