B+B (not bed and breakfast)

[kidgloves]

Butlins at Bognor actually.
I'm off with the missus today for our new year piss up. Not been for 2 years so I'm hoping the place hasn't been filled with section 16's. Last few years visits have turned a nice profit in the day with all those happy people punting in their cash and walking away.
They've tightened up security wise, it's all wristband entry now. Guess too many people were hiding in peoples car boots and dossing on the apartment floors.
The site now boasts a curry house and a casino also, so I might even play my first game of live poker, you never know.
Of course what I'm really looking for is time warp holiday camp syndrome, so that I come across unchipped pies and the like, I'll even settle for chipped Kebabs. The £5 area was always good for blasts from the past. I'm hoping the party times have gone and the Golden Games/Monop's are in abundance on friendly chips with auto nudge disabled.
The problem with the beer is it's just too expensive. £3 bottles and the like. Captive audience and all that. I'm a J.D.'s fan so a couple of bottles and a hip flask seem the best plan.
Anyways, post match report to follow when I'm back. So until then, Happy New Year everyone, get slaughtered, get shagged and take those machines for all you can after the local piss head as munted his hard earned away in a drunken stupor.

[kidgloves]

Well that wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be machine wise.
The main over 18's section had been moved slightly, creating it's own larger section but it wasn't bursting with choice. In fact, they bloody love Jumpin Jack Cash + clones. Whilst this was not altogether a bad thing, by the time we left I was bloody sick to death of the Superskillstop method and had resorted to value extraction on boards showing 'readyness'.
There were no less than 14 versions dotted around the place in £5 or £25 jp form. Most were semi ready because of the sheer volume of play. Curiously, not one of them streaked properly. It was all £5-!0 profit, sometimes a loss when one decided not to bring SSS back or didn't give anything beyond £25 Mega Streak, an Abracadbra got me thinking about something, it offered the no lose board when hi/lo'ing (not through red icons)...is this board free? I've always collected a quid off it prior to SSS activation but wonder whether I've been doing it wrong all this time and should treat it as a bonus win, anyone confirm this?
There was just one Monopoly mulitplayer set at £25. It was fairly happy when I arrived so made some good profit on the first night. From then on it was tougher, not futile, plenty of people coming off mid nudge hold boards so lots of sweeping up for me to do. At one point, all 3 units were playing top boards from nudge holds. That was funny, a woman actually came over and asked me how I was getting so many top boards. Over the couple of days I was there they were gradually ground down percentage wise, to the point where I experienced something I've never seen before, I was playing one which was allowing holds after nudge for top board and it was giving the usual, £5, another £5, another £5 then a miraculous £15 (very few of these) but then I got the £10 board of death. I've never had that unless on a newer chip revision where they do what they damn well please and hold after (or not) anyway. You usually see that after a large streak pot and £30+ of nudge holds. Still, I'm not moaning, I'd had a good run off them.
