It's not like it used to be ...

**the winning loop** · 16th February 2005, 01:51 PM

Just registered with the forum after reading through some of the posts here. I'm off to Vegas in a couple of weeks and I'm brushing up on my Blackjack knowledge and somehow found myself here.

I used to play fruit machines for years and can admit I had a fairly healthy habit. But playing them now just doesn't give me the same buzz (something which I'm actually very grateful to the machine manufacturers for!

) I must admit I'm completely out of the game now and know very little in the way of 'top' features and 'cheats' but it's nice to get that buzz again by reading through the posts here.... thanks for that.

I remember when the jackpots were paid in tokens and holds after nudges was a secret feature rarely spoken about. Ahh the good old days.

My dad was a fruit machine engineer for Bell Fruit for many years and always told me that the only winner was the person that owned the fruit machine. Never a truer word spoken for the averagely addicted fruit machine player.

May the 'streaks' be with you.

Great forum. And nice to see the advise from the old pro's telling the newbie's that it's not at all easy. I hope they pay attention to your advise.