Slot Pull ????

[Cindy G]

I read on Tugger's recent thread that the CCer's had a "slot pull." How does one go about organizing such an event? When would be a good time to hold it, after the CC Connections party? I am guessing that everyone puts in a certain, set, agreed to in advance, amount of money.

Does someone choose the machine? How is that decided? Do you ever switch machines? When? Who decides and what if all of the people do not agree? Do you play the dollar machines? Max bets? Maybe it's getting too complicated? The last thing I would want to do is get CCer's upset for any reason.

Winning $1,000.00 like they did would be fun though!

[derf5585]

slot pull success rate?

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http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1175343

 

Slot Pull - what is it??

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http://www.cruisemates.com/forum/gambling-games/353070-slot-pull-what.html

[kitkat9438]

I read on Tugger's recent thread that the CCer's had a "slot pull." How does one go about organizing such an event? When would be a good time to hold it, after the CC Connections party? I am guessing that everyone puts in a certain, set, agreed to in advance, amount of money.

 

Does someone choose the machine? How is that decided? Do you ever switch machines? When? Who decides and what if all of the people do not agree? Do you play the dollar machines? Max bets? Maybe it's getting too complicated? The last thing I would want to do is get CCer's upset for any reason.

 

Winning $1,000.00 like they did would be fun though!

 

Here's the way we organize it. We post it on our roll call and ask for anyone who wants to participate to sign up. We then go to the casino usually after the connections party when everyone is already there and we pick out a $1 slot machine. You can either contribute $21 per couple or per person and you take turns putting the max into the machine, which is $3 and you get 7 pulls. After everyone's put their money into the machine you split the winnings, if any. It's a lot of fun and usually draws a large crowd of people trying to see what's going on. The organizer needs to write down the names of the people participating to make sure everyone has played and to make sure the money is split accordingly.

[Wine-O]

I coordinated a slot pull during our last Solstice transatlantic. We held it on an afternoon on an at-sea day -- 1:30 sign up, 2:00 start the pull.

 

Once I got on board, I contacted the casino manager, and she helped me set up it. They wanted to limit it to Roll Call members only, and not the entire ship, which was OK with me. We had 50-60 people signed up. Did it ahead of time on the Roll Call, and made the announcement at the cruise connection meet & greet. They worked a deal for us so everyone could put the $15 on their seapass account with paying the 3% commission.

 

Basically, everyone put in $15 each. It was collected by the casino cashier. We wrote down the names and cabin numbers of everyone who participated, and once the sign up was complete, we took the money and uploaded a $ machine. We called everyone up one at a time in the order they signed up, and everyone got 5 pulls ($3 a pull).

 

At the end after everyone pulled, we hit the "cash out" button, took the slip to cashier who distributed the winnings. Everyone came up, told them their name and cabin number, and the cashier made payment. What was nice about it, I didn't have to handle any money. I got the casino involved, and they handled the cash.

 

When it was all said and done, everyone got around $13 and some change back from their $15 investment -- it was great fun.

[sylveve]

Sounds like fun...count us in on the 25th sailing.

 

I coordinated a slot pull during our last Solstice transatlantic. We held it on an afternoon on an at-sea day -- 1:30 sign up, 2:00 start the pull.

 

Once I got on board, I contacted the casino manager, and she helped me set up it. They wanted to limit it to Roll Call members only, and not the entire ship, which was OK with me. We had 50-60 people signed up. Did it ahead of time on the Roll Call, and made the announcement at the cruise connection meet & greet. They worked a deal for us so everyone could put the $15 on their seapass account with paying the 3% commission.

 

Basically, everyone put in $15 each. It was collected by the casino cashier. We wrote down the names and cabin numbers of everyone who participated, and once the sign up was complete, we took the money and uploaded a $ machine. We called everyone up one at a time in the order they signed up, and everyone got 5 pulls ($3 a pull).

 

At the end after everyone pulled, we hit the "cash out" button, took the slip to cashier who distributed the winnings. Everyone came up, told them their name and cabin number, and the cashier made payment. What was nice about it, I didn't have to handle any money. I got the casino involved, and they handled the cash.

 

When it was all said and done, everyone got around $13 and some change back from their $15 investment -- it was great fun.

[Wine-O]

Sounds like fun...count us in on the 25th sailing.

 

Who was that post meant for? My sailings are 30 May, 17 Sep, and 30 Oct 2011.

[Cindy G]

Thanks Wine-O or is that Win-O! What a great idea of letting the casino handle the cash and payout. I will talk to them when I get onboard. Our is an Alaska cruise, beginning in San Diego. First port is Seattle. Does anyoine know when they will be able to open the casino?

 

I am not on a 25th sailing either.

[Wine-O]

Thanks Wine-O or is that Win-O! What a great idea of letting the casino handle the cash and payout. I will talk to them when I get onboard. Our is an Alaska cruise, beginning in San Diego. First port is Seattle. Does anyoine know when they will be able to open the casino?

 

I am not on a 25th sailing either.

 

Looks like you will have 2 sea days before you hit Seattle. They will most likely have the cruise connections party the morning after you sail. I would have it that afternoon so it is fresh in everyone's mind once you announce it at the CC party. Get it set up now on your Roll Call.

 

Casino will be open when you are out to sea.

[Tucker in Texas]

 

At the end after everyone pulled, we hit the "cash out" button, took the slip to cashier who distributed the winnings. Everyone came up, told them their name and cabin number, and the cashier made payment. What was nice about it, I didn't have to handle any money. I got the casino involved, and they handled the cash.

 

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You were lucky. On the VOS, we got zip, nada, no cooperation from the casino manager at all when we approached him. As a stockholder, I was a little miffed he was willing to blow off $2K to be put in the slots at 2:00 on an at sea day when the casino is not exactly a hot bed of activity.

 

We ended up dividing up into five groups of 20 and playing on our own.

 

Did you have to put it on the Sea Pass card or could you use cash and have the cashier divvy it up?

 

Tucker in Texas

[raudacruise]

Tucker, we were on Century the same time as you were on VOS out of Barcelona (we met up with one of your fellow Texas Cruiser, Vickie, who we had sailed with in the past).

 

I coordinated the slot pull (or "Investment Seminar") based on the VOS thread. We had about 15 folks toss in $15 each (5 pulls each on $1 machine with 3 dollars on each pull).

 

I talked to the casino manager ahead of time and he donated a t-shirt, a dice key ring, drink coupon and match play coupon. The prizes went to those "investers" with the highest "returns".

 

The investment return was about minus $6 for everyone. Century still returns coins so we just dumped then on an unused BJ table and sorted them out. I'm guessing that most of them ended back up in other slot machines so Celebrity got about $200 for less than $20 in prizes so that shouldn't be a big deal.

 

It was a bit of a problem cooridinating it. You have to make sure its a sea day and you don't want it to happen during a big event. But we managed to stumble through it and I think everyone had a good time (except the return was a little lower than hoped for :D).

[Wine-O]

You were lucky. On the VOS, we got zip, nada, no cooperation from the casino manager at all when we approached him. As a stockholder, I was a little miffed he was willing to blow off $2K to be put in the slots at 2:00 on an at sea day when the casino is not exactly a hot bed of activity.

 

We ended up dividing up into five groups of 20 and playing on our own.

 

Did you have to put it on the Sea Pass card or could you use cash and have the cashier divvy it up?

 

Tucker in Texas

 

Everyone either signed up using their seapass or giving up $15 cash. At the end of the sign up, the Casino Manager took out $100 bills for those who signed up, filled up the machine, and we were off.