Party time was still popular, still throwing random boards at people throwing £2 in and giving them 2 Jackpots up top. Try and play this for the duration and you won't see a sniff of a JP. I left it alone and just had a wry smile to myself everytime it happened to Mr and Mrs £1 pounder.
The section 16 front wasn't as big as I thought it would be, just 3 units in the main arcade. Elvis which always had a £0.05 registered in the bank when you put a pound in (was this a way around some kind of credit manpulation?). I kept clear of large involvment there and managed for my sins to keep my play to the curious amount of £6 a time on £2 a spin. Mostly this yielded nothing apart from 2 occasions where I hit 3 roulette wheels for £5 and £30 and one occasion where it dropped something stupid like £72.50 from a combo of Elivis symbols and some small wins. The other S16's were Little Devils Slotto and Cashino which I didn't play.
A new cabinet Nudge nudge wink wink on £25 wasn't too harsh. Three JP's whilst I was there, none of which winked for the repeat.
As far as £5 JP's go, it was much more fun. Red's seemed the harshest, easily going for pounds without a feature then a quick shaft on the hi/lo reel. Barcrests were nice and progressive, an Austin Powers (which I sharked after the missus came over and told me she'd lost £4 on it - how harsh?) gave up a quick JP then true skill repeat refusal for top feature. Annoyingly, it took another £5 to get it, even with plenty of feature entries but it just wouldn't offer the Mega top feature, just normal. I got bored so took it on normal for £9.
I had some fun with Pick your Peso's. They had 2 units, so readable it's untrue. Never more than £8 for £5 if not ready but more ready than not, if you see what I mean. One streaked for £30 and the other just wouldn't give it up before we left, and I must have had at least 20 JP's out of it. Someone will get lucky with that.
One of the pubs had a Fruits U Sir in it, nice to play an old Red that I wasn't familiar with, liked the Big Shot feature, always £10 on green. Shame I didn't know the method to hand.
Lot's of people playing Vivid's lo tec Snakes and Ladders, I never really looked into them so didn't play at all, although from what I remember from a couple of years ago they seemed to have rechips now to stop something or other, or make them less readable ? Another hissing them, Adders and Ladders offered me all the snake heads for top feature out of the blue for a fast £25 with no afters/streak.
The main gripe I would have was with the general maintainance of the machines, plenty of bulbs out everywhere and if something went out of action, it stayed out of action including 2/3 S16's. Now that's just bad business sense. When you have a holiday camp that's full to capacity, you keep things running.
So, all in all I came home with about £58 more in pound coins than I went with, hadn't touched a note in my wallet, so if you take into account the beer, it was a profitable fun way to spend the new year.
Oh, and if anyone wants to make a killing at new year, go and buy cans of silly string hooked into fake plastic guns and air bombs filled with glitter and stars. They wheeled these out at £5 a shot at the start of New Years Eve, and no word of a lie they must have had like 250 boxes behind the desk and they were sold out in 2hrs. You should have seen the state of the place at 1am, somebody had a very harsh job overnight cleaning up as the place was spick and span in the morning,

[AllOrNothing]

Granted I couldnt vote, but its threads / posts like this that make kidgloves a deserving winner. Long but not too long, decent punctuation (i kno that sounds stupid but wen people write a whole post in one sentence it does my head in), intelligent and interesting.

Thanx kidgloves, and heres hoping for another year of quality posts.

All Or Nothing

[stew]

Holy crap, it's a novel, your really need to get back to work Kid nice one

[gamblerbrg]

Well that wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be machine wise.
The main over 18's section had been moved slightly, creating it's own larger section but it wasn't bursting with choice. In fact, they bloody love Jumpin Jack Cash + clones. Whilst this was not altogether a bad thing, by the time we left I was bloody sick to death of the Superskillstop method and had resorted to value extraction on boards showing 'readyness'.
There were no less than 14 versions dotted around the place in £5 or £25 jp form. Most were semi ready because of the sheer volume of play. Curiously, not one of them streaked properly. It was all £5-!0 profit, sometimes a loss when one decided not to bring SSS back or didn't give anything beyond £25 Mega Streak, an Abracadbra got me thinking about something, it offered the no lose board when hi/lo'ing (not through red icons)...is this board free? I've always collected a quid off it prior to SSS activation but wonder whether I've been doing it wrong all this time and should treat it as a bonus win, anyone confirm this?
There was just one Monopoly mulitplayer set at £25. It was fairly happy when I arrived so made some good profit on the first night. From then on it was tougher, not futile, plenty of people coming off mid nudge hold boards so lots of sweeping up for me to do. At one point, all 3 units were playing top boards from nudge holds. That was funny, a woman actually came over and asked me how I was getting so many top boards. Over the couple of days I was there they were gradually ground down percentage wise, to the point where I experienced something I've never seen before, I was playing one which was allowing holds after nudge for top board and it was giving the usual, £5, another £5, another £5 then a miraculous £15 (very few of these) but then I got the £10 board of death. I've never had that unless on a newer chip revision where they do what they damn well please and hold after (or not) anyway. You usually see that after a large streak pot and £30+ of nudge holds. Still, I'm not moaning, I'd had a good run off them.
Party time was still popular, still throwing random boards at people throwing £2 in and giving them 2 Jackpots up top. Try and play this for the duration and you won't see a sniff of a JP. I left it alone and just had a wry smile to myself everytime it happened to Mr and Mrs £1 pounder.
The section 16 front wasn't as big as I thought it would be, just 3 units in the main arcade. Elvis which always had a £0.05 registered in the bank when you put a pound in (was this a way around some kind of credit manpulation?). I kept clear of large involvment there and managed for my sins to keep my play to the curious amount of £6 a time on £2 a spin. Mostly this yielded nothing apart from 2 occasions where I hit 3 roulette wheels for £5 and £30 and one occasion where it dropped something stupid like £72.50 from a combo of Elivis symbols and some small wins. The other S16's were Little Devils Slotto and Cashino which I didn't play.
A new cabinet Nudge nudge wink wink on £25 wasn't too harsh. Three JP's whilst I was there, none of which winked for the repeat.
As far as £5 JP's go, it was much more fun. Red's seemed the harshest, easily going for pounds without a feature then a quick shaft on the hi/lo reel. Barcrests were nice and progressive, an Austin Powers (which I sharked after the missus came over and told me she'd lost £4 on it - how harsh?) gave up a quick JP then true skill repeat refusal for top feature. Annoyingly, it took another £5 to get it, even with plenty of feature entries but it just wouldn't offer the Mega top feature, just normal. I got bored so took it on normal for £9.
I had some fun with Pick your Peso's. They had 2 units, so readable it's untrue. Never more than £8 for £5 if not ready but more ready than not, if you see what I mean. One streaked for £30 and the other just wouldn't give it up before we left, and I must have had at least 20 JP's out of it. Someone will get lucky with that.
One of the pubs had a Fruits U Sir in it, nice to play an old Red that I wasn't familiar with, liked the Big Shot feature, always £10 on green. Shame I didn't know the method to hand.
Lot's of people playing Vivid's lo tec Snakes and Ladders, I never really looked into them so didn't play at all, although from what I remember from a couple of years ago they seemed to have rechips now to stop something or other, or make them less readable ? Another hissing them, Adders and Ladders offered me all the snake heads for top feature out of the blue for a fast £25 with no afters/streak.
The main gripe I would have was with the general maintainance of the machines, plenty of bulbs out everywhere and if something went out of action, it stayed out of action including 2/3 S16's. Now that's just bad business sense. When you have a holiday camp that's full to capacity, you keep things running.
So, all in all I came home with about £58 more in pound coins than I went with, hadn't touched a note in my wallet, so if you take into account the beer, it was a profitable fun way to spend the new year.
Oh, and if anyone wants to make a killing at new year, go and buy cans of silly string hooked into fake plastic guns and air bombs filled with glitter and stars. They wheeled these out at £5 a shot at the start of New Years Eve, and no word of a lie they must have had like 250 boxes behind the desk and they were sold out in 2hrs. You should have seen the state of the place at 1am, somebody had a very harsh job overnight cleaning up as the place was spick and span in the morning,

r u avin me on pal no less than 14 jumpin jacks?r they chipped?i added u on msn by the way

[GaryChandler]

Bognor ehh? hmmm i think i was in butlins around that time are you some quite big fella was wearing a stone island jacket? saw someone doing the sub zero.

[kidgloves]

Bognor ehh? hmmm i think i was in butlins around that time are you some quite big fella was wearing a stone island jacket? saw someone doing the sub zero.

Not me mate. Don't wear jackets much.

[GaryChandler]

r u avin me on pal no less than 14 jumpin jacks?r they chipped?i added u on msn by the way

You cant get no where on these! there not like ziggys/cabins.